Who is Adam Parkinson?

I'm doing a practice based PhD at ICMUS, Newcastle University, exploring the relationship between and our conceptions of listening, moving and playing, which involves looking at contemporary digital instrument design and notions of the laptop-as-instrument.

HAWKS is an improv quartet I play in, along with Rhodri Davies, Val Persona and Gwilly Edmondez:



I've recently been putting drum machines through my max patch and it sounds like this.

I've been exposed to and enjoying reductionist approaches to improv recently, and it'll be really interesting if through playing and talking I can find out other's opinions about the dynamics of group improvisation.