Becoming Air / Into the Vanishing Point
featuring Nate Wooley and Yarn/Wire

Black Truffle Records (2021)
BT080
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[Into the Vanishing Point]… is a meditation on the collapse of certain insect populations and the implications of such losses. The work avoids replicating insect sounds, but it conjures the natural world, and the openness of Lockwood’s design, with small, microscopic sounds commingling in a mix of freedom and interdependence that powerfully reminds us of what’s at stake when something in that network vanishes.

The album also features Lockwood’s stunning collaboration with trumpeter Nate Wooley, Becoming Air, in which a catalog of extended horn techniques, between whispery sibilance and astringent distortion, are woven together with transitory imperfections — a study of nature itself.

— Peter Margasak, The Wire
Issue #452, October 2021

…“Becoming Air/Into the Vanishing Point” presents material developed in collaboration with key figures from the contemporary music scene. Both the trumpeter Nate Wooley (the soloist on “Becoming Air”) and the members of the percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire (featured on “Vanishing Point”) have spent their careers swimming in experimental pools that Lockwood helped fill. They play these subtly restless new works with unmistakable devotion and excitement…

— Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times
September 30, 2021