Theodore Parker

Estonia (residence), United States (citizenship) °1985
research interests: Improvisation, electroacoustic music, site specific artwork
affiliation: Estonian Academy of Music and Theater
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Theodore Parker is an improviser working with guitar, electronics, and multi-channel speaker systems. He focuses on aspects of space and site specificity throughout his work. Currently he is active in Estonia’s first-ever live electronic ensemble EMA (Eesti Elektroonilise Muusika Seltsi Ansambel), which seeks to generate a new repertoire for the live performance of electronic music. Theodore is the founder of several improvisation ensembles, such as Punkt Nihu and Guerilla Impro, and currently lectures and teaches at the Estonian Academy of Music on topics concerning improvisation and artistic research.

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  • RAPP Lab Outcomes (2023) author(s): Evelyn Buyken, Carla Conti, Sybille Fraquelli, Stella Louise Goeke, Ivar Grydeland, Johannes Kretz, Theodore Parker published in: Research Catalogue
    RAPP Lab was a three-year EU-funded research project supported by the ERASMUS+ programme "Strategic Partnerships". RAPP stands for "Reflection based Artistic Professional Practice". The project took forward through a series of multi-national encounters described as Labs. RAPP Lab explored how the reflective methodologies of Artistic Research empower musicians to creatively respond to the economic-cultural environment with which they are confronted. The project brought together the Artistic Research expertise of seven partner institutions in six different European states: Association Européenne des Conservatoires – AEC Bruxelles, Belgium Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia Rome, Italy Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia Tallinn, Estonia Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Cologne, Germany (as Coordinator) mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria Norges musikhøgskole, NMH Oslo, Norway Orpheus Instituut Ghent, Belgium
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