Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Zeena Parkins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Zeena Parkins.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Zeena Parkins 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". 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.

American - Musician | Born: 1956

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I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

Zeena Parkins

I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists.

Zeena Parkins

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

Zeena Parkins

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

Zeena Parkins

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

Zeena Parkins

The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.

Zeena Parkins

I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.

Zeena Parkins

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Zeena Parkins

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