" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

 

22/03/2022

Bayou-borne

 

Annea Lockwood composed in 2016 the piece "Bayou-borne" - for improvisation guided by graphic imagery - as a tribute to Pauline Oliveros who was born in Houston Texas. 

         "I created a graphic score from a map of the six bayous which flow through the city to Galveston Bay, thinking that she would have known one or all of those rivers intimately as a child – swimming, wading, river mud between her toes.  She was a superb improviser, so it is scored for six improvising musicians with each player reading one of the rivers as a guide.  Their lines move independently at first, coming closer together at the confluences to form duets and trios, before converging at the red star, the whole sound darkening as they approach Houston in memory of the devastation and deaths caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017."  Annea Lockwood


"Bayou-borne" is performed by Maze:  Anne La Berg (flutes, electronics), Dario Calderone (double bass), Gareth Davis (bass clarinet), Yannis Kyriakides (electronics),  Wiek Hijmans (electric guitar), Reinier van Houdt (piano, eletronics). Now published on a limited edition's CD (300 copies) .


bonus links

An interview with Annea

"Piano burning" 1968

The glass world of Annea Lockwood 

 

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