World Rhythms
Room 40
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Recorded on five reel-to-reel decks, the composer’s 1975 piece blends everyday and exotic sounds—human breath, cheeping frogs, bubbling geysers—into a passionate defense of the raptures of listening.

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— Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork
April 28, 2026

Lockwood’s patience and attention to detail has always been singular, allowing environmental sounds to unfold according to their own pace and logic, and here there’s a surfeit of overlapping lines that almost feels orchestral. But it’s the motion in those sounds that defines this work, both auguring Lockwood’s subsequent field recording projects and taking the contemporary listener away from digital overload with something essential and eternal to our understanding of sound.

— Peter Margasak, The Wire
Issue #506, April 2026