Photographs of (top to bottom) Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Marian Murray, and Mathilde 253 (Han-earl Park, Charles Hayward and Ian Smith) taken at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland), March 30, 2011 [Details…]. All photographs by, and copyright 2011, Julia Healy.
The performance was presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House.
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| July 21, 2011 | ResBox Steve Allen Theater The Center for Inquiry 4773 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027 |
8:00pm | Performances by Ted Byrnes (percussion) and Han-earl Park (guitar) plus others TBC. Details to follow… Tickets: $10 from the Steve Allen Theater or at the door. |
| July 31, 2011 | Metro Galleries 1604 19th Street Bakersfield, CA 93301 |
1:00pm | Performances by Ted Byrnes (percussion), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Kris Tiner (trumpet), plus Red Oak (Adam Benjamin: piano; and Storm Nilson: guitar). Details to follow… |
| June 2011 | California | Han-earl Park will be based in Los Angeles, California from June to December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch! | |
| December 2011 | New York | Han-earl Park will be based in New York from December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch! | |
| late-2011/early-2012 | Europe | Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) is seeking performance opportunities in Europe in late-2011 or early-2012. In addition, Han-earl Park (guitar) is available for formal or ad-hoc performances. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! |
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Continue reading “performance diary 05-23-11 (Bakersfield, Los Angeles)”
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.
06–11–11: change release date to August 2011.
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).
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 effectively….
Blowsy pedal-point from the trumpeter; shuffles and drags from [Charles] Hayward; and remarkable strategies from the guitarist which involve investing each string with a different weight as he coaxes tones from near the machine head all the way down past the bridge. Half-valve plunger work from [Ian] Smith includes bent note flutters; while the drummer’s railway signal-crossing-like bell ringing and repetitive cymbal slams provide perfect matches for the guitarist’s flattened string patterns and note extensions…. [Read the rest…]
— Ken Waxman (JazzWord)
How’s your Italian? Romualdo Del Noce apprently compares us to the four musketeers:
Ronzante, provocatorio, mai davvero eccessivo ma comunque sfuggente, il contributo di questi quattro moschettieri non è eccepibile sul piano del coinvolgimento, testimoniando un action-playing contemporaneamente colto, “palestrato” e pregno di flussi idiosincrasici. [Read the rest…]
— Romualdo Del Noce (Jazz Convention)
Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…]
| date | venue | time | details |
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| July 21, 2011 | ResBox Steve Allen Theater The Center for Inquiry 4773 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027 |
8:00pm | Performances by Ted Byrnes (percussion) and Han-earl Park (guitar) plus others TBC. Details to follow… Tickets: $10 from the Steve Allen Theater or at the door. |
| June 2011 | California | Han-earl Park will be based in Los Angeles, California from June to December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch! | |
| December 2011 | New York | Han-earl Park will be based in New York from December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch! | |
| late-2011/early-2012 | Europe | Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) is seeking performance opportunities in Europe in late-2011 or early-2012. In addition, Han-earl Park (guitar) is available for formal or ad-hoc performances. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! |
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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.
I will be moving to Los Angeles, California in June 2011, and will be based there until I head to New York in December 2011. As always, I’m up for formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch!
| date | venue | details |
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| June 2011 | California | Han-earl Park will be based in Los Angeles, California from June to December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch! |
| December 2011 | New York | Han-earl Park will be based in New York from December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch! |
| late-2011/early-2012 | Europe | Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) is seeking performance opportunities in Europe in late-2011 or early-2012. In addition, Han-earl Park (guitar) is available for formal or ad-hoc performances. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! |
Continue reading “performance diary 04-20-11 (California, New York, Europe)”
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…]
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. |
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.
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…]
06–25–11: withdraw three tracks (Cell, Catch | Pitch, and Artillery).
12–06–11: add Vicmod Records release details.
Thanks to Catherine Kirby and everyone at the National Concert Hall for able and professional assistance, to John Godfrey, Juniper Hill and Melanie L. Marshall, the then coordinators of the UCC Music Research Seminar Series, who strongly supported Wadada’s visit, and to Mary Hickson, Chris Gaughan, Peter Crudge, Eoin Winning and everyone at the Cork Opera House. Kudos to Tony O’Connor and Athos Tsiopani for the behind-the-scenes help, and to John Hough for the videography and the technical support. Thanks also to Carmel Daly and Mel Mercier of UCC School of Music; Gary Sheehan of Note Productions; Jeffrey Weeter, Paul O’Donnell and, formerly, Jesse Ronneau of the UCC Concerts Committee; and Andreas W. Ziemons, Niamh Ryan and Louise Walsh at Music Network. Thanks to David Leikam of the Arts Noticed, Linda Plover of Blue Monkey PR, Eoin Brady and Bernard Clarke of Nova, and Sandra Quinn at the Evening Echo for their support.
A big thank to the best sound engineer in the world, Alex Fiennes, for amplifying the Cork event, and making the performance sound its best! and to Melanie for the conversations and unofficial roadie duties. Kudos to Marian Murray for jumping into the deep end, a special note of thanks Paul G. Smyth for stepping-up to support this project, and to Dennis Cassidy, Fergus Cullen and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly who came to the rescue when our drum-hire situation briefly went into tail-spin.
And of course a big, big, big thanks to Charles Hayward, Ian Smith and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith for letting me share in their skill, craft, intelligence, musicality, generosity and sense of play (and their patience with this first-time tour manager): I’ll treasure Charles’ rhythmic travels to the outer reaches of an alternative-universe Caribbean; Ian’s brave counterpoint; and the spiraling, expert stacatto precision of Wadada’s trumpet.
Last but not least, thanks to all who came to listen and witness creative music in real-time!
Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.
