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performance diary 09-14-10 (Belfast, Berlin, Cork, Dublin, Vienna)

upcoming performances
date venue time details
October 2, 2010 Basement Project Space
1 Camden Place
Camden Quay
Cork, Ireland		 1:00pm Solo (or guitar-guitarist duet) performance by Han-earl Park (guitar).
Free admission.
[Details…]
October 11, 2010 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab returns!
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
October 22, 2010 Lichtblik Kino
Kastanienallee 77
10435 Berlin, Germany		 10:00pm
(doors: 9:00pm)		 Performance by Richard Barrett (electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar) presented by AUXXX.
Donation: €5.
[Details…]
October 25, 2010 Celeste Jazz Bar
Hamburgerstrasse 18
Vienna, Austria 1050		 9:00pm Han-earl Park (guitar) performs as part of the Neu New York / Vienna Institute of Improvised Music.
[Details…]
November 6, 2010 Sonic Arts Research Center
Queen’s University
Belfast, N. Ireland		 9:30am
(my paper at 2:00pm)		 Not exactly a gig, but a presentation, ‘Subject Matter: Improvising Cyborgs’ by Han-earl Park at the TWO Thousand + TEN symposium. More info to follow…
[Paper Abstract…]
[Details…]
November 15, 2010 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab’s third birthday event.
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
November 25, 2010 Ó Riada Hall
UCC Music Building
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland		 8:00pm Performances by Matana Roberts (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums) as part of the UCC concert series. More info to follow…
Admission: €15/5.
December 6, 2010 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Final Stet Lab of 2010.
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
March 30, 2011 Venue TBC
Dublin, Ireland		 TBC Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award and support from the Improvised Music Company. Details to follow…
March 31, 2011 Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award and support from the UCC School of Music. Details to follow…

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‘Subject Matter: Improvising Cyborgs’ at TWO Thousand + TEN

November 6, 2010: I’ll be presenting a paper ‘Subject Matter: Improvising Cyborgs’ at the TWO Thousand + TEN symposium at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland.

Abstract:

The instrument—that’s the matter—the stuff—your subject. (Steve Lacy)

Approaches to music analysis based on ideas of musical ‘material’ and their ‘manipulations’ privilege simplicity and coherence, creating problems when approaching performance, and, in particular, real-time interactive improvisation. Such approaches assume rigidly hierarchical causal processes and simplistic notions of agency and volition. The effects of such analysis render physicality and the body largely invisible or, at best, peripheral to the site of creation.

Donna J. Haraway’s cyborg, a playful and disruptive boundary-breaching entity, suggest a way to theorize the relationships between the various entities (such as bodies, instruments and traditions) during improvisative play. Partly a socialist feminist subversion and reinvention of Bruno Latour’s network, cyborgism also promises a mode of analysis that takes relationships and interaction seriously while avoiding the easy impulse to erase difference, complexity and contradictions.

With particular focus on techniques associated with Derek Bailey, I will reverse engineer and demonstrate modes for illuminating cyborg relations; arguing that the cyborg is a possible generator and subject of improvisative play. Techniques such as tone clusters and natural harmonics can amplify the historical and physical contingencies of the guitar-guitarist network, exploding and exposing normally hidden instabilities (and creative possibilities) in that relationship. Tone clusters, for example, may be identical on the fretboard and the keyboard in terms of a discorporate abstraction of ‘musical material,’ but they have very distinct implications for practice (their significance in terms of traditions) and performance (their physical articulations). Consequently, what might be articulated in improvisation is not ‘unfettered choice’ or ‘limited musical material,’ but the dynamic interactions of agencies and identities, and of the temporary and the durable.

The presentation will be a practitioner’s report, and a demonstration of baby steps towards a mode of music analysis that foregrounds real-time interaction. I argue that, if performance in general, and improvisation in particular, is the (re)enactment and (re)negotiation of identities, boundaries and relationships, then the space between entities must be a site of (re)construction and (trans)formation. It is in the (re)negotiations, and the fluid motions, of the boundaries, the (temporary) creation of hybrids and networks that radical music can be improvised.

