Press/publicity photos and images of io 0.0.1 beta++, its construction and performances, are collated at:

picasaweb.google.com/hanearlpark/io001beta

Photographs copyright the photographers. If you use any of the images, please credit the corresponding photographer. [Additional images…].

‘io 0.0.1 beta++’ (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]

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

© 2011 Han-earl Park.
℗ 2011 SLAM Productions.

io 0.0.1 beta++ (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010).
Photo © 2010 Stephanie Hough. [Black and white version…]

io 0.0.1 beta++, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010).
Photo © 2010 Stephanie Hough. [Black and white version…]

Han-earl Park (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010).
Photo © 2010 Stephanie Hough. [Black and white version…]

Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++ and Bruce Coates (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010).
Photo © 2010 Stephanie Hough. [Black and white version…]

Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates, io 0.0.1 beta++ and Franziska Schroeder (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010).
Photo © 2010 Stephanie Hough. [Black and white version…]

The event was presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the Arts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, The Castle Bar and Trattoria and the UCC School of Music.

cables… (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010)

Audio and visual documentation of the May 26, 2010 performance by io 0.0.1 beta++ with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder, plus iWife with John Godfrey, will be posted over next few weeks.

I’ll also be posting my report, but, in the meantime, if anyone would like to add their feedback, make criticisms or ask questions, you are warmly welcome to do so. Please add your comments to this post below.

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

Formal acknowledgments below, but my personal thanks to Clair and Riccardo for hosting this event, to Kevin for the behind-the-scenes help, to John Hough for answering requests for technical assistance, and to Stephanie for her visual skills. Special kudos to Melanie for supporting me through the highs and lows of prepping and running this venture, and to John Godfrey for being a partner in this enterprise.

And of course a big, big thanks to Bruce and Franziska for their skill, craft, intelligence and musicality. It wouldn’t have worked without them! If I take one thing from this event, it will be the pleasure of sitting comping, listening to two saxophonists demonstrating what it really means to interact in real-time.

Finally, I’d like to thank everyone who took time to come witness the results of the investigations into the nature of improvisation, music, technology and sociality.

Formal acknowledgments

We would like to thank Clair McSweeney, Riccardo Vallebella, Paul Everett, Mel Mercier, John Hough, Francis Heery, Kevin Terry, Stephanie Hough and Melanie L Marshall.

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award and support from the Arts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, the Castle Bar and Trattoria and the UCC School of Music.

io 0.0.1 beta++ was constructed with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland, and with input and feedback from Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder, Phil Burk, Sara Roberts and Murray Campbell.

iWife is a result of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Tickets: €16.00 (€10.00 concessions). [Get tickets…]

Note: The online box-office will close a few hours prior to the performance. Tickets will be available at the venue on the evening of the performance.

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the Arts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, The Castle Bar and Trattoria and the UCC School of Music.

Come see/hear Han-earl Park and Bruce Coates with Franziska Schroeder performing with io 0.0.1 beta++ on 26 May 2010 at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland). [Details…]

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…]

…A unique concert next week when musical machines are unleashed to an audience eager to hear improvisation in the widest possible meaning of the word.

One of those due to perform at the Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork is Han-earl Park’s robot-like io 0.0.1 beta++, a machine made from plumbing parts, kitchenware, missile switches, speakers and a microphone stand.

The tutor at University College Cork’s school of music has been developing the machine, which he prefers to call an automaton rather than a robot, since he received an Arts Council grant in 2007.

[Read the rest…]

beta test 05-12-09_03 [mp3]
io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Bruce Coates (saxophone). Beta test May 12, 2009.

[Hear the spot… (click ‘UCC composers create musical machines’)]

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.