Heather Lockie is a performer-composer, teaching artist and visual artist based in Los Angeles. She plays viola and piano, writes songs, plays in several contemporary musical groups, writes and arranges music, teaches music, gardens, and uses paints for both fun times and for compositional work. She has a BA in Comparative Literature (French, English) from Occidental College and an MFA in music composition and viola performance from the California Institute of the Arts.
Her latest project is called Marshweed, which released a cd called “Marshweed in the Garden” in 2017. Other recent projects include writing string arrangements, recording, and live playing for David Kendrick (DEVO, Sparks), OCS (Thee Oh Sees) and Cory Hanson (Wand). In the teaching world, her students are a continually important part of her life.
Heather has painted since she was a child. She formally studied charcoal, pen/ink, acrylics and oil painting until she was 16. When her art teacher Giselle Shaha passed away, she took up teaching the other kids in the class. (And that was her introduction to private teaching.)
Musically, she has played and toured as a backing musician with international artists including Syd Straw, Fun., Spiritualized, Arthur Lee/LOVE, Eels, OCS, Cory Hanson, as well as with various independent bands (Listing Ship, Leather Hyman, Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra). She has performed in a wide variety of musical venues that reflect the diversity of her musical output: the Royal Albert Hall in London, The David Letterman show, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, The Hammer Museum, artist-run galleries and theaters, and various DIY spaces throughout America.
She is most interested at the moment in these things: how things grow; seeds as simple machines that unpack themselves; worms and the effect of their castings on an ailing fruit tree; color symbolism in musical notation; circular knitting; how to teach complex abstract musical stuff to kids via simple activities that verge on ephemera; how to represent temporal and pitch information in a picture; earliest existing keyboard music.
Instagram: @marshweedinthegarden
