Han-earl Park

Han-earl Park (박 한얼) is a South Korean improvisation musician ( guitar ) living in the United States .

Live and act

Park has played in the American and English improvisation scene since the 1990s in ensembles such as Mathilde 253 (with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith), Eris 136199 (with Nick Didkovsky and Catherine Sikora ) and Numbers with Richard Barrett ; also with Wadada Leo Smith , Paul Dunmall , Evan Parker , Lol Coxhill , Mark Sanders , Josh Sinton , Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen , Gino Robair , Tim Perkis , Andrew Drury , Pat Thomas , Franziska Schroeder , Kato Hideki and Pauline Oliveros . Park is the designer of the effects device 0.0.1 beta ++ and the initiator of the book Metis 9 , which describes improvisation tactics. Park taught improvisation at University College Cork from 2006 to 2011; He also founded and curated Stet Lab , an improvisational music venue in Cork . Brian Morton said: “Guitarist Han-earl Park is a musical philosopher…. Expect unexpected things from Park, who is a delightful shapeshifter…. "

Han-earl Park, Paul Dunmall , Mark Sanders , Jamie Smith: Live at the Glucksman Gallery, Cork (Owlhouse Recordings, 2009)
Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park: Boolean Transforms (DUNS, 2010)
Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park, Ian Smith, Lol Coxhill : Mathilde 253 (Slam, 2011)
Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder: io 0.0.1 beta +++ (Slam, 2011)
Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora , Nick Didkovsky , Josh Sinton : Anomic Aphasia (Slam, 2015)
Han-earl Park, Mark Sanders , Dominic Lash , Caroline Pugh: Siren 1009 (busterandfriends, 2017)
Han-earl Park / Catherine Sikora / Nick Didkovsky: Eris 136199 (2018)