BE 2026

Deantoni Parks: Technoself

Sun   Mar   29   2026 - 2:15 PM Barley's

Throughout Deantoni Parks’ 20-plus-year career as a prolific, experimental drummer, record producer, technologist and film composer, he has collaborated with luminaries such as André 3000 (“New Blue Sun”), Abbi Jacobson (“A League of Their Own” Amazon Prime), Paul Schrader (“Dog Eat Dog”), T-Bone Burnett (“True Detective” HBO) Rockstar Games (Grand Theft Auto V) and more deeply with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale and Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. Deantoni holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Berklee College of Music. Deantoni created a Tech/Arts Fair, Technoself Immersive in 2019. Deantoni created an online school and curriculum, Technoself School of Philosophy in 2020.

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