This November (Friday, 14th, and Saturday, 15th): Two evenings of improvised music and moving images with new works by Carina Khorkhordina, Camila Nebbia, Han-earl Park, with Sara Neidorf and Yorgos Dimitriadis. The events will take place at Morphine Raum (Köpenicker Str. 147, 10997 Berlin).
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Closing snap’n’shuffle from my solo performance at Kirkos, Dublin back in July. Complete with visual swipes (shuffles and foot traffic) and the occasional low frequency rumbles from passing vehicles.
Thanks so much to everyone at Kirkos for hosting the performance, and, in particular, a big, big thanks to Paul Scully for all his work making this happen, and for the audio and video recording.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
Artist-musician, Graham Dunning invited me a few months ago to put together a mix for his radio show, Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone (NTS Radio). You can listen to that episode now!
Here’s the track list for my guest mix:
Thanks so much to Graham for inviting me to contribute something for his show, and for giving me the opportunity to share some of the noise I’ve made, and the noise that has impressed and moved me recently.
I wish I could say there was a theme beyond selecting music that I had just been listening to, and a selection from some of my more recent recordings. Considering the haphazard way I put the thing together, I’m as surprised as anyone by the way the overall mix flows—from how Catherine takes-off from where Theresa Wong lands; to how Isabel and Sara reassert, reframe and re-grid Yorgos and Camila’s snaps’n’clangs; to the futz, fuzz and buzzes that bridges Steph Richards’ Fullmoon, Juno 3’s Proxemics, and Nick’s Phantom Words.
Enjoy, and please, please check out the music of these artists (including those featured by Graham during the rest of the show)—I think you’ll be inspired.
Photo © Jazz em Agosto / Petra Cvelbar.
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).
Track listing: Derealization I (4:07), Derealization II (4:57), Derealization III (3:52), Derealization IV (6:19), Derealization V (5:55), Derealization VI (3:47), Proxemics I (5:05), Proxemics II (3:54), Proxemics III (6:10), Proxemics IV (7:15), Proxemics V (6:10), Proxemics VI: Rumble (5:13). Total duration: 62:44.
© and ℗ 2025 Han-earl Park.
Gonggong 225088 (wa008) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion and electronics) and Camila Nebbia (saxophone).
Track listing: Autopoiesis I (≥ 10:14), Autopoiesis II (≥ 4:29), Niche Shift I (16:09), Niche Shift II (≥ 4:45), Niche Shift III (4:35), Niche Shift IV (≥ 12:52), Autopoiesis III (3:26), Autopoiesis IV (≥ 5:03), Autopoiesis V (≥ 3:17), Autopoiesis VI (3:37). Total duration ≥ 70:14.
© 2024 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2024 Waveform Alphabet.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
Taps’n’trots (and squawks’n’quacks) 👣
This might be my last in the #onetakestudy series for a while as I’ve got a couple of other projects that will be keeping me busy in the coming months. For those who’ve been following my studies, thank you so very much for listening.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
Or maybe I should have titled this one ‘Signal and Noise.’
Some ideas and fragments that I came away with from a session with Sara Neidorf. It’s a bit scattered, and very rough around the edges, but there’s stuff here that I want to return to over the coming weeks.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
Simple variation on a trope, technique, gesture, color and shape. This one might be a little more impressionistic than rigorous. Some of this, I think, works; some parts better than others. Enjoy.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
I almost called this one ‘Induced Atmospheric Vibration’ after some (likely untrue) reports from Portugal in regards to the recent blackout. As some of you know, I played an unplanned solo set after Kaffe Matthews, with whom I was to perform in a duo, got stranded in Portugal. (For those who had wanted to hear our duo, we will be back!)
If this one feels a little like a throwback earlier studies, yeah, I agree… at least in part. There’s some techniques almost directly lifted from earlier improvisations, but combined with some of the structural concerns from some of the more recent studies. I’m not 100% convinced this one works, but maybe it can be made to. We’ll see.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these excercises; specifically something I’d once called a ‘structural paraphrase’ (my, my, did I go hard on artspeak with that one 😶). Anyway, please enjoy this very loose improvisative paraphrase (with apologies to CT).
And please excuse the scritchy-scratchy pots—the potentiometer in my volume pedal in particular may be beyond cleaning. (You can help me fix that.)
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
A little contrapuntal ditty complete with lighting design courtesy of the Berlin sky, and an output jack that is on the fritz 😵
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
I’m happy to announce that, following a delay at the factory, I am now shipping the companion cassette tape to Proxemics (BAF003). It’s super limited edition, and the recording on cassette presents an, I think, fascinating, alternative perspective to the music of the album.
“So confounding and strange that simply listening to it makes you feel alive.”
— Antonio Poscic (The Quietus)
Masterminded by Berlin-based Korean-American improviser and guitarist Han-earl Park, Juno 3 is his trio with London-based experimental producer, saxophonist, and sound artist Lara Jones, and boundless experimentalist and pioneer of electroacoustics in free improvisation, Pat Thomas. Recorded at Cafe OTO, Proxemics (BAF003) captures the trio’s performance as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival’s outer left field. [Read the rest…]
Please note that this cassette release does not duplicate the digital album, but offers a complement to it. In contrast to the digital download album, the cassette album is the room mic recording of the second set only (corresponding to ‘Proxemics I–VI’). The cassette presents a vérité, ‘bootleg’-vibe documentation of the performance as heard by the audience on the night.
Thanks so, so much to everyone who ordered the tape—I truly appreciate your support, patience and understanding. I’m excited for you to hear the noise on tape!
[About this album…] [Get the download/order the cassette (Bandcamp)…]
Download: €8.
Cassette tape* plus download: €12 plus shipping.
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Lara Jones (saxophone and electronics) and Pat Thomas (electronics).
Track listing: Orbital Dusk I (6:04), Orbital Dusk II (4:20), Orbital Dusk III (2:29), Orbital Dusk IV (6:03), Diel Vertical Migration I (6:31), Diel Vertical Migration II (4:38), Diel Vertical Migration III (4:33), Diel Vertical Migration IV (7:36), Metastability (7:24). Total duration: 49:36.
© and ℗ 2023 Ramble Records.
I kept fumbling this one—thus another asterisk [*] on ‘#onetakestudy,’ and thus the title. This one’s very much work-in-progress.
A disprepared ditty bouncing some ideas—well, barely ideas, more fragments of fragments—that emerged from a session with Kaffe Matthews, and a recent gig with Camila Nebbia and Gianluca Elia. It is what it is, but, with a little more work, maybe I can make it into something.
Of Life, Recombinant (NEWJAiM9) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar) with Anne Wellmer (voice on track 4).
Track listing: Game: Mutation (5:38); Naught Opportune (≥ 10:42); Are Variant (≥ 8:06); Of Life, Recombinant (≥ 29:22). Total duration ≥ 53:48.
© 2021 NEWJAiM Recordings.
℗ 2021 Han-earl Park.
