Sinopah (XI, 1998), a split album with Ruth Anderson, contains
Lockwood's 46-minute World Rhythms (1975), a live improvisation
that broadcasts natural sounds, from volcanic eruptions to earthquakes to
geysers to bonfires to waves to human breathing.
The continuum thus spans the dimensions of the human experience.
The album also contains Ruth Anderson's 23-minute Come Out Of Your Sleep (1997).
Breaking the Surface (Lovely Music, 1999)
Lockwood has also composed
Shapeshifter (1996),
microtonal concerto Western Spaces,
Tongues Of Fire Tongues of Silk for eight sopranos and percussion.
Early Works 1967-82 (EM Records, 2007) contains
The Glass World and the 19-minute Tiger Balm (1970).
Thousand Year Dreaming/ Floating World (Pogus, 2007) collects the
35-minute electroacoustic piece Floating World (1999), created in studio from "spiritual" field recordings by her friends,
and the 43-minute four-movement suite
Thousand Year Dreaming (1991) for conch shell, trombone, multiple didjeridus, oboe, English horn, vocals (Annea Lockwood herself), clarinet and percussion, her sublime exercise in slo-motion subliminal glissandi and microtones
bordering on both post-classical chamber music and creative jazz music.
The languid and funereal timbres of trombones and didjeridoos sound like
coyotes barking at the moon in the first movement.
The wailing horns permeate the second movement at a volume that is barely
audible, their black and white tapestry wrapped onto itself like a Moebius
strip. The third movement increases the sense of musical alienation by staging
a subdued melodic line in a swamp of fluttering patterns.
The fourth movement continues to evolve the mono-dimensional tapestry with the
clarinet's Stravinsky-ian motif, the didjeridoo's massive raga-like vibrations,
the trombone's controlled deflagrations.
The piece closes with a few anguished notes by the clarinet after a cryptic
burst of polyphony.
Floating World (1999) belongs to a different genre of music altogether,
a collage of electronically manipulated sounds of nature.
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