ANDREA PARKINS / ELIAD WAGNER - Drag Drop Spin & Crawl

Andrea Parkins' and Eliad Wagner’s electroacoustic duo project tumbles through a thicket of sonic materials, fusing sounding objects - a sliver of stone, a bell on a string, a spring in a chamber - with electronic tones, rhythms, and noise. These recordings, developed between 2022 and 2023, emerged through a research process focused on gesture as a foundation for musical composition and improvisation. Their collaboration is shaped by haptic interaction, careful listening, and the invention of instruments through playful engagement with familiar materials.

Supported by Musicfonds e.V.

Biographies

Andrea Parkins is a composer, sound artist, and electroacoustic performer who engages interactively with electronics as both material and process. Working with an array of sonic materials - 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, materiality, sound, site, and space. Parkins’ projects encompass electroacoustic composition and performance; spatial audio and intermedia installation; and sound for contemporary dance, experimental film and intermedia performance. She performs internationally a solo artist, and has collaborated with artists including Magda Mayas, Ute Wassermann, The Necks, George E. Lewis, Miya Masaoka, dance theatre artist Vera Mantero, interdisciplinary performers The Body Cartography Project, and filmmaker Abigail Child. Her 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 Important Records, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Henceforth Records, Infrequent Seams, and Creative Sources. Her writing is 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.

Eliad Wagner (b. 1979) is a composer , performer , sound artist and lecturer , a classically trained musician, holding academic degrees in physics (BA) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (IL) and composition/music technology (Mmus) from the Utrecht academy of the arts (NL). His musical activities explore the meeting point of composition and performance while addressing thoughts on the vocabulary of electronic music, autonomous processes, intention and attention in audio culture, and people’s natural relationship with technology. In 2012 Wagner relocated to Berlin, where he quickly became an active member of the city’s experimental music scene as a performer of live electronic music (playing the modular synthesizer) as well as composing for small ensembles and installations. He is co-founder of and regularly contributing composer to the electro-acoustic ensemble ‘Circuit Training’. As a performer he is active in a wide range of scenes - from Jazz to noise to acousmatic music and sound art. He has worked with artist such as Korhan Erel, Werner DafeldeckerIgnaz Schick, Marta Zapparoli, Wolfgang Seidel, Olaf Rupp, Els Vandeweyer, Emilio Gordoa, Andre Vida, Richard Scott, Alexandre Babel, Tomomi Adachi, Dean Roberts and Robyn Schulkowsky. Since 2015, He is the head of the Electronic Music Production and Performance degree programme at the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin- an international, diverse, genre-agnostic academic programme he has designed to train students in composition and performance of electronic music. Notable publications and presentations include Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Berlin Radio symphony orchestra, Guggenheim New York, Q-O2 (BE), Steim(NL), HKW Berlin, Worm Rotterdam, Ensemble Phoenix Basel (CH), TU Berlin, UDK Berlin, Aarhus academy of music (DK) amongst others.