Paul Stapleton
Dr Paul Stapleton is a sound artist, improviser and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast. Prior to joining SARC in 2007, Paul worked as a research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire where he taught, researched and curated events on sonic art, mediatised performance, live art and practice as research. Paul is also a founding member and co-director of the interdisciplinary performance group theybreakinpieces.
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periodic and incomprehensive news
April 10 - This is going to be a busy month… co-directing Liminal Lands with Michael Mayhew (5th-17th), presenting at Music & Machines at Newcastle University (22nd-24th), and curating and composing for Fragments of Finnegans Wake (29th) as part of the Belfast Film Festival.
March 10 - Improv gig at Stet Lab in Cork with Nick Williams.
March 10 - Extract from Open Jack - Electronic Improv gig at Ad Hoc in Belfast.
June 09 - Presenting a paper with Michael Gurevich at NIME 2009 in Pittsburgh. The paper is titled Designing for Style in New Musical Interactions.
May 09 - Two gigs at SARC: 6th May QUBe Concert & 8th May Music for the MiSS.
March 09 - I have a chapter on practice as research (PaR) in Collision: Interarts Practice and Research.
February 09 - I will be performing on Friday the 27th of February at the Black Box in Belfast as part of Carousel.
February 09 - I will be performing on Saturday the 21 of February as part of 24 Fragments.
July 08 - An article I wrote several years ago has now been published by MIT Press in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
April 08 - I made a new film with Michael Gurevich & Gascia Ouzounian.
April 08 - Back from Mexico. Here is a review of our concert in Morelia (Spanish Language).
March 08 - New article available online in the Body, Space & Technology Journal: Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events
March 08 - Check out the archive from my recent UEA concert. Also, I will be performing with a few comrades from SARC at the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Art in Morelia on the 3rd of April.
Jan 08 - Upcoming gig and seminar at University of East Anglia.
Aug 07 - I recently completed a research project titled Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events, which included the following: the Covivencia Symposium, the Live Archives Workshops, the LiveArchives.org website, a presentation at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts and a residency with theybreakinpieces as part of the Collision Symposium 2006. A paper on this project will be delivered at the DRHA 2007 conference in September 2007.
Projects in April 2007:
- Live Archives Workshops, Preston
- Games, Life and Utopia: a performative lecture - theybreakinpieces with Ben Evans, Improvisation Continuums: theorising practice across disciplines, Cardiff (with a second performance in Preston)
- CSR residency, Belfast
- theybreakinpieces with Jon Aveyard at Map Live 2007, Carlisle
- theybreakinpieces with Jon Aveyard at Spitball @ The Side, Newcastle
other things
two instruments created in a collaboration between myself and designer-makers neil fawcett and kiran singh
the MiSS (modular sound sculpture). another collaboration with neil fawcett. you can download a sound sample library made from these instruments here.
a documentary of a sometimes…co project that i helped out with: wouldn’t it be nice
contact: pauljstapleton [at] gmail [dot] com
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