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site update: discography

Han-earl Park — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:21:52 +0000

In anticipation of the upcoming release of ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd) with Richard Barrett, I’ve updated my discography page. In addition to the usual changes, I’ve now divided the page between physical and download releases, and anthologies.

All artwork and cover graphics copyright their respective owners. ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd) CD cover © 2012 Creative Sources Recordings. ‘Live at the Glucksman gallery, Cork’ CD cover © 2009 Jamie Smith/Owlhouse Recordings.

upcoming CD: Numbers: Richard Barrett + Han-earl Park

Han-earl Park — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:54:50 +0000

To be released by Creative Sources Recordings in February 2012: ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd) with Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park [about this duo…].

[Creative Sources catalog page…]

More info to follow…

Download of the Day at All About Jazz: Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders

Han-earl Park — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:38:22 +0000

Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders (original photos: HeP by Stephanie Hough; and MS by Andrew Putler)

Free jazz, in no uncertain terms. I don’t know what it is about Han-Earl’s groups’ sounds. Ten seconds in, I think to myself, “Man, this isn’t my thing.” But by the time the tune is over, I realize that I’m totally into it and enjoying it. If a musician can convert my ears within the span of one tune, in my eyes, that’s a sign of talent.

— All About Jazz

All About Jazz features ‘shoapnxoe gutair dmurs a.ii’ by Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders as today’s Download of the Day! I’m again happy and honored to have a recording on AAJ’s download selection (previously featured: ‘Carrier’ with Richard Scott and ‘Chorale’ with Franziska Schroeder). Thanks to AAJ downloads editor Dave Sumner for selecting the recording, to Chris Trent for the recording and mastering work, and to Mike Hurley of Fizzle for hosting the performance at which the recording was made.

[Track at AAJ…] [High-quality download of the full performance…]

CD update: Numbers: Richard Barrett + Han-earl Park

Han-earl Park — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:16 +0000

The release of ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), after a delay, is back on track! The recording with Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park [about this duo…] will be released by Creative Sources Recordings. I’ll update y’all with a release date when I know more…

thanks: McMullen-Park (DMG) and Park-Sikora (Brecht Forum), New York

Han-earl Park — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:12:00 +0000

A quick note of thanks to all involved in the first two performances of 2012. Thanks to Bruce Lee Gallanter and Manny ‘Lunch’ Maris at the Downtown Music Gallery for the open invite, for hosting the performance, and for their support over the years. Seriously, go to the DMG and get yourself a record (maybe one of mine ;-) Thanks to Ras Moshe for organizing the performance at The Brecht Forum and for welcoming this newcomer to NYC. Thanks also to the other performers of the evening including G. L. Diana and Kyoko Kitamura [Kyoko’s take on the gig…] who brought Cardew to life in a way different from all the Cardews I’ve heard in the past—I’m very interested to hear how this project might continue to evolve—and Ras’ powerful and playful quartet (sorry, don’t have the full lineup details of the quartet—contact me, and I will update).

A big, big, big thanks to the two saxophonists who generously shared the stage with me: Tracy McMullen for her wit and imagination, pushing the music to unexpected places, and to Catherine Sikora for her big, beautiful sound and sense of space and drama.

And, as always, thanks to all who came to listen and watch.

tonight: McMullen-Park (DMG) and Park-Sikora (Brecht Forum), New York

Han-earl Park — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:26:19 +0000

Tonight (January 8, 2012) in New York City, performances with Tracy McMullen and with Catherine Sikora:

6:00pm, at the Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002-7351):
Tracy McMullen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar), plus G. L. Diana (electronics) and Kyoko Kitamura (voice).
[Details…] [Performance diary entry]
9:00pm, at The Brecht Forum (451 West Street, New York, NY 10014):
Han-earl Park (guitar) and Catherine Sikora (saxophones), plus others.
[Details…] [Performance diary entry]

See the performance diary for up-to-date info.

performance: Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora at The Brecht Forum, New York

Han-earl Park — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:15:14 +0000

Sunday, January 8, 2012, at 9:00pm: performances by Han-earl Park (guitar) and Catherine Sikora (saxophones), plus others, takes place at The Brecht Forum (451 West Street, New York, NY 10014) [map and directions…]. Admission: $10. See the performance diary for up-to-date info.

…And, no, the date is not a typo: this performance is in addition to the earlier performance on the same evening with Tracy McMullen at the Downtown Music Gallery [details…].

performance diary 01-04-12 (New York)

Han-earl Park — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:11:48 +0000

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
January 8, 2012	Downtown Music Gallery 13 Monroe Street New York, NY 10002-7351	6:00pm	First of two guitar-saxophone duets of the evening. 6:00pm: G. L. Diana (electronics) and Kyoko Kitamura (voice). 7:00pm: Tracy McMullen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Free admission. [Details…] [DMG page…]
January 8, 2012	The Brecht Forum 451 West Street New York, NY 10014	9:00pm	Second guitar-saxophone duet of the evening. Han-earl Park (guitar) and Catherine Sikora (saxophones), plus others. Admission: $10. [Details…]

December 2011	New York	As of December 2011, Han-earl Park is based in New York, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch!
April–May 2012	Europe	Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn), plus Numbers (Richard Barrett: electronics; and Han-earl Park: guitar) are seeking performance opportunities in Europe, April to May 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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Happy New Year from io 0.0.1 beta++… kind of…

Han-earl Park — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:58:08 +0000

If io 0.0.1 beta++ could want, or express a desire, I imagine that it would want to wish all of you a happy arbitrary demarcation of time:

4G alt. (audio salutations from Han-earl Park and io 0.0.1 beta++) [mp3 audio]

io, however, cannot want, or express, anything…
…but Happy New Year from me!

about the audio recording:

Alternate take of track ‘4G’ from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). See below for actual excerpts from the CD.

io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) and Han-earl Park (guitar).

