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| + | == 17th Biennale of Sydney == | ||
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| + | [http://www.superdeluxe-artspace.com.au/performers/openmusicarchive/ Superdeluxe@Artspace]<br /> | ||
| + | The Gunnery Building<br /> | ||
| + | 43–51 Cowper Wharf Road<br /> | ||
| + | Woolloomooloo NSW 2011<br /> | ||
| + | Sydney Australia | ||
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| + | Saturday, 15 May<br /> | ||
| + | 7.30 pm – 12 am<br /> | ||
| + | FREE | ||
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| + | Join Eileen Simpson and Ben White for an evening of free music launching their Parallel Anthology project inspired by musicologist and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright; from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. The evening will feature a live remix performance by Meem, a free CD giveaway and a DJ set featuring Parallel Anthology tracks, recordings from their Open Music Archive and new copyleft remixes, covers and versions made with a range of collaborators. | ||
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| + | We're also contributing to the Opening Week Forum: | ||
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| + | '''Saturday 15 May''' | ||
| + | Session II : 1 pm<br/> | ||
| + | Communities, Commons, Copyright | ||
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| + | Dr Gerald McMaster, Eileen Simpson and Ben White, Megan Tamati-Quennell | ||
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| + | Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney<br/> | ||
| + | Free Event | ||
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| + | [http://www.bos17.com/page/opening_week_forum.html More info] | ||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
Revision as of 10:17, 11 July 2011
Whitechapel Late
Friday 30 July, 8pm
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
An evening of music inspired by musicologist, record collector and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright - from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. For this event musicians and producers have been invited to perform covers and remixes of Parallel Anthology for a night of plugged and unplugged performances.
Live Parallel Anthology sets by:
Leafcutter John
patten
Karen Gwyer
Plus Open Music Archive out-of-copyright/copyleft DJ set
Free Parallel Anthology source CD gift will be presented on entry.
17th Biennale of Sydney
Superdeluxe@Artspace
The Gunnery Building
43–51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
Saturday, 15 May
7.30 pm – 12 am
FREE
Join Eileen Simpson and Ben White for an evening of free music launching their Parallel Anthology project inspired by musicologist and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright; from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. The evening will feature a live remix performance by Meem, a free CD giveaway and a DJ set featuring Parallel Anthology tracks, recordings from their Open Music Archive and new copyleft remixes, covers and versions made with a range of collaborators.
We're also contributing to the Opening Week Forum:
Saturday 15 May
Session II : 1 pm
Communities, Commons, Copyright
Dr Gerald McMaster, Eileen Simpson and Ben White, Megan Tamati-Quennell
Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Free Event
Background
The 1952 release of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music was a compilation bringing together a selection of Smith’s personal collection of 78rpm records. As such, it was effectively a bootleg and operated under the legal radar until it was digitised, re-mastered and fully licensed in 1997.
The recordings in the anthology are those from the early days of the record industry, a time which saw the establishment of a system that fixed collectively-authored folk lyrics and melodies to individual authors in an attempt to control the flow of this previously fluid cultural material.
The Parallel Anthology project aims to map the public/private territory of Smith’s anthology and to scrutinize different levels of access to the material – researching details of future dates when compositions will enter the public domain, sourcing alternative versions of recordings, and gathering together fragments of archive manuscripts and lyrics.
Parallel Anthology volume 1 begins the process of collecting together alternative versions of tracks and makes available a small selection of public domain versions not closed down by copyright. Future volumes will collect, publish and distribute recordings whose proprietary interests have expired, along with new versions and remixes of the material collected.
The project re-envisages Smith’s anthology as a series of nodes in a larger network and employs a kind of sonic virology – tracing songs across spatial and temporal distances.
A parallel collection is proposed: a new roots and future anthology, distributing rich material that remains open for use and reuse.
Downloads
Uncle Rat Went Out To Ride (The Frog And The Mouse)
sung by Elizabeth Cronin
Recorded 7 August 1948 County Cork, Ireland
Our Goodman
sung by Thomas Moran
Recorded december 1954 Mohill Leitrim, Ireland
The Devil (The Farmer’s Curst wife)
sung by Jimmy White
Recorded 9 june 1954 Whittingham, Northumberland, England
The Cuckoo
sung by Bill Westaway
Recorded 26 may 1952 Belstone Devon, England
What Shall I Wear To The Wedding John?
sung by Aunt Fanny Rumble/Albert Collins
Recorded 6 October 1954 Tilshead, Wiltshire, England
No Sir (Oh No John!)
sung by Emily Bishop
Recorded 13 October 1952 Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordshire, England
Credits
Parallel Anthology project is launched on the occasion of the 17th Biennale of Sydney
Researcher: Matthew White
Recordings gleaned from BBC gramophone collection: 11989, 17794, 18678, 20606, 21493, 22029
