1. Annea Lockwood

Apr 16, 2024 · 34m 48s
1. Annea Lockwood
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Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. During the 1960s, Lockwood created works such as the...

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Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music.
During the 1960s, Lockwood created works such as the Glass Concerts, and the Piano Transplants series, in which defunct pianos were burned, drowned, beached, and planted.
Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her three installation sound maps of rivers: The Hudson River, the Danube and the Housatonic River.
In 1973 Lockwood moved to the US, settling in Crompond, NY. She is an Emerita Professor at Vassar College.
Her music has been issued on CD, vinyl and online.

In 2022 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Audio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, soundscapes, narration, auto-fiction, sound installations, archival material, sound design, radio, podcasting, and much more. 


Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Megan Hyde.

Additional editing by Marion Nicvert. 

This episode features excerpts from the following pieces by Annea Lockwood: “Glass World”, “Tiger Balm”, “A Sound Map of the Danube”, “Ceci n'est pas un piano”, “Dusk”, and “Namaste”.

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

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