Anna Johnson is an experimental musician and visual artist. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, her sound unites electroacoustic improvisation with a background in medieval folk traditions and sacred music. She is invested in the power of vocal expression as a portal to somatic presence and inner knowledge. Anna’s performances are augmented by her original projection designs, which feature layered, textural abstractions of light and shadow. Her approach to live work is ritualistic; she seeks embodied and communal experiences of intensity, vulnerability and spiritual catharsis. She is drawn to the meeting points between personal and mythical, present and ancient.

Anna is currently based in Chicago and originates from Minnesota, where she was raised with practices of Celtic and Anglo folk traditions and sacred choral music, and studied both Western classical as well as traditional Eastern European vocal polyphony. She tours regularly in North America and Europe and has presented both solo and collaborative work in music venues, theatres, art galleries and film festivals for over ten years. She holds an MFA from the Performance department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Unknowing, Anna’s debut EP, was released on cassette in 2025 by UK label Industrial Coast.