Live Archives

Experimental Sound Design for Audiovisual Media 20.May.2008 1st meeting with the producer and editor at house 11. 30.May.2008 2nd meeting with the producer Ian Shearer 2.June.2008 Recording Pre-Production Arranging the instruments with Paul Stapleton Preparing the studio/sonic lab (More...)

An attempt to link to a youtube video of our Podcast, ‘Belfast is Changing‘ created by Christopher Chong and Johnny Stormonth-Darling to promote SARC and the School of Music and Sonic Arts at the Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

This is our project for the Documenting practice workshop. We’re playing a famous tune. Can you name it? we polled our original live audience yesterday. these are their reactions: maria: yes i enjoyed it. (More...)

Hi its me! Welcome! Willkommen! Paul Stapleton

I was born in one part of the world / I want to exp-lore and -irience as many other parts as I can / I study mathematics and music; or physical modeling of instruments and experimental sound synthesis / I like creating music and sound for performance arts and image / I like radio broadcasting / Life is just a bowl of cherries;

Javier Jaimovich is a human being living in planet earth. His main interests are music and sonic research. He is currently undergoing a Master in Sonic Arts postgraduate course in SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

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...)

I should start writing now as there’s only a little while left. The words appear a long time after they are typed, but this only reduces the amount of time left to write. Today we made lots of sounds, some musical and some found/field ones. (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.