performance: Numbers (Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park), Scarborough

…URT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986 (and its more recent octet version fORCH), composing for and performing with the Elision contemporary music group since 1990, and regular appearances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003. Recent projects include “CONSTRUCTION”, a two-hour work for twenty performers and three-dimensional sound system, premiered by Elision in November 2011. He is based in Berlin and currently teach…

io 0.0.1 beta++: seeking performances (Europe, 2013)

…* * Additional audio recordings and documentation available on request. [Full performance proposal…] [Original post at www.io001b.com…] updates 11–08–12: change of availability from 2013 to 2014. [More info…] Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Print…

Anomic Aphasia

‘Anomic Aphasia’ (SLAMCD 559) © 2015 Han-earl Park February 23, 2015: SLAM Productions releases ‘Anomic Aphasia’ (SLAMCD 559) featuring the ensemble Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora), and rendering of improvisative tactics Metis 9 by Park, Sikora and Josh Sinton. [SLAM Productions catalog page…] [Discography entry…] The CD is available from Downtown Music Gallery, Wayside Music, Disk Union… and all AWESOME record st…

…and more CD reviews: io 0.0.1 beta++

…obtrusive and egoless” machine with the human improvisers who display, for example, “thoughtful pauses”: …Han-earl Park personifying Dr. Frankenstein, has created a non-human artificial musician from ad-hoc components including speakers, kitchenware and missile switches. This CD is a literal record of how the non-human, prosaically named io 0. 0. 1 beta++, sounds in concert with flesh-and-blood counterparts…. io 0. 0. 1 beta++ is unobtrusive and e…

improvisation, animation, sociality, tradition and politics (a Jazz Noise: 7 Questions)

…SLAMCD 559) [details…] Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano saxophones), Nick Didkovsky (guitar), and Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet). © 2015 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2015 SLAM Productions. Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Pocket Print…

Eris 136199: seeking performances (North America, 2012–2013; Europe, 2013–2014)

…pe, late-2013 and 2014 onwards (contact us for other locations and dates): composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park, and composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora (saxophones). See performance proposal for further information (availability, technical requirements, performers’ biographies, etc.). overview Eris 136199 plays on the crossroads of noise, melody, rhythm, space, density,…

The Sound Projector: Mathilde 253

…mantan’ in his efforts to derail the collective train and steer the ship’s company over stony ground. Aye, the ingenuity and invention of these combined performances is impressive…. [Read the rest…] — Ed Pinsent (The Sound Projector) Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…] Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram Pinterest Po…

…and more CD reviews: Mathilde 253

‘Mathilde 253’ (SLAMCD 528) CD cover A couple of more reviews of Mathilde 253 (SLAMCD 528) including Ken Waxman at JazzWord who says that it’s a “textbook example of high-class improvising” (and I’m a “sharp-witted” guitarist): Riveting in its scope and cohesion, this seven-track slice of Free Improv captures the sounds made one night at a London club by an ad-hoc assemblage of players, who ordinarily may not have been expected to jell so effecti…

thanks: Eris 136199 (DMG, NYC) and Park-Sikora-Sinton (Harvestworks, NYC)

…at results in something just that little bit weirder with each iteration. [compare examples A and B] I am greatly indebted to Catherine Sikora and Josh Sinton for doing the heavy lifting, and turning my barebone sketches and speculations into music; for engageing intelligently, adventurously and imaginatively with the context at hand. These past months have been a learning experience for me as tactician, and I couldn’t have asked for better teache…

Downtown Music Gallery: Dunmall-Park-Sanders-Smith

…Park–Dunmall–Sanders–Smith CD [More info on this recording…]. Here’s, for example, is his take on the Park-Sanders duet: Careful, crafty and well-played with that restrained yet fractured guitar that sounds so good. Han-Earl sound seems to be in between Derek Bailey & Philip Gibbs. [Read the rest…] Like I said, I’ll make the CD available shortly via busterandfriends.com (and it will be available as a download from frimp.co.uk), but in the meantim…

The perfect distillation of uneasy listening (reviews: Peculiar Velocities and Of Life, Recombinant)

…eaction, disconcertion and delight. (i.e. It gets inside your head)…. An uncomfortable joy, a can’t-be-reproduced-in-the-laboratory combination of rare elements, a new musical alloy, an ongoing experiment, the perfect distillation of uneasy listening. [Read the rest…] [About this album…] [Get the CD/download (Bandcamp)…] [All reviews…] CD: €11 minimum (‘name your price’) plus shipping.*† Download: €8 minimum (‘name your price’).† * Limited edition…