…a celebration of the practice of improvisation in all its diversity, complexity and, perhaps, contradictions
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, [...]
Next Stet Lab (featuring Han-earl Park, Jesse Ronneau, Veronica Tadman and guests) will be on Thursday, October 9th 2008, Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland.
It’s good, I think, to think tactically about improvisation, and group improvisation in particular. You know, however, that you’ve lost the game in improvisation when you’re preempting the music. You don’t want to be thinking this is how it should be, goddamnit, and I will fit that square piece into that triangular hole. Much more [...]
Audio recordings of the July 10th Stet Lab are now online.
Next Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) will be on Thursday, July 10th 2008, Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland. Please note the new venue and earlier start time!
To be informed of future Stet Lab events, join the Stet Lab - announce list, or subscribe to the news feed.
Stet Lab takes place this coming Monday (March 8, 2010), upstairs @ The Roundy. The event will feature the Paul Stapleton and Nick Williams.
Stet Lab featuring Paul Stapleton and Nick Williams, takes place on Monday, 8 March 2010, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.
The next Stet Lab, featuring Paul Stapleton and Nick Williams, will take place upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland, on Monday, March 8, 2010.