Ana Reis is a Portuguese contemporary music composer, writer, and visual artist. Early life 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 , who mentioned Reis as a composer in his thesis Estética da comunicação musical : a improvisação. Career 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 ZLKNF and Hyaena Fierling, and coined the term "Cosmobruitism" to describe her musical signature. In 2017, she helped towards the re-issue of Antonio Reis's Poemas Quotidianos, which hadn't been re-published since 1967. Reis has been a writer since childhood, including works in prose and poetry.
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