audio recordings: downloads and recommendations

…mproviser Marian Murray for a conversational improvisation. [More info…] Accompanying Recommended Albums Jin Sangtae, Han-earl Park and Jeffrey Weeter A stark, real-time evolution of on-stage relations. The performance took place during Seoul-based experimental electronic musician Jin Sangtae’s European tour. Featuring clanking hard drives, buzzing electronics, noisy guitars and machine gun percussion, this recording captures Jin’s meeting with gu…

performance: Mathilde 253 at Freedom of the City, London

…(Cafe OTO, London, April 18, 2010). Photo © 2010 Seán Kelly Sunday, May 6, 2012, at 2:00pm: As part of Freedom of the City, Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) performs at Cecil Sharp House (2 Regent’s Park Road, Camden, London NW1 7AY, England) [map…]. Tickets: £12 [festival passes and concession details…] See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [FOTC…

video: Gowanus Company at Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn

…cott Friedlander has uploaded video recordings of Gowanus Company (November 26, 2013). As I wrote previously: Big, heart-felt thanks to Kyoko and Josh for organizing the event. I’m touched, and could not have asked for a better send-off. Thanks to everyone who made music, and for creating that welcoming, friendly vibe. (And a particular pleasure to finally perform with Kyoko, Ken and Fay!) And thanks again to Scott Friedlander for the documentatio…

reminder: Gowanus Company at Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn

This Tuesday (November 26, 2013), at 7:00pm: My last gig in Brooklyn before the Big Move! In the spirit of Derek Bailey’s Company week, the evening will feature a series of never-before-seen and never-to-be-seen-again groups. [Read the rest…] Gowanus Company with Dan Blake (saxophone), Olie Brice (double bass), Viv Corringham (voice and electronics), Nick Didkovsky (guitar), Michael Evans (drums), Ken Filiano (double bass), Christopher Hoffman (’…

thanks: Gowanus Company at Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn

…Gowanus Company (November 26), and feel enormously blessed to have been welcomed into such an incredible community. Big, heart-felt thanks to Kyoko and Josh for organizing the event. I’m touched, and could not have asked for a better send-off. Thanks to everyone who made music, and for creating that welcoming, friendly vibe. (And a particular pleasure to finally perform with Kyoko, Ken and Fay!) And thanks again to Scott Friedlander for the docume…

Thanks: Eris 136199 (London, Lisbon and Dublin, August 2019)

…xophone and bass clarinet; tracks 2–4). Track listing: Monopod (27:19), Pleonasm (Metis 9) (17:08), Flying Rods (Metis 9) (7:41), Hydraphon (7:34), StopCock (10:54). Total duration: 70:33. © 2015 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2015 SLAM Productions. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Print…

performance: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora) at Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn

…endipity and contradiction. Eris 136199 is the noisy, unruly complexity of composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, the corporeal, cyborg virtuosity of constructor and guitarist Han-earl Park, and the no-nonsense melodic logic of composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora. A composer who enjoys blurry boundaries, Nick Didkovsky founded the avant-rock big band Doctor Nerve, and is a member of Swim This with Gerry Hemingway and Michael…

more reviews: Catherine Sikora, Ian Smith and Han-earl Park (Cork, 04–04–11)

…1-24-11) [details…] Performers: Jin Sangtae (electronics), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums and electronics). (cc) 2012 Jin Sangtae/Han-earl Park/Jeffrey Weeter. Park-Schroeder (Cork, 03-26-09) [details…] Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophone). (cc) 2012 Han-earl Park/Franziska Schroeder. Coming soon… Dunmall-Park-Sanders (Birmingham, 02-15-11) [details…] Performers: Paul Dunmall (saxophones and bagp…

site update: Eris 136199

…becomes metal, bluegrass turns to bluegrass, jazz transforms into jazz, all there, all necessary without imploding under idiomatic pressures. [Eris 136199 page…] Eris 136199 is performing later this month (July 24, 2012) at Freddy’s Bar (Brooklyn). See the performance diary for up-to-date info. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Print…

Mathilde 253

…ith me by Andrew Rigmore. It covers a broad range of my work, from my… June 2, 2015: cross-cultural entanglements (reviews: Anomic Aphasia) Yet more reviews of ‘Anomic Aphasia’ (SLAMCD 559) with Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora, Nick Didkovsky and Josh Sinton. Following up on Cisco Bradley’s profile in JazzTokyo, Takeshi Goda locates my… [All news articles on the Mathilde 253…] video discography Released as part of SLAM Productions’s January 2011 C…

performance: Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora at On The Way Out, Brooklyn

Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 8:30pm (set: 10:00pm): a performance by Nick Didkovsky (guitar), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Catherine Sikora (saxophones) presented by On The Way Out takes place at The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar (627 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215) [map/directions…]. Also performing: at 8:30pm, Christine Bard (drums, percussion and electronics), Bill McCrossen (bass) and Mercedes Figueras (saxophones). $10 suggested donation. Super excited a…

performances: Gargantius Effect +1 | +2 (Northern California, 2011)

…n Zorn, Nina Hagen, Fred Frith, Eddie Prevost, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, and the Club Foot Orchestra. Robair is a founding member of the Splatter Trio and the heavy-metal band, Pink Mountain. In addition, he runs Rastascan Records, a label devoted to creative music. As a writer about music technology, Robair has contributed to Mix, Remix, Guitar Player, and Electronic Musician (EM) magazine, where he was an…