Parallel 03: Endlings + collaborators

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition.

http://endlings1.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/endlingsss/

John Dieterich is a guitarist, composer and producer based in Albuquerque, NM. He plays in the band Deerhoof and collaborates on a variety of musical and artistic projects.

http://endlings1.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/endlingsss/

Violinist and ethnomusicologist Parmela Attariwala interweaves life as a performer-creator, academic, arts equity consultant and music educator. In addition to being an interpreter of traditional Western art music, Attariwala’s creative work explores the liminal space between musical genres, artistic disciplines and identities, using improvisatory techniques as a point of departure. Through the Attar Project, she has developed an avant-garde repertoire for violin and tabla, and bharata-natyam based choreographed works for solo violin.

http://parmela.com

Adrian Avendaño is an emerging improvising percussionist, sound artist, recordist, and interdisciplinary artist based in Surrey-Vancouver, Canada [stolen lands of the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), Semiahma (Semiahmoo), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples].  He is an active performer in Vancouver’s music scene and has presented and performed internationally in Peru and Chile’s sound art and experimental music communities.   

http://avendanosounds.wordpress.com/

John Brennan is a sound artist, drummer, and new music curator living in Vancouver, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. In 2005 he received a BFA in Electroacoustic Studies from Concordia University. Since 2008, he has toured extensively through Europe, Japan, and North America. Between 2012 and 2016 he founded and curated Destroy Vancouver (DV) an improvised music and sound art series produced by VIVO Media Arts Centre. In recent years, his work on performance and improvisation has expanded to include sound installations and sound sculptures that consider the relationship between the sonic memory of musical instruments, performance, and improvisation.

Portuguese-born cellist Marina Hasselberg has become a standout presence on Vancouver’s music scene, featuring in everything from baroque concerts to cutting-edge contemporary premieres. She has brought the rich sound of strings to a roster that includes Vancouver New Music, Early Music Vancouver, Sound of Dragon Ensemble, Turning Point Ensemble, Redshift Music Society, the Vancouver Island, Okanagan, and Kamloops symphonies, and rock names like Father John Misty and Rod Stewart. 

www.marinahasselberg.com

Following stints working as a jazz pianist and music educator, playing keyboard/synth in rock bands, and tutoring programming, Joel Schuman currently lives in Minneapolis and is a Senior Application Developer with Crema, a Kansas City based digital product agency. Current interests include web audio technologies, systems design, and game development.

www.joelhasa.site