Audio recordings of the January 12th Stet Lab are now online.
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…a celebration of the practice of improvisation in all its diversity, complexity and, perhaps, contradictions
Audio recordings of the January 12th Stet Lab are now online.
The opening Stet Lab of 2009 takes place in one week (Monday, January 12th). The event will feature the return of the way-out, unconventional fiddle player Murray Campbell.
Stet Lab’s begins 2009 with violinist Murray Campbell on Monday, January 12th 2009, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland.
The next Stet Lab (featuring Murray Campbell) will be on Monday, January 12th 2009.
The audio recordings on this site have been made available courtesy of the performers. The current handshake agreement, however, is a little haphazard, and (potentially) prone to misunderstandings. I am therefore proposing to move these recordings onto the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Not exactly coasting, but I’ve been fairly comfortable with the tactics, strategies and lexicons I’ve deployed at Stet Lab. Minor criticisms here and there of course, but nothing that seemed to warrant a wholesale rethinking of what to play or how to improvise. But those […]
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 […]