Stet Lab 05-11-09

[Stet Lab curator]

Next Stet Lab will be on Monday (note: back to Monday!), May 11th
2009, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland [see map
below…].


Stet Lab featuring saxophonist Bruce Coates and vocalist Jonny Marks


Monday, May 11th 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/


This month’s Stet Lab, Cork’s improvised music event, will take place
at 9:00 pm on Monday, May 11th 2009, upstairs at The Roundy, Castle
Street, Cork, Ireland. The event will feature saxophonist Bruce Coates
(UK) and vocalist Jonny Marks (UK/New Zealand via China), plus Cork-
based improvisers, Han-earl Park (guitar), Owen Sutton (drums), Paul
Dowling (bass), Vicky Langan (electronics) and James O'Gorman
(guitar).

May’s Stet Lab will see a bold mix of familiar and unfamiliar faces.
Returning will be Birmingham-based Bruce Coates, founder of FrImp and
the Birmingham Improvisers’ Orchestra, and a saxophonist with a sound
both daring and inviting. Having worked with musicians as diverse as
Christian Wolff, Lol Coxhill, Tony Oxley, John Edwards, Chris Hobbs,
and previous Stet Lab guests Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders and Mike
Hurley, Coates regularly negotiates the intersection between avant
jazz, free improvisation and post-Cardew experimentalism. A Stet Lab
veteran, he performed twice before at the Lab—in November 2007 and
December 2008.

Making his Irish debut at this event will be Jonny Marks from New
Zealand via Mongolia and the UK. Marks is an experimental vocalist and
throat singer who has worked with Damo Suzuki, Thomas Lehn and Takashi
Harada, and with bands such as The Verlaines and Thrashing Marlin. He
has appeared at the Wellington International Jazz Festival and the
Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Joining Coates and Marks will be Cork-based improvisers, guitarist Han-
earl Park, and the young, up-and-coming drummer Owen Sutton.

The evening will be opened by a trio comprising bassist Paul Dowling,
Vicky Langan on electronics, and newcomer to the Stet Lab stage,
guitarist James O’Gorman. This eclectic ensemble will showcase three
radically divergent approaches to improvisation.

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

Stet Lab will return in June with more real-time, musical mutations
and hybrids.


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]

Stet Lab takes place this coming Monday (May 11th 2009), upstairs @
The Roundy. (note: yes, we’re back on Monday!) The event will feature
the return of saxophonist Bruce Coates, navigator of avant jazz, free
improvisation and post-Cardew experimentalism, and the Irish debut of
experimental vocalist and throat singer Jonny Marks. Details at:

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

Also performing will be Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Han-earl Park
(guitar) and Owen Sutton (drums), and the event will open with a
performance by Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics),

and James O’Gorman (guitar).

It’ll be a performance of compelling and dramatic musical
interactions. Thanks for your continued support—we hope to see y’all
there!

…And, as a sampler, here’s a clip of Coates and Marks with Mark
Sanders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpA-YIYvwQU

[Stet Lab curator]

Audio recordings of the May 11th Stet Lab are now online at

http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/listen/#anchor_05-11-09

A very warm thanks to our guest artists, Bruce Coates and Jonny Marks,
for unforgettable moments of complexity, chaos and comedy. Thanks also
to everyone else who took to the stage—Andrea Bonino, Paul Dowling,
Vicky Langan, James O’Gorman, Han-earl Park, Owen Sutton and Kevin
Terry.

Finally, as always, thanks to all who came to listen. We couldn’t do
this without you!


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-prop...


The next Stet Lab will be the final event before we break for summer
(we’ll return in October). The event will take place upstairs @ The
Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland, on Monday, June 8th 2009.
Details at

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