Everything I Have Is Yours

Background
As with previous Open Music Archive projects, Everything I Have Is Yours brings people directly into the creative nucleus of the work. Recollecting a formative moment in their lives, the film project encourages a diverse range of musicians based in Manchester and now in their 70s and 80s, to reconnect with the music of their youth and play together. Collective acts of live performance interact with digital technology to recall archive sounds from the musicians’ teenage pasts.

Shot in a space that operates somewhere between a recording studio, live venue and practice room, the camera continuously tracks through the groups of musicians brought together for the project. This looping camera move mirrors looped samples worked around by the assembled players. The samples are from 1950s and 1960s shellac and vinyl chart hit records – each record, on playback, conjuring particular sonic qualities from the era. Copyright-expired elements of the original records are separated out, through an algorithmic process, to enable collective future sharing.

Referencing the history of sample culture, which saw musicians and producers routinely sample from commercial hit favourites from previous generations, the film is a vivid sonic conversation, an intergenerational call and response that traverses the private, personal and public.

Texts
The texts in this collection each respond to Everything I Have Is Yours (2019) by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive), an artists’ film that takes as a starting point records produced during the first decade of the UK pop charts – 1952 to 1962 – and experimentally repurposes them in an on-going exploration of the limits of sampling and the possibilities of live collaboration.

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Credits
A film by Eileen Simpson & Ben White (Open Music Archive)

Chas Baker – vocals Norman Beaker – guitar Max Beesley – drums Roger Browne – piano Stewart Butler – baritone sax Tony Chess – drums and djembe Maureen Donahue – vocals Mike Farmer – tenor sax Peter Fox – guitar and vocals Bo Lee – bass guitar Jill MacDonald – vocals Jean Martin – vocals Paul Medina – double bass and trombone Bruce Mitchell – drums Richard Piggott – guitar Roy Rigby – guitar

Commissioners / Executive Producers Film and Video Umbrella University of Salford Art Collection Castle eld Gallery

Producer Laura Shacham

Assistant Producer Polly Wright

Casting Producer Claire Bleasdale

Additional Casting Open Music Archive Laura Shacham Polly Wright

Director of Photography Jamie Kennerley

1st Assistant Camera / Focus Puller Sean Beasley

2nd Assistant Camera Josh Haigherty

Additional Cinematography Jonas Mortensen

Grip Rick Griffiths Jon Head

Gaffer Mark Rickitts Dan Tunstall

Lighting Technician Simeon Ogden · The Stoller Hall

Sound Engineer Lee Aston Brendan Williams

Stylist Ianthe Wright

On-set stylist Lily Austin Lou Hall

Hair & Make-Up Katy Brody

Production Assistants Adam Douglas Hannah Jupe Daniel Newport Joseph Preston

Sound Mix Lee Aston Brendan Williams Low Four Studios

Additional VFX Matt Wilmshurst

Colourist Max Ferguson-Hook · Time Based Arts

The artists would like to thank the following individuals and organisations who supported the production of the film:

Steven Bode, Susanna Chisholm and all at FVU Lindsay Taylor, and all at University of Salford Helen Wewiora, and all at Castlefield Gallery

University of Salford, TV Studios Queen Mary University of London Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University

John Ashbrook, Big Fish Rentals, Astrid Bin, Richard Bradbury, Linda Brogan, Melissa Burnand · Jam Street Cafe Simon Chaplin, Barry Daykin, Mel Dean, Drop City Lighting, Fac365, Gillian Fox, Timothy France, Anthony Gannon · All+, Calypso George, Bob Gill, Jonathan Green · Unity Radio, Josh King, John Mepham, Tamsin Middleton, Alex Morley, Niamos Arts Centre, NoDrama, Colin O’Toole, Dan Parrott and Brendan Williams · Low Four Studio, Nancy Porter, Derek Quinn, Pauline Renshaw, Trevor Roots, Teresa Simpson, Denise Southworth · Legacy FM, Liz Starkie, The Stoller Hall, Ashley Tidball, Helen White, Matthew White