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‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood

Lockwood still explores sound as a form of listening, not just making music, at age 86.
Her piece World Rhythms blends earthquakes, geysers, and human biorhythms into a single epic.
Piano Burning is revisited as part of Counterflows, illustrating her early method of sound transformation.
Conversations with Ruth Anderson shaped collaborations and private memories later turned into public works.
The interview ties Lockwood’s work to Belfast’s peace walls and the politics of sound.
Lockwood’s work seeks to hear a sound event as a musical phrase, a lifelong question she pursued since the 1960s.
A new expanded World Rhythms, revised by Lawrence English, reveals more of Lockwood’s field-recorded world.
Piano Garden involved planting a piano and observing sound changes as plants grew.
Lockwood’s Belfast recordings connect sound to historical and social memory.
The piece For Ruth mixes field recordings with private conversations and memory.

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