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27 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
 
27 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
  
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From the dance floor anthem to scratchy recordings of the blues, the history of popular music is a source of rich inspiration for successive generations. For this commission, artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (both b.1977, UK) collaborated with a group of young musicians and Spotlight Youth Centre in East London to produce a call and response that activates past, present and future sounds. Referencing the history of sample culture the sound work ''Once Heard Before'' (2019) features young beat-makers and emcees who mutate hit records from the 1950s and 1960s into new sounds.
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''Once Heard Before'' has been developed with a group of young beat-makers
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and MCs from east London, who mutate fragments of sounds and lyrics
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ripped from top ten records from the 1950s and 1960s. Their sound work
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features on a series of lathe-cut records, presented alongside a video of
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their rap performances.
  
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Also showing is their film ''Everything I Have Is Yours'' (2019), featuring musicians from Greater Manchester, now in their 70s and 80s. Shot in a space between a recording studio and live venue, the camera tracks the assembled musicians as they interact with samples that have been extracted from 1950s and 1960s UK chart hits. The copyright-expired  elements of the original records are separated out through an algorithmic process, to enable collective use and sharing.
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Filmed inside an anechoic chamber and composed of sounds gleaned
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from chart hit records from 1962, Auditory Learning focuses on the
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materiality of voice. Due to copyright laws, only auditory sound has been
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used and juxtaposed with improvised vocalisations. Everything I Have
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Is Yours brings together musicians connected to the Manchester music
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scene, now in their 70s and 80s, inviting them to respond to samples that
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have been extracted from UK chart hits of their teenage years.
  
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Working at the intersection of art, music and digital technologies, Eileen Simpson and Ben White explore authorship, ownership and distribution in art. Founders of the Open Music Archive, they source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings to spark collaborative projects and free exchanges.
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In these works, source material morphs into new creative outputs: artists
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and performers imagine a new music vocabulary, across generations and
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technologies, towards an archive of future sounds.

Latest revision as of 16:01, 14 April 2020

Commission
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive): Once Heard Before

Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St
London
E1 7QX

27 August 2019 – 5 January 2020

Once Heard Before has been developed with a group of young beat-makers and MCs from east London, who mutate fragments of sounds and lyrics ripped from top ten records from the 1950s and 1960s. Their sound work features on a series of lathe-cut records, presented alongside a video of their rap performances.

Filmed inside an anechoic chamber and composed of sounds gleaned from chart hit records from 1962, Auditory Learning focuses on the materiality of voice. Due to copyright laws, only auditory sound has been used and juxtaposed with improvised vocalisations. Everything I Have Is Yours brings together musicians connected to the Manchester music scene, now in their 70s and 80s, inviting them to respond to samples that have been extracted from UK chart hits of their teenage years.

In these works, source material morphs into new creative outputs: artists and performers imagine a new music vocabulary, across generations and technologies, towards an archive of future sounds.

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