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'''[http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive]''' initiated by artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White, is a collaborative project to source, digitise, and distribute out of copyright music recordings.

'''Open Music Archive Projects''' is a forum for related projects.

==The General and the Specific==

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'''7th March 2009'''

'''3-6pm''' 
We are contributing to: The General And The Specific - a discussion that looks back at a year of international fellowships undertaken by UK-based artists.

'''[http://www.gasworks.org.uk/ Gasworks]''' 
'''155 Vauxhall Street''' 
'''London SE11 5RH'''

[http://www.gasworks.org.uk/events/detail.php?id=449 more info]

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==Felix's Machines==

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'''Friday 19 December 2008''' 
'''8-10pm''' 

'''[http://www.gasworks.org.uk/ Gasworks]''' 
'''155 Vauxhall Street''' 
'''London SE11 5RH'''

'''FREE ENTRY'''

Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) play a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright clips, blips and loops sampled from 19th Century music boxes, player pianos and other automated music machines. This is followed by a performance of new compositions made in collaboration with Felix Thorn for Felix's Machines, and assembled from out-of-copyright material for the player piano.

'''FREE GIFT:''' a [[Perforations| copyleft licensed CD]] featuring the new compositions and source files will be given away on the night.

Map: download a [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/file_uploads/gasworks_map.pdf PDF]

[http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=403 More info]

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==Open Music Archive Outlet, London==

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22nd November - 14th December 2008 
[http://colemanprojects.org.uk/ Coleman Project Space] / 94 Webster Road / Bermondsey / London / SE16 4DF 
Outlet open: Fri - Sun 12pm - 5pm & by appointment

Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White set up the first temporary outlet for their Open Music
Archive. Distributing direct to the public, the outlet makes available the out-of-copyright and copyleft
material from the archive on CDs, CDRs, and vinyl. Featuring new live recordings from Serafina
Steer, Hest, Magic Arm, Sisters of Transistors, Per Ahlund and Mathias Josefson (Fylkingen),
MC Strategy (Broke 'n' English); studio recordings by Homelife Duo, Liz Green, Sundowner; clips, blips and loops sampled mechanical music boxes; and 1920s and 30s archive source recordings by Leroy Carr, Virginia Liston, Cleo Brown and Honey Hill and more. . .

Visitors to the outlet can browse, listen and take away the music. The CDs and records are available
in exchange for a suggested donation and all material is out-of-copyright or copyleft - free for use and
reuse in the future.

''The outlet is set up in collaboration with designer Ismini Adami.''

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==This is not a gateway==

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Open Music Archive DJ set at:

This is not a gateway festival launch 
Thursday 23rd October 2008 
7pm at Cafe Oto , Ashwin St, Dalston, London.

FREE ENTRY

[http://www.thisisnotagateway.net more info ...]

[http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/contact.shtm directions ...]

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== Free-to-air CD ==

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Free-to-Air CD containing 14 copyleft covers, versions and remixes of the out-of-copyright archive jazz / blues / music hall & folk from the Open Music Archive. Featuring Magic Arm, Homelife, Sisters of Transistors and more....

'''[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/freetoaircd.php Send a donation of Â£5] and we'll post you a copy of the CD'''

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== Nought To Sixty, ICA ==

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'''Monday 29 September 2008 8 - 10 pm'''

[http://www.ica.org.uk Institute of Contemporary Arts]

out-of-copyright archive jazz / blues / music hall & folk 
covered / reworked and remixed by: [http://www.myspace.com/magicarm MAGIC ARM], [http://www.myspace.com/drumstreetsefa SERAFINA STEER] and [http://www.myspace.com/hestuk HEST] with support from DJs [http://www.myspace.com/djdysu DYSU] and [http://www.myspace.com/djtendrawandthegypsiesdog Tendraw] playing a new set using the [[Declose|Declose copyleft battle record]] and more . . .

part of [http://www.ica.org.uk/Nought%20to%20Sixty+16694.twl Nought to Sixty] curated by Mark Sladen and Richard Birkett

[[Nought to Sixty|More info . . .]]

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== Loose Booty, Zurich ==

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Loose Booty at [http://www.k3zh.ch K3 - Project Space] 
Hardstrasse 219 - 8005 ZÃÂ¼rich 
27 September - 5 October 2008

opening 27th September with Open Music Archive DJ set
7pm till late

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== Disclosures II: The Middle Ages, Laxton ==

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'''Saturday 6 September 2008''' 
'''Laxton, Nottinghamshire'''

For [http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/programme/future/disclosures-ii/ Disclosures II], Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) use [[Declose]], the vinyl battle tool created for [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344 Disclosures I], to make music for a party in the barn.

