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Each Morning of the World #02
North American PhoNographic Mornings #08/20
Housatonic River ~ Connecticut ~ USA
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" Housatonic River – Milford Point "
Annea Lockwood
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5:05 am on the Housatonic River at Milford Point,
Connecticut, USA – the mouth of the river.
May 31st. 2009
This is an excerpt from A Sound Map of the Housatonic River (2009), a sonic map tracing the course of the 224 km Housatonic from its sources in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts to the Atlantic. The Sound Map is a quadraphonic installation, with a large map of the river and a time display allowing visitors to track the locations. A.L.
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Annea Lockwood
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Annea Lockwood’s compositions range from sound art and environmental installations to concert music. Recent works include In Our Name, for baritone Thomas Buckner, cello and sound files, based on poems by prisoners in Guantánamo, and Wild Energy, a collaboration with Bob Bielecki - a multi-channel site-specific installation focused on geophysical, atmospheric and mammalian infra and ultra sound sources, commissioned by the Caramoor Festival of the Arts.
Her music has been presented in many venues and festivals, most recently the Tectonics/BBC Festival Glasgow, the Henry Moore Institute Leeds, the Tactile Paths Festival, Berlin and the Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon Israel . It has been issued on CD and online on the Lovely Music, New World, Ambitus, 3Leaves, XI, EM and other labels.
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www.annealockwood.com
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