Ana Reis

Ana Reis is a Portuguese contemporary music composer,^[1][2] writer, and visual artist.

Reis was born in Lisbon in 1977 and is the last living daughter of film director and poet António Reis. She took film studies at the Lisbon Film School, and was mentored as an apprentice, between 2004 and 2011, by musicologist and contemporary music pioneer Jorge Lima Barreto [pt], who mentioned Reis as a composer in his thesis Estética da comunicação musical : a improvisação.^[3]

She worked as a writer, composer, and visual artist. In 2020, she adopted the name Czerny. She started working in contemporary electronic improvised / noise music in 1999, with the projects Imbolc, ZLKNF and Hyaena Fierling, and coined the term "Cosmobruitism" to describe her musical signature.^[1] In 2015 she resumed her work as a writer, producing structured from poetry within the alchemical perspective, film screenplays, and a short story novel, Brotherly Like Dogs, awaiting publishing.^{[citation needed]}

She is active in filmography and visual arts, having contributed her music to film soundtracks.^[4] In 2017, she helped towards the re-issue of Antonio Reis's Poemas Quotidianos, which hadn't been re-published since 1967.^[5]

Reis is a writer since childhood,^[6] including works in prose and poetry.

As IMBOLC:

• Cor Fulgens / Blades of the Holy (EP) (Self-released, 2001)
• MWT NTR KWH KVA (album) (Self-released, 2002)
• Live @ Teatro Iberico Lisboa (Lvcenti 14-Bis, 2003)

As ZLKNF:

• Favst (Lvcenti 14-Bis, 2004)
• Bast Babylone (Merzbau, 2005)
• Tryptich (Lvcenti 14-Bis, 2006)

As Hyaena Fierling:

• Agnella Dirigire (ALG-A Netlabel, 2009)
• Kalahest (two discs) (Black Square, 2011)
• Live in Porto (Lvcenti 14-Bis, 2011)
• Live in A Coruña (Lvcenti 14-Bis, 2011)
• Keraunometra (Stray Recordings, 2012)
• Rosa de Lobo (Ilse Records, 2012)
• Isosceles (Stray Recordings, 2012)
• The Last Rose of Irunea (Stray Recordings, 2013)
• Impasse (Ancient Language, 2013)
• Ur Mur / Kor Ver (Haze, 2013)
• Blood of my Blood (Auricular, 2014)
• Super Flumina Babylonis (Auricular, 2014)
• The Unfettered (Poverty Electronics, 2015)
• Lunar Road (Poverty Electronics, 2015)
• Fortran (Poverty Electronics, 2015)
• Emissaries (SuRRism-Phonoethics, 2015)
• Antidote (Auricular, 2016)
• Aglavrni (Auricular, 2016)
• Sobolos Rios (Anti-Demos-Cracia, 2016)
• Vergensen (Auricular, 2016)
• Atonal Chemist (Anti-Demos-Cracia, 2017)
• Gül-Nasr (Anti-Demos-Cracia, 2017)
• KRN (Silent Method Records, 2017)
• Defender (Church of Noisy Goat, 2020)

Albums in collaboration:

• Thee Sekret EP (with Light Implant) (Just Not Normal, 2009)
• Live @ Galeria Icone Coimbra (with Sabotage en Masse) (Lvcenti 14-Bis, 2010)
• The Radiant Mindfield (with MUTATE as Desposyni) (Black Square, 2012)
• Lugna Enki (with Gustavo Bode) (Grimm Goat, 2013)
• Passing Rooms (with Gustavo Bode) (Grimm Goat, 2013)
• Apokruphos (with Gustavo Bode) (Grimm Goat, 2014)
• Radio Diomede (with D.N.P.) (Petroglyph, 2014)