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Stet Lab March 10th 2009: audio recordings

Audio recordings of the March 10th Stet Lab are now online.

Lab report February 10th 2009: train wrecks and other fascinating disasters

Stet Lab, Cork, February 10, 2009 Before we go on stage, I joke with Jamie Smith that we’re the two guitarists who’re going to be tripping up each other (and that the drummer, Owen Sutton, will have to pick through the carnage). By ‘tripping up’ I’m not implying that the results weren’t going to be […]

Lab report February 10th 2009: on playing and being played

I usually refrain from commenting/report on a performance of mine, for the reason that I cannot see what I could/should add to the music… in fact, I quite agree with Leo Smith when he writes: “a piece of improvisation has been done, and after it’s done, there’s nothing to be said about it because it […]

Stet Lab February 10th 2009: audio recordings

Audio recordings of the February 10th Stet Lab are now online.

Lab report January 12th 2009: healthy disrespect for the comfort zone

A couple of days after the January Lab, I was discussing with Murray Campbell how you avoid getting too comfortable in the context of group improvisation, and he said something interesting, that you should have a “healthy disrespect for the comfort zone”. It’s an issue that popped up before (I briefly touched on this last […]

Lab report January 12th 2009: detoxes really do work

So the Sunday before Stet Lab I did a 24 hour detox, it was tough going as I wasn’t allowed to eat carbs or anything and there is only so much fruit and veg you can eat! Anyway what’s this got to do with Stet Lab? Well I found that January’s Lab was easily the […]

Stet Lab January 12th 2009: audio recordings

Audio recordings of the January 12th Stet Lab are now online.

Lab report December 9th 2008: when is a cliché a cliché

We rocked. I think I did some pretty damn good playing on December 9th. Nothing life changing perhaps, but I think it was a reasonable contrast my contribution to October and November’s Labs. But here’s the question: how do I know when I’m getting a little too… complacent is the wrong word—comfortable? Let me clarify […]

Stet Lab December 9th 2008: audio recordings

Audio recordings of the December 9th Stet Lab are now online.

Lab report November 10th 2008: mindful auto-pilot nonsense

While in the past I’ve generally worked through group improvisations intuitively, the concept of working strategically has become more and more appealing for a number of reasons which I’m not going to get into here. No revelations, just re-considerations. The aspiration for this month’s Lab (though I admit I decided on it less that five […]