Label: New World Records

米重鎮コンポーザーDavid Behrmanがパフォーマンスで参加！！60年代に多彩なガラスのサウンドを使用したコンサートを展開、その後水の動きに魅了され川の音のサウンドアーカイブを手掛ける様になるニュージーランド出身の巨匠女性サウンドアーティストAnnea Lockwood。2007年~2010年に掛けて作曲された3つの非人為的パフォーマンスを収録したCD作[In Our Name]。レインスティック、ビオラ、パーカッション、チェロ演奏をテープに突っ込み擬似的なサウンドスケープを創出、その見事な構成と想像力には間違いなく圧倒されます。米老舗New World Recordsからのリリース。



Annea Lockwood distinguishes herself with works ingeniously combining recorded found and processed sounds, live-performance and visual components, and exhibiting her acute sense of timbre. While perhaps best known for her 1960s “glass concerts” featuring manifold glass-based sounds and her notorious "Piano Transplants"—burning, burying, and drowning obsolete pianos—she was drawn to the complex beauty of sounds found in the natural environment, which she captured on tape.

Lockwood was especially fascinated with the sonorities of moving water and water’s calming and healing properties and thus started an archive of recorded river sounds. From the 1970s, she explored improvisation and alternative performance techniques and asked her performers to use natural sound sources and instruments including rocks, stones, and conch shells. Having long been an attentive listener to nature and having given fragile and volatile nature a voice in many of her works, Lockwood has also occasionally drawn attention to vulnerable humans, such as a dying friend and prisoners deprived of their rights, in works like "Delta Run" (1981) and "In Our Name" (2009–10).

The current CD brings together three such works—"Jitterbug" (2007), "In Our Name", and "Thirst" (2008), emphasizing non-human and human dignity and imaginatively merging musique concrète techniques with live performance.