This Sunday! Han-earl Park and Sara Neidorf at Morphine Raum, Berlin

This Sunday (September 7, 2025): I’m performing with Sara Neidorf at Morphine Raum (Köpenicker Str. 147, 10997 Berlin)!

Sara is one of my absolute favorite drummers in Berlin, and pushes and pulls me to work hard in the very best possible way. Every time we play, the results are genuinely unexpected, and I’m super excited (and you should be too!) to see and hear what happens in the intensity of a duo concert. (Plus, Morphine is one of the best rooms for drums, and has my favorite amp in Berlin.)

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Morphine page…] [Facebook event…]

Gonggong 225088 at Sowieso, Berlin

Gonggong 225088 returns!

Here be dragons.

Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 8:30pm (doors: 8pm): Dream a little noisy, sweetly disquieting dream with Han-earl Park (guitar), Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion and electronics) and Camila Nebbia (saxophone) at Sowieso (Weisestraße 24, 12049 Berlin).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Sowieso listing…]

Out on Waveform Alphabet

Gonggong 225088 cover art (copyright 2024 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.

Han-earl Park and Sara Neidorf at Morphine Raum, Berlin

Sunday, September 7, 2025 at 8:30pm (doors: 8pm): Savor the beautifully abrasive music. Han-earl Park (guitar) and Sara Neidorf (drums) perform at Morphine Raum (Köpenicker Str. 147, 10997 Berlin).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Morphine page…] [Facebook event…]

About the performers

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years.

Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky; Juno 3 with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas; and Gonggong 225088 with Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia; and performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett. His ensembles have appeared at festivals including Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), EFG London Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners (Belfast), Freedom of the City (London), ISIM (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). Park’s recordings have been released by labels including NEWJAiM, Waveform Alphabet, Ramble Records, SLAM Productions, Creative Sources and DUNS Limited Edition.

Sara Neidorf (they/them, b. 1990, Philadelphia) is a Berlin-based drummer and film curator. Neidorf drums in the genre-expansive, heavy bands Mellowdeath, Mad Kate | The Tide, Soporose, and Sarattma. As a session musician, they’ve recorded and toured internationally with such artists as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Peaches, and Sometimes With Others, and have also drummed for theater and dance productions at the Volksbühne, Berliner Ensemble, Sophiensaele, Radialsystem, and at festivals such as Berlin Atonal, Tanztage, 3hd, and Grauzone. As an instructor, Neidorf has focussed their teaching efforts on women, queer, and non-binary students and has formerly taught at organizations as varied as BIMM University Berlin and Girls Rock Philly. When not drumming, Neidorf co-directs Final Girls Berlin Film Fest, which showcases horror made by women and NB filmmakers.

Performance diary (Berlin) 073125

upcoming performances
date venue time details
September 7, 2025 Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 147
10997 Berlin
Germany
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) Han-earl Park (guitar) and Sara Neidorf (drums).
[Details…]
[Morphine page…] [Facebook event…]
September 20, 2025 Sowieso
Weisestraße 24
12049 Berlin
Germany
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) Gonggong 225088 (Han-earl Park: guitar; Yorgos Dimitriadis: percussion and electronics; and Camila Nebbia: saxophone).
[Details…]
[Sowieso listing…]
November 14, 2025 Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 147
10997 Berlin
Germany
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) First of two evenings of improvised music and videographic compositions with new works by Han-earl Park, Carina Khorkhordina, and Camila Nebbia, with Sara Neidorf and Yorgos Dimitriadis.
Details to follow…
Initiative Neue Musik Berlin
November 15, 2025 Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 147
10997 Berlin
Germany
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) Second of two evenings of improvised music and videographic compositions. See above.
Initiative Neue Musik Berlin

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‘Footwork’ #onetakestudy Nº 25

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.

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

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.

‘SNR’ #onetakestudy Nº 24

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.

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

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.

Colin Webster, Han-earl Park and Sara Neidorf at Richten25, Berlin

Y-cable
© 2025 Han-earl Park

In a couple of weeks (Tuesday, June 10, 2025) at 8:00pm (doors: 7:30pm): Colin Webster (baritone saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Sara Neidorf (drums) play beautifully abrasive music at Richten25 (Gerichtstraße 25, 13347 Berlin). Also performing are Zentrales Nerven System (Zsolt Sőrés: polyViola, electronics; Nicola Hein: Buchla synthesizer; Sukandar Kartadinata: guitar, electronics).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Facebook event…]

Performance diary (Berlin, Dublin, Rathmullan) 052625

upcoming performances
date venue time details
June 10, 2025 Richten25
Gerichtstraße 25
13347 Berlin
Germany
8:00pm (doors: 7:30pm) Colin Webster (baritone saxophone), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Sara Neidorf (drums). Also performing: Zentrales Nerven System (Zsolt Sőrés: polyViola, electronics; Nicola Hein: Buchla synthesizer; Sukandar Kartadinata: guitar, electronics). [Details…] [Facebook event…]
July 20, 2025 Rathmullan Presbyterian Church
Pier Rd
Rathmullan
Ireland
3:00pm Juno 3 (Han-earl Park: guitar; Lara Jones: saxophone and electronics; and Pat Thomas: electronics) performs as part of RAMP Festival.
[Details…]
[RAMP page…] [Facebook event…] [Get tickets…]
July 21, 2025 Kirkos
1 Little Green St.
Dublin D07 K744
Ireland
8:00pm (doors: 7:30pm) Han-earl Park (guitar).
[Kirkos diary…]

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‘Envelope’ #onetakestudy Nº 23

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.

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

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.

‘Duo-Minus-One’ #onetakestudy Nº 22

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.

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

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.

Induced atmospheric vibration

Inside a wah pedal (with PCBs, mechanical and electromechanical parts)
© 2025 Han-earl Park

Today’s secret phrase is ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ ⚡ See you tonight (April 29, 2025) at Richten25 (Gerichtstraße 25, 13347 Berlin).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Facebook event…]

‘Paratransit’ #onetakestudy Nº 21

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.)

Out on NEWJAiM Recordings

cover art (copyright 2021 NEWJAiM)

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.