Zeena Parkins, multi-instrumentalist, composer, improvisor, well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp, has also extended the language of the acoustic harp with the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing. She accurately describes her harp as a "sound machine of limitless capacity" and has used household objects and hardware store finds, with numerous other digital processing hardware and assorted and varied software. Zeena and the Adorables is Zeena Parkins, Shayna Dunkelman, and Preshish Moments.
M2, made up of brothers Roger Miller & Ben Miller, is a long-distance improvisation collaboration in many combinations, whose 1970 recording was described by Michael Azzarad as “Syd Barrett fronting Cream.”
Agathe Max’s upcoming album, the silver string, will be released on Table of the Elements in September. She will play songs from this new album, and will present a new piece based on an Indian raga with distortions and loop effects.
James Elliott, as Ateleia, releases propulsive, abstractly melodic electronic music. Elliott reconfigures a variety of source materials – mainly synthesizer, guitar and electronics – via computer processing into a shifting, constantly mutating framework of psychedelic minimalism.
