Vapours

"Two Rooms from the Memory Palace" (2014-15) is an unscored generative electroacoustic composition reflecting my ongoing exploration of poetic interrelationships between site and time, and gestural trace and acoustical space. The work was developed as a cyclically-constructed/continuous duration fixed-media piece, designed for diffusion through two adjacent rooms that are not acoustically isolated from each other:  enabling shifting and sometimes startling sonic juxtapositions to take place. It premiered as an 8 channel work at the 2015 New York Electronic Art Festival and was later re-imagined as a large-scale performance/installation for diffusion in a single room, premiering at the 2016 Akousma Festival in Montreal as "Two Rooms, Variation 1, for 40 Loudspeakers and Solo Performer." The work has additionally been presented at festivals in Oslo, Bolzano and Berlin.

Two Rooms from the Memory Palace

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

Two Rooms from the Memory Palace

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