Ghost Trace Stellar

Ghost Trace Stellar Star and Shadow Stepney Bank Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP T: 0191 261 0066 Friday 17th July 2009 7.30pm - late Free Entry (There is a nominal £1 membership fee to join the Star and Shadow Cinema for a year) out-of-copyright archive jazz / blues / music hall / folk covered, reworked and remixed Bands, musicians, producers and DJs perform covers, versions, remixes or interpretations of the 1920s and 30s out-of-copyright folk, blues, jazz and music hall from the Open Music Archive as a series of live plugged and unplugged performances. Ghost Trace Stellar features specially created sets of covers along with archive DJ sets and a discussion with Open Music Archive - Ben White & Eileen Simpson examining the implications of Free/Libre and Open Source models of creative production and distribution. This event opens up a temporary channel for music, exchange and discussion that operates beyond individual proprietary and commercial interests. The performances from the event will be recorded and licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike, generating a new resource - free for use and reuse.

Programme

subject to change and additions! 19:30 Doors 19:30 Intro talk with Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) and Polytechnic 20:00 Emily Portman 20:20 Bryonie Isabella Danby 20:40 Onoma 21:00 Graham Mitchinson & James Hutchinson 22:00 Les Cox Sportifs 22:20 Nathalie Stern 22:40 The Fishery Commission 23:00 Cathode 00:00 last orders 00:30 close Open Music Archive DJ set featuring out-of-copyright source/copyleft covers in between live performances

Sources

Source recordings, lyrics and sheet music

Thanks

All the musicians, Kate Sweeney, Sneha Solanki, Dominic Smith, Craig @ Urban & Eastern, Bridie Jackson, Laurie Shepherd & Nick Pride, Possett, David De La Hay, everyone at the Star and Shadow and everyone who has given their time and energy to make the project happen.

Organised by Polytechnic & Kate Sweeney.
Part of the Polytechnic ecologies programme.

The Arts Council England - Lottery Funded.