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Support the Lewis Glucksman Gallery

November 26, 2009 – 7:46 pm

The flooding in Cork city has affected the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. The Gallery has offered generous behind-the-scenes support to Stet Lab, and they’ve hosted improvised music performances by guests of the Lab (including Paul Dunmall, Don Malone, Mark Sanders, John Godfrey, Mick O’Shea, Franziska Schroeder, Bruce Coates and Jamie Smith), numerous Stet Lab (ir)regulars and occasional drop-ins (including Han-earl Park, Neil O’Loghlen, Niwel Tsumbu and Christian Martin).

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Stet Lab November 10th 2009 (reminder) + about Stet Lab Year Three

November 4, 2009 – 3:39 pm

Stet Lab takes place this coming Tuesday (November 10, 2009), upstairs @ The Roundy. Featuring the Bologna-based trio Filario Farinoppo, the event will mark Stet Lab’s second birthday.

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Lab report June 8th 2009: play different

July 3, 2009 – 7:47 am

I’ve said previously that “I’d be lying if I said I did not have allegiances—in idiom, in tradition, and in practice—I do, but I want to stress the possibility of trans-cultural meetings and creative (mis)understandings.”
I don’t subscribe to a silly ideology of some impossibly impartial, neutral, transcendental performance, free of tradition, history, identity. I’m not [...]

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Stet Lab June 8th 2009 (update)

May 28, 2009 – 8:32 pm

Stet Lab with Juniper Hill and Han-earl Park; Piaras Hoban and Veronica Tadman plus guests; and Síofra Fitzgerald and Kevin Terry takes place on Monday, June 8th 2009, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.

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Lab report March 10th 2009: the possibility of failure

March 29, 2009 – 8:46 pm

What is the status of ‘failure’ in improvisative performance? Is the notion of failure relevant to improvised music? If relevant, is it important in the ongoing practice (evolution, mutation or adaptation) of improvisation?
safety…
For me ‘oxleygrass (Marie’s phone)’ really doesn’t work as music. I think, at best, it’s a technical demonstration.
The ditty didn’t go anywhere: no [...]

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

February 23, 2009 – 2:08 pm

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 interesting, musical [...]

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Lab report 2007-2009: how to run an improvised music club

January 30, 2009 – 3:13 pm

On the eve of our highest profile event, with 13 events behind us, this might be a good time to reflect on the stuff I’ve learned (and am learning) about running a space for improvised music.
I’m indebted to those who have told stories of, and given advice on, running no- or low-budget ventures elsewhere. My [...]

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

December 16, 2008 – 11:52 pm

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 this: I’m [...]

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

November 24, 2008 – 10:55 pm

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 [...]

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Lab report November 10th 2008: out of my depth

November 20, 2008 – 10:02 am

I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Not exactly coasting, but I’ve been fairly comfortable with the tactics, strategies and lexicons I’ve deployed at Stet Lab. Minor criticisms here and there of course, but nothing that seemed to warrant a wholesale rethinking of what to play or how to improvise.
But those security [...]

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