[rumori] An Invitation to Join the Opsound & Opcopy Projects

[Sonar Radar]

Opsound is also looking, less
> formally, for anyone
> interested in working on video material to be part
> of an upcoming cd/dvd
> combo release.

sal:

how is this coming along? i would be interested in
contributing video for the opsound project... 

regards, grace

--- Sal Randolph <sal at highlala.com> wrote:
>  
> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I'd like to invite you all to be part of two new
> projects I'm working on,
> Opsound and Opcopy; both are experiments in creating
> social architectures as
> artworks exploring gift economies and free culture.
> 
> Opsound will be an open access sound resource and
> copyleft record label,
> collecting all kinds of sounds for free use and also
> releasing actual
> records and cds (which will be bought, sold, and
> distributed in the usual
> manner, with money returning to the artists).  I'm
> expecting that we'll be
> collecting some amazing material, and over the next
> few months releasing
> records and organizing events and parties in New
> York, Frankfurt, and Berlin
> (at the very least).  All kinds of music and sound
> can be entered into the
> Opsound open pool -- of course we're looking for
> music, but I'm personally
> also very interested in collecting other kinds of
> audio material including
> spoken texts, noises, field recordings, etc. 
> Opsound will be encouraging a
> proliferation of microlabels, both online and real
> world, the first of
> which -- the Opsound house label -- will concentrate
> on experimental
> electronic music. Opsound is also looking, less
> formally, for anyone
> interested in working on video material to be part
> of an upcoming cd/dvd
> combo release.
> 
> Opound has a sibling project, Opcopy: Open Copyright
> Action, which is an
> experimental political organization exploring new
> ways of responding to an
> increasingly restrictive climate where more and more
> of our collective
> cultural material is being privatized and
> controlled.  Opcopy will begin by
> collecting varying and differing opinions on
> copyright issues to try and
> engage in a more interesting level of debate about
> questions of intellectual
> "property," the public domain, and free culture
> (free in both the sense of
> "free speech" and the sense of "free beer").  You
> are most cordially invited
> to post your own position on the matter on the
> opcopy site.
> 
> Please feel free to write with questions or
> suggestions, and to pass this
> invitation along to anyone you think might be
> interesting/interested.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Sal
> 
>
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> 
> Sal Randolph 
> sal at opsound.org 
> sal at opcopy.org
> 
> http://www.opsound.org
> http://www.opcopy.org
> 
> http://www.highlala.com
> 
>
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> 
> 
> AN OPEN CALL TO MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS
> 
> 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
> experimentin 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, spoken texts, 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: Please visit the Opsound site at
> http://www.opsound.org, read
> the guidelines and faq, and then use the entry form.
> 
> 
>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> 
> FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: SAL RANDOLPH 212-219-9328
> sal at opsound.org
> 
> 
> ARTIST STARTS NEW EXPERIMENTAL RECORD LABEL AND
> POLITICAL ACTION GROUP TO
> EXPLORE COPYRIGHT ISSUES
> 
> New York, March 11, 2003. New York artist Sal
> Randolph announces the launch
> of two new art projects, Opsound and Opcopy, which
> continue her recent
> explorations of social architectures as art forms.
> 
> 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).
> Opsound also expects to function directly as a
> record label in its own right
> focusing on experimental electronic music.
> 
> Opcopy -- Open Copyright Action
> (http://www.opcopy.org) takes the form of a
> political organization working to promote the
> public's access to culture
> through the restoration and broadening of the public
> domain and the repeal
> of restrictive laws such as the Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act, and the
> Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (known
> popularly as the Mickey Mouse
> Protection Act). Opcopy will focus on raising the
> level of public debate on
> copyright issues by supporting direct art actions
> and will encourage an
> ongoing engagement with diverse opinions. "With the
> recent Supreme Court
> decision endorsing the Sonny Bono act," Randolph
> says, "it's become clear
> that we cannot rely on the courts to protect us from
> bad policy. The only
> way to proceed is to make artists and the general
> public more aware of the
> Destructive quality of these laws, and to get them
> changed."
> 
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