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).
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I knew today would be a particularly surreal one from the moment that I woke up. Last night my dreams were ridden with archive strategies; one in particular involved us all sitting in a line and blogging (nothing unusual about that!), hitting the keyboards in
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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
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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,
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In response to a comment Siobhan made on someone’s post, I’d like to ask for responses to the following (I was going to put it all on the comment on that person’s page, but think it warranted anew discussion thread!) That’s a very interesting question
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(Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page) I interpret the above as a sound that captures voices that harness conflicting interpretations of the same thing. They are unaware that I am listening with a
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Today I found out that if you put a group of seemingly intelligent people in front of a camera, and ask them what attracted them to the live archiving workshops, they are reduced to mumbling something about crisps, and how all cameras are weapons. Besides this, I enjoyed composing visual shots of an auditory performance, and felt that through being an active documenter, I was also a participatory performer. Here are some images that I took today of others improvising with and responding to the modular sound-sculpture.
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