Antiopic Newsletter: April/May

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ANTIOPIC NEWSLETTER
April/May 2003

IN THIS EDITION:
  Ultra-red news
  Upcoming releases:
    Dion Workman Ching
    Joyce Hinterding Spectral
  Allegorical Power MP3 Series
  New reviews
  Current releases

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Ultra-red's ¡Amnistía! (AN003) will be featured in reviews in the June
issues of Blow Up magazine (Italy) and The Wire (UK). ¡Amnistía! was also
included in The Wire's "Office Ambience" in the May issue.

Ultra-red are continuing their work with the Ballymun public housing
projects in Dublin, Ireland, returning for the next phase of the project
from mid-June through July. There are plans for a performance in Rotterdam
at that time; check the Antiopic news page for details.

Ultra-red's release on Antiopic, ¡Amnistía!, is an urgent take on immigrant
workers' rights composed entirely from recordings made May Day, 2000 at
demonstrations in New York City. This release is currently available through
Midheaven Mailorder and Fringes Recordings, as well as directly through the
Antiopic site.

http://www.midheaven.com/labels/nonexc/antiopic.html
http://www.fringesrecordings.com/pages/pub_bylabel.php?etichetta=Antiopic
http://antiopic.com/order/index.html

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Announcing two upcoming releases from Antiopic, both available in early
July:

DION WORKMAN Ching (AN004)
http://antiopic.com/catalog/an004.html

Dion Workman (co-founder of sigma editions and member of Parmentier with
Rosy Parlane) produces a confounding piece?terrifyingly intrusive yet
completely subtle, deep with texture and layer although monochromatic in
character. Ching is a complex work of grey shadows and glaring light, an
exemplar of aggressive digital minimalism. Its harsh textures coexist with
the open-ended pulsation of extended tones and overtones, playing with the
listener's tolerance. What sets Ching apart from simple noise is Workman's
attention to minute detail, as well as the piece's mesmerizing structure.
This short and exhilarating work builds with calculated motion, suddenly
bursting into silence, only to reconfigure itself, similar but different, in
a quiet dance of amassing sonic shards.

Ching was awarded the Max Brand Prize on April 26, 2003 by the Austrian
Cultural Forum in New York City.

JOYCE HINTERDING Spectral (ANSI001)
co-release with sigma editions
http://antiopic.com/catalog/ansi001.html

A stunning work from Australian intermedia artist Joyce Hinterding, Spectral
is based on celestial field recordings of magnetic fields and weather
satellites made with a custom-built antennae. These phenomena were recorded
in the isolated wilderness of Bruny Island, Tasmania, and later appeared as
the sound element in The Levitation Grounds, an audio/video installation
with artist David Haines. The result is a complex universe of mysterious
interference, ghostly transmissions from unfathomable places, disembodied
static, and failed communication. What is manipulated sound and what is
straight sound remains unknown?this is musique concrete of the spheres.

Audio excerpts are available for both of these upcoming releases on the
Antiopic website at http://antiopic.com/audio/.

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ALLEGORICAL POWER MP3 SERIES: JUNE 1

On June 1st Antiopic will begin the Allegorical Power series, an ongoing
dispatch of freely downloadable MP3s through the Antiopic website. The aim
of the series is to lay bare the underlying notions of power (and its
consequences) that shape our world. The first group will include new work by
William Basinski, Zbigniew Karkowski, TV Pow, Need Thomas Windham, Dion
Workman/Michael Haleta, Nicedisc, and Ateleia.

A more detailed announcement of the series will be sent as it approaches.

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NEW REVIEWS

Reviews of David Daniell's sem (AN002) appear in the May issues of both Blow
Up and The Wire. Here is a translated excerpt from the Blow Up review:

"The tonal modulations give a nocturnal touch to this work that sometimes is
close to Steve Roden's 'Crop Circles' for the mantra-like quality of the
sounds, for the meditative dimension of the percussive effects and of the
background interferences suspended between silence and small sonic events."

There are also reviews of both sem and Need Thomas Windham's employment
patterns (AN001) in the most recent issue of the online magazine Phosphor.

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CURRENT RELEASES

Need Thomas Windham employment patterns (AN001)
http://antiopic.com/catalog/an002.html
"Lucid and elusive in equal measures."
  - The Wire

David Daniell sem (AN002)
http://antiopic.com/catalog/an001.html
"...largely abstract landscapes in which space is a blessed given."
  - David Grubbs

Ultra-red ¡Amnistía! (AN003)
http://antiopic.com/catalog/an003.html

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