DISTORTIONS: SPLICE II

DISTORTIONS: SPLICE II (postcard) with text: “improvised music + moving images / DISTORTIONS: SPLICE II / Carina Khorkhordina / Camila Nebbia / Han-earl Park / Sara Neidorf / Yorgos Dimitriadis / 14.11.2025 / 15.11.2025 / Morphine Raum, Berlin”
Image © 2025 Camila Nebbia. Design © 2025 Han-earl Park.

This November (Friday, 14th, and Saturday, 15th): Two evenings of improvised music and moving images with new works by Carina Khorkhordina, Camila Nebbia, and Han-earl Park, with Sara Neidorf and Yorgos Dimitriadis. The events will take place at Morphine Raum (Köpenicker Str. 147, 10997 Berlin).

See the performance diary for up-to-date info.

about the artists

Camera shooting Sara Neidorf sitting at drumkit
Behind-the-scenes. © 2025 Han-earl Park.

Carina Khorkhordina (b. 1991) is a trumpet player, composer, photographer, video-maker, and interdisciplinary artist from Kaliningrad, Russia, and living in Berlin since 2014. Aside from developing her music on the trumpet and playing concerts she is working on a series of site-specific performances in the public space of Berlin and other places in collaboration with different musicians, presented as short films and bringing together her interest in urban space, sonic possibilities of the trumpet, field recordings and video documentation.

She has been performing in the context of improvised and experimental music since 2017. The active groups include the duo with Eric Bauer, Slurge (with Eric Bauer, Burkhard Beins, Wolfgang Seidel), Klub Demboh, the duo with Axel Dörner and the trio with Eric Bauer and Lena Czerniawska, as well as a variety of ongoing collaborations.

Since 2020 she has been working on a series of site-specific compositions in Berlin’s public space together with various musicians, presented in the form of short films focusing on individual trumpet sound and musical language in the context of urban space, as well as field recordings and video. She is also an artist who works with photography. Between 2016 and 2020 she was a student of various photography programs at FotoDepartament Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. Between 2009 and 2020 she participated in several photographic and interdisciplinary exhibitions.

Camila Nebbia is a saxophone player, composer, improviser, visual artist, curator and educator debasing hierarchical systems by exploring migrational counterpoints through multiple, but minimally separated, mediums. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in Berlin, Germany, the multidisciplinary artist layers her practice through the creation and destruction of archival memory. Has released as a band leader and solo performer ‘A veces la luz de lo que existe resplandece solamente a la distancia’ (Kuai 2017), ‘De este lado’ (Club del disco 2019), Aura (ears&eyes records 2020), ‘Corre el río de la memoria’ (ramble records 2021), ‘Presencias’ (Sound Holes 2021), ‘Una ofrenda a la ausencia’ (Relative Pitch Records 2023), ‘La permanencia de los ecos’ (577 Records 2023). Played and recorded with many artists of the international scene such as Valentin Garvie, El devenir del río, Burka, Paula Shocron, Barbara Togander, Patrick Shiroishi, Paul Pignon, Vinnie Sperrazza, Katt Hernandez, Kenneth Jimenez, Lesley Mok, Violeta García, Axel Filip, Susana Santos Silva, Tom Rainey, Elsa Bergman, l’ Arfi collective of Lyon, Joanna Mattrey, Micheal Formaneck, Vincent Drombowski’s Flow regulator, Sofia Borges, John Hughes, among others. Co-creator and curator of the collective interdisciplinary group and improvised music series ‘La Jaula se ha vuelto pájaro y se ha volado,’ the interdisciplinary festival Guillotina Fest and creator and curator of the streaming concert series called ‘A door in the mountain.’ Runs the concert series and independent label ‘Disfigured Rivers’ based in Berlin. Participated of many festivals around the world such as Winter Jazz Fest NYC co-presented with M3 (U.S), Buenos Aires Jazz Festival (ARG), Lima Jazz Festival (PE), Diskurs Festival (DE), Ultima Oslo (NO), among others, and has assisted to several residencies such as, ART OMI (NYC), SIM (NYC) Jazz & Creative Music dictated by Tyshawn Sorey and Vijay Iyer (CA), Konvent Zero (ES) UNCOOL (CH), Ensemble Evolution (US), CirkusVranen (SE), CCK with Tim Berne, Marilyn Crispell & Ben Goldberg (AR), among others.

