Open Music Archive (artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White) present a live public recording session working with their collaborators across generations as part of their exhibition Once Heard Before, which features their FVU commission Everything I Have Is Yours.

This event features a new audio-visual DJ set with legendary drummer Bruce Mitchell (The Durutti Column, Greasy Bear, Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias) who is featured in Everything I Have Is Yours. For this event Mitchell plays live drums alongside emerging MCs from Spotlight Youth Centre, producing an improvised, inter-generational call-and-response, where material from the exhibition is remixed and reassembled live.

Plus performances by electronic music producer Elsa Hewitt and electronic improvisor David Ross, invited to create live sets assembled exclusively from out-of-copyright sounds ripped from 78rpm discs and 7” singles and digitised from 1950s and early 1960s chart hit records that feature in the exhibition.

Image: Everything I Have Is Yours at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, July 2019, Jules Lister