I am a Swiss composer currently based in Basel. My artistic practice lies between music, art and theory. Recent projects of mine have been presented in several European countries and include composed and improvised performances, ensemble pieces, video works, concert interventions a multi-media installation and recently also a book of text scores.
In my recent work I have tried to not only think about the notion and history of music but also to think with and through it in order to make works that function as models of different realities while being "about" or "from" reflections on musical phenomena.
I believe that beauty can be found in the rigorous cohesion between thought and action and I aim to apply this to my musical practice as much as possible. This hopefully results in works in which theory and practice are in deep interaction and cannot be dissociated.

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/

Events, 2025

28 March - AP/Frank Gratkowski/Devin Gray. Sowieso, Berlin.

12 March - Andrea Parkins/Marius Wankel. Future Bash Series, Neue Zukunft, Berlin.

19 February - Andrea Parkins/Yorgos DImitradis. Kunstfabrik Schlot, Berlin.

12 February - Liz Kosack/Andrea Parkins/Ute Wassermann. Kunstfabrik Schlot, Berlin


Events, 2024
19 December - Grapheme journal #4 launch: Magda Mayas/Tony Buck/Ute Wassermann with guests Andrea Parkins and Mike Majkowsi. KM28, Berlin.

7 December - Parkins/Wagner/Yassin: Graphic Scores by Grgur Savic, Night #3. Rchtn 25, Berlin

23 November - Matsuno/Parkins/Fillipou/Black. Ausland, Berlin.

6 November - Koole/Parkins/Müller. ACUD, Berlin.

1 November - SUMM, Supermolly, Berlin.

23 October - AP. with Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus. Panda, Berlin.

11 October - Sentimental Punk: Andrea Parkins/Liz Kosack w/ films by Marie Menken. Kotti Shop, Berlin.

4 October  - w. Splitter Orchester.Musik Protokoll Festival, Graz. 

7 September - Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner. Rchtn 25, Berlin.

16-17 August - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander. Visual Sound Outdoor Festival, Parzelle, Dortmund.

15 August - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander/ Kollektiv Rabbazzz Festival, Dresden. 

12 July - Parkins/Wagner, 90mil, Berlin.

7 July - w/ Splitter Orchester. Paretzer Field Music, Paretz, DE.

21 June - Being5 (Freedman/Parkins/Dörner/Dimitriadis/Williams), Something Else Festival, Hamilton, ONT.

19 June - Being5. Suoni Festival, Montreal.

16 June - Being5. Rimouski, QC.

13 June - Nebbia/Parkins, Jazzexcess. Kantine am Berghain, Berlin.

29 May -- Wagner/Erel/Parkins. Panda, Berlin.

21 April -- Mayas/Parkins. Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz.

17 April - Kidambi/Banner/Parkins. KM28, Berlin.

6 April - Parkins/Wagner. Ausland, Berlin.

23 March - Voutchkova/Parkins/Edwards/Kessler (Chuchepati Orchestra), 100vor100- Palace. St. Gallen.

22 March - w. Splitter Orchester. MaerMusik, AdK, Berlin.

13 March - Elieh/Parkins/Wagner/Dimitriadis. PAS, Berln.

9 March - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander. Artacts Festival, St. Johan, AUT.

8 March - Nebbia/Mattrey/Parkins/Togander. Echoraum, Vienna.

20 February - Yassin/Prins/Parkins. Morphine Raum, Berlin.

9 February - Nebbia/Parkins. Panda, Berlin.

1 February- Venitucci/Voutchkova/Parkins/Mayas/Cyrino/Marino. Sowieso, Berlin.

29 January - Parkins/Dimitriadis. Panda, Berlin.

24 January - Matthias Koole/Andrea Parkins. Cafe Plume, Berlin.






Events, 2023
13 December - w. Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus. Panda, Berlin.

6 December - Parkins/Wassermann w. "A" Trio, KM28, Berlin.

18 November - Forde/Nebbia/Parkins/Merlo. Spektralraumohr, Berlin.

1 November - Matsuno/Cajado/Parkins/Hertenstein. Donau 115, Berlin.

26 October - Parkins/Ostrowski w. Liz Albee. Morphine Raum, Berlin.

20 October - Nebbia/Parkiins. Achter 53, Wiesbaden.

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

23 September - Gratkowski/Parkins/Coudoux. The Loft, Köln.

31 August-10 September  - Parkins/Dimitriadis, Soundtrips tour, NRW, DE.





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

Música Experimental de Cámara es un ensamble de instrumentistas y compositores orientados a la interpretación y creación de música experimental en formato camarístico.

Vittorio Garis, architect musician and improviser is an artist of strong sensitiveness, tightened also to the random discoveries of the percussions and the electronics connected with them, without forgetting the cultural relations with different arts.
His set consists of a bass drum, a snare, cymbals, a bow and many objects, for a sonic research that leads the experimentation between the surprises of the amplification and the friction of the objects: it is an electro-acoustic effect that wants to rule, a vibration that begins from his hands and projects in paradises of sensation and of liminal images.(freely taken and remixed from Percorsi Musicali "Few notes on italian improvisation” by Ettore Garzia)
Recently released cd on Setoladimaiale with Ulrike Lentz (flutes) Anja Kreysing (accordion).
http://www.setoladimaiale.net/catalogue/view/SM3370.

Vittorio Garis, architetto, musicista improvvisatore è artista di sensibilità spiccata, teso anche alle scoperte "casuali" delle percussioni e dell'elettronica collegata ad esse, senza dimenticare le relazioni culturali con arti diverse. 
Il suo set percussivo si compone di una grancassa, un rullante con piatti ed archetto e tanti oggetti, per una ricerca sonora che conduce la sperimentazione segmentare tra le sorprese dell'amplificazione e gli attriti degli oggetti: è un effetto elettro-acustico che si vuole dominare, una vibrazione che parte dalle sue mani e proietta in paradisi della sensazione e delle immagini liminali.(liberamente tratto e rimixato da Percorsi Musicali "Poche note sull'improvvisazione italiana" di Ettore Garzia)
http://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2016/11/25/poche-note-sullimprovvisazione-italiana-la-ricerca-di-una-movimentazione-tra-fisicita-elettronica-ed-atopia/
http://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2016/05/25/poche-note-sullimprovvisazione-italiana-da-ismene-al-riduzionismo/

Composition. Improvisation. Poetry. Literature. Sound art. 

Living in Warsaw, Poland.
from Patagonia, Argentina.

Gregory Büttner lives and works as a musician and artist in Hamburg. Since 2000 his main focus is on sound art and electroacoustic compositions. 
www.gregorybuettner.de

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