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Lab report December 7th 2009: futzing

…or not so random thoughts about not so random techniques
The Vortex, London, November 22, 2009
Ingrid Laubrock leans forward, the tenor just about balanced on her right thumb. She shakes the horn, her fingers barely press the keys. There’s a flurry of (imagined? quasi? pseudo?) notes.
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, May 16, 2009
First time I hear [...]

Lab report October 9th 2008: being Paul Desmond

In familiar ensembles, with performers you’ve worked with a lot, it’s often fruitful (and fun) to push and pull, and discover alternative relationships, and observe the network respond, change and reconfigure itself. Similarly, in a musical meeting between strangers, it’s also interesting to ‘test’ the network; to ascertain the wheres, whens, and under what conditions, [...]