Nick Didkovsky – Page 12

February 8, 2013

performance diary 02-08-13 (Brooklyn, New York)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
February 24, 2013	Downtown Music Gallery 13 Monroe Street New York, NY 10002	6:00pm	Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar) with mystery saxophonist. Also performing: Karl 2000 (Daniel Rovin: saxophone; Austin White: bass; and Dave Miller: drums). Free admission. [Details…] [DMG page…}
March 26, 2013	The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215	8:30pm	Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophones) and Josh Sinton (saxophone and clarinet) as part of On The Way Out. Also performing: Robert Dick (flutes), Nick Didkovsky (guitar), Andrew Drury (drums and percussion) and Michael Lytle (clarinet and analog electronics). Recommended donation: $10.
April 7, 2013	The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215	9:30pm	Performance by Ed Rosenberg (saxophone), Owen Stewart-Robertson (guitar), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Kate Pittman (drums) as part of Out Of Your Head Brooklyn. Also performing: Jasmine Lovell-Smith (reeds), Kenny Warren (trumpet), Jesse Stacken (keyboards), Adam Hopkins (bass) and Max Jaffe (drums). [OOYH page…]

2013	North America	Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones) is seeking performance opportunities in North America, and, in 2014, elsewhere in the world. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]
2014	Europe	Seeking performances in Europe, 2014 for the cyborg ensemble of interactive, semi-autonomous, technological artifact and machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with human musicians Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones). Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]

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January 24, 2013

thanks: Eris 136199 (Brecht Forum, NYC) and Evans-Jensen-Park (DMG, NYC)

A somewhat belated set of thanks for the gigs on January 13 and January 20, 2013. Very big, big thanks to fellow performers Nick Didkovsky and Catherine Sikora of Eris 136199 (I’ve been told ours was a fantastic performance, I’m very sorry that, zombified with a virus, I have little recollection of it :-/ ), and to Michael Evans and Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen.

Kudos to Ras Moshe and everyone at The Brecht Forum, and to Bruce Gallanter (hey, it was good to talk and catch up, Bruce!) and Manny Maris of Downtown Music Gallery for hosting and curating the events. (And apologies to Ras and the other performers at The Brecht Forum for not being able to stick around for the other sets.) Thanks again to Kevin Reilly for the video documentation of the DMG performance, and thanks, as always, to all who came to listen and witness music in interaction and in real-time.

By the way, ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), the duo album with Richard Barrett (the one that got selected for Délire actuel’s 2012 Demanding Music Top 30), should now be available from Downtown Music Gallery. [More about this CD…]

January 15, 2013

performance diary 01-15-13 (Brooklyn, New York)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
January 20, 2013	Downtown Music Gallery 13 Monroe Street New York, NY 10002	6:00pm	Performance by Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Also performing: Guillermo Gregorio, Jeffrey Shurdut, Jonathan Chen and Steve Swell. Free admission. [Details…] [DMG page…]
March 26, 2013	The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215	8:30pm	Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophones) and Josh Sinton (saxophone and clarinet) as part of On The Way Out. Also performing: Robert Dick (flutes), Nick Didkovsky (guitar), Andrew Drury (drums and percussion) and Michael Lytle (clarinet and analog electronics). Recommended donation: $10.
April 7, 2013	The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215	9:30pm	Performance by Ed Rosenberg (saxophone), Owen Stewart-Robertson (guitar), Han-earl Park (guitar) and ~~Nathan Ellman-Bell (drums)~~ Kate Pittman (drums) as part of Out Of Your Head Brooklyn. Also performing: Jasmine Lovell-Smith (reeds), Kenny Warren (trumpet), Jesse Stacken (keyboards), Adam Hopkins (bass) and Max Jaffe (drums). [OOYH page…]

2013	North America	Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones) is seeking performance opportunities in North America, and, in 2014, elsewhere in the world. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]
2014	Europe	Seeking performances in Europe, 2014 for the cyborg ensemble of interactive, semi-autonomous, technological artifact and machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with human musicians Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones). Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]

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January 15, 2013January 30, 2017

CD available: The $100 Guitar Project

‘The $100 Guitar Project’ (BRIDGE 9381A/B) (CD artwork copyright 2013, Bridge Records) — ‘The $100 Guitar Project’ (BRIDGE 9381A/B). CD artwork © 2013 Bridge Records.

