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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.

In Our Name
Pioneering American electronic music composer Annea Lockwood presents "In Our Name", based upon two of the many poems written in Guantánamo by detainees, with no expectation that they could ever be heard "outside the wire". Many poems were confiscate…
Source: Music Of The Avant Garde - Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Astoundingly great collection of some of the classic pieces from the 60s avant-garde / live electronic music wave presented here as originally issued (in chronological order) by larry austin & stanley lunetta via their “source: music of the avant gar…
A sound map of Hudson River
An aural journey from the source of the river, in the high peak area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; Annea Lockwood traces the course of the Hudson through on-site recordings of its flow at 15 separate location…
A Sound Map of the Danube
Annea Lockwood has been recording rivers since 1970, "not to document them, but rather for the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches."' Lovely Music…
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 phy…
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, …
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 otherworldl…
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…
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