Stet Lab 12-07-09

[Stet Lab curator]

Next Stet Lab will be on Monday, December 7th 2009, upstairs @ The
Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland [see map below…].


final Stet Lab event of 2009

featuring improviser-composer Justin Yang


Monday, December 7th 2009

9:00 pm (doors: 8:45 pm)

Upstairs @ The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland

€10 (€5)


Up to date info at:
http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/diary/


The final Stet Lab event of 2009 will take place on Monday, 7th
December, upstairs at The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland. The
event will feature the innovative Belfast-based improviser-composer,
multi-instrumentalist and computer artist, Justin Yang.

The club’s very first cover band will comprise Justin Yang (saxophones
and electronics) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Park remarks, however,
that “who we’re covering, and how we’re covering it, is a little bit
of a secret. Consider it a challenge to the audience to discover it
themselves.”

A native of California, Justin Yang is currently exploring the use of
real-time computer animation as notational and interactive constructs
at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast. He is a musician who
eschews the prioritization of pitch, rhythm or timbre and instead
utilizes communication as the driving factor in his work. A student of
both Anthony Braxton and Brian Ferneyhough, Yang says his work “lives
in the spaces between composition/improvisation; jazz/classical/
vernacular; electro-acoustic/instrumental; notated/graphically-scored/
freely-improvised; [and] performance-art/sound-art/installation-art”.

Performing alongside this special guest at Stet Lab is the club’s
founder and curator, Cork-based guitarist and improviser Han-earl
Park.

Opening the event will be three performers reunited on the Stet Lab
stage: Marian Murray (violin), Susan Geaney (flute) and Veronica
Tadman (voice). They have been improvising for many years as
individuals and as part of larger improvising ensembles but this is
the first night for the trio to perform together as a unit.

“I am really looking forward to, and delighted and to be, performing
with Marian and Susan,” says Tadman who is no stranger to Stet Lab. “I
have missed having the two of them at Stet Lab the past year and it
will be fantastic to be able to perform with them.”

The event will begin at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45 pm) and entry is
€10 (€5).

Stet Lab will return in 2010 with Istanbul-based improviser and
electronic musician Korhan Erel on Monday, 11th January.


further information:

Stet Lab: http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet

Map to venue: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=113338067607923775514.000457912aadfb5a6a529

[Stet Lab curator]

The final Stet Lab of 2009 takes place this coming Monday (December
7th 2009), upstairs @ The Roundy. The event will feature the exciting
Belfast-based saxophonist and computer artist Justin Yang. Details at:

http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/diary/

Performing with Yang will be Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Han-earl
Park, and the event will open with The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-
Hoc Association) of… Susan Geaney, Marian Murray and Veronica Tadman.

With compelling and dramatic real-time interactions, it’ll be an
appropriate end to 2009. Hope to see you there!

…In the meantime, here’s a sample of Yang’s work (with Yang on tenor
saxophone and Florian Hollerweger on piano) in the outer-reaches of
the fuzzy boundary between composition and improvisation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwj74llVuH4

[Stet Lab curator]

Audio recordings of the December 7th Stet Lab are now online at

http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/listen/#anchor_12-07-09

A big thanks to our guest artist Justin Yang for making the journey
down to Cork to perform with us.

Kudos to the Stet Lab (ir)regulars who performed on the night (Paul
Dowling, Susan Geaney, Marian Murray, Neil O’Loghlen, Han-earl Park,
Kevin Terry and Veronica Tadman) and to newcomer Scott Wade, and
thanks again to Julia Healy (assisted by Cian Ó Beacháin) for the
photography. See the photographs at

http://picasaweb.google.com/stetlab/StetLabCork120709

Last but not least, thanks to all who came to support this event. We
hope to see you again next year!

As with all the recordings since December 2008, this month’s
recordings are covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. More info at

http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/2008/11/22/audio-recordings-proposed-terms-and-conditions/

The next Stet Lab (featuring the Istanbul-based improviser Korhan
Erel) will take place on Monday, January 11th 2010. Details at

http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/diary/

We have yet to receive final confirmation on the venue, but this is
likely to take place upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork,
Ireland. We’ll let you know of any last minute changes.