Open Call for Launch Option Berlin

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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 [email protected]


Contact Info:

http://www.opsound.org/launch.html
[email protected]

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

http://www.opsound.org


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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THAT'S ALL TILL NEXT TIME

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LAUNCH OPTION BERLIN
http://www.opsound.org/launch.html
[email protected]

OPSOUND
648 Broadway, Suite 1005
New York, NY 10012
212-777-1156
http://www.opsound.org
[email protected]

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