Bodies, agency, β€˜the material,’ automata, cyborgs and improvisation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h4zz6hYLKR8&start=1246 “Once I have those parameters, I can reconfigure the body and the instrument so it kind of runs itself…. “The word I use sometimes is ‘interface.’ So if you start thinking about creativity as this thing that happens between surfaces, that’s interesting in a way that the idea of the single auteur is much less interesting…. And as an artist you can do interesting things by kind of shifting you posi…

A Little Brittle Music (limited availability!)

…you have about four weeks. [More about this recording…] Also available for download [more…] Dunmall-Park-Sanders (Birmingham, 02-15-11) [details…] Performers: Paul Dunmall (saxophones and bagpipes), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums). (cc) 2013 Paul Dunmall/Han-earl Park/Mark Sanders. Gargantius Effect +1 +2 +3 (Nor Cal, 08-2011) [details…] Performers: Murray Campbell (violins, oboe and cor anglais), Randy McKean (saxophone, clarinets…

performance diary 03-15-12 (Brooklyn, London, New York, Scarborough)

…io 156 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002 7:00pm Performance presented by COMA: Citizens Ontological Music Agenda. Details to follow… Admission: $5. July 24, 2012 The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215 8:30pm Performance presented by On The Way Out. Details to follow… September 7, 2012 The Stone 16 Avenue C New York, NY 10009 8:00pm Performance by Tim Perkis (electronics), Harris Eisenstadt (drums) and Han-earl Park (guitar…

performance: Gowanus Company IV at the Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn

…il 8, 2012) at 8:30pm: Han-earl Park will be performing as part of Gowanus Company IV with Michael Bates, Matt Bauder, Ken Filiano, Brad Henkel, Ingrid Laubrock, Weston Minissali, Josh Sinton, Vinnie Sperrazza, Jesse Stacken, Booker Stardrum and “secret, special guests”: In the spirit of Derek Bailey’s Company week, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to catch several creative musicians playing together who have never played together. [Read the rest…] The…

The (Near) Complete Han-earl Park

…y! (And help fund Sirene 1009’s debut album.) Limited in number, my (near) complete discography is for sale at a special price. The set comprises of four glass-mastered CDs, and one limited edition CD-R (plus, for the first two lucky listeners, another limited edition CD-R). Available for €25 plus shipping, you can consider it €5 per disc (and a bonus CD-R for the first two customers). Musicians featured on these albums include: Catherine Sikora,…

JazzTokyo: Jazz Right Now

…sented among such an amazing group of creative people… including a few old comrades (Hey, Andrew, Josh, Ingrid, Mike!). After his return to Cork, Ireland in late 2013, Park has been sorely missed here in New York. Ah, makes me a little homesick for Brooklyn. Hope to be back one of these days! Out now: Anomic Aphasia Anomic Aphasia (SLAMCD 559) [details…] Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano saxophones), Nick Didk…

MetalJazz: Ted Byrnes and Han-earl Park at ResBox

…kitchen equipment around his kit, keeping up an ever-changing lightheaded commentary. Park applies every technique to his detuned ax—tapping, sliding, muting, twisting the machine heads. It’s simultaneously disciplined and barbaric. For the second time in a week, I witness a guitarist (the other was Allan Holdsworth) sounding as if he’s playing backward, and this time it’s clear that the method involves heavy pumping of a volume pedal. Between as…

Downtown Music Gallery: Paul Dunmall and Han-earl Park, β€˜Boolean Transforms’

…ice things about ‘Boolean Transforms’ by Paul Dunmall and myself [more info on this recording…]. The intensity & close-knit interaction has increased to a near boil, simmering hotter and hotter…. [The] more I hear the more the sympathetic counter-balance comes closer and even more spirited. [Read the rest…] Which means, in part, that you can get your copy from Downtown Music Gallery in addition to Mind Your Own Music and here. Facebook Twitter Blu…

Ten Questions from the Cork Independent

From the local free tabloid, the Cork Independent. My first (last?) fluff piece… From the Cork Independent March 26th 2009 How many members of the (semi-fictional) trans-national tribe of latter-day improvising musicians can say they’ve done a fluff piece, huh? (Not counting the blindfold tests.) Braxton? Crispell? Parker? Ha! I don’t think so…. The newspaper piece was by Graham Lynch, with a photo by John Hough. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon…

CD available: The $100 Guitar Project

…Royalties on every sale of the $100 Guitar Project will be paid directly to CARE, a leading organization fighting global poverty. The double CD is currently available from Bridge Records, and from one of my favorite stores, Wayside Music. You can also download the digital edition of this recording from iTunes and eMusic. [$100 Guitar Project website…] [Bridge Records catalog page…] [Discography entry…] [About my track…] Facebook Twitter Bluesky M…

Thanks: Derry, Dublin, Letterkenny, Leeds, London and Newcastle, March 2022

…epartment for Culture and Europe. Out now on NEWJAiM Recordings Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…] Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4). Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48. © 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings. ℗ 2021 Han-earl Park. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit Whats…