Sunday, April 1, 2012, at 7:00 pm: a solo (or guitar-guitarist duet) set by Han-earl Park at the Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002-7351) [map…]. (It’s probably about time: it’s been a year and a half since my last solo performance.) There’s also an ‘April Fool’s Day Mystery Set’ at 6:00pm. [...]
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performance: Han-earl Park at the Downtown Music Gallery, New York
in preparation: Catherine Sikora, Ian Smith and Han-earl Park (Cork, 04–04–11)
Next download release from busterandfriends.com will be the recording of the April 4, 2011 performance by Catherine Sikora (saxophone), Ian Smith (trumpet) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Unlike previous download releases, this one will be hosted at Bandcamp, and available as a ‘name your price’ album. You will still be able to download the release for [...]
io 0.0.1 beta++: (musical) time and machine musicianship 0.1
Second part of a series at the io 0.0.1 beta++ website about musical time, rhythm, musicality and politics: The issue is not so much that a musicality built up from a simple ‘beat detection’ is not possible…. The issue is the implications of seeking and defining, in research, such a trait; valuing such a musicality; [...]
performance: Mathilde 253 at Freedom of the City, London
Sunday, May 6, 2012, at 2:00pm: As part of Freedom of the City, Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) performs at Cecil Sharp House (2 Regent’s Park Road, Camden, London NW1 7AY, England) [map…]. Tickets: £12 [festival passes and concession details…] See the performance [...]
io 0.0.1 beta++: (musical) time and machine musicianship
First post as part of a series at the io 0.0.1 beta++ website about musical time, bodies, computation, machine musicianship, and the regulation of the musical: Perhaps the assumption of a foundational importance to musicality of a simple ‘beat detection’ stems from subscribing to a command-control model of musicality. In this model the mind is [...]
…and more CD reviews: io 0.0.1 beta++
Two more reviews of ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) with two contrasting takes on the meeting between human and machine musicians. Ken Waxman, on the one hand, juxtaposes the “unobtrusive and egoless” machine with the human improvisers who display, for example, “thoughtful pauses”: …Han-earl Park personifying Dr. Frankenstein, has created a non-human artificial musician from [...]
Download of the Day at All About Jazz: Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders
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 [...]




