Live Archives

a documentary by nathan gregg of the live archives workshops - day 4

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...)

Apologies for leaving early - had a meeting… but before I lose internet access for two weeks or so, I’ll make a ‘day 4′ contribution. This won’t have any sound or images in it due to the lack of speed of internet at my (More...)

The contained many elements. Including And also Deciding what was pertinent to someone else’s performance, what the “truth” of it was, attempting to decipher their intent and then recording that in a form that captured not only the facts of the matter, (More...)

Hello, it’s Nathan here. I am a musician, video and installation artist. I am officially a Master of Sonic Art as decreed by Middlesex University. Here is some of my video things. Here is some of my music things I first became part of the LiveArchives project when I was invited by Paul Stapleton and Jon Aveyard to make a “video response” to Day 4 of the LiveArchives workshops. (see it here). It was premiered at the Mitchell and Kenyon cinema, UCLAN.

After we returned from the pub to the halls, we made this from day 3’s audio loops: (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page) For today’s performance we tried to recreate the “open mic (More...)

Live Archives Workshops Day 4 – 05.04.07 (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...)

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...)