Live Archives

Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events is the title of a presentation delivered by Paul Stapleton at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts. The abstract is available here. A write up by Richard Lewis of Digital Representations of Performing Arts is available here. A different presentation under the same title will be delivered at DRHA 2007. Both presentations aim to contextualize and reflect on the recently finished research project Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events.

the strongest event of the day was the fact that I was interrogated and tortured by Daisy and Mat. As a witness, I played the role of mute, and so had to hand write my answers to their questions, but they continued to (More...)

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we performed with the modular sound sculpture. my focus was on the environment and changing my movements and gestures to create sounds that were responsive to the other sounds that were in the space. I was actively listening to everyone and trying to (More...)

Day1                                                                                                      Day3 I focussed in and out. As I walked to the herb garden, my noisy coat was pretty much the major landscape sound. Is this narcissistic or is everyone else so aware of their footfalls? (Javascript required (More...)

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I’ve come to the Live Archives workshop from Bristol, where I work as a researcher in the university’s drama department on a project to digitise the National Review of Live Art video archive. Before that I did a PhD in American literature and culture at King’s College London. I also volunteer at the Cube Microplex, and play in its in-house improvising group, Orchestra Cube.

AHDS Performing Arts supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources related to music, dance, theatre, radio, film, television, and performance. AHDS-PA is currently undertaking research into what constitutes a digital record of a performance, how performances are/can be represented and archived, and how both data creators and users see these records being used in the future. The Arts and Humanities Data Service preserves digital data in the long term, promotes good practice in the use of digital data, provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies.

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...)