Dave Parkinson is an experimental sound artist and musician from Toronto.
Over the years Dave has composed hours of experimental music and spoken word entertainment, as well as political satire and other forms of amusement.
Dave was using tape loops and cassette manipulations all throughout the eighties long before electronic sampling and computer editing became the norm in experimental sound art.
Using a variety of sources including short wave or AM radio, UHF Television, automotive or industrial equipment, Fisher Price toys, and a variety of other noisemaking devices, Dave's experimental soundscapes are an insight into early recording techniques developed by low budget recording artists in the early and mid 1980s. Unfortunately, many of the earlier experimental recordings remain unavailable to the general public, but efforts are underway to resurrect some of the old Dave Parkinson recordings and convert them into online format such as MP3s or .wma files.
This webpage will keep you posted when the new materials are available.
More recently some of Dave Parkinson's music demos from the early 1990's have resurfaced as experimental music videos in 2007, and more of these never released music demos can be expected to emerge in some form or another in video format throughout 2008, as more works are converted to digital format.
Watch the video debut of an original 1993 composition -
I Am The One
