I’m happy and honored to again have a recording selected as Download of the Day at All About Jazz. ‘Carrier’ by myself and Richard Scott is AAJ’s featured download for today! Thanks to Dave Sumner who runs the series for selecting the recording, and for the heads up. [Download the complete session…]
CD preview: io 0.0.1 beta++
Available fall August 2011: ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) with io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone). © 2011 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2011 SLAM Productions. [More info…]
updates
06–11–11: change release date to August 2011.
CD: io 0.0.1 beta++: excerpts from the liner notes
At the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site, I’m posting short excerpts from the liner notes to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). Written by the California-based interactive media artist Sara Roberts, here’s the second excerpt:
io 0.0.1 beta++ is rather special in being both an instrument and a player. And given the two attributes it has a very particular sound, ‘sound’ here referring to both timbral quality and the broader sense of having an indelible identity, a style, having its own sound. [2]
io has an extravagant range of sounds made with superhuman amounts of air, and superhuman articulations of air resistance: a hummingbird trill that can go on without the limit of breath, bleats, blats, a grainy slur, shifts between piping and sandy sounds, elephant-like trumpeting, a faint spitty-sounding purr, slushy trills, a hoarse blast of full-spectrum noise, scumbling, whispery hisses ramping up to loud razzing. It can make delicate birdlike chirpings then abruptly sound like a power tool under duress, or render sounds reminiscent of emergency vehicles. [Original post at io 0.0.1 beta++…]
[2] George E. Lewis, ‘Interacting with Latter-Day Musical Automata’, Contemporary Music Review, Vol.18, No.3, 99–112 (1999).
© 2011 Sara Roberts.
Read the first excerpt: ‘a curious situation (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)’. [All excerpts…]
‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) will be released by SLAM Productions in fall August 2011.
Performers: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
© 2011 Han-earl Park.
℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.
updates
06–11–11: change release date to August 2011.
CD store closed (for the moment…)
I’ve shut the CD store because of the move back to the United States. I plan to reinstate the purchase option, but I can’t say when at the moment. Some of these CDs are available from other sources, and these are indicated below.
Mathilde 253 [details…]
Performers: Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn) plus Lol Coxhill (saxophone).
[Get it from Slam Productions…]
[Get it from distributors/shops…] [Downtown Music Gallery…] [Jazzcds…] [Squidco…] [Wayside Music…]
[iTunes…] [eMusic…]
Boolean Transforms [details…]
Performers: Paul Dunmall (saxophone and bagpipes) and Han-earl Park (guitar).
[Get it from Mind Your Own Music…]
[Get it from Downtown Music Gallery…]
Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork [details…]
Performers: Han-earl Park (guitar), Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Mark Sanders (drums) and Jamie Smith (guitar).
RTÉ: Arena: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
An exclusive audio clip of Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet) with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) was broadcast on Arena, RTÉ Radio 1, 30 March 2011. You can catch the two minute twenty-seven second improvisation recorded by Alex Fiennes during the soundcheck prior the performance at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland) via Arena’s listen again feature (it appears at around the 39–40 minute mark). [Listen again…]
Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House.
RTÉ: Nova: improvisation, ankhrasmation, Mathilde 253 and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, transformation, ankhrasmation, teaching improvisation, Charles Hayward’s backbeats and Mathilde 253? You can listen again to the interview with me originally broadcast on March 27, 2011 on Nova on RTÉ lyric fm. [Listen again…]
audio recordings: Han-earl Park and Richard Scott (Berlin, 10–23–10)
Update: now available, newly remixed and remastered by Richard Scott, as a download release from Vicmod Records! [More info…] [Get it from Vicmod Records…]
The complete recording A track from the October 23, 2010 session by Han-earl Park and Richard Scott is now available for download below.
| 11:20 mp3 file. Currently unavailable for download. Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| 13:27 mp3 file. Currently unavailable for download. Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| Carrier | 10:45 mp3 file. Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics). License: by-nc-nd. |
| 13:16 mp3 file. Currently unavailable for download. Han-earl Park (guitar) and Richard Scott (electronics). License: by-nc-nd. |
details
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.
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Above recordings (Cell, Catch | Pitch, Carrier, and Artillery) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Han-earl Park and Richard Scott.
