To be released by Creative Sources Recordings in February 2012: ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd) with Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park [about this duo…].
[Creative Sources catalog page…]
More info to follow…
Free jazz, in no uncertain terms. I don’t know what it is about Han-Earl’s groups’ sounds. Ten seconds in, I think to myself, “Man, this isn’t my thing.” But by the time the tune is over, I realize that I’m totally into it and enjoying it. If a musician can convert my ears within the span of one tune, in my eyes, that’s a sign of talent.
All About Jazz features ‘shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.ii’ by Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders as today’s Download of the Day! I’m again happy and honored to have a recording on AAJ’s download selection (previously featured: ‘Carrier’ with Richard Scott and ‘Chorale’ with Franziska Schroeder). Thanks to AAJ downloads editor Dave Sumner for selecting the recording, to Chris Trent for the recording and mastering work, and to Mike Hurley of Fizzle for hosting the performance at which the recording was made.
[Track at AAJ…] [High-quality download of the full performance…]
At the io 0.0.1 beta++ website, I’ve just posted some thoughts and questions from the Scientific American / American Museum of Natural History Beyond Planet Earth Tweetup on January 18, 2012.
I’m moved by the planetarium: I travel to the stars I cannot see, struggle with the scale of what I cannot fathom. Modern planetariums demonstrate the grandeur of God’s creation, but in a secular scientific context. They bring the distant close; make the visible the imperceptible; make manifest the abstract.
The release of ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), after a delay, is back on track! The recording with Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park [about this duo…] will be released by Creative Sources Recordings. I’ll update y’all with a release date when I know more…
If io 0.0.1 beta++ could want, or express a desire, I imagine that it would want to wish all of you a happy arbitrary demarcation of time:
4G alt. (audio salutations from Han-earl Park and io 0.0.1 beta++) [mp3 audio]
io, however, cannot want, or express, anything…
…but Happy New Year from me!
Alternate take of track ‘4G’ from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). See below for actual excerpts from the CD.
io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) and Han-earl Park (guitar).
Recorded on recorded August 19 2010 at C-ALTO Labs, Cork. Recorded and mixed by Han-earl Park. (Note that the track above is taken from an earlier, rough mix than the final CD tracks.)
Above recording (4G alt. (alternate take: “io 0.0.1 beta++” (SLAMCD 531))) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Han-earl Park.
Baroque and Renaissance (audio clip: io 0.0.1 beta++)
impressive synergy (audio clip: io 0.0.1 beta++)
standing alone (audio clip: io 0.0.1 beta++)
‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]
personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
© 2011 Han-earl Park.
℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.
The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
As previously noted, I’ve been posting short audio clips from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) at the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site. The third and final clip in the series, taken from the track ‘Discovery: Decay’, features an improvised counterpoint between the interactive musical automaton io 0.0.1 beta++, and the human musicians, Franziska Schroeder and Han-earl Park. [More…]
‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]
personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
© 2011 Han-earl Park.
℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.
The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
More reviews of ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) including Vittorio’s big thumbs-up at MusicZoom where he hails the recordings as a “total hymn to modernity”, in which the human musicians “throw themselves with passion on the ideas from the inanimate object”, and the listener will be “fully repaid by that which is a successful experiment”:
Il titolo da romanzo o di sigla di messaggio segreto è il nome della macchina sparamusica/rumori che fa bella mostra di sè sul palco e che senza alcun intervento dei musicisti intorno tira giù il suo catalogo di suoni con cui gli altri si trovano a confrontarsi. Un´idea che sarebbe piaciuta ai futuristi di omai un secolo fa, un inno totale alla modernità. Altro che strumenti acustici!
I tre musicisti coinvolti insieme alla macchina sono Han-earl Park alla chitarra, Bruce Coates al sax alto e sopranino e Franziska Schroeder al sax soprano. Non hanno nessuna paura per il confronto e così si avventano con passione sulla proposta dell´oggetto inanimato.