Bridge Records has released ‘The $100 Guitar Project’ (BRIDGE 9381A/B). This is what it says on the back of the CD case:

In October of 2010, guitarists Nick Didkovsky and Chuck O’Meara bought a used $100 electric guitar online. They didn’t know what it sounded like or if it even worked, but were charmed by its no-name vibe as were 63 of their guitar-playing friends, each of whom wrote and recorded a piece on it, before passing it on to the next player….

Royalties on every sale of the $100 Guitar Project will be paid directly to CARE, a leading organization fighting global poverty.

The double CD is currently available from Bridge Records, and from one of my favorite stores, Wayside Music. You can also download the digital edition of this recording from iTunes and eMusic.

[$100 Guitar Project website…] [Bridge Records catalog page…] [Discography entry…] [About my track…]

January 9, 2013

reminder: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora) at The Brecht Forum, New York

This Sunday (January 13, 2013), at 6:00pm: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones) perform at The Brecht Forum (451 West Street, New York, NY 10014) [map/directions…]. Admission: $11. [Details…]

December 16, 2012

performance: Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora) at The Brecht Forum, New York

Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 6:00pm: a performance by Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones) takes place at The Brecht Forum (451 West Street, New York, NY 10014) [map/directions…]. Also performing: Music Now! (Ras Moshe, Luke Stewart, Tom Zlabinger, Max Johnson, John Pietaro and Tor Yochai Snyder), and We Free Strings (Melanie Dyer, Sonya Robinson, Nioka Workman, Charles Burnham, Larry Roland and David Harewood). Admission: $11.

Remember: side effects of Eris 136199 may include temporary deafness, involuntary teleportation, spontaneous combustion, and molecular implosion. In addition, lab animals have been shown to dance without skill to the sound of double guitars and saxophone 😉

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Brecht Forum page…]

about Eris 136199

Eris 136199 plays on the crossroads of noise, melody, rhythm, space, density, contrast, synchronicity, asymmetry, serendipity and contradiction. Eris 136199 is the noisy, unruly complexity of composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, the corporeal, cyborg virtuosity of constructor and guitarist Han-earl Park, and the no-nonsense melodic logic of composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora.

A composer who enjoys blurry boundaries, Nick Didkovsky founded the avant-rock big band Doctor Nerve, and is a member of Swim This with Gerry Hemingway and Michael Lytle. He is a pioneer of small-systems computer music, and has composed music for ensemble including Bang On A Can All-Stars and the California EAR Unit.

Described by Brian Morton as “a musical philosopher… a delightful shape-shifter”, Han-earl Park is drawn to real-time cyborg configurations in which artifacts and bodies collide. He has performed with some of the finest practitioners of improvised music, is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith, and Numbers with Richard Barrett.

Catherine Sikora is “a free-blowing player’s player with a spectacular harmonic imagination and an evolved understanding of the tonal palette of the saxophone” (Chris Elliot, Seacoast Online). She has a long-standing duo project with Eric Mingus, and performs as part of ensembles led by Elliott Sharp, François Grillot and Matt Lavelle.

Together, Didkovsky, Park and Sikora forges an improvisative space where melody can be melody, noise can be noise, meter can be meter, metal becomes metal, bluegrass turns to bluegrass, jazz transforms into jazz, all there, all necessary without imploding under idiomatic pressures.

December 16, 2012

performance diary 12-16-12 (Brooklyn, New York)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
January 13, 2013	The Brecht Forum 451 West Street New York, NY 10014	6:00pm	Performance by Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones). Also performing: Music Now! (Ras Moshe, Luke Stewart, Tom Zlabinger, Max Johnson, John Pietaro and Tor Yochai Snyder), and We Free Strings (Melanie Dyer, Sonya Robinson, Nioka Workman, Charles Burnham, Larry Roland and David Harewood). Admission: $11. [Details…] [Brecht Forum page…]
January 20, 2013	Downtown Music Gallery 13 Monroe Street New York, NY 10002	6:00pm	Performance by Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Free admission. [Details…] [DMG page…]
March 26, 2013	The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215	8:30pm	Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophones) and Josh Sinton (saxophone and clarinet) as part of On The Way Out. Also performing: Robert Dick (flutes), Nick Didkovsky (guitar), Andrew Drury (drums and percussion) and Michael Lytle (clarinet and analog electronics). Recommended donation: $10.

