Dion Workman is a musician from

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. Throughout the mid-1990s he was a member of the trio

Thela Thela was a short-lived rock band from New Zealand. It was formed in 1992 and consisted of Dion Workman, Rosy Parlane, and Dean Roberts. They released two LPs on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Following the band's demise in 1996, all ...

with

Rosy Parlane Rosy Parlane, also known as Paul Douglas, is an electronic musician from New Zealand who currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions recor ...

and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to

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, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the

Sigma Editions Sigma Editions is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman (both ex-members of Thela). It specializes in electronic music and experimental music. Overview The label began in Melbourne, Australia, relocated to R ...

label. The duo moved to

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, before Workman eventually settled in

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. In 2003 he won the

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for his composition ''Ching''. Also in 2003 he curated Volume III of the Alegorical Power Series.

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An interview with Dion WorkmanArticle on Workman winning the Max Brand Prize
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