Andrea Parkins

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

Life and work

Parkins studied Fine Arts at Rutgers University in Martha Rosler and film studies in Boston with Phil Solomon and Ricky Leacock. As a musician, the cousin of Zeena Parkins worked in the 1990s in a trio with saxophonist Briggan Krauss and drummer Kenny Wollesen; The ensemble played a two albums for the label of the Knitting Factory. From the early 2000s, she played in a trio of Ellery Eskelin with Jim Black, which recorded several albums for the label Hatology and Songlines. They also worked with Joe Morris, Nels Cline and in a trio with Tom Rainey ( Ash and Tabula, 2004), further Miya Masaoka, Otomo Yoshihide, David Watson, with Ches Smith's These Arches, Satoko Fujii Min- Yoh in the ensemble as well as the end of the 2000s 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 on the first International Sound Art Festival in Mexico City, the festival Unsound in Poland, NEXT in Bratislava and 2010 at the Künstlerhaus Hamburg. In 2008 she received the New Technology grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop its installation ob- jest, the jettisoned object, which is based from a text of Julia Kristeva.

Andrea Parkins fragmented than accordionist traditional vocabulary of the instrument and expands its potential with the help of electronic techniques; it combines piano and accordion with digital sampling.

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