Rocket Parlour

Lorin Edwin Parker (b. 1877) and Sarah Seelig (b. 1885) are Rocket Parlour, a theatrical-musical-historical duo with a love for electronic noise and the mythology of the American West. Parker, proprietor of Electric Western, is a maverick inventor who builds many of Rocket Parlour’s unique instruments. Sarah Seelig is a concert pianist and occasional mule driver on the trail between Mojave and Harmony Borax Works. Together they have performed at the BENT Festival at the Velaslavasay Panorama, the POW! Performance Art Festival, Il Corral, and the California Institute of the Arts.

An excerpt from Rocket Parlour’s 2007 BENT Los Angeles performance, featuring Seelig on ElectroSparklavier and Sparky Thing, and Parker on Steam Synthesizer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Yv8jD2Hkc

“Sunday,” a short film by director Mischa Livingstone, featured in 62nd Cinema at the Echo Park Film Center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNOWBc8Tr0