Lab report January 12th 2009: detoxes really do work
So the Sunday before Stet Lab I did a 24 hour detox, it was tough going as I wasn’t allowed to eat carbs or anything and there is only so much fruit and veg you can eat! Anyway what’s this got to do...
View ArticleLab report January 12th 2009: healthy disrespect for the comfort zone
A couple of days after the January Lab, I was discussing with Murray Campbell how you avoid getting too comfortable in the context of group improvisation, and he said something interesting, that you...
View ArticleLab report February 10th 2009: on playing and being played
I usually refrain from commenting/report on a performance of mine, for the reason that I cannot see what I could/should add to the music… in fact, I quite agree with Leo Smith when he writes: “a piece...
View ArticleLab report February 10th 2009: train wrecks and other fascinating disasters
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...
View ArticleStet Lab June 8th 2009 (update)
Next Stet Lab will be on Monday, June 8th 2009, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland [map…]. Up-to-date details… Stet Lab’s final event of the 2008/9 season Monday, June 8th 2009 9:00 pm...
View ArticleStet Lab November 10th 2009 (reminder) + about Stet Lab Year Three
A special Stet Lab takes place this coming Tuesday (November 10, 2009), upstairs @ The Roundy. Featuring the Bologna-based trio Filario Farinoppo (Dario Fariello, Filippo Giuffrè and Antonio D’Intino),...
View ArticleRediscovering Locality
Not strictly speaking a Stet Lab event, but Stet Lab (ir)regulars Marian Murray and Tony O’Connor will be performing at the launch concert of the CD, Rediscovering Locality: A Sonology of Cork Sound...
View ArticleStet Lab January 4th 2011 (change of guest artist!)
STOP PRESS: change of guest artist! Due to circumstances (contingencies? accidents? emergent agendas?) Murray Campbell is unable to be at the January Lab as previously announced. Composer-performer...
View ArticleLab report 2007-2011: signing-out as curator
As previously announced, after thirty-two events over three and a quarter years, I’ve stepped down as curator of Stet Lab as of February 2011. The duties of running the Lab now are in the very capable...
View ArticleLab reports 2008–2011: an index
Between June 2008 and April 2011, fourteen author-practitioners documented over nineteen events from the POV of the stage. The Lab reports were an opportunity for the improviser-musician-performers to...
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