John Cage Year 2012
[ polski ]

[Program]

27 September, 2012 [6.00 PM]klub Mózg, ul. Gdańska 10

Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins /artist’s statement/: As a sound artist, I am engaged with interactive electronics as a material, and reflect especially upon processes and ideas derived from the work of the Fluxus artists with their playful sense of gestural non-materialism; late 20th century conceptual art with emphasis on site-based works; post-Cagean compositional strategies; the electronic music canons; and approaches to non-idiomatic electroacoustic improvisation. My most recent pieces are Max/MSP-based multi-diffusional 3D audio works inspired by Rube Goldberg's circuitous machines, which sometimes include images, or objects that are found or made and then sonified. An important thread running through my work is the discovery and expression of metaphors for the slippage and tension between object, gesture and meaning that occur through the passage of time. Within the contexts of audio installation and electroacoustic composition, I seek to build and layer systems and structures that point to these shifting states; and as an electroacoustic performer employing interactive electronics, I have worked to develop a uniquely gestural, textural approach to my electronically-processed accordion and customized live sound processing - manifesting an embodied realization of my conceptual concerns.