Still available…
The complete recording of the July 29, 2010 performance by Han-earl Park plus Marian Murray. [More…]
The complete recording of the March 26, 2009 performance by Franziska Schroeder and Han-earl Park. [More…]
updates
06–25–11: withdraw three tracks (Cell, Catch | Pitch, and Artillery).
12–06–11: add Vicmod Records release details.
RTÉ: Nova: Mathilde 253
Waltzing Matilda? Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) get airplay on last night’s Nova on RTÉ lyric fm! [Listen again…]
Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [Get the CD…]
CD release: Mathilde 253
I’m very excited to announce that Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) is released today by SLAM Productions. [More info…]
[Get it from Slam Productions…]
[Get it from distributors/shops…]
[Downtown Music Gallery…] [Jazzcds…] [Squidco…] [Wayside Music…]
Or if you prefer your music compressed (I still recommend the CD)…
[iTunes…] [eMusic…]
personnel
Mathilde 253: Charles Hayward (drums, percussion, melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet, flugelhorn), plus Lol Coxhill (saxophone; tracks 6 and 7).
track listing
Kalimantan (18:29), Similkameen (8:22), Ishikari (10:09), Jixi (8:09), Matanuska (6:52), Aachen (11:42), Oaxaca (10:52). Total duration: 74:37.
updates
01–18–11: add list of shops.
01–19–11: add list download services.
03–08–11: add Squidco to the list.
audio recordings: Han-earl Park plus Marian Murray (Cork, 07–29–10)
Update: This recording has been rereleased! The new edition adds the option to download the recording in multiple formats including 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. |
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| 5:30 mp3 file. Marian Murray (violin) and Han-earl Park (guitar). License: by-nc-nd. |
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| 10:42 mp3 file. Han-earl Park (guitar). License: by-nc-nd. |
details
Han-earl Park (guitar) plus Marian Murray (violin).
Recorded on July 29, 2010 at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. Recorded and mixed by Han-earl Park.
Above recordings (Snares, Sympathetic; Strokes and Screwballs; and Recursion, Closure) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Han-earl Park (Snares, Sympathetic; and Recursion, Closure), and to Marian Murray and Han-earl Park (Strokes and Screwballs).
Still available…
The complete recording of the March 26, 2009 performance by Franziska Schroeder and Han-earl Park. [More…]
updates
07–17–12: withdraw tracks in anticipation of the rerelease.
07–29–12: add link to teaser.
08–20–12: new edition released! [Listen, download and more…]
CD available: Mathilde 253
Released as part of SLAM Productions’s January 2011 CD catalog: Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528).
[Get the CD via the discography entry…]
[Slam Productions catalog page…]
[Read the reviews…]
teaser (photomontage by Jenny Gallego)
description
Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar), Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn), Lol Coxhill (saxophone) tracks 6 and 7. Mathilde 253 is the real-time musical meeting between legendary avant-rock drummer Charles Hayward (This Heat, Massacre), “careful and crafty” guitarist Han-earl Park (Paul Dunmall, Kato Hideki), and mainstay of the London improvised music scene Ian Smith (Derek Bailey, London Improvisers’ Orchestra). Mathilde 253 was born out of an opportunity to explore the spontaneous mashup of avant-rock, African-American creative musics, European free improvisation and noise. Joined by the veteran iconoclastic saxophonist Lol Coxhill, this recording documents the weaving of physical virtuosity and humorous sound poetics, a patchwork of restraint, subtlety and recklessness.
Recorded live at Cafe OTO, London on April 18 2010. Recorded and mixed by Chris Trent. Mastered by Han-earl Park.
Design and artwork by Han-earl Park. Photographs by Seán Kelly.
Thanks to Hamish Dunbar and Keiko Yamamoto at Cafe OTO, Chris Trent, Alex Fiennes, Kato Hideki, Han-ter Park, Melanie L Marshall and Jeffrey Weeter.
All music by Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith, except tracks 6–7 by Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith.
© 2010 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2010 SLAM Productions.
personnel
Mathilde 253: Charles Hayward (drums, percussion, melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet, flugelhorn), plus Lol Coxhill (saxophone; tracks 6 and 7).
track listing
Kalimantan (18:29), Similkameen (8:22), Ishikari (10:09), Jixi (8:09), Matanuska (6:52), Aachen (11:42), Oaxaca (10:52). Total duration: 74:37.
CD preview: Mathilde 253
Available soon: Mathilde 253’s eponymous CD (SLAMCD 528) with Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith plus Lol Coxhill. More info to follow…