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 drawn to the noisy poetry of interactive play; its pleasurable complexities, and joyous discords. He has become increasingly fascinated by the possibilities of refracting the improvisative through narrative tropes and forms, sometimes transposing techniques from fiction and cinema. He seeks musics that are ‘inconvenient,’ that resist easy resolution, and seeks practices that, despite understanding that connection is, in a way, unknowable, take seriously consent, affinity, agency, trust and compassion.

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. Park also performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett, and as part of Thoughts of Trio’s dark extemporizations, the avant-disco of QLH, and The Names’ hyper-lyricism. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Hayward, Mark Sanders, Lol Coxhill, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Evan Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Josh Sinton and Franziska Schroeder. His constructions and compositions include ‘Bandwidth,’ a videographic work for improvisation; the online #lockdownminiature series; the machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++; and Metis 9, a playbook of improvisative tactics.

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.

Yorgos Dimitriadis, born 1964 in Thessaloniki Greece, is an experimental musician, composer performer based in Berlin. Using percussion, microphones, field recordings and minimal electronics his music focuses on real time sonic landscapes, with an emphasis on timbre, sound color and long durations.

Since 2006 he lives in Berlin and appears at festivals and concert series worldwide. He has performed/recorded as a soloist and in collaboration with an array of renowned international artists like Audrey Chen, Paul Dunmall, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Matthias Bauer, Frank Gratkowski, Lori Freedman, Michel Doneda, Amir ElSaffar, Tobias Delius, Marc Turner, Hilary Jeffery, Robin Hayward, Oguz Büyükberber, Meinrad Kneer, Silke Eberhard and many more.

Current projects include: “14 20 22” (Solo for drums & electronics), Duos with Achim Kaufmann, Andrea Parkins, Michael Thieke, Floros Floridis, DYET with Erato Tzavara (video), Trios GRIX (w/Antonis Anissegos, Floros Floridis), Van Huffel/Kneer/Dimitriadis, GLUE (w/Tom Arthurs, Miles Perkin), KERN (w/Edith Steyer, Matthias Müller), TWIRLS Quartet, FABRIC (w/Frank Paul Schubert, Mike Majkowski) and BeingFive (w/Axel Dörner/ Lori Freedman/ Andrea Parkins/ Christopher Williams).

Festival appearances at Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Jazzfest Berlin, Jazzdor Berlin/Strasbourg, Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal, Something Else Festival Hamilton, Enjoy Jazz, Onassis Cultural Center Athens, Nice Jazz Festival, Theatre de la Bastille, Paleo Festival Nyon, Jazz and More Festival, Konstanzer Jazzherbst, Soundance Festival, Berlin Solo Impro, Moving Silence Nicosia and others. Yorgos Dimitriadis can be heard on Relative Pitch, Room40, Jazzwerkstatt, NoBusiness, Creative Sources, FMR, Trouble In The East, Evil Rabbit and Wide Ear record labels.

‘Shuffle’ (Han-earl Park at Kirkos, Dublin)

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.

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.

Tonight: Han-earl Park at Kirkos, Dublin

Tonight (Monday, July 21, 2025), at 8:00pm (doors: 7:30pm): Han-earl Park (guitar) performs at Kirkos (1 Little Green Street, Dublin D07 K744).

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

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.

‘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.

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.

‘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.

‘All You Zombies’ #onetakestudy Nº 20

A little contrapuntal ditty complete with lighting design courtesy of the Berlin sky, and an output jack that is on the fritz 😵

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.

Han-earl Park at Kühlspot, Berlin

This Sunday (March 16, 2025), at 8:30pm (doors: 8pm): Han-earl Park (guitar) performs at Kühlspot Social Club (Lehderstraße 74–79, 13086 Berlin). Also performing are Sofia Borges (drums and percussion), Jonathan Aardestrup (double bass) and Lisa Ullén (piano).

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

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.

‘Trash Fumble’ #onetakestudy* Nº 19

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.

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.