Experimentik #57
Ignaz Schick – turntables, electronics
Andrea Parkins is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and electroacoustic improviser who engages with interactive electronics as both material and process. Her work focuses on relationships between the body, materiality, sound and space – mining tensions between failure and fluency, and absence and presence. As a performer, she is known for her pioneering approach with her electronically-processed accordion, and investigation of embodiment and chance with an array of sonic materials: amplified objects and drawing tools; electronic feedback; and acoustic, electric, and custom-built software instruments, Parkins projects include multi-channel sound installations; electronic music compositions; electroacoustic performances; and sound for contemporary dance, experimental film and intermedia performance. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Café Oto, Labor Sonor, Kunsthalle Basel, NEXT (Bratislava), Kunsthall Bergen, Music Unlimited (Wels), Akousma Festival (Montreal), and many more. Parkins recordings are published by Important Records, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Henceforth Records, Infrequent Seams, and Creative Sources, and she can be heard as a contributor on numerous other labels. She has been an invited resident artist at the Rauschenberg Residency (US); Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm (EMS), Performing Arts Forum (FR), Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (US), and by Frei und Hanseastadt Hamburg Kulturbehoerde.
Ignaz Schick (*1972) is a Berlin based sound/visual artist, composer/performer, and curator of festivals/events. He also performs as an instrumentalist on turntables, objects, live-electronics, alto saxophone & flutes. In his youth he studied the saxophone and since his teenage days performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players & effect boxes & he started experimenting with different electro-acoustic set-ups & sound making devices. After college he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich & worked for several years as an assistant for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl. Since 1995 he lives & works in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague” and the blossoming “experimental” music scene. He has been also prolific as curator (Festival für Andere Musik, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts, TITO- The International Turntable Orchestra 2009 & 2019, Echtzeitmusiktage 2010, Flux Festival 2018, Fuchsfest 2021, Reflux Festival 2022, …) & runs the experimental music label Zarek.
Schick has toured worldwide solo or with various groups & ensembles & has collaborated with more than a hundred international sonic artists – amongst others with Mwata Bowden, Don Cherry, Douglas Ewart, Sven-Ake Johansson, Paul Lovens, Toshimaru Nakamura, Charlemagne Palestine, Andrea Parkins, Keith Rowe, Akira Sakata or Martin Tetréault. In parallel to his experimental music and performance practize he has been making sound installations, experimental objects, visual collages, text scores, concrete poetry, graphic scores and drawings. Since 2016 he has received several composition & research stipends [Cité des Arts Paris, Cultural Exchange Stipend for South-East-Asia, Villa Aurora Los Angeles & Kulturakademie Tarabya Istanbul, Goethe Institute Kolkata] for writing & producing new pieces and researching the local scenes.