Ground of Being (2013) ...
Annea Lockwood is a sound artist ...Buoyant ...
New Zealand born composer Annea Lockwood has produced an impressive body of work in a number of veins, in the last several years working through her Sound Maps project to subtly translate river-spaces into audio through field recordings; the effort has thus far produced a series of related installations, showcasing her own considered juxtapositions of material from strategically placed pick-ups ... secretdecoder.net ...Ground of Being ...
Close listening compositions with sound, three of them environmentally sourced and one performed. The performance is of a piano piece from 1996 interpreted by Louis Svard using coins, screws, bubble-wrap, wiring insulation, rubber balls, large stones, a bowl-gong, mallets and a water glass to drive preparations and extended techniques into the exploration of pure sound. Buoyant (2013) mixes lake and river recordings with metal gangplank reverberations; Dusk (2012) is constructed from very low frequency deep ocean sounds generated by hydrothermal vents, transposed bat calls and a large tam-tam, while Ground of Being (2000) amplifies resonances of mostly indistinguishable sources, dehydrating trees and a speaking voice rendered incomprehensible in the space of a large, resonating, crypt. ... rermegacorp.com ...
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