Previous Projects

The General and the Specific

7th March 2009 3-6pm We are contributing to: The General And The Specific - a discussion that looks back at a year of international fellowships undertaken by UK-based artists. Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street London SE11 5RH more info

Research in Amman

We are learning about how intellectual property works in Jordan as part of an international fellowship organised by Gasworks. We have a studio here April-May 2008 Read more

Feedback 4 Book Launch, New York

Book Launch: Saturday 3 May 2008 5-7 pm Printed Matter 195 Tenth Avenue New York NY 10011 Contact: Nayia Yiakoumaki feedbackATfeedbackprojectDOTnet Read our contribution

Mimétisme at Extra City, Antwerp

Mimétisme 25 Jan 2008 - 30 Mar 2008 Screen Tests, in collaboration with Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, will be part of Mimétisme at Extra City in Antwerp. An exhibition that probes an alternative conceptual framework for "theatricality" in the visual arts. visit Extra City

Feedback #4

We contributed to Feedback #4 Ideas that inform, construct and concern the production of exhibitions and events. Edited by Elpida Karaba & Nayia Yiakoumaki Read our contribution

Long Night - Cornerhouse, Manchester

Long Night 13/07/07 As an introduction to the Free-to-air project, Eileen Simpson & Ben White invited guest DJs Jon K (Eyes Down/Fat City) and Upstate Rockers to explore sampling, reworking and exchange via the cover version - from Reggae Elvis and a Dubstep Prince, to a kid's cover of Slade via Detroit HipHop. Both DJs presented special sets made entirely from cover versions, bootlegs and mash ups. More info

If Elsewhere - Scatter Projects

Simpson & White will present a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright material from the archive, live electronic remixes, and a sneak preview of cover versions of out-of-copyright blues, folk, music hall and jazz recorded by a range bands for their upcoming project Free-to-air - part of ARTRADIO at Cornerhouse, Manchester in July '07. Scatterprojects If Elsewhere 14th June 2007 6-9pm The Media Centre 7 Northumberland Street Huddersfield HD1 1RL UK 0870 990 5007

Screen Tests at Varsalongen, Stockholm

26 Jan 2007 - 18 Mar 2007 Screen Tests will be shown as part of the annual Varsalongen [Spring Salon] exhibition, curated by Maria Lind and Leira Vergara in Liljevalch's Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden See the Varsalongen website or visit the exhibition at Liljevalch's Konsthall, Djurgardsvagen 60, Stockholm, Sweden.

Canal Plus

Eileen Simpson and Ben White were invited to play a selection of out-of-copyright early blues, jazz and folk recordings from the archive alongside copyleft licensed electronic remixes at: Canal Plus at Vilma Gold: 25b Vyner Street London E2 9DG Films, performance, music Sunday 17 December, 5-8pm More info

Alternative film/video festival Belgrade

Screen Tests, Dragline and Broadcast Times are showing at Alternative film/video festival Belgrade. 6th - 10th December 2006 More details on the festival website

Screen Tests @ Brighton Film Festival

Screen Tests 1/4, a film by Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson & Ben White, will be shown as part of Cine City 2006: Brighton Film Festival PAST PRESENT FUTURE Thurs 30 Nov 6pm £2.50 More details on the festival website

Leverage @ OpenLab3

Leverage will be presented at OpenLab3, an exhibition engaging with the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture. Autoitalia South East London 82-86 Queens Road, Peckham 4th - 11th November 2006 Opening Event - Sat, 4th November from 4pm Closing Event - Sat, 11th November from 4pm

Generosity: Broadcasting House, at Kunsthaus Graz - Live Event

Open Music Archive hosted an evening of free music in the living room of the Generosity Broadcasting House part of Protections Generosity Broadcasting House, Kunsthaus Graz 7th October 2006 more info . . .

British Art Show Symposium Bristol - Live Event

Outdoor screening of Broadcast Times, Screen Tests, and Dragline with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time using samplers and DJ turntables. Friday 15 September, 7:30 pm Spike Island at A Bond Smeaton Road, Cumberland Basin Bristol BS1 6EE More info: 0117 929 2266 The A Bond building is approximately 10 minutes walk from Spike Island Part of British Art Show Symposium: Curating Post-Nation Rethinking the Survey Exhibition for the Biennial Age

Futuresonic 2006

Leverage, a new project for Futuresonic 2006, centres around the creation of copyleft licensed 12 inch vinyl records containing a range of samples, beats and extracts from the archive in a format referencing scratch tools, breaks compilations and battle records. Read more . . . Sample Leverage at Instrument, an exhibition of artist-made instruments, noise-generators, audio-visual manipulators, and head twisters by sound artists and noise-makers. 20-29 July at 1830 Warehouse, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Friday 21 July 11am Eileen Simpson & Ben White talk about Leverage and the Open Music Archive project. 1830 Warehouse, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester More info Futuresonic 2006 runs from 20 - 22nd July at various venues around Manchester Video of Parkertron (Fingathing) testing the Leverage records using Serato Scratch Live. Download quicktime Duration: 13 mins / 43.1 MB (right-click/ctrl+click to download) Read the entry for this video on Archive.org Shot and edited by Kid Jenson Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5

