Artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White often work outside the gallery, preferring to work in other public spaces: on-line, in clubs, magazines, shops and cinemas. Most recently they established Open Music Archive a collaborative initiative to source, digitise and distribute out of copyright sound recordings.

Open Music Archive 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. Open Music Archive forms a site of exchange of knowledge and material and is a vehicle for future collaborations and distributive projects.

Simpson & White will present a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright material from the archive, live electronic remixes, and a sneak preview of cover versions of out-of-copyright blues, folk, music hall and jazz recorded by a range bands for their upcoming project Free-to-air – part of ARTRADIO at Cornerhouse, Manchester in July '07.

http://www.openmusicarchive.org

www.openmusicarchive.org/freetoair

Image: Virginia Liston 1929,
Open Music Archive, 2005.