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ONLY FOR THE OPEN-MINDED is a community supported independent art and music dissemination unit that dares to distribute any forms of art and music made by people who believe that art is mostly about what you get away with and music is an adventure that cannot be restricted by any kind of categorization and limitation. O4OM supports all kinds of artistic and creative endeavours that encourages and inspires others to create their own music/zines/art in whatever form they please. Though we are based in Los Angeles, CA -we are extending ourselves to different parts of the world simply because we don't believe that there are borders in art and music. We are always on the lookout for artists doing interesting and experimental forms of sound and visual art all around the world and back so please write us if you think you got something we might dig. email us at: onlyfortheopenminded@gmail.com and check our website:

wwww.onlyfortheopenminded.com


LIVE STREAMING OF THE MALO FUNHOUSE SHOW THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2009 CAN BE HEARD BY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE BELOW. USUALLY WE JUST STREAM UNDERGROUND MUSIC OF ALL GENRES FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE BUT WE THOUGHT "WHY NOT STREAM OUR HOUSE SHOWS?" SO, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE WILL BE DOING THIS SO WE CAN'T ASSURE YOU A SMOOTH RIDE. HOWEVER, WE WILL TRY OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE, YOU GUYS GET THE JIZZ..OOPS! I MEANT GIST OF IT!

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  • 08/31/09--17:54: ZINES, COMIX and BOOKS (chan 2807422)

    • these are the reading materials that we distro. its all available at

  • 08/31/09--18:26: THE MAKERS (chan 2807422)

    • these are the bands and people that make all the shit that we carry in the

  • 09/01/09--08:14: MALO FUNHOUSE w/ GUPPIES, TAN DOLLAR. LEE NOBLE, MICHAEL NHAT and MAGICK ORCHIDS (chan 2807422)

    • DAVE VS. RHEA BIRTHDAY SHOWDOWN !!! starts at 8:30. SHOULD bands should end by midnight !!! come one cum all and bring your luv!

  • 09/01/09--10:55: THOUGHTS ON MUSIC AND THE AVANT GARDE (chan 2807422)

    • Considerations of a term and its public use
    By Chris Cutler
    (September 2006)

    INTRO

    This essay was commissioned for a book dedicated to Prof. Gunther Mayer on his 70th birthday. A highly respected academic, musicologist and a supporter of avant garde and adventurous music, Gunther always trod a quietly dissonant path through the political complexities of the old German Democratic Republic. I should add that my take on these matters is not one he would easily endorse, though I know he appreciates the central argument which, like his own thinking moves obliquely against the orthodoxies of current scholarship.


    Preface

    In hot pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote runs straight over the edge of a precipice. He's so fixated on his forward goal that he fails to notice there is no longer any ground underneath his feet. Twenty metres out, he makes the fatal error of looking down and gravity takes care of the rest. In this essay, I want to suggest that something very loosely analogo...

    by: Ron Rice

    (From unfiled: Music Under New Technology, ReR / Recommended Sourcebook 0402)

    The following chronological list of recordings hints at the vast range of material included within the realms of "'anti" and "conceptual" music. The list emphasizes achievements of the last few years. It would be difficult to define this odd category of music, because the artists' motivations and intentions and the results of their labors are extremely diverse. However, the records in this category have one common bond - they are all self-referential. Shifting emphasis away from the music, they point to their own existence as cultural artifacts and objects to be consumed These recordings transcend the sound contained within their packaging (often there is no sound at all) to question "'extra-musical" elements such as music industry practice, the notion of "quality "I the role of the music critic, the role of the listener, etc.

    They expand our perception of the phenomenon of music, addre...


    this is the website for the DIY Distro that we started. Check it out and dig some shit you might

    Inland Empire based label. We distro a lot of their releases.

    ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS “Arthur is free, colorful, patchouli-scented but whip-smart, unapologetically political, sometimes silly, often anarchist and always willing to listen to voices way, way outside the mainstream. Above all, it is prophetic, usually about two years ahead of the rest of the country in its loves and obsessions.” — The Village Voice, 2007

    Pax Recordings was founded in 1997, by Northern Californians Jennifer Jones and composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante, with the ambition to explore the boundaries of music. Pax Recordings was initially based in Pacific Grove (Monterey Bay Area) and relocated to San Francisco in 2000. Pax Recordings aesthetic is a wide range of modern music, including: experimental, improvised, noise, electronic, free jazz, 21st century composition, and avant rock, with an emphasis on improvisation and unclassifiable

