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Anna / Annea Lockwood (b. 1939) Early Works 1967-82 Micro Glass Shaken 1:43 Glass Rod Vibrating 1:50 Turning Gong 1:29 Mini Mobile 2:13 Wine Glass 1:46 Water Gong 5:53 Two Ribbed Discs 1:57 Rod Across Edge Of Pane 2:10 Glass Bulb 0:50 Glissandi 0:26 Spinning Discs 1:49 Dialogue: Bottles & Jars 1:44 Vibrating Pane 2:04 Bubbling 1:44 Breathing Machine 2:34 Water Jars 1:35 Rod Roll 1:06 Micro Glass On Goblet 1:07 Micro Glass Along Pane Cullet: Two Glass Rocks 1:36 Medium Mobile 2:34 Bottle Tree Showered With Fragments 0:46 Deep Water Gong 4:17 Tiger Balm 10:52 """The Glass World" (1967-70) originally released by Tangent Records, 1970. ""Tiger Balm" (1970) originally released on Source: Music Of The Avant Garde Issue Number 9, 1971. Track 1 - 23 originally produced by Mike Steyn production in 1968-70, track 24 by Annea Lockwood. Annea Lockwood (December 20, 1972) On December 20, 1972, composer Annea Lockwood appeared live on Ode To Gravity. She was interviewed by Pauline Oliveros, who begins the discussion by reading a number of dreams that she has had involving Annea, although they had not actually met until this day. They go on to discuss their mutual interest in meditation, and in particular sonic meditation. Later a gathering of 30 composers and performers executed Annea's serenity-inducing event for multiple hummers. Among the many guests were Don Buchla, Barry Conyngham (Sydney), John Lifton (London), Joanna Brouk, Tony Gnazzo, Richard Friedman, Allen Strange, John Dinwiddie, Tom Zahuranec, and Annea's husband Harvey Matusow. Also heard on this program is a tape piece by Annea titled Windhover (1972). Annea Lockwood, born in New Zealand and living in the United States, is perhaps most infamously known for her Piano Transplants (1969-72), in which defunct pianos were variously burned, drowned in a shallow pond in Amarillo, Texas, and partially buried in an English garden. During the 1960s she collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers and visual artists and created works like Glass Concert (1967), in which a variety of complex sounds were drawn from industrial glass products and shards, and then presented as an audio-visual theater piece. During the 1970s and 80s, Lockwood turned her attention to work focused on environmental sounds, life-narratives in installations, and performance works using low-tech devices like her Sound Ball, a foam-covered ball containing six small speakers and a radio receiver. She has also composed for acoustic instruments and voices, frequently incorporating electronics and visual elements. Thousand Year Dreaming (1991) is scored for four didjeridus, conches, frame drums, winds, and trombones, and incorporates slides of the Lascaux cave paintings; Monkey Trips (1995), for an improvising sextet, draws on our common, every-day experiences of various mind states; Ear-Walking Woman (1996), for pianist Lois Svard, invites the pianist to discover a range of sounds available inside the instrument, using rocks, bubble-wrap, bowl gongs, and other implements; and Floating World (1999) weaves together recordings made by friends in places which are spiritually important to them, ranging from the mountains of New Zealand to the New York Public Library. Much of her music has been recorded on the Lovely Music, XI, ÀWhatNext?/OO Discs, Rattle (New Zealand), Harmonia Mundi, and CRI record labels.