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Live Archives Workshops 2-5 April 2007 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Artefacts, memories, and discussions that have been created as part of the Live Archives Workshops are available online at this location (please check back for updates). (More...)

Today at the crime scene house Daisy heard a “godawful racket” while I participated in a seance for three dead men. It was the same event. In Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, conflicting accounts of a rape and murder are given by four people, one of whom (More...)

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After we returned from the pub to the halls, we made this from day 3’s audio loops: (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page) For today’s performance we tried to recreate the “open mic (More...)

Today I made these loops. The first is of a gasp, and Paul talking, and some other sounds. The second has someone making sounds with their mouth. The third has someone singing a short scale. I’ve never done anything like this before. Made me feel like a bedroom musician. There’s a quality of amateurism there that I like. This is a word I like, which used to be wholly positive. Amateur, lover of… I’m discovering the pleasure of collecting, secreting and manipulating sounds, classifying and hoarding them.

This morning I went to the pub. This is what I heard. (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page) Three friends, nursing students at the university, drinking by the door. Asked me what (More...)

Close your eyes. What do you hear? Traffic, high electric hum (10,000 hertz, I learned), lower hum, a lower still. Do 3 hums make a chord? Live Archives Workshop abbreviates LAW. Archive is Greek, the house of the law. And here we are in (More...)