Zeena Parkins Professions : Harpist Born : 1956 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by 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 harps piano body 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 irony computer use Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs. Zeena Parkins crash aspect computer 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 different sound beautiful 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 practice sorry ideas I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing. Zeena Parkins dancer dancing 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 important real long
