LOCKWOOD, ANNEA - Early Works 1967-82
EMs original selection of her early works which had once featured on Source: Music of the Avant Garde, you know its a now-legendary magazine for new & experimental music in 1967-1973. (SOURCE featuring artists were ALL important new music creators incl. Cage, Tudor, Ichiyanagi, Rosenboom, MEV, Chopin, EMS studio, Riley, Neuhaus & more & more!) . This CD incl. the album Glass World (originally issued on Tangent Records in England, 1970), and trippy ritual shamanic tape piece Tiger Balm (1970). Also her most notable works, series performances Piano Transplants (1967-82) is now re-realized on one single special booklet, containing Piano Burning, Piano Garden etc. Annea Lockwood was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1939 and lived in London and Cologne from 1961-1972, studying at the Royal College of Music and the Musikhochschule, Köln, and freelancing as a composer-performer. Since 1973, she has lived in Peekskill, New York, and taught on the faculty of Music at Vassar College, New York from 1982-2001. Her music has been presented in North America, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. - EM.