Kato Hideki, Katie O’Looney and Han-earl Park 09-07-09 (Cork, Ireland)

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On Monday, 7th September 2009, an improvised music event with Kato
Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl Park (guitar) at
The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.


Kato Hideki (Kato: family name; Hideki: given) (www.katohideki.com) is
a Japanese-born composer / bassist / multi-instrumentalist, who lives
in NYC. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred
Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo
Yoshihide and Uemura Masahiro; OMNI with Nakamura Toshimaru and
Akiyama Tetsuji. His compositions include: solo piece ‘Turbulent Zone’
for electric bass with prime number tuning; ‘Tremolo of Joy’ for his
band with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney and Calvin
Weston. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas
Collins, James Fei, Akamatsu Masayuki and Ursula Scherrer. As a
bassist, he has worked with Eyvind Kang, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot,
Michael Schumacher, John Zorn and among many others. He is also a
member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos at Diapason Gallery.

Katie O’Looney (www.myspace.com/katieolooney) was born in Killarney,
County Kerry, and raised in NY State. She received a degree in art
from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. She first took up
the drums in 1969, and performed, recorded and toured in the USA,
Japan and throughout Europe with various groups, and as a soloist,
since the early 1980's. She has played with Elliott Sharp's Carbon,
Details at Eleven, Bite Like a Kitty, Better than Death, Steppin
Razor, Zar, Raeo, No Safety and Dustbreeders. She has also improvised
tours with Tenko, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, solos with triggered
drums and electronics with a 16 mm film of Rose Lowder, and sound for
Qui Pro Quo by Rose Lowder. Katie has worked with various dancers,
performance artists and theatre projects with sound and lighting
design. She is a painter, and a specialist decorative painter, and has
worked on a number of restoration projects. In 2002 she released a
solo CD, Roundtrip.

Based in Cork, the Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park
(www.busterandfriends.com) works from / within / around the traditions
of idiom-agnostic, experimental improvised musics, sometimes
engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He is involved in
ongoing collaborations with Bruce Coates, and with Franziska
Schroeder, fifteen year long associations with Alex Fiennes and Murray
Campbell, and has performed with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, George E.
Lewis, J. D. Parran, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Mark Sanders,
Chick Lyall, Jan Langedijk, Stu Ritchie, Koen Nutters, Pedro Rebelo,
Elspeth Murray, Mark Trayle and Hannes Raffaseder. He is also the
constructor of io 0.0.1 beta, an interactive musical artifact, and
cofounder of the Church of Sonology.

The event will begin at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm) and admission
is €12 (€6 concessions) at the door.


event summary

Date: Monday, 7th September 2009.
Time: 9:00 pm (doors: 8:45 pm).
Venue: Upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.
Performers: Kato Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl
Park (guitar).
Admission: €12 (€6 concessions) at the door.


further information

www.busterandfriends.com/2009/07/07/performances-kato-o-looney-park

Kato Hideki: www.katohideki.com
Katie O’Looney: www.myspace.com/katieolooney
Han-earl Park: www.busterandfriends.com