The lecture will take place in TANNA SCHULICH HALL, followed by a catered reception in the lobby of the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building. This event is free and open to the general public.
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Abstract
Biography
Annea Lockwood’s compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music.
Recent works include:
- Becoming Air, co-composed with Nate Wooley, trumpet;
- Wild Energy with Bob Bielecki - a site-specific installation focused on geophysical, atmospheric and mammalian infra and ultra sound sources, permanently installed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah,
- Into the Vanishing Point, co-composed with the ensemble Yarn/Wire – a meditation on the large-scale disappearance of insect populations.
- History of the Present - the soundtrack of an opera-film by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, commissioned by the Royal Opera House, London (2023), where she worked with recordings made at the peace walls in Belfast, N. Ireland.
Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her three installation sound maps of the Hudson River, the Danube and the Housatonic River have been widely presented.
Annea Lockwood is an Emerita Professor at Vassar College, where she taught for a number of years, and has an honorary doctorate from Clark University. She is a recipient of the SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) Lifetime Achievement Award 2020, and was the honoree at the Issue Project Room Benefit in 2021. In 2022 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.