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performance diary 08-25-10 (Belfast, Berlin, Cork, Dublin, Vienna)

upcoming performances
date venue time details
October 2010 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Stet Lab returns!
[Details…]
October 22, 2010 Lichtblik Kino
Kastanienallee 77
10435 Berlin, Germany		 10:00pm (doors: 9:00pm) Performance by Richard Barrett (electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar) presented by AUXXX.
Donation: €5.
[Details…]
October 25, 2010 Celeste Jazz Bar
Hamburgerstrasse 18
Vienna, Austria 1050		 9:00pm Han-earl Park (guitar) performs as part of the Neu New York / Vienna Institute of Improvised Music.
[Details…]
November 6, 2010 Sonic Arts Research Center
Queen’s University
Belfast, N. Ireland		 9:30am Not exactly a gig, but a presentation, ‘Subject Matter: Improvising Cyborgs’ by Han-earl Park at the TWO Thousand + TEN symposium. More info to follow…
[Details…]
November 25, 2010 Ó Riada Hall
UCC Music Building
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland		 8:00pm Performances by Matana Roberts (saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums) as part of the UCC concert series. More info to follow…
We’re also looking for dates between 22 and 24 November. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!
March 30, 2011 Venue TBC
Dublin, Ireland		 TBC Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)).
Details to follow…
Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the Arts Council of Ireland, and support from the Improvised Music Company.
March 31, 2011 Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBC Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)).
Details to follow…
Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the Arts Council of Ireland, and support from the Triskel Arts Centre and the UCC School of Music.

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Sonorities and TWO Thousand + NINE

On May 16th 2009 I performed as part of the closing concert of Sonorities 2009 at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. The performance was with Chris Corrigan, Manuela Meier, Pauline Oliveros, Gascia Ouzounian, Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Schroeder, Justin Yang, plus Chris Chafe and Doug Van Nort. [Details…]

On the same day I presented a paper ‘io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?’ at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium. [More…]
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My trip to Belfast was made possible with the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

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io 0.0.1 beta at TWO Thousand + NINE

On May 16th 2009: I’ll be presenting a paper ‘io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?’ at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. [Read the abstract…]

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performance diary 05-07-09

upcoming performances
date venue time details
May 11th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab Featuring Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Jonny Marks (voice), with Han-earl Park (guitar) and Owen Sutton (drums). Plus The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics) and James O’Gorman (guitar).
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
May 16th 2009 Sonic Arts Research Center
Queen’s University
Belfast, N. Ireland		 2:30pm Not exactly a music performance, but a presentation by Han-earl Park on io 0.0.1 beta as part of the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium.
I may also be performing in the evening, but that’ll likely be a last-minute call. Stay tuned.
June 8th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Final Stet Lab before the summer break (we’ll be back in October).
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]

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performance diary 03-31-09

upcoming performances
date venue time details
April 14th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab featuring Katie O’Looney (drums and percussion), plus OPKA (Owen Sutton (drums), Paul Dowling (bass guitar), and Kevin Terry and Andrea Bonino (guitars)).
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
May 11th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab featuring Bruce Coates, plus The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics) and James O’Gorman (guitar).
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
May 16th 2009 Sonic Arts Research Center
Queen’s University
Belfast, N. Ireland		 2:30pm (TBC) Not exactly a music performance, but a presentation by Han-earl Park on io 0.0.1 beta as part of the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium.
I may also be performing in the evening, but that’ll likely be a last-minute call. Stay tuned.

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performance diary 03-17-09

upcoming performances
date venue time details
March 26th 2009 Lewis Glucksman Gallery
UCC
Cork, Ireland		 6:00pm Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) presented by Glucksman Unplugged.
Admission free.
April 14th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab featuring Katie O’Looney.
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
May 11th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab featuring Bruce Coates.
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
May 16th 2009 Sonic Arts Research Center
Queen’s University
Belfast, N. Ireland		 2:30pm (TBC) Not exactly a music performance, but a presentation by Han-earl Park on io 0.0.1 beta as part of the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium.

