project title
OP.MIX.PARTY: A SONIC AND OPTIC CITY MIX AT THE PSY.GEO.CONFLUX
project description
Taking as it's motto Guy Debord's statement that "They new type of beauty can only be a beauty of situations," op.mix.party closes out this year's psy.geo.conflux with a lineup of bands and djs employing situationist strategies in the service of a great party.
Performing live will be Opsound's catalpa catalpa, in from Cincinnati with their sample damaged, feedback drenched, candy colored post-pop; dj north guinea hills fresh from recent appearances as part of the New Sound, New York festival; low-watt fuzz pop band Pantsburg with Candy Sue Ellison on bass Matthew Lusk on guitar and Aaron Wexler on guitar and drums; tadpole flaneur exploring critical geography in audio form with Tianna Kennedy, Jessica Pavone, and Kevin Shea; and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Opsound's guitar and laptop band making soundscapes out of field recordings, audio detritus, and blasted open pop covers. Throughout the evening Melissa Ulto/VJ Miixxy will create a live video enviroment that mixes city images and psychogeographical texts with on-site live feeds.
Opsound is sponsoring op.mix.party as part of its New York events project, and will be hosting the party along with fellow organizers Sharilyn Neidhardt, Melissa Ulto, and Tianna Kennedy.
for complete party lineup, see op.mix.party lineup
name
Opsound :: Sal Randolph
location
Brooklyn, New York
profile
Opsound is an experimental record label. It is a kind of laboratory for looking at how artists can release music in a manner synergistic with the internet's capacity to encourage communication and sharing. Opsound explores the possibilities of developing a gift economy among musicians, borrowing from the model of the open source software community.
Anyone is invited to contribute their sounds to the open pool using a copyleft license (the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license). Work in the open pool is available to be listened to, reconfigured, recombined & remixed, and also released by Opsound (and other) microlabels both on the internet and in the physical world.
Opsound is headquartered in New York, and 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. Opsound has a sibling project, Opcopy -- other recent projects include Free Manifesta, The Free Biennial, and Free Words.
links
www.opsound.org
opcopy
Creative Commons
Sal Randolph