Anna Johnson is a performer, composer, and visual artist who creates embodied multisensory experiences. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, her sound layers textural explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation into a music approaching experimental pop, devotional ambient choral, and psychedelic neomedieval folk. Anna’s performances incorporate cinematic projections of surreal, fantastical environments made from manipulated light and shadow. In creating for both stage and screen, she is guided by the emergent, alchemical conversations that open between sound and image when they are brought together. Anna relies on improvisation and works site-responsively, with a fluid sense of body-time, in pursuit of newly vulnerable emotional, spiritual, and social realities. She is drawn to the meeting points of personal with mythical and contemporary with ancient.

Anna is currently based in Chicago, IL. She was raised with a practice of Celtic and Anglo folk and sacred early Christian musics, and was trained in Western classical piano and voice as well as Eastern European choral traditions. Anna holds an MFA from the Performance department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Studio Art from Macalester College. She has performed and exhibited in venues, theatres, galleries and festivals for over ten years and toured solo in the United Kingdom, France, and North America, in addition to numerous collaborations in music, theatre, puppetry, dance and film. Unknowing, Anna’s debut EP under her own name, was released on cassette in Spring 2025 by UK label Industrial Coast.