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Homage to Annea Lockwood

by Mattin and Noel Meek

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Das Ding an sich 15:20
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Computer Burning 15:01
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Ōtākaro / Where the Children Play 15:51
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Homage to Annea Lockwood (2021-2022) 10:19

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Originally released on Recital:

recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/homage-to-annea-lockwood

Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New Zealand) and Mattin (Spain), who each share a deep admiration for Lockwood. A longform Skype conversation between the three artists was arranged at the end of 2020. They discussed politics, aesthetics, and Annea’s compositional practice among other things. Noel Meek & Mattin had from the beginning decided that the conversation itself would be used as a score for this album, Homage to Annea Lockwood.

“My work is my way of exploring the world” says Lockwood. Each piece on the album reflects her prismatic compositional practice: sound maps, scores that unfold temporally or environmentally, synchronous with nature, and pianos transplanted to exotic locations (often engulfed in flames). Meek & Mattin maintain a playfulness and curiosity of Annea’s sound world; from electronic verbal fizz, a recording of lighting a laptop on fire, hydrophonic diaries from underneath an old willow tree in New Zealand, to a polyphonic choral piece which concludes the album.

Homage to Annea Lockwood is housed in a hand-numbered paperback book, which carries a full transcription of the conversation, in this case… the score, along with lush photographic documentation, and ending with a lovely afterword written by Annea Lockwood. Recital is especially happy to be working with Annea again years later, after publishing her 2014 album Ground of Being (R7, CD). What a joy it is to celebrate Annea, and how appropriate it be done through the ritual of music.

credits

released September 28, 2023

Made between August 2020 & February 2023
Thanks to Irene Revell & Lisa Hall from Wild Energies, Marcel Dickhage, Cathleen Schuster, Adam Asnan, and Annea Lockwood
Cover photo of Annea: Ingatestone, 1973
Book layout: Sean McCann
Audio mastering: Sean McCann

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