Declose is a copyleft licensed 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from out of copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the [http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive]

Declose was made in collaboration with music producers from the [http://www.burntprogress.com burntprogress community].

[[Declose|Download the Declose record]] or request your free copy of the vinyl from: info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

''Disclosures II is a project realised by [http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/ Nottingham Contemporary] in partnership with [http://www.gasworks.org.uk Gasworks].''

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== Freebooter, The London Festival of Architecture ==

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'''FREEBOOTER: an evening of free music'''

''exploring public territory in a peninsula haunted by pirates and bootleggers.'' 
''a project by Eileen Simpson & Ben White''

'''Saturday 28th June''' 
'''9pm - 1am''' 
'''FREE ENTRY'''

at: The Pilot Inn, 68 River Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London, SE10 
nearest tube: North Greenwich

'''presenting reclaimed lost treasures:''' 
out-of-copyright 1920s blues, jazz, folk and music hall reworked via an [[Declose|open source scratch vinyl]] showcase

featuring: 
'''DYSU & MAN ONE''' (Open Sauce) 
'''DJ Tendraw'''

plus 
'''OPEN MIC session''' 
''hosted by'' '''THA 4ORCE (BBE / Mind Tha Gap)''' 
MCs sign up on the night

and 
out-of-copyright & copyleft selection from '''OPEN MUSIC ARCHIVE'''

'''Funktion-One sound system'''

''The Declose vinyl will be available on the night in exchange for a donation.''

part of [http://www.lfa2008.org/event.php?id=426&name=Freebooter%3A+An+Evening+of+Free+Music The London Festival of Architecture]

[[Freebooter|Read More]]

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==Photosocial, The Photographers' Gallery ==

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'''Photosocial''' [4] 
29 May 2008 18:30-21:30 
Photographers Gallery

See new photography with music, debate and diversion.

The next in an ongoing series of bar nights will include a debate on '''The Amateur vs the Professional''' as well as a projection of '''Screen Tests''' by Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson and Ben White.

Free, spaces limited, so come along early!

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==Electronic Music Festival, Amman ==

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Outdoor screening of '''Screen Tests''', and '''Dragline''' with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time.

'''100LIVE Electronic Music Festival 2008''' 
The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts Park 
6 Hussy Fariz Street, Jabel Luweibdeh, Amman

Saturday, 17th May 08 at 4:00pm

FREE ENTRANCE

[http://www.100copies.com/100live-electronic-music-festival-2008 More information and lineup]

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==Research in Amman ==

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We are learning about how intellectual property works in Jordan as part of an [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/international/ international fellowship] organised by Gasworks. We have a studio [http://www.makanhouse.net/ here]

April-May 2008

[[Amman_research|Read more]]
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==Feedback 4 Book Launch, New York ==

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Book Launch: Saturday 3 May 2008
5-7 pm
Printed Matter
195 Tenth Avenue
New York
NY 10011
Contact: Nayia Yiakoumaki
feedbackATfeedbackprojectDOTnet

http://www.feedbackproject.net

[[Feedback|Read our contribution]]

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==Disclosures, London==

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For [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344/ Disclosures] Eileen Simpson & Ben White create '''Declose''', a project to create a [http://www.creativecommons.org/ copyleft licensed] 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the [http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive].

The artists promote collaboration and seek to explore its significance and value for creative production. For Declose they invite producers and members of the [http://www.burntprogress.com/ burntprogress] 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.

'''Declose Launch Event:'''

Featuring scratch routines, live experiments and improvisation using the Declose vinyl by:

'''Collection Society''' 
'''DJ Dysu & Man One''' 
'''James Kelly (Pedestrian)''' 
'''DJ Tendraw'''

'''FREE ENTRY''' 
'''Thursday 27th March 2008 10pm - 1am''' 
'''CHANGE OF VENUE: 333, 333 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LE''' 

''The Declose vinyl will be available on the night in exchange for a donation.''

[[Declose|More info]]

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==Clips, Blips and Loops #2, Geneva ==

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For '''Clips, Blips and Loops #2''', we are inviting producers, musicians and DJs to contribute to the collection of free source tools available [[Clips_Blips_and_Loops_2#Downloads|here]]. This is an extension of a project developed in Stockholm, November 2007. In February 2008 all of the tools will be gathered together to produce a CD that will be freely distributed at a public performance at an event in Geneva on 13th March.

