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Lab report October 9th 2008: being Paul Desmond

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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, of performers’ responses.

But between those two, for me, lies an interesting gray area (I encounter this situation less often than the other two). Continue reading ‘Lab report October 9th 2008: being Paul Desmond’

Stet Lab October 9th 2008

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Next Stet Lab will be on Thursday, October 9th 2008, Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland [map…]. Up-to-date details…

Stet Lab returns!

Thursday, October 9th 2008

7:30pm

Ó Riada Hall [map…]
UCC Department of Music
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland

Free admission (€5 recommended donation)

Cork’s monthly improvised music event returns on Thursday, 9th October, at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Sundays Well. Stet Lab is an onstage meeting of improvisers, and this month features guitarist Han-earl Park, double bass player Jesse Ronneau, vocalist Veronica Tadman and guests.

Stet Lab is a curated jam session, and a forum for improvisers—novice, veteran; student, teacher; part- or full-timer; amateur, professional; local or visitor. Come and witness music in progress and in process, and real-time mutations and hybridizations. Featuring a diverse gathering of Cork-based improvisers, this month’s event is a relaxed, informal introduction to a six month season that will go on to feature artist from England, N. Ireland, California and elsewhere.

Audience members are welcome to participate in association with the programmed artists; please introduce yourself to the Stet Lab curator on the night.

Next month (November 2008), Stet Lab will celebrate its first birthday with a very special session with Franziska Schroeder.

Stet Lab gratefully acknowledges the support of the UCC Department of Music in providing a venue for this month’s event.

updates:

09-24-08 update info on the November event (remove Hugh Metcalfe’s billing). [More info…]

Lab report July 10th 2008: fitting the square piece into that triangular hole

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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. Continue reading ‘Lab report July 10th 2008: fitting the square piece into that triangular hole’

Stet Lab July 10th 2008: audio recordings

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

A very warm thanks to Mike Hurley who not only demonstrated his abilities as, to quote Eoin Callery, a “sh*t-hot pianist”, but also demonstrated his generosity as a performer.

Thanks to Neil O’Loghlen for keeping Mike company on stage. And thanks, as always, to all who came to listen and play, including the evening’s Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… Tony O’Connor and Han-earl Park, and Eoin Callery, Marian Murray and Kevin Terry for jumping into the (improvisative) deep-end.

Finally, Stet Lab gratefully acknowledges the support of the UCC Department of Music for coming through with this month’s venue.

Stet Lab July 10th 2008 (update)

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Next Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) will be on Thursday, July 10th 2008, Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland [map…]. Please note the new venue and earlier start time! Up-to-date details…

Stet Lab

featuring Mike Hurley
plus The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of…

Thursday, July 10th 2008

7:30pm [earlier start time!]

Ó Riada Hall [new venue!]
UCC Department of Music
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland

€10 (€5)

Following the success of June’s convention, Cork’s monthly improvised music event—Stet Lab—continues its Summer 2008 season of on-stage mutations and hybrids on Thursday, 10th July, at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Sundays Well. This regular, yet unique meeting between novice and veteran improvisers alike welcomes the co-founder of the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra, Mike Hurley to the rostrum.

Stemming from the bright lights of Birmingham, Hurley is an exciting and innovative young pianist, capable of both furious extemporizations and the “angelic piano” (Downtown Music Gallery, NY), who has quickly established himself as an original voice in the free improvisation scene. A mover and shaker within the English improvised music community, according to the Birmingham Post, Hurley is “making quite a mark in the British free jazz arena, and has already played with such stalwarts of the scene as Lol Coxhill and the Pauls, Rutherford and Dunmall.” This is Hurley’s first performance at Stet Lab and will see him performing both as a soloist and with the local musicians. However, he is no stranger to the Lab’s style having founded his own fortnightly free improvisation event FiZZLE, and curates, in association with Birmingham Jazz, the quarterly Invention Convention.

Also performing at the event will be Stet Lab’s house band; a group of Cork-based improvisers appearing as The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of…. Audience members are welcome to participate in association with the programmed artists; please introduce yourself to the Stet Lab curator on the night.

Stet Lab gratefully acknowledges the support of the UCC Department of Music in providing a venue for this month’s event.