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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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Han-earl Park: Anomic Aphasia
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 ...
read moreCreative 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 handera looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audiblea musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cutsan intense white- knuckle extemporization unitthe 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
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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
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Han-earl Park
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)
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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 ...
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“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)
Primary Instrument
Guitar, electric
Location
Cork
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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 ScottBy Han-earl Park
Chorale
From: Park-Schroeder (Cork, 03-26-09)By Han-earl Park