performances: Stet Lab’s second birthday

poster (click to download PDF…) On Tuesday, November 10th 2009 at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): a very special Stet Lab to celebrate the second birthday of Cork’s monthly improvised music space. Featuring Filario Farinoppo (Dario Fariello, Filippo Giuffrè and Antonio D’Intino) plus Han-earl Park and Kevin Terry, the event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland). [Details…] Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Thr…

reminder: Kato-O’Looney-Park

poster (click to download PDF…) This Monday (September 7th 2009), at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): an improvised music event with Kato Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl Park (guitar) at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland). Hope to see y’all there! [Details…] …And a note of thanks to Avant Music News for taking note of us. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket…

performance: Stet Lab’s third birthday

poster (click to download PDF…) Monday, November 15, 2010, at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): Stet Lab’s third birthday event takes place featuring Ian Smith (trumpet) with Han-earl Park (guitar), plus Andrea Bonino (guitar and electronics), Helena Reilly (voice) and Athoulis Tsiopani (keyboard). The event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland), and admission is €10/5. [Details…] Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumb…

performance: Stet Lab returns (2010)

poster (click to download PDF…) Monday, October 11, 2010, at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): Stet Lab—Cork’s monthly improvised music event—returns! With Kevin Terry (guitar), Marian Murray (violin) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums), plus Han-earl Park (guitar), Claudia Schwab (violin) and Dan Walsh (drums), the event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland), and admission is €10/5. [Details…] Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More…

performance: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora) at The Brecht Forum, New York

…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…

Tomorrow: Eris 136199 at Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon

…ação, alastrando depois à relação desafiante que a sua guitarra estabelece com o saxofone de Catherine Sikora e com a guitarra de Nick Didkovsky (fundador e líder do grupo Dr. Nerve, nome de referência da cena vanguardista da Downtown nova-iorquina). [Read the rest…] Come along and hear what this gentlest of riotous ensembles can do is a beautifully acoustic environment. [Get tickets…] Eris 136199 is also performing… August 12: Dublin, Ireland. [D…

Out now! Gonggong 225088 (wa008)

…very happy with the music on this album, and feel very privileged to have shared this journey with the creative people on-stage, and behind-the-scenes. Please enjoy the noise! [About this album…] [Get the CD/download from Waveform Alphabet (Bandcamp)…] CD: $15 plus shipping. Download: $10. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Print…

performance: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork, 2011)

…ate info. Details to follow…. [FUAIM program download page…] Click to view PDF… full text In this special event, part of a two-date tour, the ensemble Mathilde 253 is joined by internationally renowned composer-improviser Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith in his first appearance in Ireland. Mathilde 253 features the pioneering avant-rock drummer Charles Hayward, London-based improviser Ian Smith and guitarist Han-earl Park. Trumpeter and multi-instrumental…

CDs available: β€˜Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork’ and β€˜Occidental Oriental Occidentalism’

…al Occidentalism’ are now . [More info…] Please contact me if you have any comments or questions regarding obtaining these recordings. ‘Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork’ CD cover Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar), Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Mark Sanders (drums) and Jamie Smith (guitar). [More info and audio samples…] [Get the CD…] ‘Occidental Oriental Occidentalism’ CD cover Performers: Han-earl Park (guitarist) and Esprit (guitar). [More info…

Stay tuned…

…Apologies for the paucity of updates. I’m working on several things behind-the-scenes, and will be back shortly with news of performances coming up in Berlin, Manchester, Belfast and elsewhere; updates on Anomic Aphasia (SLAMCD 559); and news of a new amplifier. Be right back…. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Print…

performance: Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora and Josh Sinton at Harvestworks, New York

…ee the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Harvestworks page…] details Free play meets social engineering? ‘Glorious noise’? Anti-structures? Willful complexity? An orchestrated, real-time, interactive collision between the cyborgism of guitarist Han-earl Park, and the incomparably original melodic and timbral sensibilities of saxophonist Catherine Sikora and saxophonist-clarinetist Josh Sinton. The trio will render into music, Metis 9, a coll…

performance: Mathilde 253 with Pat Thomas plus Zolan Quobble

…us Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra in the ICA in 1994. He has collaborated with composer Roger Doyle, winner of the Bourges International Elecro-Acoustic Music Competition 1997, and he has been featured on two instrumental tracks by the hip hop band Marxman. He toured the UK with Butch Morris’ London Skyscraper conduction project in November 1997. He helped to institute the London Improvisers orchestra in 1998 with Steve Beresford and Evan Parker, whic…