Annette Peacock (Born 1941) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and musician. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s.
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, Annette began composing at age four.Her mother was a violist in the San Diego and Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestras.
At 19, Annette married jazz bassist Gary Peacock. At the beginning of the '60s she toured with Albert Ayler, studied Zen macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, and was a close associate of Timothy Leary at the psychedelic center in Millbrook.
In 1964, pianist Paul Bley first began featuring her avant-garde compositions - ultimately on over 60 records. She and Bley were married in 1966.At the end of the 1960s she and Bley became strongly associated with the musical possibilities of the newly-emergent synthesizer. Given a prototype by Robert Moog Annette is thought to have been the first to use one to process her voice.As well as playing electric bass, electric piano and electric vibraphone - most notably at Town Hall, and live performances of the "Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show" in 1969 at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center (N.Y.) which they promoted with spots on late night TV and a guest appearance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Peacock produced the recordings of the show (with additional studio recordings) for an album release on Polydor, but Revenge: The Bigger the Love the Greater the Hate was not released until 1971. (She later reissued the album as I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself on her own Ironic label.) Revenge was followed by two concert albums that were recorded in Europe, Dual Unity recorded in 1970 and produced by Peacock (Freedom Records, 1972), and Improvisie released on the French America label under Bley's name in 1971; on both albums they were accompanied for the most part only by percussionist Han Bennink.
Annette Peacock (Born 1941) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and musician. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s.
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, Annette began composing at age four.Her mother was a violist in the San Diego and Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestras.
At 19, Annette married jazz bassist Gary Peacock. At the beginning of the '60s she toured with Albert Ayler, studied Zen macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, and was a close associate of Timothy Leary at the psychedelic center in Millbrook.
In 1964, pianist Paul Bley first began featuring her avant-garde compositions - ultimately on over 60 records. She and Bley were married in 1966.At the end of the 1960s she and Bley became strongly associated with the musical possibilities of the newly-emergent synthesizer. Given a prototype by Robert Moog Annette is thought to have been the first to use one to process her voice.As well as playing electric bass, electric piano and electric vibraphone - most notably at Town Hall, and live performances of the "Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show" in 1969 at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center (N.Y.) which they promoted with spots on late night TV and a guest appearance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Peacock produced the recordings of the show (with additional studio recordings) for an album release on Polydor, but Revenge: The Bigger the Love the Greater the Hate was not released until 1971. (She later reissued the album as I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself on her own Ironic label.) Revenge was followed by two concert albums that were recorded in Europe, Dual Unity recorded in 1970 and produced by Peacock (Freedom Records, 1972), and Improvisie released on the French America label under Bley's name in 1971; on both albums they were accompanied for the most part only by percussionist Han Bennink.