    Frank Moore (born Frank James Moore, June 25, 1946) is an American performance artist, poet, essayist, painter, musician and Internet/television personality who has experimented in art, performance, and ritual since the late 1960s. He was an independent candidate for President of the United States in the 2008 election. Moore is perhaps most well known as one of the NEA-funded artists targeted by Jesse Helms and the GAO (Government Accountability Office) in the early '90s for doing art that was labeled “obscene.” He is well known for long (5-48 hours) ritualistic performances with audience participation, nudity, and eroticism. But he has also become well known for his influential writings on performance, art, life, and cultural subversion; for his historical influence on the San Francisco Bay Area music and performance scene; and more recently for his 24/7/365 webstation, LUVeR(Love Underground Visionary Revolution). He was born with cerebral palsy and is unable to walk or talk, b...

    RE/Search grew out of Search & Destroy, which Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys founder, called “the best punk rock publication, ever. It combined art and photography with in-depth interviews and articles.” Every RE/Search book continues the Punk Rock Cultural Revolution, but strives to provide permanent inspiration to artists/cultural scientists of the future, providing careful editing, reference sections, photos, art and anthropological history. Our books are printed in tiny quantities, are uncompromising in content (unlike books from a corporate publisher) — each one is a rare, limited- edition work of art. Look at our catalog — many books you see today will not be here tomorrow, so get them while you

    L.A. RECORD is an independent music magazine originally published weekly as a broadsheet poster. The poster usually depicts a local Los Angeles musicians and according to the magazine editors is meant to recreate an iconic album cover. In March 2008, it began publishing as a monthly magazine with a poster inside. The magazine is available to the public free of charge at local community spots in Southern

    Hollow Earth Radio is a community-run online radio station that presents a forum for music, sounds and perspectives commonly under-represented by the media. We support the local music community in the Pacific Northwest by exposing works that have yet to be unearthed or have long been dormant. We acknowledge and celebrate raw talent (i.e. bedroom recordings) and imperfections. We talk to the musicians, reveal the stories behind the artists, and learn about the actual people involved. We highlight human experience with an emphasis on found sound and field recordings within American Culture. We encourage community participation in adding to our archives. As a nonprofit radio station, we offer the local community access to training and knowledge on how to run an online radio

    "Music scene” is another word for “music community”, and every young person is a participant in some music community somewhere. Just like a religious community or a literary community or any community, music communities have within them the potential to create change. Unlike other communities, music communities are exceptional at reaching young people, because they are essentially created by young people. AMP organizations work hand-in-hand with these music scenes. In some instances, we are the music scenes. Because of this, we are usually the first to open doors for young people to get involved and build skills for the future. The effects of our work reverberate beyond the volume of our stereos. Sometimes we like to say that we use culture (music and art) as a vehicle for community change and that we use community organizing as a vehicle for cultural change. woot woot.

    The IPRC is one of the only nonprofit self-publishing centers of its kind anywhere in the world. We offer access to workspace and tools to aid in the production and distribution of zines, comics, hand-bound books and artwork. This includes computer workstations for writing, scanning, graphic design & desktop publishing, and high-speed internet access for research and networking purposes; two copiers, five table-top letterpresses, three Gocco printers, a YuDu screenprinter, and various other tools for creating, binding, and assembling publications. We also have two art galleries and one of the nation’s largest circulating zine

    UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.


    Contributions are invited for a proposed collection of essays exploring the soundscapes of Europe from c.1500 to 1945. The collection seeks to open up new areas of interdisciplinary scholarship from a range of fields including (but not limited to) musicology, urban geography, history, literary studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, psychology and anthropology, and will build on existing work in acoustic ecology, the sociology of noise and histories and historiographies of noise, audition and aurality. We will favour contributions that deal with historically-informed topics in the following areas (although this is by no means an exclusive list):

    .       The noise-sound-music nexus
    .       Urban/rural soundscapes
    .       Public/private soundscapes
    .       The acoustic ecology of communities
    .       Legal histories of noise
    .       Noise, music and the body
    .       Listening...

    by Markos Zografos (February 2007)

    (This is a transcript of a lecture presented at the Keys National Piano Competition,
    Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia, 17 October, 2004)


    1. Introduction

    I'm going to be discussing improvisation and the various ways it can be approached. Some improvisational techniques will be briefly explored from the point of ideas and thoughts about how we can organise music.

    This breakdown of a current understanding of improvisation will either be very obvious to someone sitting in a seat here, or it may be something completely foreign to someone accustomed to systematised ways of learning music. Essentially, we're talking about creating music within the limits of sound rather than limits of different ways we write down and understand musical structures and systems of thought in playing someone else's composition.

