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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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 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…] [Facebook event…]
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.
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…]
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.
| 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…] [Facebook event…] |
| November 5, 2025 | Richten25 Gerichtstraße 25 13347 Berlin Germany |
8:00pm (doors: 7pm) | Kaffe Matthews (live sampling alchemical electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
| November 14, 2025 | Morphine Raum Köpenicker Str. 147 10997 Berlin Germany |
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) | DISTORTIONS: 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… |
| November 15, 2025 | Morphine Raum Köpenicker Str. 147 10997 Berlin Germany |
8:30pm (doors: 8pm) | DISTORTIONS: Second of two evenings of improvised music and videographic compositions. See above. |
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.
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…]
| 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…] |
Continue reading “Performance diary (Berlin, Dublin, Rathmullan) 052625”
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.
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…]
