Tag: Zeena Parkins

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

With her new album Lament for the Maker the harpist Zeena Parkins marks her 'heart-wrenching' departure from Mills College, which announced back in 2021 that it would end its degree programs owing to financial difficulties though it ultimately merged with Northeastern University and survives today in an abridged form. Parkins had taught at Mills for thirteen years by the time...

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...