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Take Five With Jair-Rohm Parker Wells

By AAJ Staff
November 10, 2009
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Meet Jair-Rohm Parker Wells:

Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is an improvising musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. Curator of the MEETING series of festivals and developer of Loopadelica, a method of improvising with looping devices. Bassist with the improvising trio Decision Dream. Current with the releases AMDG (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam) on Klanggold and Meditations on Albert Ayler on Ayler Records.

Bio: American bassist, composer, programmer, conceptualist and record producer Jair-Rohm Parker Wells has been a resident of Stockholm, Sweden since 1985, he is widely recognized as a highly individual voice on the electric bass guitar, Ashbory bass, Fichter electric double bass and acoustic bass guitar, he has also distinguished himself as a programmer and synthesist developing with Max/MSP, Csound, Java and hardware modular synthesis systems. As a record producer and composer he has collaborated with many of the more prominent names in the international art world such as: Rhys Chatham, Peter Kihlg

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