Broadcast Times: British Art Show Bristol

Broadcast Times: The Birth of Westward - a film by Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, and Ben White - is showing as part of the British Art Show Bristol. As the exhibition train leaves the platform, we are taken on a documentary journey of "a happy hunting ground for tycoons" the birth of commercial television broadcasting. 15th July - 17 September 2006 Spike Island at A Bond Smeaton Road, Cumberland Basin Bristol BS1 6EE More info: 0117 929 2266

Screen Tests @ Canal

An evening of short films and a party to celebrate the opening of: Canal 29 Vyner St, London E2 9QD Friday 2 June 2006 Screenings from 8.30pm The Light Fantastic - Ken Russell, 1960 Behive - Jim Self and Frank Moore, 1985 Screen Tests - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White, 2005 Party to follow Canal is a temporary project room and studio run by Matthew Darbyshire, Anna Colin, Sarah McCrory, Olivia Plender, Melissa Franklin, Djordje Ozbolt and Celine Condorelli.

Screen Tests DVD

A project in collaboration with Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska that evolved from British Art Show 6. The Free DVD was launched at the Anticipating the Past: Artist: Archive: Film conference on the 12th-13th May, at Tate Modern. The DVD includes three new films - edited from archive film material, with a soundtrack made from out-of-copyright records - along with the original material and source files. The material is released under a Creative Commons license, enabling anyone to use and re-use Screen Tests for future creative exchange. Screen Tests 1/4 Screen Tests The film unfolds as a series of Andy Warhol-like screen tests, slowly revealing the location and the occupation of those before the camera - students and models from the Manchester School of Art. Screen Tests 2/4 Dragline Dragline stumbles across an autonomous event, and echoing 1970's structuralist film, returns the default setting of contemporary digital practice - sampling and looping - to its industrial roots. Screen Tests 3/4 Broadcast Times: The Birth of Westward As the exhibition train leaves the platform, we are taken on a documentary journey of "a happy hunting ground for tycoons" the birth of commercial television broadcasting. Screen Tests 4/4 The Northern Region Film and Television Archive, based in Newcastle did not respond to several attempts at contact, eventually we spoke over the telephone and they declined any involvement. Arts Council England funded the production of this DVD through Grants for the arts. If you would like a copy of the Screen Tests DVD email infoATopenmusicarchiveDOTorg

Dragline: British Art Show Nottingham

Dragline and Screen Tests are showing at Angel Row Gallery as part of British Art Show 6, Nottingham (21st April - 25th June) Angel Row Gallery Central Library Building 3 Angel Row Nottingham NG1 6HP Catch a live performance of Screen Tests in Nottingham at 7.30pm on 19th May at Powerhouse, Victoria Studios (part of the Nottingham Trent buildings)

Dragline @ Swiss Institute NY

Preview of our new film Dragline - remixed archive material, with a soundtrack made from out-of-copyright records, produced in collaboration with Chance Projects showing at: Swiss Institute 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012 Thursday March 23, 7pm

Open Music Archive presents an Evening of Free Music and Films

Archive playlists, remix samples, and photos

British Art Show 6, Manchester (28th Jan -2nd April 2006)

We were invited by artists Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska to collaborate on Screen Tests for the British Art Show 6 in Manchester. Screen Tests is a film composed entirely of material found and released from the North West Film Archive. The ten minute film is accompanied by a sound track made from out-of-copyright recordings. These source recordings are available in the Open Music Archive to download: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] See Screen Tests at Urbis until 2nd April 2006 On 18th February (6-8pm) at The Whitworth Art Gallery a DJ remix of Screen Tests was performed live by Ben White.

OMA @ Open Congress, Tate Britain

Open Music Archive presented at Open Congress (Tate Britain 7th-8th October 2005) Open Congress was Inspired by Free Software: software that challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution. The innovative congress explored these implications for art, visual culture and cultural production in general. For Open Congress, Open Music Archive presented a DJ set of music made entirely of samples of out-of-copyright music recordings, mainly sourced from 1920s 78rpm records. An accompanying slideshow uncovered the process of tracking this material. Open Congress performance images (video of the performance) Listen to an excerpt of the live performance: MP3 (5.3MB) | Ogg Vorbis (3.7MB)

DJ Performance of Screen Tests, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Ben White performed a live remixed version of Screen Tests for the launch of British Art Show 6 at BALTIC, Newcastle. Photos of the performance Future live performances are scheduled for Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol Screen Tests is at BALTIC from 24th Sep - 8th Jan 2006