Annea Lockwood’s Jitterbug / John Tilbury and Sebastian Lexer

Annea Lockwood’s Jitterbug / John Tilbury and Sebastian Lexer

Jitterbug  Annea Lockwood
with John Tilbury (piano) Michael Pisaro (guitar) Eyvind Kang (viola)
Jessika Kenney (voice) Annea Lockwood (electronics)

John Tilbury and Sebastian Lexer
with John Tilbury (piano) and Sebastian Lexer (piano and electronics)

Annea Lockwood’s Jitterbug, commissioned for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, blends the composer’s underwater recordings of aquatic insects and fish, with musicians ‘reading’ photographic images of intricately patterned rocks as graphic scores – a synthesis of ‘real time’ insects and musicians interpreting geological time. Following a decade of collaborations involving piano and electronics, Tilbury and Lexer then debut an improvised duo combining their unique approaches to pianism.