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Two Years of Cork’s Premier Improvised Music Club with Filario Farinoppo (Bolognia, Italy) plus Han-earl Park and Kevin Terry Tuesday, 10th November 2009, the two year anniversary of the first Stet Lab, Cork's premiere improvised music club, will be celebrated at the venue that saw its debut, The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland. Stet Lab will—in its two year old mould—feature both regular performers and newcomers. To mark the experimental extravaganza's second birthday the innovative trio from Bolognia, Italy, Filario Farinoppo, will be improvising up a storm. Composed of radical multi-instrumentalists Dario Fariello, Filippo Giuffrè and Antonio d'Intino, the visiting trio are sure make the occasion with their distinctive Italian avant-gardisms. Also performing will be Cork-based improvisors and Stet-Lab regulars Han-earl Park and Kevin Terry (guitars) as The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) Of. Park is a constructor and performer of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open, always traditional improvisations. He has worked with animators, film makers, poets, theater and mime performers, dancers and installation artists, and has performed in Denmark, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and the USA. Terry is a guitarist and founding member the improv quartet OPKA. He performs in both fully and partially improvised contexts. The event will begin at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45 pm) and entry is €10 (€5). Stet Lab will continue on 7th December with Belfast based improvisor-composer-saxophonist Justin Yang. further information: www.busterandfriends.com/stet/ about Stet Lab Since November 2007, Stet Lab has successfully brought together improvising musicians with varied experiences and from far afield. Cork, Ireland’s monthly improvised music event, Stet Lab is a space in which improvisers (novice, veteran; student, teacher; part- or full-time; amateur, professional; local or visitor) can meet, play and learn from one another. about Stet Lab: Year Two Looking back at the 2008/9 season, Stet Lab founder and curator, Han-earl Park says, “Stet Lab’s second year has been a triumph. We’ve been privileged to have hosted such a variety of improvising musicians: veteran of the international improvisation scene, Paul Dunmall, heavy-hitters such as Mark Sanders, the extraordinary Franziska Schroeder, the dramatic Katie O’Looney, the virtuoso Jamie Smith, and the… indescribable Jonny Marks. It’s also been a time to renew musical relationships with the mutant fiddle-playing of Murray Campbell, and the Cornelius-Cardew-meets-Joe-Harriott sound world of Bruce Coates. “And we’ve witnessed the real burgeoning of young, local improvisers. The year has been a success beyond what we could have hoped for when we entered year two back in November, and I look forward to musical interactions above-and-beyond.” what to expect: Stet Lab Year Three The 2009/2010 season promises to expand and diversify the improvisitive geo-politics of Stet Lab. November will see the Lab welcome Filario Farinoppo—a trio of improvisers from Bolognia, Italy—and the December event features the Californian composer-performer Justin Yang. Through 2010, the Lab will host visits by improvisers including Paul Stapleton (N. Ireland), Alexander Hawkins (England), Korhan Erel (Turkey) and Evan Dorrian (Australia).