Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds. She has also recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involved burning or drowning pianos. Lockwood studied composition and completed a B.Mus with honors from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She went on to study composition at several institutions around Europe with notable teachers: The Royal College of Music with Peter Racine Fricker, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse with Gottfried Michael Koenig, the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and also in Holland. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lockwood performed and composed around...