"Annea Lockwood has buried, burned, or drowned pianos since the 1960s, exploring their changing sounds as they are destroyed, which she describes as transformed."
"Lockwood's work has ranged from sound maps of entire rivers to music made with the peace walls demarcating areas of mid-Troubles Belfast, showcasing her innovative approach."
"The glass experiments asked a question she has considered ever since: What if we listened to a single sound event in the way we would a musical phrase?"
"Lockwood's 1968 piece, Piano Burning, involved setting an old piano alight to record its splitting wood and popping strings, highlighting her radical exploration of sound."
Annea Lockwood, an experimental composer, has been transforming pianos through various destructive methods since the 1960s, including burying, burning, and drowning them. At Glasgow's Counterflows festival, she invites musicians and audiences to interact with a broken piano, creating unique sounds. Lockwood's work includes sound maps of rivers and music from Belfast's peace walls. She revisits significant works and prepares a new release of her 1975 piece, World Rhythms. Her career began with The Glass Concert, amplifying glass sounds, leading to her exploration of environmental sound and its complexities.
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