Open Music Archive

Open Music Archive is a collaborative project to digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings, ranging from jazz and blues to folk and instrumental. For this event, creators of the project Eileen Simpson and Ben White will provide an audiovisual introduction to the archive, followed by a live remix of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman’s 1958 record Music for Children, by electronic musician Leafcutter John. The artists found this long-forgotten vinyl in the personal collection of architect Luis Barragán, whilst on an artists’ residency in Mexico City, 2012. Treating it as a found object to be excavated, Simpson and White extracted and separated copyright-expired sounds from within the original recording, creating a public sonic inventory of thousands of samples. This has been pressed onto vinyl for inclusion in FOUND and can be heard by visitors as they explore the exhibition. It has also been released into the public domain for reuse, as part of the Open Music Archive’s aim to initiate creative collaboration through the music of the past. For this special event, Leafcutter John has been invited by the artists to play an exclusive live set assembled from these samples of xylophones, glockenspiels, drum hits, crashing cymbals and fragments of children’s voices. The performance will be recorded for future copyleft release.

Suitable for
Not suitable for children

Admission
£5

Website
http://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/open-music-archive/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000370?id=EVENT557013