La session completamente improvvisata richiede molta attenzione da parte dell´ascoltatore, ripagata completamente da quello che è un esperimento riuscito. [Read the rest…] [English translation…]
Meanwhile, what to me is ‘playful’ may be ‘uncompromising’ to someone else:
Fra segmenti più atmosferico-minimali, e altri invece più frammentati e nervosi, si procede così, talora arrestandosi a una sorta di limbo emozionale, di quieta truculenza, peraltro sempre ammirevole per coerenza e rigore. [Read the rest…]
On the other hand, Ed Pinsent of The Sound Projector highlights the (fun, playful) material and interactive dimensions in the meeting between human and machine musicians:
The guitarist Park, sometime member of Mathilde 253 whose fine CD impressed us in March this year, is joined by two improvising saxophonists, Bruce Coates (from the Birmingham Improvisers’ Orchestra) and Franziska Schroeder (member of the trio FAINT), and the record documents the meeting of this trio with the “machine musician” io 0.0.1 beta++. This device is an automaton, a musical robot if you will, built by Mr Park; it’s not just another computer programme that plays random sounds or builds an “interactive” space for other laptop musicians, but actually occupies physical space and performs on the stage alongside its human counterparts. Shades of Pierre Bastien…. The multi-media artist Sara Roberts from California writes the liner notes and she does a much better job than I possibly could in articulating the cultural resonances of this man-meets-automaton event. [Read the rest…]
— Ed Pinsent (The Sound Projector)
And Rui Eduardo Paes hears a meeting in which the human musicians bring their varied experience, in avant-jazz and in the space between electroacoustics and contemporary music, and in which the automaton “interactively reacting to what they do and even giving them cues”:
Os músicos de carbono envolvidos ora trabalham na área do ‘avant-jazz’, ora na da electroacústica de fronteira com a música contemporânea: Park com Charles Hayward, Wadada Leo Smith e Paul Dunmall, Coates com Tony Oxley, Lol Coxhill e o compositor indeterminista Christian Wolff, e Schroeder ao lado do pianista português Pedro Rebelo e em colaborações com Pauline Oliveros e Evan Parker. Todas essas experiências se reflectem em temas como ‘Ground-Based Telemetry’ e ‘Laplace: Instability’, sempre com o io a reagir interactivamente ao que fazem e até a dar-lhes deixas. [Read the rest…] [English translation…]
‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder is available from SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…]
The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
This seems to be the month for download releases! Vicmod Records releases ‘artillery’ (VMDL11) with Han-earl Park and Richard Scott. Recorded on October 23, 2010 at Richard Scott’s studio, Berlin. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Richard Scott.
Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics).
call (13:04), catch/pitch (10:45), carrier (7:38), artillery (13:17). Total duration: 44:44.
Update: This recording has been rereleased! The new edition adds the option to download the recording in multiple formats including lossless. [Listen, download and more…]
The complete recording of the February 15, 2011 performance by Paul Dunmall (saxophones and bagpipes), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums) is now available for download below.
Very proud to present these recordings; I feel privileged to have performed alongside these powerful musicians. Many thanks to Chris Trent for the recording, and Mike Hurley of Fizzle for hosting the performance.
| 14:44 mp3 file. Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| 15:44 mp3 file. Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| 13:05 mp3 file. Paul Dunmall (saxophone and bagpipes), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| 6:45 mp3 file. Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| 11:47 mp3 file. Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums). License: by-nc-nd. |
Paul Dunmall (saxophones and bagpipes), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums).
Recorded on February 15, 2011 at The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, presented by Mike Hurley/Fizzle. Recorded and mixed by Chris Trent.
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mdunmall.html
//www.busterandfriends.com/
http://www.marksanders.me.uk/
Above recordings (shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.i, shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.ii, sohoaxpne giautr dmrus b.i, sohoaxpne giautr dmrus b.ii and sohoaxpne giautr dmrus b.iii) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park, Mark Sanders and Chris Trent.
audio recordings: Han-earl Park and Richard Scott (Berlin, 10–23–10)
audio recordings: Han-earl Park plus Marian Murray (Cork, 07–29–10)
audio recordings: Han-earl Park and Franziska Schroeder (Cork, 03–26–09)
10–12–12: withdraw tracks in anticipation of the rerelease.
11–13–12: add link to announcement.
01–12–13: new edition released! [Listen, download and more…]
01–31–13: corrected link.
As previously noted, at the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site, I’m posting short audio clips from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). The second clip, taken from the track ‘Discovery: Intermodulation’, features machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ in real-time, interactive play with human saxophonist Bruce Coates. [More…]
‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]
personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
© 2011 Han-earl Park.
℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.
The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
The release of ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd) has been delayed. Initially scheduled for a November 2011 release, the CD with Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park [about this duo…] will be released by Creative Sources Recordings at a later date. Updated release schedule will follow when I know more…
At the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site, I’m posting short audio clips from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). The first clip, taken from the track ‘Laplace: Perturbation’, features the last minute of the solo by machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++, and fades out as guitarist Han-earl Park joins it in free play. [More…]
‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]
personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
© 2011 Han-earl Park.
℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.
The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
