Dr Paul Stapleton
RCUK Academic Fellow
Email: p.stapleton@qub.ac.uk
Tel: +44 28 9097 5423
Office: SARC
Address: School of Music and Sonic Arts, SARC, Queen's University Belfast,
BT7 1NN
Personal Webpage: www.dialogicmusic.com
Key Roles:
Teaching (Undergraduate)
Performance Workshop 1
Achievements and Distinctions
Paul is an artist-researcher originally from Southern California. Prior to joining the School of Music and Sonic Arts in 2007, Paul worked as a postdoctoral 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 an active improviser, instrument designer, ensemble director and installation artist who has shown work in a variety of locations across Ireland, Great Britain and North America.
Selected Invited Lectures:
2008: Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation, University of Wolverhampton
2008: School of Music, University of East Anglia
2007: AHDS Digital Representations of Performing Arts, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
2006: Invited Panel Member (Practice as Research) at Collision Symposium, University of Victoria
Other Selected Professional Activities and Experience:
2008-Present: Co-director of QUBe (experimental music ensemble)
2007-Present: Member of BLISS (Belfast Legion of Improvised Sights & Sounds)
2004-Present: Co-founder and co-director of theybreakinpieces
2007: Organiser of Convivencia: A one-day symposium on existing and potential relationships between documentation and live art practices
2005: Principal Chair of Integrating Practice as Research conference (organised in collaboration with PALATINE)
Research Interests
Paul's research practice operates between the areas of dialogic approaches to performance, improvisation, documentation, installation art, site-specific art, and musical instrument/sound sculpture design.
Current Work
Design of MiSS 2 (portable modular electronic and acoustic sound sculpture)
Performance research into technologically mediated forms of ensemble-based improvisation
Writing on communication and identity in free improvisation
Interactive sound installations
Summary Publications / Research Outputs
Selected Refereed Conference Papers, Journal Articles & Chapters in Books- 2009: Designing for Style in New Musical Interactions, in Proceedings of the Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME09). Co-Authored with Michael Gurevich & Peter Bennett.
- 2008: Performing the Document: Navigating the Terrain of Practice as Research, in David Cecchetto, et. al. (eds.), Collision: Interarts Practice and Research, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- 2008: Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events, in Body Space and Technology Journal, Vol. 7 (2), Brunel University.
- 2008: Dialogic Instruments: Virtuosity (Re)Located in Improvised Performance, in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 15 (11), MIT Press.
- 2006: Dialogic Perspectives on Recent Soundings, Paper given at Sonic Arts Network Expo, University of Manchester. Co-Authored with Simon Bowes.
- 2006: Documentation in Performance-Led Research, in Media International Australia, No. 118, University of Queensland.
- 2006: Dialogic Relationships in Extra-Disciplinary Performance, in Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe (ed.), Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Selected Performative Research
- 2009: Music for the MiSS (curated concert and soloist performance in Noise Concerto by Eric Lyon), Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Belfast.
- 2009: MiSS Four: An improvisatory challenge from the Sonic Arts Research Centre (with Gascia Ouzounian, Pedro Rebelo & Franziska Schroeder), 24 Fragments Festival (Fragmented Orchestra).
- 2008: Sonic Networks (theybreakinpieces with Jon Aveyard), Mediatised Sites Performance Festival, Dance City, Newcastle.
- 2008: BLISS ensemble concert, Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, Mexico.
- 2008: Paul Stapleton and the UEA Electric Orchestra, Sonic Arts 49 Concert Series, University of East Anglia.
- 2007: Open Jack with Dialogic Instruments, FIX07 International Performance Art Festival, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
- 2007: Binaural Improvisation (with Jon Aveyard), Sonic Arts Network Expo, Plymouth.
- 2007: Environmental Interaction (theybreakinpieces with Jon Aveyard), MAP Live 2007, Carlisle.
- 2007: Artists Residency at the Centre for Suburban Research, Belfast.
- 2007: theybreakinpieces: a performative lecture (with Ben Evans), Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines, University of Glamorgan.
- 2007: Dialogic Instruments Series 2: Modular Sound Sculpture (MiSS), Artefact accessible at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.
- 2006: theybreakinpieces: collision interventions and performed archive, Collision Symposium: Interarts Research and Practices, University of Victoria, Canada.
- 2005: theybreakinpieces: victoria baths, site-specific durational performance, Victoria Baths, Manchester. Archive screening on the Cornerhouse’s The Bigger Picture (29JUL-11AUG 2006), BBC Big Screen, Manchester.
- 2004: theybreakinpieces performance, Emergency Live Arts Platform, Greenroom, Manchester.
- 2003: forusnow, site-specific installation, Room107 Oyston Gallery of Contemporary Art, Preston.
- 2002: composition c, multimedia performance, The Guild Hall, Preston.
- 2001: composition a, dance & music for screen, Kino International Film Festival, Manchester.
Selected Research Grants and Awards
- 2006: Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts, Principal Investigator for Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
- 2006: Grants for the Arts, Funding for theybreakinpieces: cuerden valley park, Arts Council of England
- 2006: Grants for the Arts, Funding for theybreakinpieces: r&d residency at the buddle arts centre, north wing, Arts Council of England
- 2005: Grants for the Arts, Funding for theybreakinpieces: a performance lecuture, Arts Council of England
- 2005: Grants for the Arts, Funding for theybreakinpieces: victoria baths, Arts Council of England
- 2001-2004: Overseas Research Studentship Awards Scheme, PhD Research Grant, Universities UK
Current PhD Students
Cavan Fyans
Adnan Marquez-Borbon
