Caroline Pugh
Caroline’s main website is www.virb.com/song
Caroline Pugh is a musician based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She sings traditional songs and makes experimental noises with her vocal chords, plays medieval harps, gives workshops for community projects, teaches and much much more…
Here’s what has happened to me since participating in the Live Archives Workshops:
I moved from Glasgow to Belfast in 2007 and I love it, not least because of my band The Super, The Centre for Suburban Research, and the lovely Saturday market.
I’m doing an artist’s residency in Flat 4 in May 2009 with my international collective (h)our8+9. My most exciting performance was at the Sonic Lab in one of SARC’s lunchtime concerts alongside a few Live Archives Workshops participants and other miscreants.
I have performed and facilitated workshops for SPAE (St Louis, MO, USA), given workshops for the Lyric Theatre and run workshops for Connecting through Scape in Connemara (a community project).
Here’s some of what I wrote in my Live Archives Workshop application:
I am an honours year Scottish music student at the Royal Scottish Academy for Music and Drama, and my dissertation examines the physical performance style of four singers. So far my research has highlighted that:
Body language and the physical aspect of live performance are important to the Scots song tradition;
Each traditional Scots song performer is also a listener/viewer that takes part in Scots song ’sessions’, where an exchange of performances takes place. The interaction between listener/viewer/performers is essential to the development of this tradition, and;
This interaction is challenging to archive meaningfully.I regularly collaborate with practitioners from other disciplines (such as visual art and contemporary theatre). In addition to performing traditional music, I have a background in experimental music (2 years of Contemporary Music at UCLAN).
April 5th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
och aye the noooooo