University of Salford Art Collection: Everything I Have Is Yours – Open Music Archive

Everything I Have Is Yours is an ambitious film and sound work by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952-62). Working with a group of older musicians – many of whom are the ‘original teenagers’ of the Greater Manchester music scene, now in their 70s and 80s – the film focuses on this diverse group as they re-engage with public-domain samples from the formative era of the ‘birth of pop’, and incorporate these timeless sounds into new musical creations.

Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Contemporary Art Society, University of Salford Art Collection and Castlefield Gallery. Presented by Contemporary Art Society, Mbili Foundation and the University of Salford.

The film premiered at Salford Museum & Art Gallery, from Thursday 4 July – Sunday 3 November 2019, complimented by a funded community engagement programme inspired by the film, entitled Together We Move.

Part of the University of Salford Art Collection, the film is also released under a Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International) license, for anyone to download, keep, share, and remix.