Well, it’s been a little while since I last announced another contribution to bandwidth wastage. You’ll now find me on Twitter:
As before, www.busterandfriends.com is likely to remain the most up-to-date source of info on yours truly.
site update: io 0.0.1 beta++ image gallery
Press/publicity photos and images of io 0.0.1 beta++, its construction and performances, are collated at:
goo.gl/photos/FuSGqYbnU9BAhwRR8
Photographs copyright the photographers. If you use any of the images, please credit the corresponding photographer. [Additional images…].
‘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.
site update: Mathilde 253 image gallery
Press/publicity photos and images of Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) are now collated at:
https://goo.gl/photos/E8XrSrUML3Xee7MU7
Photographs copyright the photographers. If you use any of the images, please credit the corresponding photographer. [Additional images…].
site update: Numbers: Richard Barrett + Han-earl Park
The (provisional) page for Numbers: Richard Barrett + Han-earl Park is now live. More to come including audio recordings and news about future performances. Here’s an excerpt:
Richard Barrett (electronics)
Han-earl Park (guitar)Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white-knuckle extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park.
Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate music, Richard Barrett is perhaps best known for his work with Paul Obermayer as part of FURT, as part of the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, and his close collaborations with the Elision Ensemble. At home in both composition and improvisation, Barrett’s music increasingly problematizes the distinction between them. Described by Brian Morton as “a musical philosopher… a delightful shape-shifter”, Han-earl Park is drawn to real-time cyborg configurations in which artifacts and bodies collide. He has performed with some of the finest practitioners of improvised music, and is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith. First performing together as duo in at AUXXX, Berlin, October 2010, Barrett and Park engage in a continuing improvisative conversation; alternately claiming autonomy and independence, and group action and solidarity.
Their first CD, ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), recorded at the Institute of Sonology (The Hague), will be released by Creative Sources Recordings in
November 20112011/2012.
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The CD, ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), recorded at the Institute of Sonology (The Hague), will be released by Creative Sources Recordings in November 2011 2011/2012.
personnel: Richard Barrett (electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar).
track listing: tolur (15:38), tricav (10:42), ankpla (10:46), uettet (5:17), creens (6:03), ll……. (11:42). Total duration: 60:00.
© + ℗ 2011 Creative Sources Recordings.
updates
08–04–11: update CD catalog number to ‘CS 201 cd.’
11–15–11: update release schedule [details…].
CD store closed (for the moment…)
I’ve shut the CD store because of the move back to the United States. I plan to reinstate the purchase option, but I can’t say when at the moment. Some of these CDs are available from other sources, and these are indicated below.
Mathilde 253 [details…]
Performers: Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn) plus Lol Coxhill (saxophone).
[Get it from Slam Productions…]
[Get it from distributors/shops…] [Downtown Music Gallery…] [Jazzcds…] [Squidco…] [Wayside Music…]
[iTunes…] [eMusic…]
Boolean Transforms [details…]
Performers: Paul Dunmall (saxophone and bagpipes) and Han-earl Park (guitar).
[Get it from Mind Your Own Music…]
[Get it from Downtown Music Gallery…]
Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork [details…]
Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar), Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Mark Sanders (drums) and Jamie Smith (guitar).
Stet Lab: signing-out as curator
Originally posted at Stet Lab [original article…]:
As previously announced, after thirty-two events over three and a quarter years, I’ve stepped down as curator of Stet Lab as of February 2011. The duties of running the Lab now are in the very capable hands of Veronica Tadman, Tony O’Connor, Athos Tsiopani with curatorial duties handled by Kevin Terry (Kevin and Tony performed at the very first Lab!). I’d like to thank all of them, Kevin, Veronica and Eoin Callery in particular, for their work keeping this no-budget, alternatively pedagogical space on track over the years. (And thanks for the whisky y’all!—sorry I was too taken to make a proper speech.)
My thanks also to all the guest artists who have shared the stage with us, generously contributing to, and transforming, this practice. There’s too many names to mention, but I’d like to thank, in particular, two club-runners, Bruce Coates (who with Sarah O’Halloran and I kicked-off Stet Lab in November ’07) and Mike Hurley for their advice, cautionary tales and encouragement; to Murray Campbell, Franziska Schroeder and John Godfrey who took time out of their busy schedules, and stepped-up when others would/could not; and to Corey Mwamba, Ian Smith, Justin Yang and Alex Hawkins for encouraging words, and an unwavering belief in grass-roots music organizations. Special thanks to Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders and Don Malone; heavy-hitters who believed in the Lab enough to participate with neophyte improvisers in what must be, by their standards, a low-key event.
Kudos to Jesse Ronneau for supporting improvised music, and the aims of the Lab in particular, during his time in Cork. I apologize for the many whose name I’ve not listed, but y’all have my warmest thanks, and my sincerest admiration for your contributions—we are a better space for it!
Of course, the biggest thanks go to everyone who participated as listener (and I am thinking in particular of the regulars who come every month!), and to those brave ones who jump-in the deep-end!
Signing-off as curator: Thanks, thanks, thanks and thanks to y’all!
BTW, some of my observations about running this space around the half-way point of my tenure as curator are at ‘Lab report 2007-2009: how to run an improvised music club’.
Please note that Stet Lab’s site has moved to stetlab.wordpress.com. Please update your bookmarks for the site and the corresponding web feeds. busterandfriends.com/stet will remain as an archive of Lab activities between November 2007 and April 2011.
