Author: Han-earl Park

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years. Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky; Juno 3 with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas; and Gonggong 225088 with Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia; and performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett. [More…]
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performance diary 09-23-08

upcoming performances
date venue time details
October 9th 2008 Ó Riada Hall
UCC Department of Music
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland		 7:30pm Stet Lab returns with Han-earl Park, Jesse Ronneau, Veronica Tadman and others.
Free admission (€5 recommended donation).
[Details…]
November 10th 2008 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab celebrates its first birthday!
Featuring Franziska Schroeder
Admission: €10/5/0.
[Details…]
December 3rd 2008 FrImp
The Station
High Street
Kings Heath
Birmingham, England		 8:00pm Performance by Bruce Coates (saxophones), Mike Hurley (piano), Trevor Lines (bass), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Walt Shaw (percussion and electronics).
Admission: £6/4 (£3 students).
December 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Liverpool, England		 TBC Performance by Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Han-earl Park (guitar) hosted by Frakture. Details to follow…
December 8th 2008 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab featuring Bruce Coates.
Admission: €10/5/0.
[Details…]
I am organizing a set of gigs in the U.K. and elsewhere during December 2008 and January 2009.
In addition, I am looking for venues in Ireland to host performances by Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders, Jamie Smith and myself (Han-earl Park) in January/February of 2009. See the performance proposal (PDF) for more information.
I welcome performance organizations, promoters and/or venues to get in touch.

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performance diary 09-21-08

upcoming performances
date venue time details
October 9th 2008 Ó Riada Hall
UCC Department of Music
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland		 7:30pm Stet Lab returns with Han-earl Park, Jesse Ronneau, Veronica Tadman and others.
Free admission (€5 recommended donation).
[Details…]
November 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm (TBC) Stet Lab featuring Hugh Metcalfe (TBC). Details to follow…
[Details…]
December 3rd 2008 FrImp
The Station
High Street
Kings Heath
Birmingham, England		 8:00pm Performance by Bruce Coates (saxophones), Mike Hurley (piano), Trevor Lines (bass), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Walt Shaw (percussion and electronics).
Admission: £6/4 (£3 students).
December 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Liverpool, England		 TBC Performance by Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Han-earl Park (guitar) hosted by Frakture. Details to follow…
December 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm (TBC) Stet Lab featuring Bruce Coates. More details to follow.
[Details…]
I am organizing a set of gigs in the U.K. and elsewhere during December 2008 and January 2009.
In addition, I am looking for venues in Ireland to host performances by Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders, Jamie Smith and myself (Han-earl Park) in January/February of 2009. See the performance proposal (PDF) for more information.
I welcome performance organizations, promoters and/or venues to get in touch.

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goodbye bone, hello micarta

Just a quick note of thanks to Chris Larkin, luthier based on a peninsula of a peninsula in Ireland. Chris just setup Esprit, and thanks to him, I got introduced to linen-plastic composite as a nut material, and now know that my preferred action is 1mm on the treble side and 1.3mm on the bass.

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performance diary 08-26-08

upcoming performances
date venue time details
October 9th 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Stet Lab returns in October!
[Details…]
November 13th 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Stet Lab Featuring Hugh Metcalfe (TBC). More details to follow.
[Details…]
December 3rd 2008 FrImp
The Station
High Street
Kings Heath
Birmingham, England		 8:00pm Performance by Bruce Coates (saxophones), Mike Hurley (piano), Trevor Lines (bass), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Walt Shaw (percussion and electronics).
Admission: £6/4 (£3 students).
I am organizing a set of gigs in the U.K. and elsewhere during December 2008 and January 2009.
In addition, I am looking for venues in Ireland to host performances by Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders, Jamie Smith and myself (Han-earl Park) in January/February of 2009. See the performance proposal (PDF) for more information.
I welcome performance organizations, promoters and/or venues to get in touch.

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performance diary 08-24-08

upcoming performances
date venue time details
October 9th 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Stet Lab returns in October!
[Details…]
November 13th 2008 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Stet Lab Featuring Hugh Metcalfe (TBC). More details to follow.
[Details…]
December 3rd 2008 FrImp
Venue TBC
Birmingham, England		 TBC Performance by Bruce Coates (saxophones), Han-earl Park (guitar), Mike Hurley (piano), Trevor Lines (bass) and Walt Shaw (percussion and electronics). More details to follow…
I am organizing a set of gigs in the U.K. and elsewhere during December 2008 and January 2009.
In addition, I am looking for venues in Ireland to host performances by Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders, Jamie Smith and myself (Han-earl Park) in January/February of 2009. See the performance proposal (PDF) for more information.
I welcome performance organizations, promoters and/or venues to get in touch.

