Auditory Learning
Background
Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to generate public resources, using the archive as a vehicle for collaborative activity. Using tactics of hacking and gleaning they explore legal loopholes to find and distribute out-of-copyright archive material for their Open Music Archive.
Commissioned for: British Art Show 8 — Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds / Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh / St George's Building Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich / Bargate Monument, Southampton Curated by Anna Colin and Lydia Yee
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds 9 October 2015 – 10 January 2016
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 13 February – 8 May 2016
St Georges Building, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich 24 June - 4 September 2016
Bargate Monument, Southampton 9 October - 15 January 2017
Public Sonic Inventory
Sounds extracted from 1962 chart hit vinyl 45s – the last year that commercial recordings can be retrieved for public use until 2034, due to recent copyright revisions – to produce a public sonic inventory
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