[[Clips_Blips_and_Loops_2|Read more]]

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==MimÃ©tisme at Extra City, Antwerp==

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'''MimÃ©tisme''' 
25 Jan 2008 - 30 Mar 2008

Screen Tests, in collaboration with Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, will be part of [http://extracity.be/index_mimetism_en.php MimÃÂ©tisme] at Extra City in Antwerp.

An exhibition that probes an alternative conceptual framework for "theatricality" in the visual arts.

visit [http://extracity.be/index_mimetism_en.php Extra City] or download an exhibition [http://extracity.be/mimetisme_guide.pdf guide.pdf]

guided tours with curator Anselm Franke: 
Thursday 21 February at 7.30 pm / Sunday 30 March at 2 pm.

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==Loose Booty, London==

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'''Loose Booty''' 
24 January 2008 - 16 February 2008 
(opening 23 January 2008 6-9pm)

Alexandre Bianchini, Jeff McMillan, Sylvie Rodriguez, Pascal Rousson, Guy Sherwin, Eileen Simpson and Ben White

For Loose Booty, a new exhibition by [http://www.pearlprojects.com/ Pearl Projects], Eileen Simpson & Ben White have brought together a number of different cover versions of [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/browse_tag.php?tag=boogie%20woogie Pinetop's Boogie Woogie], originally written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith of Chicago (d. 1929). The various out-of-copyright versions, including those by Bing Crosby and Honey Hill, and a new track made entirely from the out-of-copyright elements, are to be burned on CDs and given away for free at the exhibition as a way of disseminating materials that are in the public domain.

Vegas Gallery 
64-66 Redchurch Street 
London E2 7DP

'''After Party''' - featuring Open Music Archive out-of-copyright/copyleft laptop and DJ set 
23 January 9pm 'til late at Green and Red Basement Bar 51 Redchurch Street, E2

'''Downloads here

[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/01%20Stop.%20Move.mp3 STOP.MOVE]
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/02%20Pinetop's%20Boogie%20Woogie.mp3 Track 2]
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/03%20Pinetop's%20Boogie%20Woogie.mp3 Track 3]
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/04%20Pinetop's%20Boogie%20Woogie.mp3 Track 4]
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/05%20Pinetop's%20Boogie%20Woogie.mp3 Track 5]
[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/audio/06%20Boogie%20Woogie.mp3 Track 6]

'''

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==Screen Tests - The Bigger Picture, Manchester==

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See '''Screen Tests''' and '''Broadcast Times''' on [http://cornerhouse.org/events/info.aspx?ID=1242&page=0 The Big Screen Manchester] from 12th Jan - 1st Feb 2008.

'''Screen Tests''' - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White 
The film unfolds as a series of Andy Warhol-like screen tests, slowly revealing the location and the occupation of those before the camera - students and models from the Manchester School of Art.

'''Broadcast Times''' - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White 
As the exhibition train leaves the platform, we are taken on a journey of 'a happy hunting ground for tycoons' the birth of commercial television broadcasting.

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== Who Makes And Owns Your Work, Stockholm ==

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'''Time: 17 November 2007 12.00 - 01.00''' 
'''Place: ÃÂrsta Folkets Hus, ÃÂrsta torg, Stockholm'''

In an attempt to cross the boundaries of idea and practice, Iaspis and Konstfack initiated a project on production, distribution and ownership of cultural matter and artistic knowledge starting in December 2006. On 17th November 2007 the project will open itself up by letting the gathered knowledge be combined with that of invited guests, in an event aiming at an in-depth look on the making and owning of contemporary culture.

[[WMAOYW|Read more]]

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== Feedback #4==

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We contributed to
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feedback-4-E-Karaba/dp/0955479681/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201706510&sr=8-1 Feedback #4] Ideas that inform, construct and concern the production of exhibitions and events. Edited by Elpida Karaba & Nayia Yiakoumaki

[[Feedback|Read our contribution]]

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== Free-to-air (Cornerhouse, Manchester) ==

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From 15-25th July 2007 Open Music Archive will be resident at [http://www.cornerhouse.org Cornerhouse], Manchester's international centre for contemporary arts.

For two weeks Eileen Simpson & Ben White will be producing a series of live events and programmes for a temporary FM radio station broadcasting across Manchester. (106.5FM [http://www.artradio.fm artradio.fm])

We're inviting bands and musicians to respond to the rare out-of-copyright folk, blues, and jazz from the [http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive]; to work with forgotten lyrics, chords, melodies and beats, and to make new cover versions of forgotten tracks.