Also, there is now an index of Lab reports written between June 2008 and April 2011 by fourteen author-practitioners documented over nineteen events from the POV of the stage.
site update: Han-earl Park bio
It’s been overdue, but I’ve finally updated my bio (the verbose, serial-name-dropping, 470 word version; and the more practical length versions):
Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park (박한얼) works from/within/around traditions of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open improvised musics, sometimes engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He feels the gravitational pull of collaborative, multi-authored contexts, and has worked with animators, film makers, poets, theater and mime performers, dancers and installation artists. He has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and (ad-hoc) alternative spaces in Austria, Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and the USA.
As a constructor of low- and mid-tech electronic and software devices, and as an occasional score-maker, he is interested in partial, and partially frustrating, context-specific artifacts; artifacts that amplify social relationships and, in some instances, objects that obscure the location of the author.
He is involved in ongoing collaborations with Bruce Coates, and with Franziska Schroeder, fifteen year long associations with Alex Fiennes and Murray Campbell, and is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith. Recent performances include Mathilde 253 with Lol Coxhill; duo concerts with Paul Dunmall, and with Richard Barrett; trios with Matana Roberts and Mark Sanders, with Kato Hideki and Katie O’Looney, and with Thomas Buckner and Jesse Ronneau; as part of the Evan Parker led 20-piece improvising ensemble; and the performance of Pauline Oliveros’ ‘Droniphonia’ alongside the composer. Park has also performed with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, J. D. Parran, Chick Lyall, Jan Langedijk, Alexander Hawkins, Mark Trayle, Mike Hurley, Pedro Rebelo, Corey Mwamba, Stu Ritchie, Koen Nutters, Hannes Raffaseder and Elspeth Murray. He is the constructor of io 0.0.1 beta++, a machine improviser, and cofounder of the Church of Sonology. In addition to Leo Smith, Barrett, Lyall and Trayle, he has studied with the improviser-composers Joel Ryan and David Rosenboom, composers Clarence Barlow and Marina Adamia, and the installation artist Sara Roberts.
Park is a recipient of grants from the Arts Council of Ireland and Music Network, and a recipient the Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship and the Calarts Scholarship. He has appeared at festival including Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology Festival (California), dialogues festival (Edinburgh), Sonorities (Belfast) and VAIN Live Art (Oxford). In addition to numerous self-released CDs, his work has been released by Slam Productions, DUNS Limited Edition, Owlhouse Recordings, frimp.co.uk, farpoint recordings and Frog Peak Music. He has performed live on Resonance FM (London) and on Drift Radio (at mediascot.org), and his recordings have been featured on Kalvos and Damian’s New Music Bazaar (Vermont), RTÉ Morning Ireland and You Are Hear (at youarehear.co.uk) which was selected as Critics’ Choice by The Independent (UK).
Park founded and curates Stet Lab, a monthly improvised music space in Cork, Ireland, and teaches improvisation at the UCC School of Music.
site update: Mathilde 253
The (provisional) page for Mathilde 253 is now live. More to come including audio recordings and news about future performances. Here’s an excerpt:
Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica)
Han-earl Park (guitar)
Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)A lip-reed, six strings, numerous membranes and metal discs.
Three valves; one potentiometer plus twenty-two frets; chains, sticks and beaters.
Six arms, six legs; three bodies coupled to artifacts.
Many tactics; negotiated boundaries and shifting networks of relationships.
Real-time musical meetings between
drummer Charles Hayward,
guitarist Han-earl Park and
trumpeter Ian Smith.Born out of an opportunity to explore the spontaneous mashup of avant-rock, African-American creative musics, European free improvisation and noise, Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) debuted at Cafe OTO (London) in April 2010. Featuring special guest Lol Coxhill, the ensemble weaved a performance of physical virtuosity and humorous sound poetics; a patchwork of restraint, subtlety and recklessness.
A playful collision of personal, social and musical histories, Mathilde 253 is a site where tradition and idiom are not straightjackets nor limitations, but playgrounds for real-time (re)inventions and (re)configurations.
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site update: io 0.0.1 beta++ at www.io001b.com
io 0.0.1 beta++ now has its own domain:
More updates coming soon (expect reports on the hardware (re)construction and the upcoming performance at Blackrock Castle Observatory).
CDs available: ‘Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork’ and ‘Occidental Oriental Occidentalism’
‘Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork’ and ‘Occidental Oriental Occidentalism’ are now available for purchase from this site with payment handled by PayPal. [More info…] Please contact me if you have any comments or questions regarding obtaining these recordings.
Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar), Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Mark Sanders (drums) and Jamie Smith (guitar). [More info and audio samples…]
Performers: Han-earl Park (guitarist) and Esprit (guitar). [More info and audio sample…]
Note: this is a 80mm mini CD! (Some CD drives, slot-loading drives in particular, may have problems with these.)
updates
09–16–12: belatedly remove PayPal purchase option [reason…]
audio recordings: updates
Samples from the March 26th 2009 performance by Han-earl Park and Franziska Schroeder, and the February 11th 2009 by Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park, Mark Sanders, Jamie Smith are now online. [More…]
| Park-Schroeder 03-26-09a (excerpt) | 3:15 excerpt from a 12:15 performance (Cork, 2009). Han-earl Park (guitar) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophone). Copyright Han-earl Park and Franziska Schroeder. |
| duet i (excerpt) | 2:42 excerpt from a 7:53 performance (Cork, 2009). Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums).Get the CD…Copyright Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith. |
| quartet i (excerpt) | 2:25 excerpt from a 16:57 performance (Cork, 2009). Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar), Mark Sanders (drums) and Jamie Smith (guitar).Get the CD…Copyright Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith. |
Han-earl Park on YouTube
Okay, okay, in addition to Facebook, MySpace, iLike and All About Jazz, here’s yet more waste of bandwidth:
Currently, the videos are duplicates of those found on Google Video, but more should be forthcoming. As before, however, www.busterandfriends.com is likely to remain the most up-to-date source of info on yours truly.