Declose
For Disclosures at Gasworks in April 2007 Eileen Simpson & Ben White collaborate with CDR to create Declose, a project which centres around the creation and animation of copyleft licensed 12 inch vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the Open Music Archive and a live event.
The artists promote collaboration and seek to explore its significance and value for creative production. For Declose they invite members of the Burnt Progress community to create new remix tracks, short vocal snippets, percussive noises, samples, breaks and beats - made entirely from the out-of-copyright music in the Open Music Archive - to make up the battle vinyl.
Elements for the vinyl will be created between Dec 07 and Feb 2008. If you are a music producer or a scratch DJ and would like to get involved it would be great to hear from you email: info(at)openmusicarchive.org
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Collaboration is central to the activity of the DJ who constantly combines, re-works and extends existing creative output. In the hands of a turntablist, the record player is revealed as a hardware instrument – one that needs vinyl software to operate. The DJ’s instrument can only be activated using a set of vinyl tools, in the same way that computer hardware requires an operating system and a suite of software to function. Unlike the conventional battle record, which samples unlicensed commercial recordings[1], the newly created scratch tools for Declose are assembled entirely from out-of-copyright material – and so exist outside commercial and bootleg economies. The project adopts the form and structure of the battle record to build open vinyl code – which, like free/libre and open source software, is distributed freely.
The project encourages open creative exchange and demands that subsequent creations are licensed under identical terms.
Downloads
File 1 6.2MB (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
File 2 6.3MB (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
File 3 6.4MB (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
File 4 6.4MB (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Click here for all tracks in the archive
Video
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Video of Parkertron (Fingathing) using Serato Scratch Live to test battle records made from out-of-copyright samples from the Open Music Archive. Shot and edited by Kid Jenson
Download quicktime Duration: 13 mins / 43.1 MB (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Read the entry for this video on Archive.org
Disclosures is organised by Anna Colin and Mia Jankowicz
