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JazzWord: AI in an improv session

By Han-earl Park | Published: January 22, 2012

This one’s really interesting. Perhaps not the warmest review (in comparison to, say, those at MusicZoom, CloudsandClocks or Monsieur Délire), maybe not the fairest, but Ken Waxman’s take on ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) at JazzWord, in which the machine improviser is “unobtrusive and egoless” and “thoughtful pauses” signpost the authentic human, I think is [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance, theory | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, 08-19-2010, 4G, artificial intelligence, audio recordings, authentic human, Birmingham Improvisers’ Orchestra, Bruce Coates, CD, Charles Hayward, CloudsandClocks, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, Ian Smith, improvisation, interaction, io 0.0.1 beta++, JazzWord, Ken Waxman, Mathilde 253, Monsieur Délire, MusicZoom, Pauline Oliveros, performance, Pioneer: Dance, Pioneer: Variance, recordings, Return Trajectory, reviews, Richard Barrett, Slam Productions, SLAMCD 531, Sonic Arts Research Centre, technological artifact | Leave a comment

MusicZoom: un inno totale alla modernità

By Han-earl Park | Published: December 13, 2011

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is “total hymn to modernity” according to the wonderful review by Vittorio at MusicZoom. It’s a session in which the human musicians “throw themselves with passion on the ideas from the inanimate object”, and the listener will be “fully repaid by that which is a successful experiment.” Il titolo da [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, 08-19-2010, audio recordings, autonomy, Bruce Coates, CD, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Futurism, Han-earl Park, improvisation, instrument, interaction, io 0.0.1 beta++, MusicZoom, performance, recordings, reviews, Slam Productions, SLAMCD 531, technological artifact, Vittorio | 2 Comments

more reviews: experimental, uncompromising, unique man-meets-automaton event

By Han-earl Park | Published: September 12, 2011

Ed Pinsent of The Sound Projector describes the meeting between human and machine improvisers: The guitarist [Han-earl] Park, sometime member of Mathilde 253 whose fine CD impressed us in March this year, is joined by two improvising saxophonists, Bruce Coates (from the Birmingham Improvisers’ Orchestra) and Franziska Schroeder (member of the trio FAINT), and the [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, 08-19-2010, Alberto Bazzurro, All About Jazz, All About Jazz Italia, audio recordings, Beppe Colli, Birmingham Improvisers’ Orchestra, Bruce Coates, Bruce Lee Gallanter, CD, Cork, Ed Pinsent, FAINT, François Couture, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, interaction, io 0.0.1 beta++, Mathilde 253, performance, Pierre Bastien, recordings, reviews, Sara Roberts, Slam Productions, SLAMCD 528, SLAMCD 531, The Sound Projector | Leave a comment

manifesto in action (liner notes: io 0.0.1 beta++)

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 29, 2011

Fourth and final excerpt from Sara Roberts’ liner notes to ‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531): There is the limbic tickle of Freud’s uncanny, yes, our scanners are confused by this non-human playing music with humans. But even beyond that animal attentiveness we watch and listen carefully because we know we’re seeing a kind of manifesto [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance, theory | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, audience, audio recordings, Bruce Coates, CD, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, liner notes, performance, photographs, recordings, Sara Roberts, SLAMCD 531, Stephanie Hough | Leave a comment

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

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 25, 2011

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 [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance, theory | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, audience, audio recordings, Bruce Coates, CD, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, hardware, improvisation, io 0.0.1 beta++, liner notes, performance, photographs, recordings, Sara Roberts, SLAMCD 531, Stephanie Hough | 1 Comment

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

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 21, 2011

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, [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance, theory | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, audio recordings, Bruce Coates, CD, Contemporary Music Review, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, George E Lewis, Han-earl Park, hardware, Interacting with Latter-Day Musical Automata, io 0.0.1 beta++, liner notes, Ó Riada Hall, performance, photographs, recordings, Sara Roberts, SLAMCD 531, sound, Stephanie Hough, timbre | 2 Comments

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

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 16, 2011

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 [...]

Posted in audio recordings, performance, theory | Also tagged 05-25-2010, 05-26-2010, audio recordings, Bruce Coates, CD, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, gesture, Han-earl Park, hardware, improvisation, io 0.0.1 beta++, liner notes, networks, Ó Riada Hall, performance, photographs, recordings, Sara Roberts, SLAMCD 531 | 5 Comments

io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic? (a report from TWO Thousand + NINE)

By Han-earl Park | Published: June 19, 2009

Some thoughts and observations from my presentation on io 0.0.1 beta at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium, the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. [Abstract…] At the end of the presentation, a couple of remarks stood out. One was Franziska Schroeder’s comment that the presentation posed more questions than provided answers, and the [...]

Posted in performance, theory | Also tagged actors, agency, Arts Council of Ireland, Belfast, Calvin and Hobbs, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, identities, imaginary conversations, improvisation, io 0.0.1 beta++, io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?, machine musician, networks, performance, performer, presentation, relationships, Simon Waters, Sonic Arts Research Center, technological artifact, TWO Thousand + NINE, verbing, volition | Leave a comment

io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic? (slideshow)

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 28, 2009

From the slideshow for the presentation on io 0.0.1 beta at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium, the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. [Abstract…] My part (spoken by the humyn participant Han-earl Park) was never written down, but the full transcript of the (imaginary) statements by io 0.0.1 beta are reproduced below. (You [...]

Posted in performance, theory | Also tagged actors, agency, Arts Council of Ireland, Belfast, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, identities, imaginary conversations, improvisation, io 0.0.1 beta++, io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?, machine musician, Margaret Thatcher, networks, performance, performer, relationships, Sonic Arts Research Center, technological artifact, TWO Thousand + NINE | Leave a comment

io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic? (abstract)

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 7, 2009

I’ll be presenting a paper on io 0.0.1 beta at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium which takes place at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. Abstract: Greetings! I am io 0.0.1 beta, an interactive, semi-autonomous, non-human technological artifact—a musical automaton. I operate as parts of a real-time cyborg ensemble—a socio-technical/socio-musical network—in which [...]

Posted in performance, theory | Also tagged abstracts, actors, agency, Arts Council of Ireland, Belfast, bodies, cyborgs, identities, imaginary conversations, improvisation, io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?, networks, Sonic Arts Research Center, technological artifact, TWO Thousand + NINE | 5 Comments

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