1. Annea Lockwood's range is vast and often includes microtonal, electro-acoustic soundscapes and vocal music, as well as recordings of natural found sounds.
10 Facts About Annea Lockwood
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Annea Lockwood has recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involving burning or drowning pianos.
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Annea Lockwood's compositions featured non-conventional instruments such as glass tubing used in The Glass Concert.
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Annea Lockwood collaborated with various choreographers, sound poets, and visual artists.
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In 1973, Annea Lockwood relocated to New York City after being offered a faculty role at Hunter College.
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Annea Lockwood worked with environmental sounds, capturing them and building developed compositions around an environmental inspiration, as in A Sound Map of the Hudson River and World Rhythms.
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Annea Lockwood built on the archetypes and conversations with significant people, as in Conversations with the Ancestors, composed on conversations with four women in their 80s; and Delta Run based on a conversation with sculptor Walter Wincha.
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Three Short Stories and Apotheosis used what Annea Lockwood named the Soundball, which was a foam-covered ball made of six small speakers and a radio receiver.
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Annea Lockwood's work has been presented at festivals around the world.
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Annea Lockwood is an emeritus professor at Vassar College, where she has worked since 1982.