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performance diary 02-17-09

upcoming performances
date venue time details
March 10th 2009 The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland		 9:00pm
(doors: 8:45pm)		 Stet Lab featuring the R.E.A.L. ensemble.
Admission: €10/5.
[Details…]
March 20/21 2009 (TBC) Venue TBC
Cork, Ireland		 TBA Postponed until September 2009.
Not exactly a music performance, but a paper-demonstration by Han-earl Park and Esprit as part of the bodies/music conference.
Details to follow…
March 26th 2009 Lewis Glucksman Gallery
UCC
Cork, Ireland		 6:00pm Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) presented by Glucksman Unplugged.
Admission free.
May 16th 2009 Sonic Arts Research Center
Queen’s University
Belfast, N. Ireland		 TBA Again, not exactly a music performance, but a presentation by Han-earl Park on io 0.0.1 beta as part of the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium.
Details to follow…

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News items pre-dating the move to WordPress…

2008

July 14th

Audio recordings of the July Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) are available. Stet Lab will return in October 2008 (details).

July 1st

‘In Conversation with an Automaton’, my article on io 0.0.1 beta, is published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

June 27th

New venue and earlier start time for the July 10th 2008 Stet Lab. (details).

June 15th

Audio recordings of the June Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) will be on Thursday, July 10th 2008 (details).

May 21st

Relaunch, reconstruct and redesign the Stet Lab website. (Please note the changes to the news feed.).

May 9th

Audio recordings of the May Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab (featuring Murray Campbell) will be on Thursday, June 12th 2008 (details).

April 18th

Audio recordings of the April Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab on Thursday, May 8th 2008 (details).

March 22nd

Add audio recordings from the March 14th guitar-guitarist duets.

Also, audio recordings of the March Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab on Thursday, April 10th 2008 (details).

March 18th

Add audio excerpt of the performance by Bruce Coates, Paul Dunmall, Trevor Lines, Han-earl Park and Jamie Smith from Birmingham, November 1st 2007. (The complete recording is available from frimp.co.uk.)

March 5th

STOP PRESS: new date for March Stet Lab and guitar-guitarist duets: Friday, March 14th 2008 (details).

February 17th

Audio recordings of the February 14th 2008 Stet Lab available. Next Stet Lab on Thursday, March 13th 2008 Friday, March 14th 2008 (details).

The first public performance in Ireland of the guitar-guitarist duets will follow the March Lab (details).

January 4th

Launch the new io 0.0.1 beta++ web site. (Old site remains available.)

Add video recordings of the performance by Murray Campbell and Han-earl Park from Brighton, November 28th 2007.

2007

December 19th

Next Stet Lab on Thursday, January 10th 2007 (details), and audio recordings of the December 13th 2007 event available.

November 11th

Next Stet Lab on Thursday, December 13th 2007 (details), and audio recordings of the November 8th 2007 event available.

October 27th

Yet more changes the performance schedule: addition of a November 27th London gig and the finalization of the details for the November 8th and November 9th events in Cork.

October 21st

Changes to the performance schedule: new Edinburgh gig on November 26th 2007. Thanks to all, and Martin Parker and Lin Zhang in particular, for helping patch-up the cancelled Edinburgh gig.

October 12th

Changes to the performance schedule: one additions (including the launch of Stet Lab) and one cancellation: Stet Lab will launch on November 8th 2007.

The Edinburgh gig on November 26th 2007 has been cancelled. I am currently seeking alternative arrangements. If you can help, or have any suggestions, please contact me.

September 12th

Launch the new website at www.busterandfriends.com. I expect the usual teething problems, so please contact me if you find any bugs. Currently the audio/video files are still hosted at music.calarts.edu, but, as more stuff is updated in the coming weeks, these should also migrate here. Many thanks to music.calarts.edu for hosting us for so long.

Begin the process of retiring the old copyright agreement, and replacing it with Creative Commons Licenses.

June 15th

Revision 0.0.4 of the duets between guitar and guitarist is in preparation.

2006

September 27th

Han begins teaching a course—Safety First: strategies towards minimizing danger in improvisation—at the Department of Music, UCC

May 11th

Revision 0.0.3α (recorded April 2006) of Han and Esprit’s guitar-guitarist duets.

February 13th

Add quicktime movie of Lines with the live soundtrack recorded Amsterdam, August 28th 1998.

2005

August

buster & friends’ d’da relocates to Cork, Ireland.

2004

July 5th

C-ALTO Labs presents a preview of project HZ.

February 27th

The guitar-guitarist duets goes public as part of dialogues 2004, Edinburgh.

January 8th

buster & friends are co-sponsored Project Dada (Southampton) with the mission to investigate something by someone, somewhere at sometime.

January 5th

Revision 0.0.2α of the duets between guitar and guitarist.