Andrea Parkins

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Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins (* in Pittsburgh ) is an American sound artist and improvisation musician ( accordion , piano , keyboard ).

Life

Parkins studied fine arts at Rutgers University with Martha Rosler and film studies in Boston with Phil Solomon and Ricky Leacock . As a musician, Zeena Parkins' cousin worked in a trio with saxophonist Briggan Krauss and drummer Kenny Wollesen in the 1990s ; the ensemble recorded two albums for the Knitting Factory label . From the early 2000s she played in Ellery Eskelin's trio with Jim Black , who recorded several albums for the Hatology and Songlines labels. She also worked with Joe Morris , in a trio with Nels Cline and Tom Rainey ( Ash and Tabula , 2004), with Miya Masaoka , Otomo Yoshihide , David Watson , with Ches Smith's These Arches , in the Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble and at the end of 2000s in a trio with John Edwards and Tony Marsh .

She presented her works in New York City at the Whitney Museum of American Art ( Bitstreams ), The Kitchen ( New Sound / New York ) and in Roulette as well as at the first International Sound Art Festival in Mexico City , the Unsound Festival in Poland, NEXT in Bratislava and 2010 in the Künstlerhaus Hamburg. In 2008 she received a New Technology grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop her installation Ob-jest, the Jettisoned Object , based on a text by Julia Kristeva.

Andrea Parkins, as an accordionist, fragments the traditional vocabulary of this instrument and expands its possibilities with the help of electronic techniques; she combines piano and accordion with digital sampling.

Discographic notes

  • 1996: Cast Iron Fact ( Knitting Factory Works)
  • 1996: Ellery Eskelin / Andrea Parkins / Jim Black - One Great Day ... ( HatHut Records )
  • 1998: Slippage (Knitting Factory Works) with Briggan Krauss, Kenny Wollesen
  • 2007: Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey - Downpour (Les Disques Victo)
  • 2008: Cities and Eyes: The Skein (Henceford) with Jessica Constable
  • 2009: Faulty (Broken Orbit) (Important)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Parkins in Hamburg 2010
personal data
SURNAME Parkins, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound artist and improvisation musician (accordion, piano, keyboard)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh