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...)

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...)

As a listener to the performers via the binaural microphones, I felt a strong sense of intimacy with the performers. I suppose this arises from the fact that although the same audio was being fed through to a number of people at the same (More...)

Today has been constructive, mischievous, repetitive, exhilarating… Using binaural microphones we have played around with each other’s ears and spheres. I have also played on other external forms of instrument (Ale’s tabla is very sexy, sorry everybody for repetitively hitting it over lunch time, (More...)

Live Archives Workshops Day 3 – 04.04.07 (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.