Andrea Parkins + Eliad Wagner
Our first Elastro series of the year features the visiting duo of Andrea Parkins + Eliad Wagner, and a solo performance from Anne Liao. Andrea Parkins' and Eliad Wagner’s electroacoustic duo tumbles through a thicket of sonic densities, fusing sounding objects — a sliver of stone, a bell on a string, a spring in a chamber — with electronic tones, rhythms, and noise. The artists focus on gesture as a foundation for composition and improvisation — shaping their music through haptic interaction, careful listening, and the spontaneous "invention of instruments" through playful engagement with their materials. Join us Saturday January 10th!
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Andrea Parkins is a composer, sound artist, and electroacoustic musician who engages with electronics as both material and interactive process. Working with an array of sonic elements - amplified drawing tools, objects and surfaces; electronic feedback, custom-built software, and electronic and acoustic instruments – her work explores slippages and connections between the body, material, sound, site, and space.
Parkins’ work encompasses electroacoustic composition and performance; spatial audio and intermedia installation; and sound for contemporary dance, experimental film and transdisciplinary performance. She performs internationally as a solo artist, and has also collaborated with artists such as Magda Mayas, Ute Wassermann, The Necks, Nels Cline, George E. Lewis, Miya Masaoka, dance theatre artist Vera Mantero, and filmmaker Abigail Child. She is a member of Splitter Orchester in Berlin. Parkins' work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art (Norway), Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthall Bergen, Music Unlimited (AU), FIMAV (QC), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Strasbourg), NEXT (Bratislava), and many more.
Parkins’ recordings are published by Superpang, Important Records, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Henceforth Records, Infrequent Seams, and Creative Sources. Her writing has been published by Research Catalogue and Errant Sound. She has been an invited resident artist at Rauschenberg Residency (US), Elektronmusikstudion-EMS Stockholm, Q-02 Workspace for Experimental Music and Sound Art (Brussels), Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (US), and by Frei und Hanseastadt Hamburg Kulturbehoerde. Her work has received support from New York State Council on the Arts, the Berlin Cultural Senate, and Musik Fonds (Germany), among others.
Andrea Parkins interview:: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2022/05/06/andrea-parkins-interviewed/
Eliad Wagner (b. 1979) is a composer, performer, sound artist, and lecturer. He holds a BA in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MMus in Composition and Music Technology from the Utrecht School of the Arts. His work explores the intersection of composition and performance, with a focus on the vocabulary of electronic music, autonomous processes, cosmotechnics and the role of attention and intention in audio culture.
Wagner performs live electronic music, primarily on modular synthesizers, and composes for small ensembles and installation contexts. He is a co-founder and contributing composer of the electroacoustic ensemble Circuit Training. His performance practice spans a broad range of genres- from jazz and noise to acousmatic music and sound art. He has collaborated with numerous artists, including Korhan Erel, Werner Dafeldecker, Ignaz Schick, Marta Zapparoli, Wolfgang Seidel, Olaf Rupp, Els Vandeweyer, Emilio Gordoa, Andre Vida, Richard Scott, Alexandre Babel, Tomomi Adachi, Dean Roberts, Dafna Naphtali and Robyn Schulkowsky. Since 2015, he has served as Head of the BA programme in Electronic Music Production and Performance at Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin—a genre-agnostic, international program he designed to train the next generation of electronic music composers and performers.
His work has been featured by institutions such as the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Guggenheim Museum New York, Q-O2 (BE), STEIM (NL), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, WORM Rotterdam, Ensemble Phoenix Basel (CH), TU Berlin, UDK Berlin, and the Aarhus Academy of Music (DK), among others.