site update: Han-earl Park bio plus YouTube playlist

…na Webber, Jack Wright and Ingrid Laubrock. He has studied with improviser-composers Wadada Leo Smith, Richard Barrett, Joel Ryan, Mark Trayle, Chick Lyall and David Rosenboom, composers Clarence Barlow and Marina Adamia, and interactive media artist Sara Roberts. Festival appearances include Freedom of the City (London), Sonorities (Belfast), International Society for Improvised Music (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh), VAIN Live Art (Oxf…

New York City Jazz Record: Han-earl Park with Franziska Schroeder, and with Jin Sangtae and Jeffrey Weeter

…music, Stanley Zappa, in the July issue of The New York City Jazz Record, reviews download releases by Han-earl Park with saxophonist, performer and theorist Franziska Schroeder; and with electronic artist Jin Sangtae, and drummer, composer and computer artist Jeffrey Weeter. Recommended price: $5+ [More about this recording…] [All reviews…] About the the duo recording with Franziska Schroeder, Zappa writes: Though short, percussive, hard-to-nota…

performances: Dunmall-Park

…Building, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland. Admission is free. poster (click to download PDF…) See the performance diary for up-to-date info. UCC Concert Series presents a free concert by celebrated saxophonist and piper Paul Dunmall on Friday, 6 November 2009 at 1:10 pm in the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sundays Well, Cork. Performing with guitarist Han-earl Park, the event will mark Dunmall’s first performance on the bagpipes in the Republic of…

CD reviews: Numbers: Richard Barrett + Han-earl Park

…uma ideia feita do que esperar de Richard Barrett e Han-Earl Park ficará, com certeza, surpreendido. Se o Barrett compositor de música contemporânea e o Barrett improvisador de electrónica no duo Furt e no Electro-Acoustic Ensemble de Evan Parker são, já à partida, bastante diferentes (apesar da sua convicção de que improvisar é apenas outra forma de compor), o que deste ouvimos agora distancia-se do “sampling” esquizóide a que nos habituou – os…

CD available: Numbers: Richard Barrett + Han-earl Park

…ey and in book form by The Knives Forks And Spoons Press. audio excerpts //www.busterandfriends.com/docs/audio/barrett-park_numbers_cs-201-cd_00_ex.mp3 //www.busterandfriends.com/docs/audio/barrett-park_numbers_cs-201-cd_01_ex.mp3 //www.busterandfriends.com/docs/audio/barrett-park_numbers_cs-201-cd_04_ex.mp3 //www.busterandfriends.com/docs/audio/barrett-park_numbers_cs-201-cd_05_ex.mp3 Audio excerpts courtesy of Creative Sources Recordings. Music…

Cryptogenic Animals

…018”). For those who got it, big thanks for your support; enjoy the noise! Free download available only with pre-orders of the CD/digital album ‘Eris 136199’ (please allow 48 hours for download code). Out now: hear the Uncanny Han-earl Park, the Mighty Catherine Sikora, and The Astonishing Nick Didkovsky navigate reverberant spaces, investigate melodic atoms, and negotiate unmatched amplifiers in Cryptogenic Animals! Available for a limited time,…

Sirene 1009: performance proposal

…John Fordham (The Guardian) Scottish vocalist and composer Caroline Pugh (www.www.facebook.com/Caroline-Pugh-192972190763663) borrows old-fangled technologies and honours oral histories to create new performances. With a background in both folk and improvisation, her solo works You’ve Probably Heard These Songs Before, Timing By Ear, Measuring By Hand and Platform Audio also draw on performance art and pinhole photography. Originally from Edinbur…

performance diary (Cork, The Hague) 062018

upcoming performances date venue time details July 12, 2018 plugd Upstairs @ The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland 9:30pm (doors: 9:00pm) Han-earl Park (guitar) presented by CIMC. €5 at the door. [Details…] December 12, 2018 Instituut voor Sonologie Koninklijk Conservatorium The Hague, The Netherlands TBC. Numbers (Richard Barrett: electronics; and Han-earl Park: guitar). Details to follow… Keep up-to-date with future performance by subscribing…

performance: Jin Sangtae with Han-earl Park and Jeffrey Weeter

…ormance diary for up-to-date info. [facebook event page…] poster (click to download PDF…) about the performers Jin Sangtae was born in 1975 in Seoul. Korea. He started music with electronica project ‘popmusic25’ in 1999 and had several live concerts. When he came to know improvised music in 2004, he changed his musical direction. He developed his instrument with Radio, Laptop, Car horn and hard disk drive and concentrated upon improvised music, fi…

news pre-wordpressification

…or have any suggestions, please contact me. September 12th Launch the new website at www.busterandfriends.com. I expect the usual teething problems, so please contact me if you find any bugs. Currently the audio/video files are still hosted at music.calarts.edu, but, as more stuff is updated in the coming weeks, these should also migrate here. Many thanks to music.calarts.edu for hosting us for so long. Begin the process of retiring the old copyr…