Monday, November 15, 2010, at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): Stet Lab’s third birthday event takes place featuring Ian Smith (trumpet) with Han-earl Park (guitar), plus Andrea Bonino (guitar and electronics), Helena Reilly (voice) and Athoulis Tsiopani (keyboard). The event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland), and admission is €10/5. [Details…]
Monday, October 11, 2010, at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): Stet Lab—Cork’s monthly improvised music event—returns! With Kevin Terry (guitar), Marian Murray (violin) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums), plus Han-earl Park (guitar), Claudia Schwab (violin) and Dan Walsh (drums), the event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland), and admission is €10/5. [Details…]
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 7:15 pm (doors: 7:00 pm): Featuring Alexander Hawkins, the final Stet Lab before the summer break will take place at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building (Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland). [Details…]
Tomorrow (Monday, December 7th 2009) at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): the final Stet Lab event of 2009. Featuring the saxophonist, composer-improviser and digital artist Justin Yang, the event will mark a few firsts: the first Stet Lab cover band (Yang with Han-earl Park—also the first Asian American duo at the Lab) and the first Stet Lab all women band (Susan Geaney, Marian Murray and Veronica Tadman). The event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland). [Details…]
On Tuesday, November 10th 2009 at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): a very special Stet Lab to celebrate the second birthday of Cork’s monthly improvised music space. Featuring Filario Farinoppo (Dario Fariello, Filippo Giuffrè and Antonio D’Intino) plus Han-earl Park and Kevin Terry, the event takes place at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland). [Details…]
On Monday, October 12th 2009, at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): Stet Lab—Cork’s monthly improvised music event—begins its 2009/2010 season at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland). [Details…]
On Tuesday, February 11th 2009, at 1:10pm: the UCC concert series presents a concert of improvised music by Paul Dunmall, Han-earl Park, Mark Sanders, Jamie Smith at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. Admission is free.
…and on the previous evening, a very special Stet Lab featuring the above performers, plus Andrea Bonino, Paul Dowling, Neil O’Loghlen, Owen Sutton, Veronica Tadman and Kevin Terry.
See the performance diary for up-to-date info.
Stop press: this month’s Stet Lab has been rescheduled to Tuesday, December 9th 2008. [More…]
This comes after the rescheduling of the FrImp event in Birmingham, and cancellation of the Frakture hosted performance in Liverpool (three in a row has to be some kind of record). The performance diary has been updated to reflect these changes.
Site updates to io 0.0.1 beta++ and Stet Lab.
First round of reports (including audio recordings) from the November beta tests: by Franziska Schroeder and by Han-earl Park.
Audio recordings of the November Stet Lab are available. The last Stet Lab of 2008 will take place on December 8th [details…].
Stet Lab enters its second year of real-time mutations and hybrids! Launched in November 2007 with the question ‘where’s Nicki?’, somehow this no-budget, volunteer-run semi-organization has survived ten events and welcomed a dozen guest artists.
I’m pleased and excited to be celebrating Stet Lab’s first birthday with a special event, featuring the extraordinary saxophonist, improviser and theorist Franziska Schroeder, on November 10th 2008, upstairs @ The Roundy, Cork, Ireland. [Details…]
News items pre-dating the move to WordPress…
Audio recordings of the July Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) are available. Stet Lab will return in October 2008 (details).
‘In Conversation with an Automaton’, my article on io 0.0.1 beta, is published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
New venue and earlier start time for the July 10th 2008 Stet Lab. (details).
Audio recordings of the June Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab (featuring Mike Hurley) will be on Thursday, July 10th 2008 (details).
Relaunch, reconstruct and redesign the Stet Lab website. (Please note the changes to the news feed.).
Audio recordings of the May Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab (featuring Murray Campbell) will be on Thursday, June 12th 2008 (details).
Audio recordings of the April Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab on Thursday, May 8th 2008 (details).
Add audio recordings from the March 14th guitar-guitarist duets.
Also, audio recordings of the March Stet Lab available. The next Stet Lab on Thursday, April 10th 2008 (details).
Add audio excerpt of the performance by Bruce Coates, Paul Dunmall, Trevor Lines, Han-earl Park and Jamie Smith from Birmingham, November 1st 2007. (The complete recording is available from frimp.co.uk.)
STOP PRESS: new date for March Stet Lab and guitar-guitarist duets: Friday, March 14th 2008 (details).
Audio recordings of the February 14th 2008 Stet Lab available. Next Stet Lab on Thursday, March 13th 2008 Friday, March 14th 2008 (details).
The first public performance in Ireland of the guitar-guitarist duets will follow the March Lab (details).
Launch the new io 0.0.1 beta++ web site. (Old site remains available.)
Add video recordings of the performance by Murray Campbell and Han-earl Park from Brighton, November 28th 2007.
Next Stet Lab on Thursday, January 10th 2007 (details), and audio recordings of the December 13th 2007 event available.
Next Stet Lab on Thursday, December 13th 2007 (details), and audio recordings of the November 8th 2007 event available.
Yet more changes the performance schedule: addition of a November 27th London gig and the finalization of the details for the November 8th and November 9th events in Cork.
Changes to the performance schedule: new Edinburgh gig on November 26th 2007. Thanks to all, and Martin Parker and Lin Zhang in particular, for helping patch-up the cancelled Edinburgh gig.
Changes to the performance schedule: one additions (including the launch of Stet Lab) and one cancellation: Stet Lab will launch on November 8th 2007.
The Edinburgh gig on November 26th 2007 has been cancelled. I am currently seeking alternative arrangements. If you can help, or have any suggestions, please contact me.
Launch the new website at www.busterandfriends.com. I expect the usual teething problems, so please contact me if you find any bugs. Currently the audio/video files are still hosted at music.calarts.edu, but, as more stuff is updated in the coming weeks, these should also migrate here. Many thanks to music.calarts.edu for hosting us for so long.
Begin the process of retiring the old copyright agreement, and replacing it with Creative Commons Licenses.
Revision 0.0.4 of the duets between guitar and guitarist is in preparation.
Han begins teaching a course—Safety First: strategies towards minimizing danger in improvisation—at the Department of Music, UCC
Revision 0.0.3α (recorded April 2006) of Han and Esprit’s guitar-guitarist duets.
Add quicktime movie of Lines with the live soundtrack recorded Amsterdam, August 28th 1998.
buster & friends’ d’da relocates to Cork, Ireland.
C-ALTO Labs presents a preview of project HZ.
The guitar-guitarist duets goes public as part of dialogues 2004, Edinburgh.
buster & friends are co-sponsored Project Dada (Southampton) with the mission to investigate something by someone, somewhere at sometime.
Revision 0.0.2α of the duets between guitar and guitarist.
