Performance diary (Berlin and Schorndorf) 021924

upcoming performances date venue time details February 21, 2024 Morphine Raum Köpenicker Str. 147 10997 Berlin Germany 8:30pm (doors: 8pm) Thoughts of Trio (Aidan Baker: bass; Katharina Schmidt: drums; and Han-earl Park: guitar). €10 at the door. [Details…] [Morphine page…] [Facebook event…] March 3, 2024 PAS Kaiserin Augusta Allee 101 10553 Berlin Germany 8:30pm (doors: 8pm) Han-earl Park (guitar) and Marie Takahashi (viola). Also performing: To…

The unknowability of connection, and a little science fiction (Free Jazz: Sunday Interview)

…duction To Music textbook? What would I tell them as they woke to The World 2.0? What would they see? What would the Culture-Industrial Complex of Western Modernity do to that undead being? How would that Complex (re)rationalize the artist’s story and their existence and their purpose? If you’d like to know more about my concerns about the role of narrative and narrative form in improvisation, or my interest in shifting improvisative play towards…

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…Stu Ritchie Hyper-energetic drummer, percussionist and improviser. tinpark.com = Martin Parker—composer, electronic artist, improviser (maybe it would have been more efficient to point out the non-improvisers on this list) and cofounder of dialogues. religious organizations The Church of Sonology The very best in faith-service delivery! The Church of Sonology is a growing, evolving, non-theist faith-organization devoted to the exploration of the l…

site update: Han-earl Park bio

…o 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 Experime…

audio recordings: Jin Sangtae, Han-earl Park and Jeffrey Weeter (Cork, 01–24–11)

The complete recording of the January 24, 2011 performance by Jin Sangtae (electronics), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums and electronics) is now available for download. [Bandcamp page……] [Download now…] Note: there is also a 24-bit edition of this recording. See below for details… Recommended price: €8+ Unlike some of the past download releases from busterandfriends.com, this one, like Park-Schroeder (Cork, 03-26-09) and Sikora-S…

performances: Dunmall-Park

…ul Dunmall: www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mdunmall.html Han-earl Park: www.busterandfriends.com event summary Date: Friday, 6th november 2009. Time: 1:10 pm. Venue: Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland. Performers: Paul Dunmall (bagpipes and saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Admission free. the performers For thirty years Paul Dunmall (www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mdunmall.html) has carved out a reputation fo…

Sirene 1009 (BAF000)

…ica with new improvisation performances including Los Angeles’ Betalevel in 2012, NIME 2011 in Oslo, Just Listening 2011 in Limerick and Experimentica09 in Cardiff. She is also in a band called ABODE and an improvisation collective called E=MCH. Now based in Belfast, Caroline sings in a folk duo with Meabh Meir and together with Myles McCormack they run traditional song sessions at the Garrick Bar on Mondays from 7.30-10pm. In 2011, Caroline was a…

Kaleidoscopic, thuggish, optical retina-effect astringent free jazz (review: Eris 136199)

…s Sound Projector review of Eris 136199: I’m impressed…. I’ve found myself coming back to this album again and again. The more attention you give it, the more you get out of it. I find it an exhilarating, intense space to inhabit for an hour and ten minutes. Park, Sikora and Didkovsky have constructed an extremely captivating slew of wistful improvised post-jazz noises. Han and Nick’s guitars are approached as sound-making devices much of the time…

thanks: Han-earl Park and Dominic Lash plus Corey Mwamba (Manchester, Cambridge and London, May 2015)

Han-earl Park, Dominic Lash and Corey Mwamba (Manchester, May 2, 2015). Photo © 2015 Peter Fay. Note of thanks for the performances in Manchester, Cambridge and London. Thanks in particular to our hosts (their partners and cats) and organizers: David Birchall and everyone at Tubers; David Grundy; and Alex Ward at Boat-ting (and hope you feel better soon, Sibyl Madrigal). Kudos to all the performers who shares the stage, and to Peter Fay for the d…

Eris 136199: in the works…

…is the trio’s followup to their debut recording Anomic Aphasia (SLAMCD 559, 2015) which was described as “a beautiful noise” (KFJC 89.7 FM) and “atmospheric as to become almost frightening” (The New York City Jazz Record). Recorded with clarity and punch by Troels Bech and Charlie McGovern, and beautifully mastered by the amazing Richard Scott, the album presents two near-complete sets; from earlier in the tour (Copenhagen), and from the final dat…

performance: Matana Roberts, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders

…een active in New York since 2001. A Vanlier and Brecht Forum fellow, and a 2008 and 2009 nominee for an Alpert Award in the Arts, she has appeared on numerous recordings, and performances worldwide with her own, as well as collaborative, ensembles such as Sticks and Stones, Burnt Sugar, Exploding Star Orchestra, Oliver Lake Big Band, and the groups of Julius Hemphill, Myra Melford, Jayne Cortez, Merce Cunningham and Savion Glover. In 2008, the su…