For two weeks the gallery will host live plugged and unplugged performances and one-off broadcasts by Manchester's finest upcoming and established bands and musicians.

[[Free-to-air | More info]]

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== Long Night - Cornerhouse, Manchester ==

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'''Long Night 13/07/07'''

As an introduction to the Free-to-air project, Eileen Simpson & Ben White invited guest DJs Jon K (Eyes Down/Fat City) and Upstate Rockers to explore sampling, reworking and exchange via the cover version - from Reggae Elvis and a Dubstep Prince, to a kid's cover of Slade via Detroit HipHop. Both DJs presented special sets made entirely from cover versions, bootlegs and mash ups. [[Free-to-air | More info]]

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== If Elsewhere - Scatter Projects ==

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Simpson & White will present a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright material from the archive, live electronic remixes, and a sneak preview of cover versions of out-of-copyright blues, folk, music hall and jazz recorded by a range bands for their upcoming project [[Free-to-air]] - part of ARTRADIO at Cornerhouse, Manchester in July '07.

'''Scatterprojects''' 
'''If Elsewhere''' 
14th June 2007 
6-9pm

The Media Centre 
7 Northumberland Street 
Huddersfield 
HD1 1RL 
UK 
0870 990 5007

More info on the [http://www.scatterprojects.org/if_elsewhere/8.html Scatter Projects] page.

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== Screen Tests at Varsalongen, Stockholm ==

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'''26 Jan 2007 - 18 Mar 2007'''

'''Screen Tests''' will be shown as part of the annual '''Varsalongen''' [Spring Salon] exhibition, curated by Maria Lind and Leira Vergara in Liljevalch's Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

See the [http://www.liljevalchs.com/ Varsalongen] website or visit the exhibition at

Liljevalch's Konsthall, Djurgardsvagen 60, Stockholm, Sweden.

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== Canal Plus ==

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'''Eileen Simpson and Ben White''' were invited to play a selection of out-of-copyright early blues, jazz and folk recordings from the archive alongside copyleft licensed electronic remixes at:

'''[http://canalonvyner.blogspot.com/2006/12/canal-plus-at-vilma-gold-films.html Canal Plus]''' at '''Vilma Gold:''' 
25b Vyner Street 
London 
E2 9DG

Films, performance, music 
'''Sunday 17 December, 5-8pm'''

[[Canal_Plus | More info]]

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==Alternative film/video festival Belgrade ==

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'''Screen Tests''', '''Dragline''' and '''Broadcast Times''' are showing at '''Alternative''' film/video festival Belgrade.

6th - 10th December 2006

More details on the [http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ festival website]

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==Screen Tests @ Brighton Film Festival==

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'''Screen Tests 1/4''', a film by Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson & Ben White, will be shown as part of Cine City 2006: Brighton Film Festival

'''PAST PRESENT FUTURE''' 
'''Thurs 30 Nov 6pm ÃÂ£2.50'''

More details on the [http://www.cine-city.co.uk/2006/basement.html festival website]

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==Leverage @ OpenLab3==

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'''[[Leverage|Leverage]]''' will be presented at OpenLab3, an exhibition engaging with the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture.

'''Autoitalia South East London''' 
82-86 Queens Road, Peckham

'''4th - 11th November 2006'''

Opening Event - '''Sat, 4th November from 4pm''' 
Closing Event - '''Sat, 11th November from 4pm'''

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==Generosity: Broadcasting House, at Kunsthaus Graz - Live Event==

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Open Music Archive hosted [http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10329217/10626384/ an evening of free music] in the living room of the [http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10311547/10590368/ Generosity Broadcasting House]

part of [http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10217055/4938419/ Protections]

Generosity Broadcasting House, Kunsthaus Graz 
7th October 2006 

'''[[Generosity | more info . . .]]'''

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==British Art Show Symposium Bristol - Live Event==

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Outdoor screening of '''Broadcast Times''', '''Screen Tests''', and '''Dragline''' with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time using samplers and DJ turntables.

'''Friday 15 September, 7:30 pm'''

[http://www.spikeisland.org.uk Spike Island at A Bond] 
Smeaton Road, Cumberland Basin 
Bristol BS1 6EE 
More info: 0117 929 2266 

The A Bond building is approximately
10 minutes walk from Spike Island 
 
[http://www.situations.org.uk/archive_researchandevents_curatingpostnation.html Part of British Art Show Symposium: Curating Post-Nation Rethinking the Survey Exhibition for the Biennial Age]

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==Previous Projects==

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[[Previous Projects]]

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==Future Projects==

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[[Future Projects | Future collaborations and distributive projects.]]

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