Recorded on recorded August 19 2010 at C-ALTO Labs, Cork. Recorded and mixed by Han-earl Park. (Note that the track above is taken from an earlier, rough mix than the final CD tracks.)

http://www.io001b.com/

Above recording (4G alt. (alternate take: “io 0.0.1 beta++” (SLAMCD 531))) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute the recordings to Han-earl Park.

audio excerpts from SLAMCD 531:

Baroque and Renaissance (audio clip: io 0.0.1 beta++)
impressive synergy (audio clip: io 0.0.1 beta++)
standing alone (audio clip: io 0.0.1 beta++)

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]

personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).

The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

performance: Tracy McMullen and Han-earl Park at the Downtown Music Gallery, New York

Han-earl Park — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:48:19 +0000

Sunday, January 8, 2012, at 6:00pm: performances by, starting at 7:00pm, Tracy McMullen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar), plus, at 6:00pm, G. L. Diana (electronics) and Kyoko Kitamura (voice) takes place at the Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002-7351) [map…]. Free admission.

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [DMG page…]

about the performers

Beginning in Fall 2011, Tracy McMullen has been a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. In 2007–2008 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the seven-year “Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice” (ICASP) research initiative at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Music from UC San Diego in 2007 and was a faculty member in the Music and the Gender & Women’s Studies departments at UC Berkeley from 2009 to 2011. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Current Musicology; Critical Studies in Improvisation; Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies; People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is Now; Sounding the Body: Improvisation, Representation and Subjectivity; The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies; The Dictionary of African American Music; and The Grove Dictionary of American Music. As a saxophonist in the jazz and improvised music traditions she has recorded on Cadence Jazz and numerous other independent labels and maintains an active performance schedule.

McMullen received an M.A. in Music Composition and an M.M. in Jazz Studies (with an emphasis on saxophone performance) from the University of North Texas. As a jazz/experimentalist saxophonist, she has performed or recorded with George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Dana Reason, Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, and many others.

Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park has been working within/from/around traditions of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open improvised musics for over fifteen years, sometimes engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He feels the gravitational pull of collaborative, multi-authored contexts, and has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and (ad-hoc) alternative spaces in Austria, Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and the USA.

He is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith, is involved in collaborations with Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder, Alex Fiennes and Murray Campbell. Recent performances include Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith; duo concerts with Paul Dunmall, and with Richard Barrett; trios with Matana Roberts and Mark Sanders, with Catherine Sikora and Ian Smith, and with Jin Sangtae and Jeffrey Weeter; as part of the Evan Parker-led 20-piece improvising ensemble; and the performance of Pauline Oliveros’ ‘Droniphonia’ alongside the composer. Park has also recently performed with Lol Coxhill, Pat Thomas, Corey Mwamba, Mark Trayle, Pedro Rebelo, Alexander Hawkins, Mike Hurley, Chick Lyall, Thomas Buckner and Kato Hideki. Festival appearances include Sonorities (Belfast), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), dialogues festival (Edinburgh), VAIN Live Art (Oxford), and the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology Festival (California). His recordings have been released by labels including Slam Productions and DUNS Limited Edition.

Park founded Stet Lab, a monthly improvised music space in Cork, Ireland, and taught improvisation at the UCC Department of Music.

CD: io 0.0.1 beta++: audio clip #3

Han-earl Park — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:07:19 +0000

Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder and io 0.0.1 beta++ (Ó Riada Hall, Cork, May 25, 2010)

As previously noted, I’ve been posting short audio clips from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) at the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site. The third and final clip in the series, taken from the track ‘Discovery: Decay’, features an improvised counterpoint between the interactive musical automaton io 0.0.1 beta++, and the human musicians, Franziska Schroeder and Han-earl Park. [More…]

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]

personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).

The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

thanks: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith’s Silver Orchestra at the Roulette, Brooklyn

Han-earl Park — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:01:25 +0000

I feel honored to have been part of an orchestra of performers of that caliber. As best I can make out, the final lineup of the Silver Orchestra on the night was:

Thomas Buckner (voice), Jennifer Choi, Wendy Law (strings), Casey Anderson, Casey Butler, Jamie Baum, Marty Ehrlich, Sara Schoenbeck, J. D. Parran, Jason Mears (winds), Ted Daniel, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mark Taylor (brass), Yuko Fujiyama (piano), John Lindberg (bass), Han-earl Park (guitar), and Bobby Naughton, Susie Ibarra, Martin Obeng, Harris Eisenstadt (percussion).

Was great to catch up with some old acquaintances, and meet many new people. Some things to take away: the trio of drummers to my right (Susie, Martin and Harris) always sounded fantastic; Mark’s fluttering, playful solo was a highlight; Angelica Sanchez for her sense of humor; musing with Jason about the possibilities (and practicalities) of large ensemble creative music; and Yuko and Taylor making the sections breaks clearer for the rest of us.

And of course, thanks to Wadada for taking time to guide us through his compositions; always a pleasure. Happy Birthday, Wadada!