New CD: ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

[Han-earl Park]

Apologies for cross-postings and duplications….


Released by Creative Sources Recordings: ‘Numbers’ (CS 201 cd), a duo
recording by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard
Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park.
Details at:

http://www.busterandfriends.com/cs201cd/
http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/

Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a
looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender
bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical
splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white-knuckle
extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic
musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-
earl Park.

Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate music, Richard Barrett is
perhaps best known for his work with Paul Obermayer as part of FURT,
as part of the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, and his close
collaborations with the Elision Ensemble. At home in both composition
and improvisation, Barrett’s music increasingly problematizes the
distinction between them. Described by Brian Morton as “a musical
philosopher… a delightful shape-shifter”, Han-earl Park is drawn to
real-time cyborg configurations in which artifacts and bodies collide.
He has performed with some of the finest practitioners of improvised
music, and is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith.
First performing together as duo in at AUXXX, Berlin, October 2010,
Barrett and Park engage in a continuing improvisative conversation;
alternately claiming autonomy and independence, and group action and
solidarity.

Track titles derive from the final section of numbers, an extended
poem by Simon Howard, published in 2010 digitally by Mark Cobley and
in book form by The Knives Forks And Spoons Press.


Personnel:

Richard Barrett (electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar).


Track Listing:

tolur (15:36), tricav (10:40), ankpla (10:44), uettet (5:15), creens
(6:01), ll……. (11:42). Total duration: 59:58.


Recording Details:

All music by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park.
Recorded March 10, 2011 at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague.
Recorded by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park.
Mixed by Richard Barrett.
Design and artwork by Carlos Santos.
Produced by Ernesto Rodrigues.

© + ℗ 2012 Creative Sources Recordings.