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
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

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

OHB 6

OHB 3

OHB 5

OHB 2

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.