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standing alone (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)

Han-earl Park — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:50:28 +0000

Third excerpt from Sara Roberts’ liner notes to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531):

For the audience, wondering how this artifact has so much presence, is so handily managing a situation they themselves might be challenged to negotiate? There is something in io’s performance that a human musician, even playing io as an instrument, could not do, even were the human to give up agency entirely and act as an automaton.

The fact that this assemblage stands, studded with missile switches, alone, on stage is meaningful.

© 2011 Sara Roberts.

previous excerpts:

‘a curious situation (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)’
‘its own sound (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)’

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) will be released by SLAM Productions in ~~fall~~ August 2011. [Details…]

personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).

its own sound (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)

Han-earl Park — Sat, 21 May 2011 11:53:48 +0000

Another short excerpt from Sara Roberts’ liner notes to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531):

io 0.0.1 beta++ is rather special in being both an instrument and a player. And given the two attributes it has a very particular sound, ‘sound’ here referring to both timbral quality and the broader sense of having an indelible identity, a style, having its own sound. [2]

io has an extravagant range of sounds made with superhuman amounts of air, and superhuman articulations of air resistance: a hummingbird trill that can go on without the limit of breath, bleats, blats, a grainy slur, shifts between piping and sandy sounds, elephant-like trumpeting, a faint spitty-sounding purr, slushy trills, a hoarse blast of full-spectrum noise, scumbling, whispery hisses ramping up to loud razzing. It can make delicate birdlike chirpings then abruptly sound like a power tool under duress, or render sounds reminiscent of emergency vehicles.

[2] George E. Lewis, ‘Interacting with Latter-Day Musical Automata’, Contemporary Music Review, Vol.18, No.3, 99–112 (1999).

© 2011 Sara Roberts.

Read the first excerpt: ‘a curious situation (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)’.

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) will be released by SLAM Productions in ~~fall~~ August 2011. [Details…]

personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).

updates

06–11–11: change release date to August 2011.

a curious situation (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)

Han-earl Park — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:34:52 +0000

Franziska Schroeder and io 0.0.1 beta++ (Ó Riada Hall, Cork, May 25, 2010)

A short excerpt from the liner notes to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) written by the California-based interactive media artist Sara Roberts:

On the stage: two men, a woman, and an artifact, a freestanding mélange of industrial, military, and domestic hardware. The humans hold graceful, polished objects, but the domed assemblage stands alone. And while the woman and men make sound (vibrate the air) holding and fingering the graceful objects, the artifact, named io 0.0.1 beta++, makes sounds without being touched at all. io and the humans improvise together, listening to each other, responding to each other’s musical gestures. io’s playing is often clearly relating to what the human musicians are doing.

What a curious situation. How does this mingling of human and non-human in the production of music work? What does an improvising artifact introduce into this techno-social imbroglio…?

© 2011 Sara Roberts.

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) will be released by SLAM Productions in ~~fall~~ August 2011. [Details…]

personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).

updates

06–11–11: change release date to August 2011.

shapes of io++ to come 05-23-10

Han-earl Park — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:00:17 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++ (teaser)

Come see/hear the semi-autonomous, interactive musical automaton performing with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder on 26 May 2010 at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland). [Details…]

portrait: io 0.0.1 beta++ 05-19-10

Han-earl Park — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:35:13 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++

A first look at the musical automaton and machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++ constructed by Han-earl Park.

shapes of io++ to come 05-17-10

Han-earl Park — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:00:06 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++ (teaser)

shapes of io++ to come 05-16-10

Han-earl Park — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:30:28 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++ (teaser)

shapes of io++ to come 05-13-10

Han-earl Park — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:00:14 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++ (teaser)

shapes of io++ to come 05-12-10

Han-earl Park — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:33:39 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++ (teaser)

shapes of io++ to come 05-11-10

Han-earl Park — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:37:31 +0000

io 0.0.1 beta++ (teaser)