Han-earl Park: guitarist, improviser, constructor

Artist-musician, Graham Dunning invited me a few months ago to put together a mix for his radio show, Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone (NTS Radio). You can listen to that episode now!

Here’s the track list for my guest mix:

• Han-earl Park, ‘Are Variant’ from Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9)
• Theresa Wong, ‘opening sea’ from Practicing Sands (FCSL-006)
• Catherine Sikora, ‘All My Winters’
• Han-earl Park, Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia, ‘Autopoiesis III’ and ‘Autopoiesis IV’ from Gonggong 225088 (wa008)
• Mellowdeath, ‘Deadly Stairs’ from Deadly Stares
• Steph Richards, ‘Fullmoon (Part I)’ from Fullmoon (RPR1066)
• Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas, ‘Proxemics V’ and ‘Proxemics VI: Rumble’ from Juno 3: Proxemics (BAF003)
• Nick Didkovsky, ‘abscess’ from Phantom Words

[Listen now…]

Thanks so much to Graham for inviting me to contribute something for his show, and for giving me the opportunity to share some of the noise I’ve made, and the noise that has impressed and moved me recently.

I wish I could say there was a theme beyond selecting music that I had just been listening to, and a selection from some of my more recent recordings. Considering the haphazard way I put the thing together, I’m as surprised as anyone by the way the overall mix flows—from how Catherine takes-off from where Theresa Wong lands; to how Isabel and Sara reassert, reframe and re-grid Yorgos and Camila’s snaps’n’clangs; to the futz, fuzz and buzzes that bridges Steph Richards’ Fullmoon, Juno 3’s Proxemics, and Nick’s Phantom Words.

Enjoy, and please, please check out the music of these artists (including those featured by Graham during the rest of the show)—I think you’ll be inspired.

Photo © Jazz em Agosto / Petra Cvelbar.

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