Zeena Parkins is an artist based in New York, celebrated for her unparalleled rigor and boundless creativity. Renowned for redefining the harp's sonic potential, she combines innovative technique with groundbreaking design, crafting both extended acoustic methods and custom electric instruments. Her current solo project for electroacoustic harp includes a new work Parkins commissioned by French electronic composer/performer Laetitia Sonami, She is the Butcher of My Dreams:

“The title of the composition echoes my fascination with Zeena’s unabashed physicality as she deftly splits, slices, rubs and strikes her instrument. We explored a tactile language where acoustics and electronic sounds are in dialog and invite the listener’s ear to travel “inside” the instrument.”
~Laetitia Sonami

“Her innumerable ways of articulating the harp create a complex unity in parallel with the diverse voicings of the electronics. Such animated symbiosis is...

Zeena Parkins is an artist based in New York, celebrated for her unparalleled rigor and boundless creativity. Renowned for redefining the harp's sonic potential, she combines innovative technique with groundbreaking design, crafting both extended acoustic methods and custom electric instruments. Her current solo project for electroacoustic harp includes a new work Parkins commissioned by French electronic composer/performer Laetitia Sonami, She is the Butcher of My Dreams:

“The title of the composition echoes my fascination with Zeena’s unabashed physicality as she deftly splits, slices, rubs and strikes her instrument. We explored a tactile language where acoustics and electronic sounds are in dialog and invite the listener’s ear to travel “inside” the instrument.”
~Laetitia Sonami

“Her innumerable ways of articulating the harp create a complex unity in parallel with the diverse voicings of the electronics. Such animated symbiosis is characteristic of her brilliant musicality throughout.”
~John Bischoff...

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