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Open Music Archive Projects

Open Music Archive is a collaborative initiative to source, digitise and distribute out of copyright sound recordings. The archive website is currently under construction and will be open for anyone to use, edit and contribute to.

Open Music Archive want to engage in future collaborations and distributive projects. Contact us

Open Congress

Open Congress

Open Music Archive presented at Open Congress (Tate Britain 7th-8th October 2005)

Open Congress was Inspired by Free Software: software that challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution. The innovative congress explored these implications for art, visual culture and cultural production in general. This was the Open Music Archive contribution to the open congress wiki:

We are currently working on a project researching and collecting music that has fallen out of copyright and is now in the public domain. This music will be distributed freely through a website (under construction).

For Open Congress, Ben will play a short DJ set of music made entirely of samples of the collected recordings, mainly sourced from 1920s 78rpm records. An accompanying slideshow will uncover the process of tracking this material.

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

For British Art Show 6 Eileen Simpson and Ben White were invited to develop ‘Screen Tests’ with artists [www.chanceprojects.com Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings]. Using tracks sourced from the Open Music Archive, Ben White created the soundtrack for Screen Tests and performed the soundtrack live as part of the BAS6 launch at BALTIC. Further live performances are scheduled for Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.