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Recording

Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Source: Han-earl Park
March 2, 2012

Released by Creative Sources Recordings: Numbers (CS 201 CD), a duo album by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white- knuckle extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate ...

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Recording

io 0.0.1 beta++: human and machine improvisation on Slam

Source: Han-earl Park
August 7, 2011

Slam Productions releases a recording of improvisations by human and machine musicians. 'io 0.0.1 beta++' SLAMCD 531 Performers: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone) “We watch and listen carefully because we know we're seeing a kind of manifesto in action. What is an automaton? A sketch, a material characterization of the ideas the inventor and the inventor's culture have about some aspect of life, and how it ...

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Event

Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, Ireland: March 2011)

Source: Han-earl Park
February 9, 2011

(Cork, Ireland) Expect powerful and inventive musical interactions as internationally renowned composer-improviser Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith performs with the virtuosic, cross-idiomatic ensemble Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) in Cork and Dublin, Ireland in March 2011. This two-date tour marks Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith's first appearance in Ireland, and the Irish debut of Mathilde 253. Hailed as “one of the most vital musicians on the planet today" (Bill Shoemaker, Coda), legendary composer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser and educator Ishmael ...

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Event

UCC Concert Series presents Matana Roberts, Han-earl Park and Mark Sanders

Source: Han-earl Park
October 15, 2010

Get ready for a truly international musical exploration of technique, craft and tradition by three extraordinary improvisers. Chicago-born, New York-based saxophonist Matana Roberts, leading Birmingham-based drummer Mark Sanders, and Cork-based Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park perform as part of the University College Cork Concert Series on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at 8:00 pm in the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sundays Well, Cork. Tickets are $10 ($5 concessions) and available from Music, School of Music and Theatre, UCC. The event ...

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