Opsound Newsletter 07.01.03

[Sal Randolph <stfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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OPSOUND NEWSLETTER 07.01.03

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CONTENTS

++ GREETINGS
++ OPEN CALL FOR LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN
++ JUNIRADIO BROADCAST
++ CALL FOR THE OPEN POOL (ONGOING)

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GREETINGS FROM OPSOUND

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Greetings from a hot summer at the Opsound headquarters in New York.  We've
been adding lots of new music to the open pool and working on the
Opsound/Berlin connection with two projects:  a recent radio broadcast of
opsounds for Berlin's Juniradio, and the upcoming LAUNCH OPTION berlin
event. 

If you can be in Berlin July 22-26, stop by BueroFriedrich where LAUNCH
OPTION berlin will be hosting 5 days of sound gathering, listening, events,
and parties.  More info:

http://www.opsound.org/launch.html

If you've got any sounds relating to Berlin in any way, enter them in the
special LAUNCH OPTION pool.  Plus, if  you can be in Berlin anytime from
July 22-26, we're looking for live performers and djs for LAUNCH OPTION
events.  And if not, we're always listening for new work on the Open Pool.
Either way, Opsound ears are waiting for you.

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OPEN CALL FOR LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN

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An open call to musicians & sound artists for LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN

Musicians and sound artists of all kinds are invited to participate in
LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN, a joint project of Opsound and Rocket Shop, which will
take place at BueroFriedrich, Berlin, July 22-26, 2003 as part of
BueroFriedrich's month-long Open Arch program.

LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN is a test site and data gathering center, a 5-day event
devoted to discovering, collecting, playing, and listening to the sounds &
noises of Berlin.  We want to know what Berlin sounds like: Berlin real,
Berlin virtual, Berlin dreamt and desired -- from field recordings of
Oranienstrasse to the music of underground punk bands, techno tracks and
experimental audio files lurking on hard drives.  Over the five days of the
project and continuing through the internet, LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN will
create a network of exchange, a temporary gift economy of sounds inspired by
the free software and open source software communities.

How to Participate:

LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN, is gathering material for an open sound pool of
material from, about, or inspired by the idea of Berlin. (We also have a
weakness for sounds of, about, & inspired by rockets and rocket launches --
if you have any, we want them).  Anyone is welcome to add work to the sound
pool, and all material for the pool will be released under a Creative
Commons license (the "Attribution-ShareAlike license"), a  copyleft license
in the spirit of open source software licenses which allows for all kinds of
copying, remixing, use, and reuse while retaining an attribution to the
original  artist.  Sound from the pool will be played in the LAUNCH OPTION
control center at the BueroFriedrich gallery, mixed into sets by LAUNCH
OPTION djs at parties and listening salons, and made available for remix
contests and internet distribution through the opsound.org website.

To enter your work in the pool visit

Deadline: 

For practical reasons it is advisable to enter your work in the pool as soon
as possible, but entries will be accepted up to and throughout the LAUNCH
OPTION BERLIN event.

In addition, we have many slots for live performances throughout the
five-day period.  If you can be in Berlin in person during July 22-26 and
would like to perform your music or play your sounds, please contact us by
email at launch@xxxxxxxxxxx

Contact Info:

http://www.opsound.org/launch.html
launch@xxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.rocketshop.net
http://www.opsound.org
http://www.buerofriedrich.org
http://www.creativecommons.org

About Rocket Shop: 

Rocket Shop was founded in 2001 by the artists Roger Frank and Laura
Schleussner and featured monthly exhibitions in a store-front project space
in Berlin through 2002. Rocket Shop is currently in orbit and currently
presents regular exhibitions and events at venues in Berlin and abroad.

Reflecting the function of rockets and spaceships as symbols of progress and
carriers of collective visions of the future, the exhibition project is not
only interested in the visionary function of art. Rocket Shop also supports
art as a means of investigating the human aspect and impact of the unending
pursuit of technical, social and personal utopias.

http://www.rocketshop.net

About Opsound:  

Opsound (http://www.opsound.org) responds to recent upheavals in the music
industry by creating an alternative structure for musicians and sound-based
artists wishing to share and release music under a copyleft, or open source
structure. Opsound will gather a pool of sound material from artists and
encourage the development of both web-based and real-world micro labels to
release artists' work. All work will be released under a Creative Commons
license which permits free copying and modification (the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license, http:/www.creativecommons.org). In the
second phase of operation, over the coming months Opsound will also begin to
function directly as a record label in its own right focusing on
experimental electronic music.

