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One of my interests is applying new technology to traditional art. As a performer, I’d like to explore live processing of tap-dancing, as well as ‘traditional’ classical singing.

Christopher Chong student: MA in Sonic Arts @ Queen’s University Belfast Composer Programmer Tap Dancer

check out www.improvmover.wordpress.com I am currently exploring the documentary impulse of my practice. Tamara

Here’s a summary of my thoughts whilst on the train to Liverpool yesterday: All in all it’s a relief to take off the big heavy coat of other stuff that needs doing all the time and spend a week immersed in creativity and with creative (More...)

I should start writing now as there’s only a little while left. The words appear a long time after they are typed, but this only reduces the amount of time left to write. Today we made lots of sounds, some musical and some found/field ones. (More...)

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.

C0-director theybreakinpieces. Researching PhD in electronic music within cross disciplinary performance at Newcastle University. Member HearImprov Ensemble. Virb. Sound, movement and media practitioner. 28. (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page)

theybreakinpieces are three artists (mona mccarthy, paul stapleton and nick williams) who are involved in multiple forms of cross-disciplinary collaboration. we are currently investigating a range of environmental interactions conducted through the media of conversation, improvised performance, and audio-visual recording technologies. these interventions take place in a wide range of urban and rural environments providing opportunities to explore the collision of localized academic, social and geographical settings. we have received multiple grants from the arts council of england and other funding bodies for activities that include the creation of site-specific durational performances and performative lectures, as well as the delivery of workshops and symposiums on collaborative live arts practices. (More...)