Anna Webber is a Canadian, New York-based reed player and visionary composer whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. it’s easier to imagine the end of the world… follows American philosopher and Marxist political theorist Fredric Jameson’s saying that ends with “… than the end of capitalism” and was inspired by him and other authors and thinkers who addressed late-stage capitalism and its effects. The left-leaning Webber composed a conceptual album imagining “a different kind of future, a future where we help each other out and ensure everyone’s basic rights; one in which we take care of each other and the planet”.
Webber wrote a six-movement suite (plus three bonus pieces), with titles quoting the
