[rohrpost] LAUNCH OPTION berlin

[Laura Schleussner <roseyinberlin@onlinehome.de>]

OPENING July 22 6 pm
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BüroFriedrich Holzmarktstrasse 15-18  S-Bahnbögen 53/54   10179 Berlin
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LAUNCH OPTION berlin
OPEN ARCH at BüroFriedrich

Opsound | Rocket Shop
Miles Chalcraft
Dan Belasco Rogers

22 - 26 July 2003
12-6 pm daily

Evening performances
July 25 and 26  8 pm

Scroll down for a schedule of performances and events or visit:
http://www.opsound.org/opsound/events/launchsched.html


Artists and Musicians Remix and Remap Berlin at BüroFriedrich

As summer tourists are making their way through Berlin with
guidebooks in hand, LAUNCH OPTION berlin offers alternate models for
exploring the city which are guaranteed to hold new discoveries even
for Berliners who know the city inside and out. In a 5-day festival
of live performances, exhibitions and events at BüroFriedrich from 22
to 26 July, 2003 Opsound, Miles Chalcraft, Dan Belasco Rogers and
range of guest performers will create a landscape of sights and
sounds - an audible, aerial, diagrammatic "map" of Berlin and its
human networks.


Berlin Sound - ShareWare

Opsound is a project by the New York artist Sal Randolph who is known
for last summer's Free Manifesta project (www.freemanifesta.org) in
Frankfurt.  For Free Manifesta she purchased a place in the European
biennial, Manifesta, for $15,099 on ebay and then invited anyone who
wanted to be part of the exhibition. Parallel to the open forum and
free marketplace of artwork Randolph created at Free Manifesta,
Opsound forms a temporary gift economy of sounds, a network of
exchange modeled after the free software and open source software
communities. Artists and sound musicians are encouraged to submit
their sounds to the Opsound Internet pool and make them available to
the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
For LAUNCH OPTION berlin Randolph wants to know what Berlin sounds
like - from field recordings of Oranienstrasse to the music of
underground punk bands, techno tracks and experimental audio files
lurking on hard drives. Artists and sound musicians may submit their
sounds to the LAUNCH OPTION berlin pool and/or sign up to play live
at BüroFriedrich. Sounds from the Opsound pool will be played at the
LAUNCH OPTION control center in BüroFriedrich, remixed by LAUNCH
OPTION DJs at concerts and listening salons and will be made
available for distribution over the Opsound.org website. Visitors to
the exhibition space and Internet pool (www.opsound.org) are welcome
to contribute sounds and take away tracks for their own personal use
and listening pleasure.

At LAUNCH OPTION berlin Opsound not only creates an open exchange of
music and sound. It is the latest in a series of projects by Sal
Randolph that encourages the free distribution and sharing of artwork
(see www.highlala.com). Also, through the trade of original sounds,
meetings between artists and "discoveries" of the listeners, the
social infrastructure associated with the Berlin soundscape is
activated. New pathways for information, collaborations and networks
are generated; this creative process forms the basis of Randolph's
interest in social architecture as an art form.

Remapping Berlin

Throughout LAUNCH OPTION berlin the artists Miles Chalcraft and Dan
Belasco Rogers will actively pursue the mapping and imaging the city
in conjunction with the developing compilation of sounds. With daily
launches of his specially designed hobby rockets equipped with video
cameras, Miles Chalcraft will document selected areas of the city
from the air. Footage of each launch performed at an undisclosed time
and location will be exhibited at BüroFriedrich on the following day.
Chalcraft will use BüroFriedrich as his flight center and rocket
maintenance area. With his personal GPS equipment Dan Belasco Rogers
will continue mapping of his daily routes throughout the city and
will use BüroFriedrich as his point of departure and processing
center. His maps and routes will be available for viewing in the
gallery and on the Internet. Chalcraft's launches and Belasco's walks
will be documented in field recordings, which will be added to the
Opsound pool.

Sound Pool and Performances:

Submit sounds to the Opsound pool!
http://www.opsound.org/launch.html

Or register for a live performance!
launch@opsound.org


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SCHEDULE OF LIVE PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
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For performer information and links see:
http://www.opsound.org/opsound/events/launchpartic.html


TUESDAY JULY 22
2:00 pm snap crackle and pop

4:00 pm Wolfgang Kahlen

6:00 pm OPENING PARTY with Magareth Kammerer

WEDNESDAY JULY 23
1:00 pm nim

3:00 pm chladni

7:00 pm ARTIST'S TALK Holger Schulze of soundXchange talks with Miles Chalcraft
	 Sal Randolph/Opsound and Dan Belasco Rogers

THURSDAY JULY 24
2:00 pm Nikolay Ecologycal Sound Corpse

4:00 pm der kerl mit der bontempi

7:00 pm "Are You Crazy" artist talk series at BüroFriedrich

FRIDAY JULY 25
4:00 pm aaron spectre

8:00 pm EVENING PERFORMANCES
**sciss
**akuvido
**G-Lab
**Schweiz

SATURDAY JULY 26
12:30 pm Mario Asef | Roman Fehr

2:00 pm Milena Issifova

3:00 pm ivn vearz

4:00 pm Paul Paulun

6:00 pm Adam Linson & SonSigner

8:00 pm CLOSING PARTY AND PERFORMANCES
**Jay F Quay
**PLANNINGTOROCK
**The Return of the Think Thing Vol 7
     with
     Manuel Bonik (D): Turntables and subliminal sounds
     Chris Chroma (D): Feedback trombone and musical toys
     S.D.C. Marquardt (USA): Accidental guitar and electronics
     Mic Mikina (AT): Granular av feed con textual overdubs
     Micha Schroetter (D): World receiver and voice(s)
     Iwanka Skrivanek (RU): Synthesizer
     Dimitris Tzamouranis (GR): Quick camera edits
**AREDEE aka LUMP



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For general information contact:
Laura Schleussner (Rocket Shop) at info@rocketshop.net or 01723186443

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LINKS
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Sal Randolph / Opsound
Opsound:  http://www.opsound.org
Highlala: http://www.highlala.com
Free Words: http://www.freewords.org
Free Biennial: http://www.freebiennial.org
Free Manifesta: http://www.freemanifesta.org
Psygeocon: http://www.glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_index.html

Miles Chalcraft
http://www.trampoline.org.uk/heaven-earth
http://www.trampoline-berlin.de/makrolab/index.html

Dan Belasco Rogers
http://www.planbperformance.net/dan/mapping.htm

BüroFriedrich
http://www.buerofriedrich.org

Rocket Shop
http://www.rocketshop.net






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