…sic by Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora and Mike Pride. Recorded live, April 2, 2014 at Spectrum, New York. Recorded by Don Mount. Evan Parker (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar), plus Peter Evans (trumpet) and Okkyung Lee (’cello). Music by Evan Parker and Han-earl Park, plus Peter Evans and Okkyung Lee. Recorded live, September 19, 2013 at The Stone, New York. Recorded by Don Mount. Gerald Cleaver (drums) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Music by G…
…Peter O’Doherty. Cover artwork © 2014 Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh. Score/artwork © 2014 Han-earl Park. Photo © 2013 Emilio Vavarella. I’m honored to find my concept thumbnail (‘Study in Notation’) in the pages of cuttlefish (issue #1, summer 2014), a “zine for contemporary culture, music, art, aesthetics, politics,” edited by Peter O’Doherty. The piece was accompanied by an excerpt from my interview with Miguel Copón: I’m not sure at all where this is le…
…? …I do value the band, of long-term collaborations. It allows for greater complexity of interaction, greater speeds of decision making, more oblique, unexpected, choices. We, Eris 136199, coined a new term—‘weirderation’—after our last performance, to denote something—a set of relationships, decision making process—getting just that little bit weirder with each iteration. On the other hand, spaces such as Crucible Sound have their own value. I’m…
Han-earl Park Added to the scrapbook! As of May 23, 2013, the performers featured in the scrapbook are Gustavo Aguilar, Sean Ali, boundless, Chris Brown, Murray Campbell, Sander Lopes Cardozo, Chris Chafe, Church of Sonology, Chris Corrigan, Bruce Coates, Steven Davis, Nick Didkovsky, Paul Dunmall, Peter Elsdon, Eris 136199, Michael Evans, Alex Fiennes, Gargantius Effect, Jonathan Goldberger, Dan Goren, io 0.0.1 beta++, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen,…
‘The $100 Guitar Project’ (BRIDGE 9381A/B) © 2012 Bridge Records Coming soon from Bridge Records: In October of 2010, guitarists Nick Didkovsky and Chuck O’Meara bought a used $100 electric guitar online. They didn’t know what it sounded like or if it even worked, but were charmed by its no-name vibe. After receiving the instrument, they contacted a few friends about writing and recording a piece on the guitar. Word spread quickly, and within wee…
…, Han-earl Park and Tim Perkis (The Stone, NYC, September 7, 2012). Photo © 2012 Tom Djll. Big thanks to all the performers over the weekend: Harris Eisenstadt, Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, and, especially for the initial invite to perform at The Stone, to Tim Perkis, one of the very finest computer performers, and one of the few who understands the nuts’n’bolts of musicianship and performance. Thanks also to Miguel Frasconi f…
…199 may include temporary deafness, involuntary teleportation, spontaneous combustion, and molecular implosion. In addition, lab animals have been shown to dance without skill to the sound of double guitars and saxophone. …But you’ll love what it does to your brain! 😉 updates 02–13–13: updated video: complete performance now available to view. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Pri…
…genda and everyone at ABC No Rio for hosting the performance on Sunday (May 27, 2012). Thanks to Jim Goodin, Frederika Kreier, and the Rocco John Iacovone ensemble for sharing the stage. Mono kudos to the Ultimate Nick Didkovsky and the Astonishing Catherine Sikora for the noise, melody, rhythm, space, density, contrast, synchronicity, asymmetry, serendipity and contradiction. For forging a space where melody can be melody, noise can be noise, met…
…Han-earl Park The website of machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++ quotes the composer and explorer of our relationship to everyday (and not so everyday) artifacts, Annea Lockwood’s response to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531): The interaction between io and the three other players is really supple… and I like very much the gritty complexity of io’s vocabulary, and the fine sense of shaping, timbrally and in terms of gesture…. [Read the rest…] ‘io 0.0….
…art of a series at the io 0.0.1 beta++ website about musical time, bodies, computation, machine musicianship, and the regulation of the musical: Perhaps the assumption of a foundational importance to musicality of a simple ‘beat detection’ stems from subscribing to a command-control model of musicality. In this model the mind is the central hub of the musical. In this model, rhythm is constant, inherited, external and which must be followed. This…
…he Arts Council of Ireland. Also available from SLAM Productions: Mathilde 253 (SLAMCD 528) [details…] Performers: Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn) plus Lol Coxhill (saxophone). © 2010 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2010 SLAM Productions. updates 08–18–11: add Jazzcds to list of shops. 02–15–12: add Souffle Continu to list of shops. 03–28–12: add Squidco to list of shops. Facebook Tw…
…st, thanks to Kris Tiner for inviting me to perform, to Ted Byrnes for the company and the driving skills, and to both for their musical sense—in play, in real-time. Thanks to Red Oak (Adam Benjamin and Storm Nilson) and Mosaic Orgasm for graciously sharing the stage with us. And, to all who came to Metro Galleries on that hot summer’s afternoon, thanks for listening. BTW, monda kudos, Ted, Kris and (for the performances coming up in Northern Cali…
