Andrea Parkins
Submitted by Mathias on Sat, 2011-10-08 16:41.
AndreaParkins is a sound/installation artist, composer, and electroacoustic improviser who engages with interactive electronics as a compositional/performative process, and explores strategies related to Fluxus’ ordered, yet ephemeral activities. She is an integral participant in NYC's sound art/experimental music community and beyond, and composes electroacoustic solo and chamber pieces, sound for dance and video, and multi-diffusion performance/installations. Her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, Diapason, and Experimental Intermedia; and internationally at contemporary music and sound festivals/venues including the 1st International Sound Art festival in Mexico City and Unsound in Krakow.
Parkins performs worldwide as a solo artist, and in wide-ranging improvisational collaborations with innovators such as David Watson, Otomo Yoshihide, John Butcher, and Lê Quan Ninh, among many others. Her work can be heard on numerous recordings on labels including Important Records, hatology, Atavistic, and Creative Sources. On an ongoing basis, Parkins develops her primary performance project, a series of interactive audio/visual works inspired by Rube Goldberg’s circuitous machines. Parkins’ work has received support from American Composers Forum, New York State Council on the Arts, the French-American Cultural Exchange, Meet the Composer, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, and the Frei und Hanseastadt Hamburg Kulturbehoerde in Germany.