2013	North America	Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones) is seeking performance opportunities in North America, and, in 2014, elsewhere in the world. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]
2014	Europe	Seeking performances in Europe, 2014 for the cyborg ensemble of interactive, semi-autonomous, technological artifact and machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with human musicians Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones). Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]

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November 29, 2012

upcoming CD: The $100 Guitar Project

‘The $100 Guitar Project’ (BRIDGE 9381A/B) © 2012 Bridge Records

Coming soon from Bridge Records:

In October of 2010, guitarists Nick Didkovsky and Chuck O’Meara bought a used $100 electric guitar online. They didn’t know what it sounded like or if it even worked, but were charmed by its no-name vibe. After receiving the instrument, they contacted a few friends about writing and recording a piece on the guitar. Word spread quickly, and within weeks, the $100 Guitar Project was born. Over two years, sixty-five guitarists wrote and recorded a piece on the instrument, each passing the guitar on to the next player (the guitar traveled all over the USA, including Hawaii, and to western Europe as well). Stylistically, the players come from every corner of the guitar-playing world: classical to blues; jazz to country; rock to experimental. Donating their services to a good cause, a royalty on every sale of the $100 Guitar Project will be paid to CARE, a leading organization fighting global poverty. [More…]

[$100 Guitar Project website…] [Bridge Records catalog page…] [About my track…]

October 4, 2012

Eris 136199: seeking performances (North America, 2012–2013; Europe, 2013–2014)

Seeking performance opportunities; particularly in North America during 2012–2013; and Europe, late-2013 and 2014 onwards (contact us for other locations and dates): composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky, guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park, and composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora (saxophones).

See performance proposal for further information (availability, technical requirements, performers’ biographies, etc.).

overview

Nick Didkovsky, Han-earl Park and Catherine Sikora are also available for performance/improvisation/composition workshops and talks.

further information

Web: www.busterandfriends.com/eris
Contact: www.busterandfriends.com/contact

Audio recordings, images and other material available on request.

[Full performance proposal…]

September 28, 2012

video recordings: YouTube playlist updates

As part of the general house keeping duties, I’ve updated the playlists at my YouTube channel. The ‘Han-earl Park’ playlist, at this time, features performances with Sean Ali, Chris Chafe, Chris Corrigan, Nick Didkovsky, Andrew Drury, Paul Dunmall, Michael Evans, Jonathan Goldberger, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Will McEvoy, Manuela Meier, Jonathan Moritz, Pauline Oliveros, Gascia Ouzounian, Pedro Rebelo, Bradford Reed, Mark Sanders, Franziska Schroeder, Catherine Sikora, Jamie Smith, Doug Van Nort, Ben Wright, Jack Wright and Justin Yang, and videography by Don Mount, Kevin Reilly and John Hough.

And Eris 136199 now has its own playlist.

September 14, 2012

performance diary 07-14-12 (Brooklyn)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
September 16, 2012	The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar 627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215	9:30pm	Performance by Jonathan Goldberger (guitar), Han-earl Park (guitar), Sean Ali (bass) and Will McEvoy (bass), plus Anna Webber (reeds), Ben Syversen (trumpet), TJ Huff (guitar), Dustin Carlson (guitar) and Mark Ziegler (bass), as part of Out Of Your Head. [Details…] [Freddy’s page…] [OOYH page…]

2012–2013	North America	Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones) is seeking performance opportunities in North America, and, in 2013, elsewhere in the world. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!
2014	Europe	Seeking performances in Europe, 2014 for the cyborg ensemble of interactive, semi-autonomous, technological artifact and machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with human musicians Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones). Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]