Tracklist
1 | Microglass Shaken | 1:35 | |
2 | Glass Rod Vibrating | 1:43 | |
3 | Turning Gong | 1:24 | |
4 | Mini Mobile | 2:04 | |
5 | Wine Glass | 1:40 | |
6 | Water Gong | 1:40 | |
7 | Two Ribbed Discs | 5:43 | |
8 | Rod Across Edge Of Pane | 1:52 | |
9 | Glass Bulb | 2:46 | |
10 | Glissandi | 0:22 | |
11 | Spinning Discs | 1:42 | |
12 | Dialogue - Bottles And Jars | 1:39 | |
13 | Vibrating Pane | 1:53 | |
14 | Bubbling | 1:36 | |
15 | Breathing Machine | 2:26 | |
16 | Water Jars | 1:28 | |
17 | Rod Roll | 0:57 | |
18 | Micro Grass On Goblet | 1:05 | |
19 | Micro Glass Along Pane | 1:15 | |
20 | Cullet - Two Glass Rocks | 1:28 | |
21 | Medium Mobile | 2:26 | |
22 | Bottle Tree Showered With Fragments | 0:36 | |
23 | Deep Water Gong | 4:08 |
New Zealand-born sound artist and composer Annea Lockwood received formal training at various institutions before exploring the sonorous potential of glass in a series of performances in the late 1960s. With plates of wired glass, glass discs, chunks of green cullet glass, glass tubing, sheets of micro-glass, glass jars and other incarnations of the material, Lockwood elicited a staggering array of sounds, some subtly uncanny and others as outlandish and alien as anything emitted from the era's early synthesizers.
Lockwood's glass concerts yielded a text-score published in Northern California new-music journal Source: Music of the Avant-Garde and attracted the attention of South African producer Michael Steyn, who encouraged her to record the glass pieces for his label Tangent. They worked for two years in a small, resonant church in London to document a veritable catalogue of the materials' tone and timbre; Lockwood wished to present each sound as if it were a piece of music in and of itself. Glass World originally appeared on Tangent in 1970.
"I wanted to entice people into really listening intensively," Lockwood once reflected. "Into really listening. I wanted a deep immersion in the sounds of themselves, for the audience."
First-time vinyl reissue. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.