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Drumming Diaries: Energies of Performance
Edgar Degas, Musicians in the Orchestra (1872) “There’s a whole orchestra down there. This is where all the music happens.” “Look—he’s playing a huge xylophone!” “He’s trained his entire life to learn those instruments.” At the show over the past few years I’ve noticed more and more curious audience members peering over the pit at… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Berger’s “Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing” (1960/2025)
“After we have responded to a work of art, we leave it, carrying away in our consciousness something which we didn’t have before. This something amounts to more than our memory of the incident represented, and also more than our memory of the shapes and colors and spaces which the artist has used and arranged.… Continue reading
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Stolen Moments Are Open-Ended
The brief moments in which many musical projects begin feel stolen because they are as if outside of time, free from routine, surprising, and rich in delight. They’re powerful because they’re witness to something new happening. But how does this unfold? As usual there’s no plan, I’m just exploring—clicking on sounds, moving audio around, or… Continue reading
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Gongscapes
Gongscapes is the ten-year echo of my 2016 recording, Gong Music. Each of its sixteen tracks has three gong parts, arranged left-center-right along the stereo field. Gong parts were recorded as melodies, then re-sampled, pitched into a lower (more oceanic) register, and step sequenced so fragments of the parts resound once each time around a… Continue reading
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Database: Annea Lockwood On Listening As Meditation
“If you’re focusing your attention so strongly on listening, it’s a form of meditation. Which is so nourishing.” Annea Lockwood database (a cache of perceptions) Continue reading
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