The (provisional) project page for Metis 9 is now live: Metis 9 is a collection of improvisative tactics, and higher-level interactive macros for ensemble performance designed, designated and specified by Han-earl Park. Metis 9 has ‘glorious noise’ or ‘frenzy’ at its root, yet it is not so much structuring the noise as it is a [...]
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site update: Metis 9
Annea Lockwood on io 0.0.1 beta++
The website of machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++ quotes the composer and explorer of our relationship to everyday (and not so everyday) artifacts, Annea Lockwood’s response to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531): The interaction between io and the three other players is really supple… and I like very much the gritty complexity of io’s vocabulary, [...]
…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 [...]
CD: io 0.0.1 beta++: audio clip #3
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 [...]
more CD reviews: io 0.0.1 beta++
More reviews of ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) including Vittorio’s big thumbs-up at MusicZoom where he hails the recordings as a “total hymn to modernity”, in which the human musicians “throw themselves with passion on the ideas from the inanimate object”, and the listener will be “fully repaid by that which is a successful experiment”: [...]
CD: io 0.0.1 beta++: audio clip #2
As previously noted, at the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site, I’m posting short audio clips from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). The second clip, taken from the track ‘Discovery: Intermodulation’, features machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ in real-time, interactive play with human saxophonist Bruce Coates. [More…] ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [...]
CD: io 0.0.1 beta++: audio clips
At the io 0.0.1 beta++ ’site, I’m posting short audio clips from ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531). The first clip, taken from the track ‘Laplace: Perturbation’, features the last minute of the solo by machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++, and fades out as guitarist Han-earl Park joins it in free play. [More…] ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ [...]
CD reviews: io 0.0.1 beta++
First set of reviews of the CD ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) including Beppe Colli’s take in which the “flesh-and-blood musicians” (Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder) demonstrate “excellent rapport” and “a good dose of telepathy”, while the machine musician (io 0.0.1 beta++) “works as a valuable stimulus for its fellow musicians”: Closing track [...]
CD release: io 0.0.1 beta++
SLAM Productions releases ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531), an audio CD documenting the real-time interactions between human and machine musicians, featuring the musical automaton io 0.0.1 beta++ with the human performers Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder. [Details of the recording…] [Get it from Slam Productions…] [Get it from distributors/shops…] [Downtown Music Gallery…] [Jazzcds…] [...]





