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Han-earl Park

Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been crossing borders and performing fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, always traditional, open improvised musics for twenty years. He has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and (ad-hoc) alternative spaces across Europe and the USA.

Ensembles include Eris 136199 with Nick Didkovsky and Catherine Sikora, Sirene 1009 with Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders and Caroline Pugh, Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith, and Numbers with Richard Barrett. Park is the constructor of the machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++, and instigator of Metis 9, a playbook of improvisative tactics. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Josh Sinton, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, Andrew Drury, Pat Thomas and Franziska Schroeder, and as part of large ensembles led by Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker and Pauline Oliveros. His recordings have been released by labels including Slam Productions, Creative Sources and DUNS Limited Edition.

Park taught improvisation at University College Cork, and founded and curated Stet Lab, a space for improvised music in Cork.

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Album Review

Han-earl Park: Anomic Aphasia

Read "Anomic Aphasia" reviewed by John Eyles


The music on Han-earl Park's third CD for Slam, Anomic Aphasia, derives from two similar but significantly different Park projects. The first is Eris 136199, an improvising trio consisting of guitarists Park and Nick Didkovsky (leader of Doctor Nerve) plus saxophonist Catherine Sikora. Described by Park as “the noisy, unruly complexity of the ensemble Eris 136199" they are responsible for the opening and closing tracks, “Monopod" (seen, on the actual day of this recording, in the YouTube clip below) and ...

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Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

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Released by Creative Sources Recordings: Numbers (CS 201 CD), a duo album by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white- knuckle extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate ...

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io 0.0.1 beta++: human and machine improvisation on Slam

io 0.0.1 beta++: human and machine improvisation on Slam

Source: Han-earl Park

Slam Productions releases a recording of improvisations by human and machine musicians. 'io 0.0.1 beta++' SLAMCD 531 Performers: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone) “We watch and listen carefully because we know we're seeing a kind of manifesto in action. What is an automaton? A sketch, a material characterization of the ideas the inventor and the inventor's culture have about some aspect of life, and how it ...

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UCC Concert Series presents Matana Roberts, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders

UCC Concert Series presents Matana Roberts, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders

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Get ready for a truly international musical exploration of technique, craft and tradition by three extraordinary improvisers. Chicago-born, New York-based saxophonist Matana Roberts, leading Birmingham-based drummer Mark Sanders, and Cork-based Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park perform as part of the University College Cork Concert Series on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at 8:00 pm in the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sundays Well, Cork. Tickets are $10 ($5 concessions) and available from Music, School of Music and Theatre, UCC. The event ...

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Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)

Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)

Source: Michael Ricci

real-time, musical interactions between human and technological performers

io 0.0.1 beta++ with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder plus iWife with John Godfrey and Francis Heery

A unique and exciting on-stage meeting between human and machine improvisers takes place on 26 May 2010 at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland). This event will mark the debut of two extraordinary machine musicians, io 0.0.1 beta++ and iWife constructed by Han-earl Park and John Godfrey respectively. Featuring Park and Godfrey ...

“Guitarist Han-earl Park is a musical philosopher…. Expect unexpected things from Park, who is a delightful shape-shifter….” Brian Morton (Point of Departure)

“Kaleidoscopic music, a rubato flux of superimposed noises in which lightning-fast progression from one galvanising sound event (noise thru silence) to another….” Tim Owen (Dalston Sound)

“Though short, percussive, hard-to-notate sounds dominate Han-earl Park’s sound, he does utilize the totality of the guitar’s sonorities—just not in the proportions demanded by the nostalgic (retrospective, reactionary, etc.) owners of major media….” Stanley Zappa (The New York City Jazz Record)

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Primary Instrument

Guitar, electric

Location

Cork

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Eris 136199

busterandfriends.com
2018

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Sirene 1009

busterandfriends.com
2017

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Anomic Aphasia

Slam Records
2015

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Park+Murray (Cork,...

busterandfriends.com
2012

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Park-Schroeder (Cork,...

busterandfriends.com
2012

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Numbers

Creative Sources Recordings
2012

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Walking Drives

From: Jin-Park-Weeter (Cork, 01-24-11)
By Han-earl Park

Recursion, Closure

From: Park+Murray (Cork, 07-29-10)
By Han-earl Park

4G alt.

From: io 0.0.1 beta++
By Han-earl Park

바르트

From: Sikora-Smith-Park (Cork,...
By Han-earl Park

Shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.ii

From: Dunmall-Park-Sanders...
By Han-earl Park

Carrier

From: Han-earl Park and Richard Scott
By Han-earl Park

Chorale

From: Park-Schroeder (Cork, 03-26-09)
By Han-earl Park

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