Sound Map of the Hudson River Annea Lockwood Album Art

ANNEA LOCKWOOD

A Sound Map of the Hudson River

A Sound Map of the Hudson River is an aural journey from the source of the river, Lake Tear of the Clouds in the high tiptop area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic.  The piece of work was deputed past the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY every bit an installation. It was incorporated into the museum'southward permanent, "Riverama," showroom in 2003.

Since 1970 I accept recorded rivers in many countries, not to certificate them, but rather for the special state of listen and body which the sounds of moving h2o create when one listens attentively to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches.

Each stretch of the Hudson has its ain sonic texture, formed past the terrain, varying co-ordinate to the weather condition, the season and, downstream, the human environment whose sounds are intimately woven into the river's sounds.

By correlating the numbered sites on the map with the information on the reverse, yous will exist able to identify which location you lot are listening to, the engagement, and the time of day at which the recording was made.

— Annea Lockwood

Biography

Annea Lockwood is a composer with an unusual sensitivity to the poetic potential of audio, particularly the rich and unpredictable nature of acoustical sound. Her work oftentimes blends sound with motility and images to create philosophical and sensual exploration of the natural world.

Born in New Zealand, Lockwood moved to England in 1961, where she studied piano at the Royal College of Music. She attended summer courses in New Music at Darmstadt for several years, and completed her training with a year in Germany and Holland, studying electronic music and instrumental limerick. In the mid-1960s Lockwood turned to electronics, mixed media and ultimately to the exploration of natural acoustic sounds. She created her famous "glass concerts," began a series of "Piano Transplants," in which defunct pianos are "permanently prepared," burned, buried and allowed to decay, or partially submerged in ponds, and her annal of recordings of the world's keen rivers.

In 1973, After 12 years in England, a musical "loner," and feeling a stiff kinship with American composers such as Ruth Anderson, Earle Dark-brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Pauline Oliveros, and the Sonic Arts Union (Ashley, Behrman, Lucier, Mumma), she moved to the The states. Since then, she has toured frequently in the U.s., Europe and Australasia, giving numerous performances of works such as "Earth Rhythms," a multi-channel improvisatory live mix of environmental sounds such as earthquakes, radio wave transmissions from a pulsar, tree frogs and other phenomena.

In the mid-'80s, Lockwood returned to instrumental and vocal composition in works which oft include non-Western instruments and explore unusual audio-colors, for case, "1000 Year Dreaming", for an ensemble which includes four didgeridus, conch shell trumpets, frame drumming and projected images from the Lascaux cave paintings.

Lockwood'southward extensive torso of piece of work includes tape pieces, instrumental and vocal music, mixed-media operation works, installations and sound sculptures.  Her music has been presented at festivals in Europe, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, Australasia and the U.s., and recorded on CRI, Lovely Music, Harmonia Mundi, Opus One, Finnadar/Atlantic and other labels.

Lockwood presently lives in Crompond, New York. She has been a member of the music kinesthesia at Vassar College since 1982.

Recording Sites

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  Lake Tear of the Clouds, Mt. Marcy — the source, elevation four,322 feet
  June 19, 1982 at 2:00 PM
• iii minutes, 0 seconds
  Feldspar Brook, Mt. Marcy — the highest tributary
  June 5, 1982 at 12:00 noon
• viii minutes
  Calamity Brook, Mt. Marcy — a tributary
  June 5, 1982 at one:00 PM
• fourteen minutes, 45 seconds
  The Opalescent River — a tributary
  June five, 1982 at 10:30 AM
• xix minutes, thirty seconds
  Hudson River at the Mt. Marcy trailhead
  June v, 1982 at viii:00 AM
• 23 minutes, 30 seconds
  Blue Ledge: the Gorge
  October 22, 1982 at v:00 PM
• 26 minutes, 30 seconds
  The Glen
  May 2, 1982 at 12:00 noon
• xxx minutes, v seconds
  Confluence of Patterson Brook and the Hudson River
  May 1, 1982 at vi:00 PM and
  May 2, 1982 at 6:00 AM
• 35 minutes, 10 seconds
  Luzerne
  May 1, 1982 at 3:00 PM
• 38 minutes, 27 seconds
  Stuyvesant (tugboat and train)
  May 23, 1982 at vi:00 AM
• 45 minutes, two seconds
  Staatsburg (the marina at Norris Park)
  April 26, 1982 at 6:00 AM
• 50 minutes, 27 seconds
  Garrison
  Oct 31, 1982 at 5:00 AM
• 56 minutes, 27 seconds
  Iona Island and Marsh
  April 17, 1982 at five:thirty AM and
  September 12, 1982 at seven:30 AM
• 62 minutes, 25 seconds
  Englewood Brook Falls, Palisades
  October 19, 1982 at 7:00 AM
• 67 minutes, 30 seconds
  Great Kills Beach, Staten Island
  Dec 5, 1982 at seven:00 AM

A Sound Map of the Hudson River was commissioned past The Hudson River Museum, with funds from the New York Land Council on the Arts and Warner Communications, Inc.

The production of this meaty disk was partially funded by a grant from the Dale Fund at Vassar College.

Map: Bryan Forsyth
Design: By Design

Produced past Annea Lockwood
Remastered by Tom Hamilton

©P 1989 and 2003 Lovely Music, Ltd.

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