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…a celebration of the practice of improvisation in all its diversity, complexity and, perhaps, contradictions
Audio recordings of the October 9th Stet Lab are now online.
Stet Lab returns this Thursday (October 9th). The tenth Stet Lab will feature Han-earl Park (guitar), Jesse Ronneau (double bass) and Veronica Tadman (voice).
Normally, nothing runs through my head when improvising. Occasionally, a thought will suggest, in an unobtrusive way, “Oh, that’s quite cool, you should copy that”. Or, as when I was first messing around with extended techniques on my bass, “My luthier’s gonna kill me…” But, at this Stet Lab, for the first time, a thought […]
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.
This month’s evening of improvisations and extemporizations will take place this Thursday (July 10th). The ninth Stet Lab will feature guest artist Mike Hurley on piano, who will be joined by bassist Neil O’Loghlen.