Stet Lab 04-14-09

[Stet Lab curator]

Next Stet Lab will be on Tuesday, April 14th 2009, upstairs @ The
Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland [see map below…].


Stet Lab featuring Katie O’Looney plus OPKA

Tuesday, March 10th 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/


Stet Lab returns this April at its regular venue The Roundy, Castle
Street, and features a compelling improviser (with a taste for the
dramatic) who emerged from the downtown New York scene: percussionist
Katie O’Looney.

A self-described “one woman multi-instrumentalist searching the inner
avenues and remote natural boundaries of exploration with a sense of
enjoyment,” Katie O’Looney is set to keep the audience engaged and
awestruck. Her playing originates from a hard-rock, psychedelic
background which was then the launch pad for her venture into an ever
explorative improvisation scene. Her numerous collaborators include
many of the best known names in latter-day improvised music—Zeena
Parkins, Elliott Sharp and Fred Frith. She has performed and toured
extensively as part of ensembles such as Steppin’ Razor, Carbon,
Details At Eleven, Bite Like A Kitty, Better than Death, Raeo and Zar.
In addition to her career as a drummer, she is also a visual artist,
and has provided music for Rose Lowder’s experimental films.

Warming up April’s activities, Stet Lab welcomes back the the
performers who introduced themselves as John, Paul, George and Ringo
of Cork improvisation: OPKA. Their public debut in January was a
triumph of dynamic real-time music, and Stet Lab is excited to be
showcasing them again. The band—Owen Sutton (drums), Paul Dowling
(bass), Kevin Terry and Andrea Bonino (guitars)—hail from vastly
differing backgrounds and traditions, and have recently been expanding
on open form improvisation with on-the-fly, top-down methods of (re)
organization.

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

Stet Lab will be back on Tuesday, May 11th with Birmingham-based
saxophonist Bruce Coates.


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 Tuesday (April 14th), upstairs @ The
Roundy. The event will feature the fantastic Katie O’Looney (who you
may recall from her brief-but-dynamic cameo in February) on drums and
percussion. Details at:

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

The evening will also mark the second appearances at Stet Lab by OPKA—
Owen Sutton (drums), Paul Dowling (bass), and Kevin Terry and Andrea
Bonino (guitars).

An event not to be missed, it’ll be a great way to ease out of the
holiday. We hope to see y’all there!

[Stet Lab curator]

Audio recordings of the April 14th Stet Lab are now online at

http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/listen/#anchor_04-14-09

Thanks to Katie O’Looney for her enthusiastic performance and wealth
of road stories. Thanks also to everyone else who performed—OPKA (Owen
Sutton, Paul Dowling, Kevin Terry and Andrea Bonino) and Han-earl Park—
and major kudos to Veronica Tadman for managing the behind-the-scenes
operations of the Lab.

Finally, as always, special thanks to all who came to listen—newcomers
and regulars alike.

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 saxophonist Bruce Coates and vocalist
Jonny Marks) will take place upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street,
Cork, Ireland, on Monday (yes, we’re back on Monday), May 11th 2009.
Details at

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