Live Archives

This is both an advert and a pre-event discussion page for the following event: Thursday 15 November, 13.10-14.00 Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast (More...)

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...)

Live Archives Workshops Day 3 – 04.04.07 (More...)

Writing in the break… the binaural experience was different to those binaural experiences I’ve had previously encountered in Jon’s work - on every other occasion (that I’ve been a part of), Jon has had the room set up somewhat ‘neutrally’ (I use that word very (More...)

I’m a performer, composer and audio artist working mainly with found sound objects and environmental recordings to make works structured according to timbre and space rather than meter and harmony. For a lot of my recent compositions and performances I’ve been using in-ear, binaural microphones and headphones in order to make use of the potential for presenting the recordist’s subjective point-of-audition. I lecture in music and audio art at the University of Central Lancashire and I’ve just completed a PhD in Musical Composition.

Convivencia: A one-day symposium on existing and potential relationships between documentation and live art practices Saturday the 3rd of February 2007 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Convivencia – a tense but productive co-existence (More...)

Convivencia: A one-day symposium on existing and potential relationships between documentation and live art practices Saturday the 3rd of February 2007 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Presenters: Robin Feeny, Concordia University, Canada Dr. Simon Ellis, University of Northampton Michael Mayhew, Honorary Associate Artist, National Review of Live Art Prof. Susan Melrose, Middlesex University Dr. Fiona Wright, Independent Artist/Researcher, Newcastle Jon Aveyard, University of Central Lancashire (More...)

An audio installation by Jon Aveyard presented at the Convivencia Symposium.  This acousmatic piece was edited together from 46 extracts, each between 30 and 90 seconds long, of the interdisciplinary performance group theybreakinpieces improvising in the recording studio.  The three members of the group wore in-ear binaural microphones so that the recordings captured the improvisations from the performers’ subjective points-of-audition.  The piece has been diffused over multi-speaker sound systems but is best heard over headphones to appreciate the binaural recordings.