Next Stet Lab will be on Monday, March 8, 2010, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland [map…]. Up-to-date details…
Stet Lab featuring Paul Stapleton and Nick Williams
Monday, 8 March 2010
9:00 pm (doors: 8:45 pm)
Upstairs @ The Roundy [map…]
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland
€10 (€5)
Stet Lab, Cork’s monthly improvised music event, returns on Monday, 8th March 2010. Taking place upstairs at The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Stet Lab presents Belfast-based sound-sculptor, guitarist and electronic musician Paul Stapleton and Newcastle-based electronic musician and guitarist Nick Williams.
Originally from California, Stapleton is currently based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. He is an active improviser, instrument builder, ensemble director and installation artist who has shown work in a variety of locations across Ireland, Great Britain and North America. Improvisation is a key element in his work, especially in its intersection with environmental and social forces.
Joining Stapleton on the night will be sonic improviser and guitarist Nick Williams. Currently based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Williams’ work takes the form of cross-disciplinary performances enrolling new instruments and new electro-acoustic resources.
Collaboratively, Stapleton and Williams are, with dancer Mona McCarthy (from Cork, based in Newcastle), the interdisciplinary performance group theybreakinpieces. Through this group they have performed with artists such as Ben Evans, Jon Aveyard and Dan Reynolds.
The event will begin at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45 pm) and entry is €10 (€5).
Next month’s Stet Lab will take place on Monday, 12th April 2010, featuring the composer, improviser and guitarist John Godfrey.
the performers
Paul Stapleton is an artist-researcher originally from Southern California, currently based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast. Prior to joining SARC in 2007, Paul worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire where he taught, researched and curated events on sonic art, mediatised performance, live art and practice as research. Paul is an active improviser, instrument designer, ensemble director and installation artist who has shown work in a variety of locations across Ireland, Great Britain and North America. Paul is also a co-director of the interdisciplinary performance group theybreakinpieces.
Nick Williams is an artist, performer, and researcher based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is currently in the final year of his PhD in post-vernacular music at Newcastle University. Nick’s practice is realised through many forms of improvisation and cross-disciplinary performance including sonic improvisation using instruments authored in Max/MSP, and site-specific collaboration with the performance group theybreakinpieces of which Nick has been a co-director since 2004. For his latest performance Nick has collaborated with Mona McCarthy (dancer) to create a site specific work based in an interactive procedural-audio environment.