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Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood is a native of New Zealand, but studied instrumental composition and electronic music in England, Germany and Holland, before settling in the United States, where she now teaches composition and electronic music at Vassar College in upstate New York. She has been known for her explorations into the rich and spontaneous world of natural acoustic sounds, in pieces such as Glass Concert and Piano Transplants, as well as her compositions for the recorded sound of rivers and other environments in works such as A Sound Map of the Hudson River and World Rhythms.

Annea Lockwood is a native of New Zealand, but studied instrumental composition and electronic music in England, Germany and Holland, before settling in the United States, where she now teaches composition and electronic music at Vassar College in upstate New York. She has been known for her explorations into the rich and spontaneous world of natural acoustic sounds, in pieces such as Glass Concert and Piano Transplants, as well as her compositions for the recorded sound of rivers and other environments in works such as A Sound Map of the Hudson River and World Rhythms.

Sinopah
World Rhythms originated as a ten-channel live improvisation in which the audience was surrounded by ten loudspeakers. The recorded sounds include volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, radio waves, geysers and pools, and tree frogs. These sounds are a physical manifestation of energies which shape us and our environment constantly, energies of which we are not always aware, but which powerfully influence and interact with the rhythms of our bodies."What separates her work from musique concreté is tha…
Thousand Year Dreaming-Floating World
Thousand Year Dreaming (1990) was commissioned by Essential Music and was written with the musicians on this recording, their particular strengths and inclinations, very much in mind. It grew out of an improvisatory piece, Nautilus, which Art Baron, Scott Robinson and Annea Lockwood realised in 1989. They found that the sound of conch shell trumpets, didjeridu and frame drums really flowered in the resonant spaces they were using for the piece. Lockwood started imagining the sonorities possible …
Ear-walking woman
Experience prepared piano from the inside - with a close-up view during performance of the detuned strings, the superball mallets, the Buddhist prayer gong, the water glass, the cedar balls, and all of the other implements that create the otherworldly sounds in this 1996 work that is destined to become a classic Drawing on the prepared piano tradition of John Cage, composer Annea Lockwood has fashioned an entirely new musical terrain in which pianist Lois Svard explores a sound landscape that is…
Early Works 1967-82
EM's original selection of Annea Lockwood's early works, which had once featured in Source: Music of the Avant Garde, a now-legendary magazine for new and experimental music from 1967-1973. This CD includes the album Glass World (originally issued on Tangent Records in England, 1970), and trippy, ritual shamanic tape piece "Tiger Balm" (1970). Also her most notable works, series performances "Piano Transplants (1967-1982)" is now re-realized in one single special booklet, containing "Piano Bu…
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