Thomas Ankersmit (1979) lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. His work has been presented across Europe, North America and Japan, in solo concerts and exhibitions as well as together with artists such as Phill Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Jim O’Rourke and Axel Dörner.
Faulty (acts) is a multi-channel audio composition activated and performed by Andrea Parkins. The artist will perform “structural interventions” — achieved through the use of live generative processing — on sonic materials that (in part) explore the specificity of objects – collected, invented or implicated (faked potatoes, and electronic feedback from an unknown source) – as they are set into motion and then ultimately come to stasis. Multiple chains of audio events dispersed through Issue’s space via its 16-channel hemispherical speaker system will arrive at an indeterminate sonic outcome meant to point to evocative and playful connections/tensions between materiality, language, and performance.
Andrea Parkins is a New York-based sound artist, composer and electro multi-instrumentalist who also makes/arranges objects, images and (sometimes) words. Known for her dynamic timberal explorations on the electric accordion and inventive use of customized generative sound processing, Andrea has appeared on more than 50 recordings on labels such as Hatology, Atavistic, and Creative Sources. She has performed worldwide as a soloist, and with artists including Nels Cline, Thomas Lehn, Fred Frith, Otomo Yoshihide, and Anne Wellmer, among many others. Locally, Andrea’s audio works and performances have been presented at the Whitney Museum of America Art, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia and Diapason Gallery for sound and intermedia, among other venues. Currently, Andrea continues to develop and perform a series of Max/MSP based audio/visual works inspired by Rube Goldberg’s circuitous contraptions.
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