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Opsound Label Launch & CD Release Party

Opsound is having a party. Thursday, December 2 Opsound celebrates two things at once - the launch of the Opsound label and the release of its first CD, Catalpa Catalpa's Hardoncity.

They say: We're holding the party at CBGB's lounge to honor Catalpa Catalpa's punk rock roots and paying homage to it's electroacoustic and experimental sides with a lineup of Ben Owen & Andy Graydon, Scavenger (Tianna Kennedy and Trevor Healy), and Weapons of Mass Destruction. There's a $5 cover, but we're so giddy that we're giving away free schwag bags to the first 25 people who come. It's gonna be a great night, and if you're in nyc, we really hope to see you there.

Like everything in the pool, all releases on the Opsound label will be copylefted (with the cc by-sa license), so at last we get to begin our experiment in selling free music. To that end, we've worked on making the packaging beautiful and unusual - it features a fold-out hand-silkscreened poster designed by one of the band members. The poster, which serves as the liner notes, folds into a sleeve, and the CD is fastened on the outside, rather than placed in the sleeve, so that the CD graphics become the cover art. We'll be selling them at the party, online through the opshop, and maybe even at your favorite record shop.

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Tianna Kennedy's "Stubblefield's Black Box"

Friday 11.12.04.TIANNA KENNEDY'S "STUBBLEFIELD'S BLACK BOX:
AN INTRICATE GAME OF POSITION EXHIBITION OPENING @
free103point9 Gallery, Second Floor, 97 S. 6th St. btw
Bedford Ave. + Berry St., Southside, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
8 p.m., free. Gallery hours Tuesdays 6-10 p.m. through Dec.
10.

Stubblefield's Black Box: An Intricate Game of Position
"...an intricate game of position - a game that unfolds among
far-flung bodies, for the most part unknown to each
other...." --Gregory Whitehead

Tianna Kennedy will broadcast from the black box Friday,
Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. A party will follow. Participants will
receive the broadcast and respond in their chosen medium.
Throughout the duration of the show, during gallery hours
(Tuesday nights 6-10 p.m.) Kennedy will continue her
broadcast, and will accept and install participant responses
in person. If a participant is unable to visit during the
scheduled hours, Kennedy will accept documentation of
responses to be sent to the free103point9 Brooklyn mailing
address (free103point9, 302 Bedford Ave., Box 261, Brooklyn,
NY 11211). These will be displayed, played, and used as
well. There will be a closing party Friday, Dec. 10 to
review and celebrate all participants' contributions. In
this exercise, Kennedy hopes to demonstrate that sound will
always be a practice as well as a representation. Kennedy
is interested in furthering the idea of a praxical
transmission, which would occasion vast networks of
communication and participation and which would be
inextricably bound up with uniqueness, plurality and action.
Tianna hopes that by participating in this game we are in
some small way participating in the deconstruction of the
dominant one-way-broadcast radio paradigm, because we are no
longer listeners, but actors in the performance. She also
hopes to promote a non- hierarchic/distributed approach to
art(and politics)making, and to generate a small space of
camaraderie in an environment of complexity and
disequilibrium

For my far-flung pals, you will be able to listen to the
broadcast on-line at free103point9.org. It should also be on
FM by friday, but maybe only in the gallery. i'll keep you posted. Try to pick up
the web-stream now and if you have problems e-mail me and i'll walk you
through it... [email protected]

If you'd like to participate, please do! everyone's welcome. The
idea, in plain english, is that this 'opening' isn't about me - it's
about getting the ball rolling – i'm working with a couple of transmission groups
and, we'd like to get more people involved. I'm just hoping to facilitate a process
by starting with some source material - music/writing/field recordings and
whatnot, and then incorporating your responses into the subsequent
broadcasts. Kind of like the old 'telephone' game only the message goes around
the table for a month or so. The Closing party December 10th will be much
more fun (although this time round will be fun, too) as it will have all of your
work, as well as mine. If you have technical questions about whether your
response has to be sound, or whether you could write a letter, or whether videos
are ok, or if you can put on a play, or if you'd like to bake a pie, or whatnot -
the answers are: not necessarily, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes most definitely and, we'll
figure
out how to go about it. Just drop me a line: 718-791-1066. Or better yet, e-
mail me.

Love and love (and bear with me here – this is new for me),
tianna

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Special Projects Coordinator
free103point9
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