Annea Lockwood

At 85 years of age, New Zealand composer Annea Lockwood is still producing interesting, important, and vital new music. On Fractured Ground was recorded using Belfast'a so-called "peace lines," dozens of immense walls erected since the late 1960s to separate Catholic and Protestant areas of the city. Lockwood and her collaborators play the walls themselves as gigantic resonant instruments, using their hands and objects such as stones and leaves, and then editing and manipulating the recordings in the studio. The ominous sound mirrors the gargantuan nature of the walls and the alienation and isolation they created. 

You can purchase the recording - and support Lockwood and her collaborators - at Bandcamp.