The tone accompanies the never-ending staircase.
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Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. Her compositions featured other non-conventional instruments, such as glass tubing and burning or drowning pianos. She has explored microtonal, electro-acoustic soundscapes and vocal music, as well as previously ignored spaces in modern composition.
Lockwood also worked with environmental sounds, capturing them and building developed compositions around an environmental inspiration. For example, A Sound Map of the Danube River, gathers sounds recorded from a variety of sites on the surface of, within, and around the river. Conversations with the Ancestors (1979) is based on conversations with four women in their eighties. She taught electronic music at Vassar College and recieved the Henry Cowell Award in 2007. Her music has been presented at festivals all over the world, including events in Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. Imaginary Landscape is the title of several pieces by the American composer John Cage. The series comprises the following works:
Kostelanetz, Richard. 1986. "John Cage and Richard Kostelanetz: A Conversation about Radio". The Musical Quarterly.72 (2): 216-227. taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Landscape For the Imaginary Landscape No.4, 2 performers are stationed at each of the 12 radios (one dialing the radio-stations the other controlling amplitude and timbre). The rhythmic structure of the work is 2-1-3, and is expressed in changing tempi. The score provides indications for tuning (controlled by player 1), as well as for volume and tone color (controlled by the player 2). When listening to this work, one can’t predict what will be heard, which is exactly what Cage had in mind. In addition, the composition also functioned as a kind of exercise in abandoning preferences (Cage wasn't very fond of radios). taken from: http://johncage.org/pp/John-Cage-Work-Detail.cfm?work_ID=104 |