Zeena Parkins

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Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Parkins performs on standard harps, several custom electric harps, piano, and accordion. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and professor in the Music Department at Mills College.<ref name="2019 Guggenheim">Template:Cite web</ref>

Life and career

Born in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, Parkins studied at Bard College and moved to New York City in 1984.<ref name="1990 NYT">Template:Cite web</ref> Her work ranges from solo performance to large ensembles.<ref name="2019 Guggenheim" /> Besides standard and electric harps, her work also incorporates Foley, field recordings, analog synthesizers, samplers, oscillators and homemade instruments.

She has recorded six solo harp records<ref name="2019 Guggenheim" /> and recorded and performed with Björk,<ref name="2010 Pitchfork">Template:Cite web</ref> Matmos, Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Christian Marclay, Yoko Ono,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> John Zorn (including in Cobra performances),<ref name="1990 NYT" /> Chris Cutler, Pauline Oliveros,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Nels Cline,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Elliott Sharp,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lee Ranaldo,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Butch Morris,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Tin Hat Trio,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> William Winant,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Anthony Braxton, Bobby Previte,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Courtney Love's band Hole,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and others. She has also been a member of a number of experimental rock bands, including No Safety,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> News from Babel,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Skeleton Crew.<ref name="1990 NYT" />

Parkins worked with dance companies and choreographers, including the John Jasperse Company, Jennifer Monson,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Neil Greenberg, and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh, and has won three Bessie Awards for her achievement in composition for dance.<ref name="2019 Guggenheim" />

She provided scores for filmmakers including Abigail Child,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Isabella Rossellini,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Cynthia Madansky.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref name="2019 Guggenheim" />

Parkins received a 1997 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Discography

As leader

Release year Title Label Additional personnel
1987 Something Out There No Man's Land Sam Bennett, Cora, Wayne Horvitz, Christian Marclay, Jim Mineses, Ikue Mori, James Staley
1992 Ursa's Door Les Disques Victo Mori, Chris Cochrane, Sara Parkins, Maggie Parkins
1993 Nightmare Alley Table of the Elements
1995 Isabelle Avant S. Parkins, M. Parkins, Lisa Crowder
1996 Mouth=Maul=Betrayer Tzadik S. Parkins, M. Parkins, Mark Stewart, Jim Pugliese ft. Carsten Dane, Mattthias Breitenbach, Andy Hass
1998 No Way Back Atavistic
1999 The Opium War: A Radio Play Einstein Records Text by Ana María Simo; ft. M. Parkins, Ikue Mori, Joe Trump, Cochrane, David Shea, DJ Olive, DD Dorvillier, Jonathan Bepler, Tenko
1999 Pan-Acousticon Tzadik S. Parkins, M. Parkins, Stewart, Pugliese, ft. Trump
2004 Devotion Table of the Elements
2006 Necklace Tzadik Doug Henderson, Eclipse Quartet: S. Parkins, Sara Thorblade, Joanna Hood, M. Parkins
2010 Between the Whiles Table of the Elements luciana achugar, Levi Gonzalez, Eleanor Hullihan, S. Parkins, Pugliese
2012 Double Dupe Down Tzadik Mori, Marclay, Shelley Hirsch, Okkyung Lee, S. Parkins, M. Parkins, Staley, Matthew Welch, David Watson, William Winant, Pugliese
2013 The Adorables Crytogramophone Parkins, Shayna Dunkelman, Preshish Moments, ft. Deep Singh, Dave Sharma, Kristin Slipp, Danny Blume
2016 Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics Good Child Music Nuiko Wadden, Kristen Theriault, Megan Conley ft. Mori
2018 Captiva Good Child Music Matthew Ostrowski

Collaborations

with News from Babel
with Ikue Mori
  • Parkins & Mori, Phantom Orchard (Mego, 2004)
  • Phantom Orchard, Orra (Tzadik, 2008); ft. Cyro Baptista, Makigami Koichi, Josh Quillen, Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
  • Phantom Orchard Orchestra, Trouble In Paradise (Tzadik, 2012); ft. Sara Parkins, Shayna Dunkelman, Ratkje, Maggie Parkins, Hild Sofie Tafjord
  • Phantom Orchard Ensemble, Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik, 2014); ft. Sylvie Courvoisier, S. Parkins, Ratkje, M. Parkins
with No Safety
  • This Lost Leg (RecRec Music, 1989); Parkins, Chris Cochrane, Doug Seidel, Ann Rupel, Pippin Branett
  • Spill (Knitting Factory Works, 1992); Parkins, Cochrane, Seidel, Rupel, Tim Spelios
  • Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory Works, 1993); Parkins, Cochrane, Seidel, Rupel, Spelios
  • Live in Italy (Cuneiform Records, 2021)
with Elliott Sharp
  • Elliott Sharp / Zeena Parkins, Psycho–Acoustic (Victo, 1994)
  • Psycho-Acoustic, Blackburst (Victo, 1996)
with Skeleton Crew
Other collaborations

As instrumentalist

With Björk

With Alex Cline

With Nels Cline

With Fred Frith

With Maybe Monday

With Yoko Ono

With Marc Ribot

With John Zorn

With Tin Hat Trio

With Bobby Previte

Notes

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