Coaching: guitar and improvisation

…eing a creative musician. I welcome musicians of all levels and ages. I welcome newcomers who wish to explore the creative possibilities of the guitar and improvisation. And I welcome working guitarists and improvisers who need specific help to refine their technique and creative strategies, or are in search of new avenues of exploration. I can help guide you as you shape your creative journey, or help you navigate one-off creative crossroads. I d…

audio recordings: Han-earl Park and Richard Scott (Berlin, 10–23–10)

…Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics). Recorded on October 23, 2010 at Richard Scott’s studio, Berlin. Recorded and mixed by Richard Scott. //www.busterandfriends.com/ http://richard-scott.net/ Above recording ( Carrier ) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recording to Han-earl Park and Richard Scott. Still available… The complete recording of…

audio recordings: Han-earl Park plus Marian Murray (Cork, 07–29–10)

…g lossless. [Listen, download and more…] The complete recording of the July 29, 2010 performance by Han-earl Park with Marian Murray is now available for download below. 19:35 mp3 file. Han-earl Park (guitar). License: by-nc-nd. 5:30 mp3 file. Marian Murray (violin) and Han-earl Park (guitar). License: by-nc-nd. 10:42 mp3 file. Han-earl Park (guitar). License: by-nc-nd. details Han-earl Park (guitar) plus Marian Murray (violin). Recorded on July 2…

Coming soon: new album to be released by NEWJAiM Recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCHk5f9iO3k New album from Han-earl Park will be released by New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings in November 2021! This suite has been in the works for over a year; it’s unlike anything I’ve done before, and I’m so very much looking forward to sharing this music with you. More soon! Do you want to be first in-line to hear the new album? Please sign-up to my newsletter: Signup to the newsletter [details…]. Emai…

Coming soon: Juno 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x827VBGoOSM Juno 3 by Han-earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas will be released by Ramble Records in September 2023! As I said to Chris Sharkey, the mastering engineer, this album exists somewhere “between an audio play and a soundtrack album, as if Bernie Worrell had been tasked to create a score for a Douglas Adams produced radio adaptation of Space: 1999.” More soon! Be first in-line to hear the new album! Pleas…

Coming soon: Gonggong 225088

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSANIOPqJRc Gonggong 225088, an album of noisy, sweetly disquieting dreams by Han-earl Park, Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia will be will be released by Waveform Alphabet in 2024! Tune in to Freeness on BBC Radio 3 for a preview of the album. More soon! Be first in-line to hear the new album! Please sign-up to my newsletter: Signup to the newsletter [details…]. Email Address: First Name: Last Name: Leave this…

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

Had a lot of fun being part of Gowanus Company IV at the Douglass Street Music Collective on Sunday (April 8, 2012). Here is, as best as I can recall, the performers who participated at this DB inspired event: Michael Bates (double bass), Matt Bauder (saxophone and clarinet), Sarah Bernstein (violin), Ken Filiano (double bass), Brad Henkel (trumpet), Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Weston Minissali (synthesizer), Han-earl Park (guitar), ‘secret spe…

busterandfriends.com redesign (long overdue)

…pages) will need renovation, and I’ll roll these out in the course of the coming weeks. As with previous iterations, I expect the usual bugs and glitches. I’d greatly appreciate comments and error reports. btw, I apologize for the paucity of updates in recent weeks. There are a few things brewing behind-the-scenes, however, so I’ll be back in touch with updates… Facebook Twitter Bluesky Mastodon Email More Tumblr Threads Reddit WhatsApp Telegram…

performance: Ted Byrnes, Han-earl Park and Kris Tiner plus Red Oak

…tric bass, laptop/feedback generator and accordion. The convert was on June 26th, 2010. Just prior to that, Ted also played as part of the 10 year anniversary event for SASSAS alongside musicians such as Nels Cline, Tom Recchion, Chas Smith, Dennis Duck, Wadada Leo Smith and many more. Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park has been working within/from/around traditions of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open impro…

New improvisative pieces for solo guitar

…ues relevant to this project, and work closely with mentors improviser and composer Richard Barrett, and composer and sound artist Annette Krebs. Barrett and Krebs have unique insights into the intersection of improvisation and composition, the incorporation of programmatic and/or narrative elements, and studio-based techniques. I am very, very grateful for the support of the Arts Council, and my collaborators. I feel privileged to be given the op…

performance: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora) at Downtown Music Gallery, New York

…endipity and contradiction. Eris 136199 is the noisy, unruly complexity of composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, the corporeal, cyborg virtuosity of constructor and guitarist Han-earl Park, and the no-nonsense melodic logic of composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora. A composer who enjoys blurry boundaries, Nick Didkovsky founded the avant-rock big band Doctor Nerve, and is a member of Swim This with Gerry Hemingway and Michael…

performance: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora) at The Brecht Forum, New York

…endipity and contradiction. Eris 136199 is the noisy, unruly complexity of composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, the corporeal, cyborg virtuosity of constructor and guitarist Han-earl Park, and the no-nonsense melodic logic of composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora. A composer who enjoys blurry boundaries, Nick Didkovsky founded the avant-rock big band Doctor Nerve, and is a member of Swim This with Gerry Hemingway and Michael…