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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".
Zeena Parkins, Frederic Rzewski, James Tenney — New World Records, cd, 2013. Double Dupe Down — Tzadik, cd, 2012. Between the Whiles — Table of the Elements, cd, 2010. Necklace — Tzadik, cd, 2006. Devotion — Table of the Elements, lp, 2004. Nightmare Alley — Table of the Elements, cd in wooden box anniversary edition, 2003.
New York based electro-acoustic composer/improviser Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Through the use of expanded playing techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s capacities.
Zeena Parkins, multi-instrumentalist/composer/improviser and pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance reimagines the instrument as a 'sound machine of limitless capacity.'
New York based electro-acoustic composer / improviser Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Using expanded techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s capacities.
Zeena Parkins is an American harpist (Detroit, Michigan, USA) active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. She studied at Bard College and moved to New York City in 1984. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion.
Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance. She has built one-of-a-kind electric harps and has extended the language of the acoustic harp with unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of electronic processing.
