Stet Lab 11-15-10

[Stet Lab curator]

Featuring Ian Smith, Stet Lab’s third birthday event takes place on
Monday, November 15, 2010, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork,
Ireland [see map below…].


Stet Lab celebrates its third birthday with trumpeter Ian Smith

Monday, 15 November 2010

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

Upstairs @ The Roundy [see map below…]
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland

€10 (€5)


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


Stet Lab will be welcoming London-based, Irish virtuoso trumpeter Ian
Smith in celebration of the third anniversary of Cork’s monthly
improvised music club. The event takes place on Monday, 15 November
2010, upstairs at The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland, at 9:00 pm
(doors open at 8:45 pm).

Mainstay of the London improvised music scene, Ian Smith is best known
as cofounder of the London Improvisers’ Orchestra, and The Gathering.
He has performed with improvisers such as Evan Parker, John Stevens,
Maggie Nicols, Steve Beresford, Eddie Prévost, Reeves Gabrels and
Harris Eisenstadt. His second CD as a leader, Daybreak, featured Derek
Bailey, Veryan Weston, Gail Brand and Oren Marshall, and his most
recent release is with the spontaneous mashup ensemble Mathilde 253
with Charles Hayward and Han-earl Park plus Lol Coxhill.

Smith’s playing has been described as a “revelation…. There is a clear
jazz edge to his tone, which sounds almost radical these days when
many trumpet players in the improv world seem inclined to turn their
back on that vocabulary. But he can also dip down to breathy flutters
and muted coloristic playing” (Michael Rosenstein, Signal to Noise).
His style has been compared to Wadada Leo Smith and Joe McPhee:
“gestures seem to derive from earlier forms of jazz, and there are
moments of harmonic directness that you could put chord symbols under.
But it has all been thoughtfully moulded into a highly convincing and
distinctive language” (Philip Clark, JazzReview).

Joining Smith on stage for the Stet Lab event will be Cork-based
guitarist, and fellow member of Mathilde 253, Han-earl Park.

Opening the event will be a trio of Stet Lab regulars, Andrea Bonino
(guitar and electronics), Helena Reilly (voice) and Athoulis Tsiopani
(keyboard).

For three years Stet Lab has both introduced new blood into Cork’s
musical life as well as fostering local talent. Cork’s monthly
improvised music event, Stet Lab is a space in which improvisers can
meet, play and learn from one another. Since its launch in November
2007, it has successfully brought together improvising musicians with
varied experiences and from far afield; hosted twenty-two events with
twenty-seven guest artists, including eighteen international visitors.

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, 6 December 2010,
featuring the exciting Derby-based vibraphonist Corey Mwamba.


further information:

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

Map to venue: http://bit.ly/bSUK5x

[Stet Lab curator]

Tonight (Monday November 15, 2010), upstairs @ The Roundy: Get ready
for an exciting evening of real-time mutations and hybrids as Stet Lab
launches into its Year Four with very special guest, trumpeter Ian
Smith!. Details at:

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

Ian will be joined by guitarist Han-earl Park, and the event will open
with The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) Of… Andrea

Bonino (guitar and electronics), Helena Reilly (voice) and Athoulis
Tsiopani (keyboard).

Thank all who participated (performers, audience and behind-the-scenes
helpers) over the last three years. Hope to see you over the next
coming months!

…But in the meantime, here’s a clip of Smith with Phil Minton, Charles
Hayward and Dominic Lash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvHHi1G5GqA