Live Archives

What happened to the Jabberwocky? The concept: invite audience members into the Sonic Lab. Each individual/group has a camera. The poem “The Jabberwocky” is played on 8 speakers throughout the lab a stanza at a time, and the audience follows their (More...)

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;

I’m a theatre director/performance maker who’s currently Artistic Director of CETL(NI): The Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts, an interdisciplinary arts programme at Queen’s University Belfast - one of Queen’s 3 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Too long a title I know. I’m making up a diverse and eclectic load of interdisciplinary projects and performances here and also running a new interdisciplinary arts MA experience which has modules called “Adventures in Interdisciplinarity” and “Further Adventures”. I like to play. This Is Not My Best Side…….

Hey. I’m a MA student studying Drama and Performance with Interdisciplinary Arts at Queens University Belfast. I’m graduating in October (with any luck), and I have no life plan. I expect to be working at a call centre for many years to come. :) I own far too many DVDs and books.

Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England Date:18 Feb 2008 Paul Stapleton will be joining the faculty and research students at UEA in ensemble improvisations employing any number of mediatized practices and self-made performance apparatus. They will be joined by Dan Reynolds, (More...)

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...)

Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events is the title of a presentation delivered by Paul Stapleton at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts. The abstract is available here. A write up by Richard Lewis of Digital Representations of Performing Arts is available here. A different presentation under the same title will be delivered at DRHA 2007. Both presentations aim to contextualize and reflect on the recently finished research project Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events.

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...)