Local Recall: An Ancoats Recital 
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Thursday 20th November 2014

For their new live artwork Local Recall, Open Music Archive explored the ghostly echoes that persist through repetition in the playback of music and draw a line between the model industrial city of the late 19th Century and post-industrial Manchester of the early 1990s.

Open Music Archive ran workshops with young people from 42nd Street and Unity Radio 92.8FM, to remix, cut-up, loop and re-assemble late 19th Century music gleaned from player piano rolls. The results were played back and performed for a 21st Century audience.

Featuring:

DJ sets featuring music by Ra-man, MJ Meano, Deadpool and more...

Piano recitals by Serge Tebu and Calum Macleod & Liam Waddle

plus a new audiovisual work by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) featuring a live sound track written and performed by Graham Massey (808 State).

Local Recall - Performed by Calum Macleod & Liam Waddle

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Song Division, 2011 
Series of events exploring the sonic potentials of materials gleaned from the edges of the public domain
recorded at Camden Arts Centre

Song Division Mix

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
The Edges of the Public Domain, 2013 (pre-release leaks for distribution)
Originally distributed in Undoing Property, Sternberg Press

Golden Days (1:31)

Golden Days - Mario Lanza

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
The Edges of the Public Domain, 2013 (pre-release leaks for distribution)
Originally distributed in Undoing Property, Sternberg Press

Too Marvellous for Words (1:59)

Too Marvellous For Words

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
The Edges of the Public Domain, 2013 (pre-release leaks for distribution)
Originally distributed in Undoing Property, Sternberg Press

Dream a Little Dream of Me (3:12)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

Butcher’s Boy – remix by Karen Gwyer (3:13)

Butchers Boy by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

Wagoner’s Lad – remix by Karen Gwyer (1:21)

The Wagoners Lad by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

Ole Grey Beard – remix by Karen Gwyer (1:04)

Ole Gray Beard by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

John Hardy - remix by Karen Gwyer (0:57)

John Hardy by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

Frankie and Johnny – remix by Karen Gwyer (0:53)

Frankie And Johnny by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

Casey Jones – remix by Karen Gwyer (1:08)

Casey Jones by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Playhead, 2013 
Commission for Schizophonia, Synagogue De Delme

55 – remix by Beatrice Dillon (1:29)

55 by Beatrice Dillon

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
ATL 2067, 2013 (live event)
Street-level public sound system with open mic
Commission for Flux Night, Atlanta

Georgia Stomp – beat prepared by DJ Assault (3:02)

Georgia Stomp by DJ Assault

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
ATL 2067, 2013 (live event)
Street-level public sound system with open mic
Commission for Flux Night, Atlanta

Present Joy 2067 – beat by rekchampa (3:04)

Present Joy 2067 by REKchampa

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Local Recall, 2014 (live event)
Live remix of public domain samples taken from 19th century piano rolls, Hallé St Peter’s Manchester

Local Recall soundtrack - Graham Massey (18:02)

Local Recall Soundtrack by Graham Massey

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
B Side Samples for Remix, 2012 (Live event)
Live remix of copyleft samples from The Brilliant and the Dark 12” vinyl
Café OTO, London. Part of All My Independent Women 

B Side Samples for Remix live - Karen Gwyer (25:22) 

The Brilliant And The Dark by Karen Gwyer

Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Barragán Sound System, 2014 (Live Event)
Recordings ripped from Mexican architect Luis Barragán's vinyl collection used as source
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes 

Barragán Sound System tape loop performance - Jonny Hill (16:40)

Barragan Sound System by Jonny Hill

Eileen Simpson and Ben White 
Perforations, 2008 (CD)
loops and re-edits by Felix Thorn
Gasworks, London

Perforations 5 – Felix Thorn (4:10)

Perforation 5 by Felix Thorn

Eileen Simpson and Ben White 
Ghost Trace Stellar, 2009 (Live event)
Cover versions of copyright-expired music 
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

Brakeman’s Blues – The Fishery Commission (5:42) 

Brakeman's Blues by The Fishery Commisson

K Barley AKA Bambooman Live at HCMF// @ BAS8 (ripped from Healthy Living)

Music Hack

84 bpm by MARS

01 Take My Heart 1952

OHB 6

OHB 3

OHB 5

OHB 4

OHB 1

LingeringLoop1

Lingering in the Golden Gleam
Lauren Doss

A new Open Music Archive project curated by originalprojects. The project collects, records, digitises, distributes and reanimates pre-1963 out-of-copyright sounds from Great Yarmouth’s pop music heyday.

Open Source structure for archive digitisation, broadcast and remix performance designed with 51 architecture was original created for Play it Again! Use it Together at Victoria Gallery & Museum in 2018. Reinstalled at Ex Marks The Spot in the former Marks and Spencer's building in the heart of Gt. Yarmouth Town Centre. 

Plinth, Broadcast Tower, Baffles, Listening Booth, Archiving Desk, Live Desk designed and made by Catherine du Toit, Peter Thomas, Anderson Inge, Ben White, Eileen Simpson, Daniel Thomas du Toit, Thomas Smethurst and Ben Weeks.

Lingering in the Golden Gleam - Lauren Doss

Lingering in the Golden Gleam
David Ross

A new Open Music Archive project curated by originalprojects. The project collects, records, digitises, distributes and reanimates pre-1963 out-of-copyright sounds from Great Yarmouth’s pop music heyday.

Open Source structure for archive digitisation, broadcast and remix performance designed with 51 architecture was original created for Play it Again! Use it Together at Victoria Gallery & Museum in 2018. Reinstalled at Ex Marks The Spot in the former Marks and Spencer's building in the heart of Gt. Yarmouth Town Centre. 

Plinth, Broadcast Tower, Baffles, Listening Booth, Archiving Desk, Live Desk designed and made by Catherine du Toit, Peter Thomas, Anderson Inge, Ben White, Eileen Simpson, Daniel Thomas du Toit, Thomas Smethurst and Ben Weeks.

Lingering in the Golden Gleam - David Ross

Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive aims to distribute these recordings freely, form a site of exchange of knowledge and material, and be a vehicle for future collaborations and distributed projects.

Open Music Archive

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