Ghost Trace Stellar

Ghost Trace Stellar

What a great night! Thanks to everybody who has given their time and energy to make the project happen! Thanks also to several bands and musicians who've worked with the material but couldn't make it this time.

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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

Listen live

Listen live between 19:30 and 00:00 BST (GMT+1) on 17th July 2009

Photos

coming soon . . .

Upload photos of the night here

To upload a photo you will firstly need to create an account or login (sorry this is to combat spam). Otherwise email your files to info(AT)openmusicarchive(DOT)org.

There are also some shots here at Flickr

Audio & Video

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Sources

Source recordings, lyrics and sheet music

Thanks

All the musicians, Kate Sweeney, Sneha Solanki, Dominic Smith, Craig Wilson @ Urban & Eastern, Bridie Jackson, Laurie Shepherd & Nick Pride, Joe Posset, Nicky Rushton, Liz Murray & Nicky Coutts, Victoria Proudfoot, Jamie Allen, Lindsay Duncanson, David De La Hay, Will@ptechnic, all at the Star and Shadow, especially the volunteers! 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.