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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 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.

In response to a comment Siobhan made on someone’s post, I’d like to ask for responses to the following (I was going to put it all on the comment on that person’s page, but think it warranted anew discussion thread!) That’s a very interesting question (More...)

The session began with an introduction to the introduction to documentation by Paul S. The session ended with the end of the introduction to documentation. Throughout the day, photographs were taken, films were made, pictures were drawn, thoughts were processed and recorded - (More...)

I am an interdisciplinary artist based in Preston, UK. I graduated from UCLAN in 2006 with a 1st class degree in Music Practice and am currently undertaking an MA by Research there. My current research aims to develop a composition method involving the dislocation and relocation of affordances in interdisciplinary performance environments. I am also currently developing interactive documentation for my work as Muted Cell. I frequently perform noise music, and interdisciplinary performance, as well as absurdist, and jazz improvisation.

The following is a response by Paul Stapleton to a performance lecture by Simon Bowes titled Sunday With Me. (More...)

PaR is an abbreviation of ‘Practice-as-Research’ (More...)

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...)

This post lists key discussion topics for the Live Archives Workshops taking place at the University of Central Lancashire from the 2-5 April 2007. Please feel free to contribute to these discussions by posting new topics, and/or by adding information or comments to existing topics. (More...)

This post contains a list of references which may be relevant to the Live Archives Workshops Discussions, the research project Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events, and/or www.livearchives.org in general. Please feel free to add references to the following list (including web links where available): (More...)