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I was on my way, one Monday evening in January, to a trad session with my melodica, when a different music drew me into Stet Lab at The Roundy.
Han-earl Park was making good interesting sounds on guitar and pedals and stuff; Kevin Terry played the cello, what a lovely sound, and later Jesse Ronneau found some fun wacky stuff to do with it; Anthony [...]
Audio recordings of the January 2010 Stet Lab are now online.
Stet Lab takes place this coming Monday (January 11th), upstairs @ The Roundy. The event will feature the unique techno-virtuosity of Istanbul-based improviser Korhan Erel.
Stet Lab featuring Korhan Erel, plus Han-earl Park, Jesse Ronneau and Veronica Tadman, takes place on Monday, 11 January 2010, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.
Since Piaras Hoban published an algorithmically generated text for his Lab report, and since I’m not averse to conversations with technics, I thought I’d follow his example with a conversation with Eliza (in this case Charles Hayden’s Java implementation of Eliza), the grandmother of Turing-test contenders. Here’s a more-or-less unedited conversation on the October Stet [...]
Number one (the first thing): playing with Han-earl Park
Listening back to the recordings I can’t remember what I was playing or what’s coming next, but I can remember what I was thinking as I played. Such thoughts included “That doesn’t sound like what I expected”, “Now What?”, “Ha!”, “That was cool”, “Where’s he going [...]
Audio recordings of the March 10th Stet Lab are now online.
The next Stet Lab takes place in just over one week (Tuesday, March 10th), upstairs @ The Roundy. The event will feature the debut of a live electro-acoustic group, the R.E.A.L. Ensemble.
Stet Lab with the R.E.A.L. Ensemble plus Han-earl Park on Tuesday, March 10th 2009, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.
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 [...]