Live Archives

the tPod an interactive Tea Pot **************** On 23rd of May it is teatime at SARC!!! ***************** “Tea is simple to make. it just needs you to be present at key points in it’s ritual of preparation.” (c) Coming soon @ SARC .::. The tPod — an interactive TeaPot .::. info: wikipedia - UK - games - Grey’s - Twinings - BBC   To prepare tea it is recommended to use a Teapot.

Hi its me! Welcome! Willkommen! Paul Stapleton

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...)

Today at the crime scene house Daisy heard a “godawful racket” while I participated in a seance for three dead men. It was the same event. In Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, conflicting accounts of a rape and murder are given by four people, one of whom (More...)

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...)

The first five sounds are live-looped and layered binaural recordings of a small-group improvisation on the sound sculpture in St. Peters church. The last sound is an unedited binaural recording of a walk through UCLAN’s music department. Although the timbre of the recorded sounds differ (More...)

I’m currently a PhD student at Wolverhampton University. My research interests include electronic and computer music, live performance, sonic arts and digital culture. I work across the disciplines of art, performance, music and computer science, creating novel interfaces for audiovisual performance. The main reason for my attendance at the Live Archives Workshops is to seek out and explore new ways of documenting live and interactive art forms.

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...)

This post has been set up to discuss the terms Live and Liveness.