February 7, 2010 – 6:55 pm
I was on my way, one Monday evening in January, to a trad session with my melodica, when a different music drew me into Stet Lab at The Roundy.
Han-earl Park was making good interesting sounds on guitar and pedals and stuff; Kevin Terry played the cello, what a lovely sound, and later Jesse Ronneau found some fun wacky stuff to do with it; Anthony [...]
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Tagged anthony o’connor, february 2010, han-earl park, january 2010, jesse ronneau, kevin terry, korhan erel, new improvisers, ruti lachs, the roundy, veronica tadman
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January 26, 2010 – 3:33 pm
…or not so random thoughts about not so random techniques
The Vortex, London, November 22, 2009
Ingrid Laubrock leans forward, the tenor just about balanced on her right thumb. She shakes the horn, her fingers barely press the keys. There’s a flurry of (imagined? quasi? pseudo?) notes.
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, May 16, 2009
First time I hear [...]
By Han-earl Park
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Tagged aacm, cecil taylor, chick lyall, december 2009, donna j haraway, fred frith, györgy ligeti, han-earl park, henry grimes, iannis xenakis, ingrid laubrock, john butcher, John cage, john coltrane, justin yang, marian murray, pedro rebelo, pharoah sanders, pierre boulez, richard barrett, sonic arts research centre, the vortex
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November 21, 2009 – 7:39 pm
I’m sitting in London writing this.
[I’m typing this up in Cork several days later, however….]
My initial idea for this report, fueled by my less-than-wonderful playing with Paul Dunmall (Paul, of course, is never less than fantastic) [info on this performance…], was to write about the tightrope balancing act between playing something—crafting something—‘musically’ satisfactory (however you gauge [...]
By Han-earl Park
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Tagged bill frisell, black music research journal, derek bailey, filippo giuffrè, george e lewis, han-earl park, hans reichel, improvisation: its nature and practice in music, improvised music after 1950: afrological and eurological perspectives, july 2008, keith rowe, london jazz festival, mike hurley, november 2009, paul dunmall, southbank centre, steve lacy, vijay iyer
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November 2, 2009 – 11:41 pm
Since Piaras Hoban published an algorithmically generated text for his Lab report, and since I’m not averse to conversations with technics, I thought I’d follow his example with a conversation with Eliza (in this case Charles Hayden’s Java implementation of Eliza), the grandmother of Turing-test contenders. Here’s a more-or-less unedited conversation on the October Stet [...]
By Han-earl Park
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Tagged anthony o’connor, charles hayden, church of sonology, eliza, evan parker, graham lock, han-earl park, january 2009, jesse ronneau, john coltrane, july 2008, marian murray, melanie l. marshall, october 2009, paul hegarty, piaras hoban, thomas buckner
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October 20, 2009 – 3:43 pm
click clip
surprises bell floored click clip the
end light a little
bell floored
click clip the low end light
bell
blow tap tap wind
tap tap wind tap
tap tap wind tap type
floored click clip
hum no alarm this
the low end light a
off blow
click clip the
time some
tap type somebody little mains
mains hum no
a little on blow left right
hum no alarm this time some
clip [...]
I’ve said previously that “I’d be lying if I said I did not have allegiances—in idiom, in tradition, and in practice—I do, but I want to stress the possibility of trans-cultural meetings and creative (mis)understandings.”
I don’t subscribe to a silly ideology of some impossibly impartial, neutral, transcendental performance, free of tradition, history, identity. I’m not [...]
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Tagged audience, bruce coates, february 2009, franziska schroeder, fred frith, han-earl park, june 2009, juniper hill, keith rowe, may 2009, november 2008, paul dunmall, piaras hoban, veronica tadman
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As I approached The Roundy on Monday night, alarm bells were a ringing. “Surely someone will silence that alarm?” thought I. Ha ha, how optimistic. The power of the universe wasn’t with me unfortunately, and 50 minutes later, as Piaras Hoban, Francis Heery, Áine Mangaoang and I began our masterpiece, the alarm was still sounding. [...]
Somewhere in Belfast, May 16, 2009
Snippets from a conversation between three musicians:
“Man, I should play more free jazz.”
“It’s not an idiom at all…”
“…a tradition? …a practice?”
“Just play all over the keyboard.”
“It is so much fun.”
“Why don’t I do this all the time?”
“There’s nothing better.”
“There really isn’t.”
“And it’s the simplest algorithm: play all the time, and [...]
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Tagged bruce coates, fizzle, frimp, han-earl park, idiom, jonny marks, justin yang, lewis glucksman gallery, loopers, may 2009, owen sutton, paul dowling, paul stapleton, pedro rebelo, tradition
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Okay, okay, I’m a somewhat born-again luddite so I can sound a little evangelical and pig-headed, but bear with me…
Here’s a little back-story: in my first semi-public attempts as an improvising guitarist, I had my guitar, amp and volume pedal… plus a compressor, a distortion box, a delay pedal and a chorus unit. Eventually, this [...]
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Tagged anthony braxton, april 2009, bill frisell, chick lyall, derek bailey, for alto, frank zappa, fred frith, furt, green room, han-earl park, instruments, ishmael wadada leo smith, joey baron, katie o’looney, owen sutton, pedro rebelo, richard barrett, tony oxley
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Number one (the first thing): playing with Han-earl Park
Listening back to the recordings I can’t remember what I was playing or what’s coming next, but I can remember what I was thinking as I played. Such thoughts included “That doesn’t sound like what I expected”, “Now What?”, “Ha!”, “That was cool”, “Where’s he going [...]