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'''Open Music Archive''', initiated by Eileen Simpson & Ben White, is a collaborative project to source, digitise, and distribute out of copyright music recordings. The [http://www.openmusicarchive.org archive website] will launch on '''9th January 2006''' and will be open for anyone to use, edit and contribute to.

'''Open Music Archive Projects''' is a forum for projects using material from the archive. We want to engage in [[Future Projects | future collaborations and distributive projects.]]

==OMA @ Open Congress, Tate Britain==

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Open Music Archive presented at Open Congress (Tate Britain 7th-8th October 2005)

[http://opencongress.omweb.org 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, Ben played a short DJ set of music made entirely of samples of out-of-copyright music recordings, mainly sourced from 1920s 78rpm records. An accompanying [[Open Congress slideshow images | slideshow]] uncovered the process of tracking this material.

[[Open Congress performance images]]

[http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/live/open_congress.jsp Tate Online Events Archive (video of the performance will be available here shortly)]

Listen to an excerpt of Ben White's live performance: [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/projects/audio/Open_Congress_excerpt.mp3 MP3 (5.3MB)] | [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/projects/audio/Open_Congress_excerpt.ogg Ogg Vorbis (3.7MB)]

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==DJ Performance of Screen Tests, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art==

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For British Art Show 6 we were invited by artists [http://www.chanceprojects.com Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings] to collaborate and develop Screen Tests. Working with out-of-copyright film material from the regional film and television archives of the BAS6 host cities we created a new film. Using public domain recordings, Ben created the soundtrack for Screen Tests and performed a remixed version live at the BAS6 launch at BALTIC. Further live performances are scheduled for Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.

[[BALTIC_images | Photos of the performance]]

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==Open Music Archive presents an Evening of Free Music and Films==

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We are planning an event of live music and visuals at My Goodniss vintage clothes shop in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The event coincides with a live performance of Screen Tests showing at British Art Show 6 (29th Jan-April 2006).

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