    Though an overview of improvisational techniques, it will be no different to an overview of compositional techniques, as at the level of...

    by: Paul Hegarty

    1. Scratching the Surface
    -------------------------

    "Full with Noise,..." is about noise music, specifically the version that has come to be called Japanese Noise -- itself composed of many different strands. The first half deals with the question of noise. What is it, whose is it, and how can we think about it. Also, how does noise inflect our thinking, rather than being an object; at what point does noise lose its noiseness and become meaning, music, signification? Or -- is there even a point where noise can subsist? Mostly, the text below takes the view that noise is a function of not-noise, itself a function of not being noise. Noise is no more original than music or meaning, and yet its position is to indicate the banished, overcome primordiality, and cannot lose this 'meaning'. Noise, then, is neither the outside of language nor music, nor is it simply categorisable, at some point or other, as belonging exclusiv...

    By Alejandra Salinas, Aeron Bergman and Klaus Oldanberg.

    We were in a pub in Glasgow having a few pints. Alejandra brought up how frustrating it is that there are so few women making sounds compared to women making visual art. Since we feel the visual and audio arts are virtually one and the some, this seems puzzling. While some think that electronic music eliminated the figure of the artist, therefore eliminating any gender problematic, Klaus thinks the lack of women in electronic music is a big problem that needs some discussion. We hope to open up a dialogue here.

    If anyone would like to comment upon any of these points please write to: underwoodwork@yahoo.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     

    Klaus> 1. The ratio of men to women in experimental electronic music is ...

    LINEUP Schedule for FYF Fest: Box Office Opens at 12:30pm and closes at 11:00pm : Gates 1:00pm Stage 1: Black Lips: 11:00pm – 11:45pm No Age: 10:05pm – 10:40pm Tim & Eric Special Musical Performance: 9:05pm – 9:45pm F* Up: 7:55pm – 8:40pm The Strange Boys: 7:05pm – 7:35pm Times New Viking: 6:15pm – 6:45pm Dan Deacon: 5:10pm – 5:55pm Wavves: 4:15pm – 4:45pm Crystal Antlers: 3:25pm – 3:55pm Woods: 2:35pm - 3:05pm Avi Buffalo: 1:45pm – 2:15pm Stage 2: Dillinger Escape Plan: 10:35pm – 11:25pm Converge: 9:30pm – 10:15pm Torche: 8:25pm – 9:05pm Lucero: 7:20pm – 8:05pm The Thermals: 6:15pm – 7:00pm Mika Miko: 5:20pm – 5:50pm Carbonas: 4:30pm – 5:00pm Darker My Love: 3:40pm – 4:10pm Dios: 2:50pm – 3:20pm Grabass Charlestons: 2:00pm – 2:30pm email fyffest@gmail.com for any questions Stage 3: Glass Candy: 10:40pm – 11:25pm Telepathe: 9:50pm – 10:20pm Cold Cave: 9:00pm – 9:30pm Peanut Butter Wolf: 8:00pm - 8:40pm Lightning Bolt: 7:00pm – 7:40pm ...

    our friend at the Vermont House are throwing this show to commemorate Labor Day! bands all daya nd night. girls and booze. this is the most fun you will have in all the other fun stuff going on in these dates! BANDS PLAYING WILL BE: Upsilon ACRUX, COBALT CRANES, MICHAEL NHAT, NARWHAL PARTY, HFICLSI, HALLOWEEN SWIM TEAM, CARDIOPULMONARY, THE PRESS FIRE, VIRGINIA REED, GIRL WITH VIOLENT ARMS, THE LITTLEST VIKING, DOGWIPER, ORCA TEAM, JIM RAMIREZ, STRIKE THAT REVERSE IT, ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS, WHITE LEOPARDS, UV LIGHTS, TOTAL BROS, CHRISTOPHER CICHOCKI (DJ Set) whatjob

    champoy co-runs the Open Mind Dead Distro with rhea. originally from the philippines, he moved to LA on 2002. he originally made music with LA art-noise-krautrockers, Die Rockers Die, and now plays with Rhea in the experimental Magick Orchids. he does illustrations for LA Record and and has done several mini-comix namely Smile Hard, Visual Vomit and Kill All Artists.

    rhea co-runs the Open Mind Dead Distro with champoy. they both run it from the Malo Funhouse in historic west adams, los angeles with the help of many creative friends. rhea was originally from seattle and she used to write music reviews for teh NY-based Loose Records and played with several other musicians in LA as Whisper Kid. she now performs with champ in Magick Orchids which did their first West Coast Tour this year to promote "HEXXES", their latest cassette tape