Name: Variation to the Almost Infinite by andrea parkins
Duration: 7 min 30 s
Description: "Variation to the Almost Infinite" (2014) is an unscored electroacoustic composition featuring acousmatic sound created by the physical and electronic manipulation of amplified objects, layering of audio feedback generated by my electronically-processed accordion, and generative-processing of sampled instruments.

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"Variation to the Almost Infinite" (2014) is an unscored electroacoustic composition featuring acousmatic sound created by the physical and electronic manipulation of amplified objects, layering of audio feedback generated by my electronically-processed accordion, and generative-processing of sampled instruments.

Variation to the Almost Infinite

The serie of Sudden Archives (a spectral recollection) are 10" dubplates.
All those tracks have been playing, recording and cutting in Circuit in Lausanne(Switzerland)during the Recording Memory Sessions (nov-dec 2014).
They are based on graphic scores for solo musician composed by Julien Sirjacq feat. The Bells Angels.
Recorded & mixed by Marcin de Morsier.
The recordings come together in a boxset (20 ex.) signed and numbered. 

Sudden Archives - Laurent Bruttin Face A

Sudden Archives - Laurent Bruttin Face B

The 1800's Bandoneon

06/05/22 interview  - BOMB magazine: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/andrea-parkins-interviewed/

28/02/19 Interview - The Quietus
https://www.mixcloud.com/the_Quietus/nuts-and-bolts-s2-e1-andrea-parkins/

14/10/13 Interview- Sound Studies blog
http://soundstudiesblog.com/2013/10/14/playing-with-bits-pieces-and-lightning-bolts-an-interview-with-sound-artist-andrea-parkins/  

Events, 2023
18 October  -- Andrea Parkins/Matthew Ostrowski. Splendor, Amsterdam.

20 October - Camila Nebbia/Andrea Parkins. Achter51, Weisbaden.

26 October - Andrea Parkins/Matthew Ostrowski with Liz Allbee.  Morphine Raum, Berlin.

1 November - Keisuke Matsuno/Vinicius Cajado/Joe Hertenstein/Andrea Parkins. Donau 115, Berlin

18 November. Declan Forde/Camila Nebbia/Andrea Parkins/Fermin Merlo. Spektralraumohr, Berlin.

6 December. Ute Wassermann/Andrea Parkins duo, with "A" Trio. KM28, Berlin.


Andrea Parkins on Bandcamp:
"Two Rooms from the Memory Palace" (infrequent seams, 2021)
https://andreaparkins.bandcamp.com/album/two-rooms-from-the-memory-palace

"The Third Room" (infrequent seams, 2021)
https://andreaparkins.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-room

"Faulty (broken orbit)" (important records, re-release 2021)(https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/faulty-broken-orbit

"Avalanche of Routes: Brian Chase & Andrea Parkins" (Confront Recordings, 2020)
https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/avalanche-of-routes

Elective Affinities: Andrea Parkins & Matthew Ostrowski. (infrequent seams, 2019)
https://andreaparkinsmatthewostrowski.bandcamp.com/album/elective-affinities








BIO
Andrea Parkins is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and electroacoustic instrumentalist engaging with interactive electronics as compositional/performative process. She is known for her pioneering approach on her electronically processed accordion, and investigation of embodiment and chance with her custom-designed software instruments.

Parkins' projects encompass sound and intermedia installations, electroacoustic compositions and performances,  and  scores for dance, film and intermedia performance. Her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, Kunsthalle Basel, NEXT Bratislava and many more. She records/performs as a solo artist and with artists such as Magda Mayas, Tony Buck, Ute Wassermann, Nels Cline, among others. Parkins' recordings have been published by Important Records, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Infrequent Seams and Creative Sources. Her work has received support from American Composers Forum, NYSCA, French-American Cultural Exchange, Q-02, MAAF, Harvestworks. Hamburg Kulturbehoerde, the Norwegian Academy of Music/Norwegian Artistic Research Programm, and the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.  She has been an invited resident artist at Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida and EMS in Stockholm. In 2022-2023, she was a fellow of  the Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung / Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.

Contact:  andreamparkins@gmail.com

Variation to the Almost Infinite

andrea parkins

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