buster buster & friends’ d’da is the moniker of a fuzzy-edged non-organization. Established (if that’s the word for it) in 1992, whether it’s furniture or card games, buster & friends’ d’da is dedicated to constructing, engineering and performing loosely idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open, always (already) traditional improvisations.
Please note that a lot of stuff, perhaps because of its (lack of) scale, is not represented here: the small, the intimate, the informal and the ad-hoc do not always survive documentation.
Also, please check to see what performances are scheduled (we always appreciate an audience).
| io 0.0.1 beta | Semi-autonomous, interactive musical automaton that, in coalition with its humyn partners, performs a deliberately amplified staging of a socio-technical network; a network in which the primary protocol is improvisation. |
| duets between guitar & guitarist | Open, and not so open, studies in the tactics and strategies of small-scale improvisative performance (AKA solo guitar improvisations). |
| The Church of Sonology | The very best in faith-service delivery! The Church of Sonology is a growing, evolving, non-theist faith-organization devoted to the exploration of the liberating properties of sound. |
| HZ | Experiments in machine improvisation, specifically exploring possibilities of generating interesting rhythms. |
| AMM™ 0.0.0 alpha | The Automatic Morricone Machine™ is a low-tech, audio-visual, algorithmic etude based on Humanity by Ennio Morricone from John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). All delivered in an attractive sci-fi B-movie package. |
| Stet Lab | A monthly improvised music event based in Cork, Ireland, Stet Lab is a space in which improvisers of varying backgrounds (novice, veteran; student, teacher; part- or full-timer; amateur, professional; local or visitor) can meet and play. |
Han-earl Park (박한얼)
Han-earl Park at Stet Lab (Cork, December 9th 2008). Photo by John Hough.
Just to be clear about this: I may be common denominator in all of this, but the stuff collected here is the result of the labor of several actors (some humyn, some not). However, in case you’re interested….
Official, public biography
Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been using the same bio for four and a half years.
Wordier, less-interesting bio
Han-earl Park (박한얼) constructs, engineers and performs fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open, always traditional improvisations. He feels the gravitational pull of collaborative, multi-authored contexts, and has worked with animators, film makers, poets, theater and mime performers, dancers and installation artists.
Boring, wordy grant application version
Han-earl Park (박한얼) works from/within/around the traditions of idiom-agnostic, experimental improvised musics, sometimes engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He feels the gravitational pull of collaborative, multi-authored contexts, and has worked with animators, film makers, poets, theater and mime performers, dancers and installation artists. As a musician (guitar, banjo, bass guitar, piano, electronics and software) he has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and the streets in Denmark, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and the USA.
As a constructor of low- and mid-tech electronic and software devices, and as an occasional score-maker, he is interested in partial, and partially frustrating, context-specific artifacts. Artifacts that amplify social relationships and, in some instances, objects that obscure the location of the author. These technological artifacts include semi-autonomous musical actors such as io 0.0.1 beta and the cargo-cult contraptions of the Church of Sonology. In the case of Table, as a reaction to the single author model, over a dozen actors were involved in the making of this score-artifact.
Additionally, Park founded and curates Stet Lab, a monthly improvised music space in Cork, Ireland, and teaches improvisation at the UCC Department of Music.
Sad, serial-name-dropping version
…(for when fishing for gigs or funding) is also available.
And, by the way…
…if you’re based around Cork, Ireland, I offer the occasional guitar and improvisation lesson.
copyright
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Please note that some of the audio and video media files are exception to this. Personally, I’d consider many of these recordings covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. However, due to the collaborative production of much of this material, a participant may contest that claim. Additionally, the copyright on the films, 35 on 16 and Lines, and all corresponding visual materials, are held by the respective film makers.
