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Open Music Archive initiated by Eileen Simpson & Ben White, is a collaborative project to source, digitise, and distribute out of copyright music recordings.
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Open Music Archive presents an Evening of Free Music and Films
On Saturday 18 March 2006 (6-8pm) Open Music Archive Presents ... An Evening of Free Music and Films at My Goodniss vintage clothes shop (40 Thomas Street) in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The event coincides with Screen Tests showing at Urbis, Manchester, for British Art Show 6 (29th Jan-April 2006). |
British Art Show 6, Manchester (28th Jan -2nd April 2006)
We were invited by artists Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska to collaborate on Screen Tests for the British Art Show 6 in Manchester. Screen Tests is a film composed entirely of material found and released from the North West Film Archive. The ten minute film is accompanied by a sound track made from out-of-copyright recordings. These source recordings are available in the Open Music Archive to download: Screen Tests is now showing at Urbis On 18th February (6-8pm) at The Whitworth Art Gallery a DJ remix of Screen Tests will be performed live by Ben White. Booking essential. Contact The Whitworth Art Gallery for further details: 0161 275 7450 |
OMA @ Open Congress, Tate Britain
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. For Open Congress, Open Music Archive presented a DJ set of music made entirely of samples of out-of-copyright music recordings, mainly sourced from 1920s 78rpm records. An accompanying slideshow uncovered the process of tracking this material. Open Congress performance images Tate Online Events Archive (video of the performance) Listen to an excerpt of the live performance: MP3 (5.3MB) | Ogg Vorbis (3.7MB) |
DJ Performance of Screen Tests, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Ben performed a live remixed version of Screen Tests at the launch of British Art Show 6 (September 2005) at BALTIC, Newcastle. Further live performances are scheduled for Manchester, Notingham and Bristol |