Ghost Trace Stellar

Ghost Trace Stellar

Ghost Trace Stellar Star and Shadow Cinema 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.

Photos

coming soon . . .

Upload photos of the night here

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There are also some shots here at Flickr

Listen again

The event was streamed live on the night. These are excerpts from the stream - mixed and mastered versions coming some time soon . . .

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Live sound by Dave De La Hay.

Audio downloads

Live stream extracts

Emily Portman - In The Jailhouse Now 3.42MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Bryonie Danby - Waiting For A Train 6.49MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Onoma 15.07MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Graham Mitchinson & James Hutchinson 7.47MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Les Cox Sportifs - Deep Blue Sea Blues 3.20MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Nathalie Stern - Big Four Blues 6.51MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
The Fishery Commission - Brakemans Blues 6.53MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)
Cathode 17.60MB MP3 (right-click/ctrl+click to download)

Programme

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

Video

Videos by Kate Sweeney hosted at Archive.org

Bryonie Danby

Onoma

Les Cox Sportifs

The Fishery Commission

Nathalie Stern

Cathode

Graham Mitchinson & James Hutchinson

Emily Portman

Radio

Listen to the Ecologies net radio epidode where Dominic Smith plays tracks from The Open Music Archive and from the Ghost Trace Stellar event.

More Contributions

One Dime Blues remixed by Posset

Six Cold Feet remixed by Posset

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 with Urban & Eastern records
Part of the Polytechnic ecologies programme.

The Arts Council England - Lottery Funded.