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wordpressification

buster & friends’ d’da is now powered by WordPress. For the visitor to the site, this move provides the following features:

This should now make updates easier, but I expect the usual bugs and teething problems. Please contact me or leave a comment below if you find that something’s broke.

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news pre-wordpressification

News items pre-dating the move to WordPress…

2008

July 14th

Audio recordings of the July Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) are available. Stet Lab will return in October 2008 (details).

July 1st

‘In Conversation with an Automaton’, my article on io 0.0.1 beta, is published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

June 27th

New venue and earlier start time for the July 10th 2008 Stet Lab. (details).

June 15th

Audio recordings of the June Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) will be on Thursday, July 10th 2008 (details).

May 21st

Relaunch, reconstruct and redesign the Stet Lab website. (Please note the changes to the news feed.).

May 9th

Audio recordings of the May Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab (featuring Murray Campbell) will be on Thursday, June 12th 2008 (details).

April 18th

Audio recordings of the April Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab on Thursday, May 8th 2008 (details).

March 22nd

Add audio recordings from the March 14th guitar-guitarist duets.

Also, audio recordings of the March Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab on Thursday, April 10th 2008 (details).

March 18th

Add audio excerpt of the performance by Bruce Coates, Paul Dunmall, Trevor Lines, Han-earl Park and Jamie Smith from Birmingham, November 1st 2007. (The complete recording is available from frimp.co.uk.)

March 5th

STOP PRESS: new date for March Stet Lab and guitar-guitarist duets: Friday, March 14th 2008 (details).

February 17th

Audio recordings of the February 14th 2008 Stet Lab available. Next Stet Lab on Thursday, March 13th 2008 Friday, March 14th 2008 (details).

The first public performance in Ireland of the guitar-guitarist duets will follow the March Lab (details).

January 4th

Launch the new io 0.0.1 beta++ web site. (Old site remains available.)

Add video recordings of the performance by Murray Campbell and Han-earl Park from Brighton, November 28th 2007.

2007

December 19th

Next Stet Lab on Thursday, January 10th 2007 (details), and audio recordings of the December 13th 2007 event available.

November 11th

Next Stet Lab on Thursday, December 13th 2007 (details), and audio recordings of the November 8th 2007 event available.

October 27th

Yet more changes the performance schedule: addition of a November 27th London gig and the finalization of the details for the November 8th and November 9th events in Cork.

October 21st

Changes to the performance schedule: new Edinburgh gig on November 26th 2007. Thanks to all, and Martin Parker and Lin Zhang in particular, for helping patch-up the cancelled Edinburgh gig.

October 12th

Changes to the performance schedule: one additions (including the launch of Stet Lab) and one cancellation: Stet Lab will launch on November 8th 2007.

The Edinburgh gig on November 26th 2007 has been cancelled. I am currently seeking alternative arrangements. If you can help, or have any suggestions, please contact me.

September 12th

Launch the new website at www.busterandfriends.com. I expect the usual teething problems, so please contact me if you find any bugs. Currently the audio/video files are still hosted at music.calarts.edu, but, as more stuff is updated in the coming weeks, these should also migrate here. Many thanks to music.calarts.edu for hosting us for so long.

Begin the process of retiring the old copyright agreement, and replacing it with Creative Commons Licenses.

June 15th

Revision 0.0.4 of the duets between guitar and guitarist is in preparation.

2006

September 27th

Han begins teaching a course—Safety First: strategies towards minimizing danger in improvisation—at the Department of Music, UCC

May 11th

Revision 0.0.3α (recorded April 2006) of Han and Esprit’s guitar-guitarist duets.

February 13th

Add quicktime movie of Lines with the live soundtrack recorded Amsterdam, August 28th 1998.

2005

August

buster & friends’ d’da relocates to Cork, Ireland.

2004

July 5th

C-ALTO Labs presents a preview of project HZ.

February 27th

The guitar-guitarist duets goes public as part of dialogues 2004, Edinburgh.

January 8th

buster & friends are co-sponsored Project Dada (Southampton) with the mission to investigate something by someone, somewhere at sometime.

January 5th

Revision 0.0.2α of the duets between guitar and guitarist.