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Annea Lockwood

Monkey Trips

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1995
for chamber ensemble including non-western instruments and slides

Instrumentation
2 wind, 2 strings, piano, 2 percussionists, non-western instruments
Programme Note

Monkey Trips is based upon the Tibetan Buddhist metaphor of the six states/realms of being which we constantly recreate and assume to be reality, six “different kinds of projections or dream worlds” (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche). Each realm is associated with a particular instrument and the piece moves through them successively.

The Heaven Realm (violin), realm of serenity and stasis in which the monkey dwells on her achievements, blocking out everything undesirable; the intrusion of another player draws her out of this solipsistic state and into dialogue.

In the Human Realm (cello), realm of passion and intellect, the monkey becomes discriminating – exploring, comparing, reaching out to possess the pleasurable, but discovering that pleasure slips away and craving creates frustrations. However, the idea of unity emerges.

Those frustrations impel a retreat into the Animal Realm (bass clarinet), away from intensity into the habitual, rooting around in a more limited world, clinging stubbornly to the safely familiar, whether painful or comfortable.

Then a desperate feeling of starvation sets in, the realm of the Hungry Spirits (flutes); visions of open space and of plenty turn into deprivation. A thirsting for what monkey remembers she once had becomes insatiable. Always reaching out but never realising that in order to drink, you have to first open your throat.

The Hell Realm (percussion): a feeling of being trapped in a small space, of struggling to control this self-created imprisonment. The more she struggles, the more solid grow the walls until rage is exhausted. Then the monkey begins to let go, and suddenly sees that the walls are self-created, the realms are self-created. She breaks through into open space.
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Annea Lockwood

Thousand Year Dreaming

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1990
for chamber ensemble and slides

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Instrumentation
oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 4 didjeridus, 2 tenor trombones, 2 conch shells, percussion
Programme Note

This work is scored for 10 piece ensemble of winds, brass, percussion and slides from the Lascaux Caves.

“It opened with an arresting effect I’d never heard before: Art Baron and Scott Robinson blowing through conch shells, played a series of converging glissandi in opposition directions, creating wild beat patterns…Even had you closed your eyes, it was like the piece suddenly emerged from its lair and took over the atmosphere”. Gann, Village Voice, New York
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- Annea Lockwood: Thousand Year Dreaming Year: 1993
  
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