Annea Lockwood

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Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds. She has also recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involved burning or drowning pianos. Annea studied composition and completed a B.Mus with honors from Canterbury University, New Zealand. She went on to study composition at several institutions around Europe with notable teachers: The Royal College of Music (London) with Peter Racine Fricker, the Darmstadt Ferienkurs fur Neue Musik with Gottfried Michael Koenig, the Musikhochschule, (Cologne, Germany) and in also Holland. During the late 60’s and early seventies, Annea performed and composed around Europe but made London her home. Her compositions featured non-conventional instruments, such as glass tubing and burning, moss covered pianos, which she described as sound sculptures, and presented in performance pieces with other sound poets and integrated choreography. Lockwood is most well-known for “The Glass Concert” (1967) which was published in Source Music of the Avant-Garde then recorded and released by Tangent records. In the 70’s Annea began to compose what could be considered performance art pieces, though her work was still situated in the realm of music; they are considered so because the essence of the compositional ideas made the audience and environment agents in the piece. During this time Lockwood worked w

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