Charles Hayward / Han-earl Park / Ian Smith

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A lip-reed, six strings, numerous membranes and metal discs.

Three valves; one potentiometer plus twenty-two frets; chains, sticks
and beaters.

Six arms, six legs; three bodies coupled to artifacts.

No scores, many tactics; negotiated boundaries and shifting networks
of relationships.


A real-time musical meetings between drummer Charles Hayward,
guitarist Han-earl Park and trumpeter Ian Smith.



Charles Hayward : drums

Charles Hayward is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat and
Camberwell Now, an ever growing list of solo concerts and CDs (most
recent release Abracadabra Information on Locus Solus label), special
collaborative performances, and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and
Fred Frith.

Throughout the 90’s up to the present he has initiated a bewildering
array of events and performances, including the widely acclaimed
series Accidents + Emergencies at the Albany Theatre, Out of Body
Orchestra (too much sound, not enough space, not enough time), music
made from the sound of the new Laban dance centre being built which
was choreographed for the official opening, music for a circus (part
of the National Theatre’s ‘Art of Regeneration’ initiative), the
full-on installation/performance Anti-Clockwise (with Ashleigh Marsh
and David Aylward) for multiple strobes, maze structure of diverse
textures, 2 drummers, synthesizers and your nervous system. Recent
developements include the Continuity evenings as part of Camberwell
Arts.

Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change’, his current one-man
show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics
and lyrical fragment collage.

“An unwavering belief in the power of the groove and an uncanny
facility for generating one riff after another.” - The Wire


LINKS

http://www.charleshayward.org/



Han-earl Park : guitar

Improviser, guitarist, constructor and club-runner Han-earl Park (박한얼)
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, Thomas
Buckner, Kato Hideki, Mark Sanders, Chick Lyall, Jan Langedijk, Stu
Ritchie, Koen Nutters, Pedro Rebelo, Katie O’Looney, 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.

Park is a recipient of grants from the Arts Council of Ireland and
Music Network. He has appeared at festival including Sonic Acts
(Amsterdam), the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and
Technology Festival (California), dialogues festival (Edinburgh),
Sonorities (Belfast) and VAIN Live Art (Oxford).

Park is founder and curator of Stet Lab, a monthly improvised music
space in Cork, Ireland.

“Bandy-legged Han-earl Park (gitah)… drugged the ref and delivered a
few kidney punches with a horseshoe in his boxing mitt.” - Jamie Smith
(Owlhouse Recordings)


LINKS

http://www.busterandfriends.com/



Ian Smith : trumpet, flugelhorn

Since 1992 he has been playing improvised music and has performed with
Evan Parker, John Stevens, Maggie Nicols, Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford
and Eddie Prévost among others. His own trio, Trian, has played at the
1993 London Experimental Music Festival and the 1992 Soho Jazz
Festival. He also participated in a reformation of Cornelius Cardew’s
Scratch Orchestra in the ICA in 1994. He has collaborated with
composer Roger Doyle, winner of the Bourges International
Elecro-Acoustic Music Competition 1997, and he has been featured on
two instrumental tracks by the hip hop band Marxman. He toured the UK
with Butch Morris’ London Skyscraper conduction project in November
1997.

Current projects include The Temporary Brass Trio with Gail Brand
(trombone) and Oren Marshall (tuba); Fanatic Hearts, an electric band
with Dave Tucker (guitar), Alex Ward (alto sax/guitar), Pat Thomas,
Knut Auferman (live sampling and processing), Simon Fell (electric
bass) and Tony Marsh (drums); the London Improvisers Orchestra; and
The Big Top organised with Oren Marshall and Dean Speedwell to
actively encourage ad-hoc groupings of musicians from a myriad of
backgrounds to come together, play and listen. The first meeting was
in November 2000 and involved improvisors Maggie Nichols, Lol Coxhill,
Alan Tomlinson, Steve Beresford and Simon Fell among others.

“…Exploring all of his instrument’s registers, producing dog growls,
fanfares, miniscule mouthpiece squeaks and tones so muted they sound
as if they come not from inside his horn, but from within his throat.”
- Ken Waxman


LINKS

http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/msmithi.html