Live Archives

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...)

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Classic first day syndrome - anticipation meets expectation meets covering all the main points meets everybody else and tries to learn their names. My intentions were rarely if ever realised, and I remembered the aquaintance process that is required with these types of unique instruments. (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...)

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...)

Since arriving about 12 o’clock, the day has been pretty hectic but an interesting mix of activities and conversation with the various new people I’ve met. The diversity of the group has been quite surprising, I perhaps didn’t expect such a broad mix of skills (More...)

Today I found out that if you put a group of seemingly intelligent people in front of a camera, and ask them what attracted them to the live archiving workshops, they are reduced to mumbling something about crisps, and how all cameras are weapons. Besides this, I enjoyed composing visual shots of an auditory performance, and felt that through being an active documenter, I was also a participatory performer. Here are some images that I took today of others improvising with and responding to the modular sound-sculpture.

Live Archives Workshops Day 1 – 02.04.07 (More...)

hands are points of contact making sounds take these sounding gestures into the space and return through the body, which changes, known in resonant tones and times arrive in a different place, another gesture instruments between us, held together by our weight vibrations coming inside, (More...)