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Faulty (broken orbit) is an hour-long through-composed immersive audio work exploring  sonic idiosyncrasies of mic’ed surfaces and amplified quotidian objects — collected, invented, imagined or implied – activated into movement and then layered against a shifting, slowly settling field of electronic feedback and live-processed instruments.  The work is built via elaborate and precarious systems, in homage to inventor Rube Goldberg’s circuitous machines, which are also the inspiration for my self-designed  virtual (MAX-based)  sound processing instrument that has been my primary compositional and performance tool for the past 10 years. 

Faulty (broken orbit) was first commissioned by and exhibited as a site-configured 10-channel audio installation at Diapason gallery for sound in New York City, and was  later released on CD  (in stereo) by Important Records, the US-based sound art and experimental music. Since 2011, Faulty (broken orbit) has been presented in gallery and sound art spaces in NYC and throughout the US; VIctoria, Australia, and Hamburg, Germany.

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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

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