TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

"It's the close focus that draws me into a sound. And then it sort
of spreads out and spreads through my body. And I let that happen,
and I'm listening in a different way." - Annea Lockwood The artist
and composer Annea Lockwood is not just any musician. She is an
artist of sound. She is a composer of art. Her music is performance
art, and her art is always, always audio-rich and musical. She
sends her microphones into the elements – fire, here, and rivers,
in a recent series called Sound Maps, where she captures, among
other things, the tonality of the different depths of the water.
She loves chanting, tones, drones. She loves what sound does to our
body, how we respond to it, how we visualize it. How sound
breathes. How we breathe differently around different sounds. And
for me, as an art historian who fell in love with sound, I get it.
I think I get it. And this is what today’s conversation is about.
Annea joined me to talk about what it means to listen with your
body, to experience the silence in all the noise, and the noise in
the silence. We talk about the value of musical training versus
musical instinct. We talk about how rivers sound different from one
another (they really do!). And we explore what an artist from New
Zealand who gained prominence in the 1960s burning pianos can teach
us about the art of sound, and what she can learn from her
85-year-old self, today. Episode webpage:
https://www.thelonelypalette.com/interview/2025/2/27/annea-lockwood-composer-and-artist
Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "Brer Rhetta," “A Common Pause,”
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