Opsound is a project of artist Sal Randolph. It is one of a series of
artworks exploring the idea of social architecture as an art form. Other
recent projects include Free Manifesta, The Free Biennial, and Free Words.
More information can be found at http://www.highlala.com

About BueroFriedrich:

BueroFriedrich has existed as a project space for contemporary art in Berlin
Mitte since October 1997.  BueroFriedrich was founded and is currently
directed by Waling Boers.  In a climate of intensified commercial and
non-commercial exhibition activity, BueroFriedrich positions itself as an
intermediary facility for contemporary art.

With Open Arch BueroFriedrich presents a month-long series of summer shows,
which invite artists and designers from the respective fields of
architecture, publications, art and fashion to make use of the exhibition
space for a 5-day period. The individual segments are not exhibitions in the
traditional sense. Instead groups of artists and designers present projects
which encourage interaction and participation on the part of the public. In
conjunction with a series of talks, the series intends to generate active
communication between the viewers and artists-producers. In some cases,
projects will actually require and depend on on-site participation of the
visitors. The core idea is to create a communicative space, in which the
viewer is actively engaged.

http://www.buerofriedrich.org

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OPSOUND ON JUNIRADIO

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Opsound on Juniradio: Opsound has produced a one hour show from the pool
which was  broadcast in Berlin on Tuesday, June 10, as part of the Juniradio
project.

The Opsound radio show, featuring _aa_, arcade, Bombhead, Curt Clonginger,
The Evolution Control Committee, hellothisisalex, Leif Inge, Judson, Vincent
Knobil, LDX#40, October Method, Abinadi Meza, Monolab, Dario S. Moratilla,
Mortenjohs, Nim, Nood, and Weapons of Mass Destruction can be downloaded or
streamed from the Opsound website:

http://www.opsound.org/opsound/events/juniradio.html

You can also find a complete playlist there, with links to the artists
pages.

Juniradio is a free and open radio which was broadcast from June 8 until
June 30 2003, 24 hours per day, on 104.1 FM in Berlin and as a live stream
on the internet. Juniradio is a free radio since it lacks the commercial or
institutional constraints that, in Berlin and elsewhere, prevent almost
anything unforseeable from happening on the radio, and it is an open radio
since it will not be produced by editors, professionals or experts, but by a
wide network of local and international groups, initiatives and individuals.

Juniradio is a project of Bootlab: http://www.bootlab.org

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CALL TO ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS FOR THE OPEN POOL (ONGOING)

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Musicians and sound artists of all kinds are invited to join the Opsound
project.

Opsound is a record label using an open source, copyleft model, an
experiment in practical gift economics, a laboratory for new ways of
releasing music.

In its first phase of operation, Opsound is gathering material for an open
sound pool which will be drawn on for the creation of a series of online and
real-world microlabels. All material for the sound pool will be released
under a Creative Commons license (the "Attribution-ShareAlike license"), a
copyleft license in the spirit of open source software license which allows
for all kinds of copying, remixing, use, and reuse while retaining an
attribution to the original artist.

Anyone is encouraged to contribute sound files to the open sound pool,
including field recordings, ambiences, incomplete improvisations, monologues
& dialogues, unfinished experiments, detached soundtracks, vocal solos,
strange noises, bedroom laptop, microsound, generative, glitch dub, idm,
minimal techno, blip hop, hip hop, turntablist, downtempo, uptempo, reggae,
ragga, raga, roots, breakbeat, basement punk, garage band, indy, shoegazer,
psychedelia, noise, song, be-bop, free jazz, modern composition,
avant-anything, etc. Sound files can be complete pieces of music, or
elements intended be combined into something new.

DEADLINE: There is currently no deadline, and entries will be accepted on an
ongoing basis. You are, however, encouraged to enter your material as soon
as is conveniently possible.

HOW TO ENTER: Visit the website at http://www.opsound.org, Please read the
guidelines and faq, and then use the entry form.

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THAT'S ALL TILL NEXT TIME

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OPSOUND
648 Broadway, Suite 1005
New York, NY 10012
212-777-1156
http://www.opsound.org
info@xxxxxxxxxxx

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