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My most engaging projects over the last several years have involved writing and recording my own music under the umbrella name of Marshweed; painting graphic scores or writing text scores for musical pieces, and then producing performances of them; or working with other musicians on their records and writing/recording string arrangements for their albums. Scroll down for this diverse sampling of projects.
Heather Lockie Live @ The Philosophical Research Society - Nov1 2024
Three Improvisations
0:00 - I really don't recommend getting a bird..."
14:21 - "Under the ground"
27:10 - "Sirens"
Marshweed
"Hail to the Commander" snippet
This is a little clip of the music video for "Hail to the Commander", out soon on Marshweed Ensemble's forthcoming record, "Point of Contact".
Heather Lockie
"Be a Bird" - live performance @ Casa Berenice, June 29 2024
Part 3 of the graphic score trio titled "Hummingbird-Attracter Flower Trumpets", written and produced by Heather Lockie 2024 for Dog Star 20 Music Festival. Performed as part of the 2024 Dog Star event "As the Worm Turns: Garden Installation and Rotating Nature-Inspired Live Performance".
Filmed by John Eagle.
Marshweed Ensemble - Live @ 2220 Arts & Archives June 19, 2024
Words/music by Heather Lockie
© 2024 Hairless Music/ASCAP
Performers: Jess Basta, Clay Chaplin, Eric KM Clark, Emily Elkin, Tany LIng, Heather Lockie
Spiders with Kalashnikovs
Live @ Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville NC
July6 2023
This performance was inspired by two quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Tombs of Atuan". Illustrations by Heather Lockie.
Spiders with Kalashnikovs is the duo Heather Lockie (viola, voice, electronics) and Clay Chaplin (laptop) that makes electroacoustic experiments.
Below: "Song to be Performed in a Tunnel in Your Town" (for seven female vocalists)- graphic score and video of the performance (June 3, 2018)
Reviews of performance here: The New Yorker • LA Weekly
Performance of "Song to be Performed in a Tunnel in Your Town," Mueller Tunnel, June 3, 2018
Written and produced by Heather Lockie for Dog Star 14 Music Festival, Mueller Tunnel, Angeles Crest Mountains.
Filmed by Arlene Ziordia.
Encountering the Unseen • @ UCLA • spring 2019
Live performance collaboration with artist Susan Simpson, evolutionary biologist Felipe Zapata, musician Heather Lockie. Object-performance based visualizations and corresponding recorded voices, sounds and pitch clusters use a physical scatter plot sculpture inspired by the data collected surrounding the evolution of 6 species of the plant Escallonia.
Marshweed - "Genius Machine"
Official Music Video, 2019
Soundcloud
This video is for a song that is on my first solo album "Marshweed in the Garden.“ It's about SEEDS! and GMO SEEDS! and farmers, and companies who have patented the changes they have made in how seeds grow and reproduce (or don't).
Dir. by artist Susanna Battin
"Wedding; Funeral - in 5 parts" (Automata Arts, fall 2015)
Live performance by Readers Chorus. Text by Shawn Lockie; composed and produced by Heather Lockie.
This piece is a response to a train accident that my sister was in while visiting Zimbabwe for a destination wedding, July 2014.
Unborn Capitalist from Limbo (Drag City) 2017
I wrote and arranged the strings for this LP by Cory Hanson (Wand) in spring 2017. This is one of the best albums I've ever heard and I was thrilled to be part of its making.
This video clip is from when we played live on KEXP.
"Bugbot Prophesies" Installation made and produced by Heather Lockie 2012
Documentation of my final project at CalArts. "Bugbot Prophesies" is an installation that incorporates motion sensors in a dystopic diorama, battery-operated bugs, and a soundbank of voice, viola, whistling. Special thanks to Clay Chaplin, Sara Roberts, Tim Perkis.
"Bugbot Prophesies" Installation made and produced by Heather Lockie 2012
Documentation of my final project at CalArts. "Bugbot Prophesies" is an installation that incorporates motion sensors in a dystopic diorama, battery-operated bugs, and a soundbank of voice, viola, whistling. Special thanks to Clay Chaplin, Sara Roberts, Tim Perkis.