Friday
17th July 2009
The Star and Shadow Cinema
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. Gho st 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.
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DOCUMENTATION from the event:
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Audio & video DOCUMENTATION from the event:
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www.openmusicarchive.org/ghosttracestellar
• Call for participation: deadline closed-
19 July 09
Featuring live:
Onoma
- http://www.myspace.com/geometryoftorchsongs
The Fishery Commission - http://www.thefisherycommission.com
Bryonie Isabella Danby
Emily Portman - http://www.myspace.com/emilygportman
Bridie Jackson - http://www.myspace.com/bridiejackson
Les Cox Sportifs - http://www.myspace.com/lescoxsportifs
Nathalie Stern - http://www.myspace.com/nathaliestern
Graham Mitchinson & James Hutchinson
Cathode - http://www.myspace.com/cathodeonline
pre-recorded
remixes by Posset - http://www.posset.connectfree.co.uk/
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.
The Open Music Archive established by artists
Eileen Simpson & Ben White in 2005 is situated within the current
discourse surrounding notions of authorship, ownership and distribution,
reanimated by a porting of Free/Libre and Open Source software models
to wider creative contexts. The Open Music Archive concerns itself with
the public domain and creative works which are not owned by any one
individual and are held in common by society as a whole.
“The music industry sees the public domain as a wasteland of material
with no value. We on the other hand, see the potential in these collectively
owned recordings. By activating this public resource we bring together
a constellation of neglected melodies and lyrics to reanimate the ghosts
in the archive and build a new resource – free for reuse in the
future.” The Open Music Archive
Under copyright law, a music recording has two automatically assigned
property rights: A musical composition has a property right and a recording
has a separate and independent property right. These property rights
are limited by term. In the UK, the term of copyright in a literary,
dramatic, musical or artistic work is limited to the life of the author
plus 70 years, while the term of copyright in a sound recording is limited
to 50 years from the date of recording. The archive attempts to gather
recordings and information about recordings whose proprietary interests
have expired and make them accessible to a wider public.
Previous related projects include Free-to-Air, Cornerhouse, Manchester;
Clips, Blips and Loops, Stockholm; Declose, Gasworks, London and Nought
to Sixty, ICA, London. www.openmusicarchive.org/projects
Organised by Polytechnic & Kate Sweeney.
Thanks to:
The Star and Shadow Cinema- www.starandshadow.org.uk
Urban & Eastern- www.urbanandeastern.com
Lindsay Duncanson - http://productofboy.net
Dave De La Hay - http://canopynewmusic.co.uk/
The Arts Council England - Lottery Funded.
