Accumulated mixes, excerpts, and new composition material made from EMS Guest Composer residency in Stockholm, SE 2022 JAN

With support from Art Council Korea
credits
released April 1, 2022

We all come from somewhere, I suppose... (2022)

Opener_excerpt

Morphology of the Aerial (Excerpt. 2 Radio edit)

Opener

Roundshape 2022 Edit

Whatsitgnnabe

Impoldering Forces

Weather to Bear

Sodermälm Prelude (Melting Point)

I used Ableton's Operator synth's white noise and sine wave in A3 (220Hz in frequency) pitch to test and calibrate the spatialization of the 5.1 speaker setup in the project space of MACA during my residency there, building up for "Latent amongst the Air", a project commissioned by Sonic Acts Festival. Because of the unusual shape and structures of the space, I had to figure out some way to measure its acoustics + unconventional placement of the 5.1 speakers setup I was using.

But then a fun idea occurred to me to amplify(or abuse?) the project space's acoustic characteristics and spatiality furthermore with a waveform that is a bit more complex(sawtooth wave) and hence suspected that this would yield interesting aliasings and excite certain partials, creating "ghost melodies" of the space... 
In fact, when the project was under "installation mode" prior to the performance, this is what was being looped.

On Sunday afternoon 29-05-22 before the last round of performances, with help of Anne, I decided to record some improvisation with the space in this manner.
So here it goes, tuning of a space, which are latent melodies from partials of the pedal tone of A3 in SAW64 wave recapitulated by the project space of MACA while it's circulating around the room through the 5 speakers at the rate of 0.09 Hz speed. What's being stacked on top of A3 pitch as chords are some impromptu counterpoints on top to introduce some nice interference just for fun. Slight attenuation and phasing of the composition were probably also a contribution of Anne who was walking around and exploring the space with the recording device in place of my two feet and ears that were bounded by the hands playing keys behind the laptop...

Tuning Of A Space - During "Latent Amongst The Air" Sonic Acts Residency at MACA, Amsterdam 052922

Into the Thin Air: Mint Park liveset @ dotolim concert #148 (2022)

DNK Radio EP 25 by Mint Park aka BAKÁH
Aired on Radio Alhara on March 1st 2023

Tracklist

a spearhead in my pocket - the humble bee
We Die Hia - Emeka Ogboh
gay tek radio edit - exael
Survival, Leave Me Alone - Prison Religion
Fatima’s Poplar - Ruhail Qaisar
Axis - Helm
War - Denier Farrar
The Light of Anglerfish 提灯鮟鱇 (UNSLS019) - Yikii
how to dance your pain away - apathy
Crying Is The Only Thing That Gets Me Through - ROMANCE
あともう一回だけ (Once Again) - RATN
도시의밤 - 김현식
The Shadow Side of Joy Fungi - Vlad Dobrovolski
Part 2 - Economy of Meaning
De Vacuum Magdeburgicus - Valerio Tricoli
Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.1 - Kali Malone

DNK Amsterdam Radio Ep25 Mint Park aka BAKÁH

Mint Park live @ Sonic Threshold #2 Greyspace in the middle, The Hague,
 NL 18-05-23

"Space is completely invaded by noise; we are completely occupied by the same noise.
The agitation is everywhere to be heard, beside the signals, beside the silence.
The silent sea is misnamed. Perhaps white noise [bruit de fond] is at the heart
[fond] of being itself. Perhaps being is not at rest, perhaps it is not in motion,
perhaps it is agitated. White noise never stops, it is limitless, continuous,
perpetual, unchangeable. It has no grounding [fond] itself, no opposite. How much noise has to be made to still the noise?" (Serres, 1983)

Photo creds: Esmée de Vette and The Grey Space in the middle

Mint Park Live @ Greyspace in the middle – Sonic Threshold 2023 [NL]

(Octaphonic set in Stereo recording)
We all come from somewhere, I suppose(2022) is an album made during an EMS Stockholm's Guest composer residency in 2022, spending a month in the Nordic city. In June 2023 my old teacher and a dear friend Scott Cazan asked to do a performance at Fylkingen. And was able to realize and premiere the album in octaphonic speaker setup and bring back the compositions and memories of listening to stillness amid the Omicron surge, right where it was made.

Mint Park @ Fylkingen Stockholm - We all come from somewhere, I suppose... Live 2023

Improvisation with spatial sound composition material put together for Line A/V system designed by Daan Johan. 

Performed @ Conflux Festival June 2023 in Rotterdam

Photo by Pieter Kiers

Destroyed Citi

Mint Park - 52°24'12.0"N 4°52'08.5"E: Listening Point#2
Optiki Mousiki - Untitled 3 
Tujiko Noriko - Don’t Worry, I’ll Be here - 
Giuseppe_Ielasi - 03  
Luna Honey & Norman Westberg  - Last Run Through (Aftermath)
Thomas Ankersmit - Perceptual Geography 
Maggie Payne - Through Space and Time
Shapednoise - Family (feat. Armand Hammer)
Casimir - Hold Me While It All Starts Spinning
Anthony Sahyoun - The Tenderness Of Limbs
BAKÁH - Unbeknownst Transgression 
Philip Jeck/ Christ Watson - Burn 
ÄBE - Grampoolschybe

Ghost Frequency Opening intro: Madam Data - Thank you for visiting

GF038: summer eary by BAKÁH

Crustacean

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North End

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Culmination

Meantime

Tangram is a musical composition and interface system based on a Chinese descent puzzle game tangram. 
From geometric node pattern made by seven simple puzzle pieces, the piece modulates and attenuates the timbre and harmonicity of selected sound sources represented by each puzzle piece, creating intuitive and expressive audio-visual environment for a live performance and improvisation.

Tangram Exerpt

BAKAH live @ IDP 013

Electronics - Mint Park
Geomungo(Korean traditional plucked bass string) - Dawool Park

Dec 2018 @ Eeum Studio
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Mint Park aka BAKÁH(박하). 
Ever-morphing sounds and its apparatus. 
For upcoming agenda and projects visit www.mintpark.net

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