Antiopic is an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 located in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

. It was started in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 in 2002

2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

 by David Daniell

David Daniell (musician)

David Daniell is an American guitarist and composer active in experimental music, improvisation and electroacoustic composition.He has been active with the trio San Agustin since 1996...

 and James Elliott

James Elliott (musician)

James Elliott is an American electronic musician, usually releasing solo material under the alias Ateleia. The name comes from Ateleia, a legume or from ancient Greek meaning tax-free. The music is electronic psychedelic minimalism.Elliott was the co-founder of the record label Antiopic...

.

Main Discography

• Need Thomas Windham: employment patterns (2002
  2002 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...
  
  )
• David Daniell
  David Daniell (musician)
  David Daniell is an American guitarist and composer active in experimental music, improvisation and electroacoustic composition.He has been active with the trio San Agustin since 1996...
  
  : sem (2002
  2002 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...
  
  )
• Ultra-red
  Ultra-red
  Ultra-red are a sound art collective founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists. Originally based in Los Angeles, the collective has expanded over the years with members across North American and Europe...
  
  : ¡Amnistía! (2003
  2003 in music
  -January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
  
  )
• Dion Workman
  Dion Workman
  Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the...
  
  : Ching (2003
  2003 in music
  -January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
  
  )
• Joyce Hinterding: Spectral (2003
  2003 in music
  -January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
  
  )
• Ateleia: Swimming Against The Moments (2004
  2004 in music
  See also:* 2004 in music Record labels established in 2004-January:*January 1**The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.**Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol....
  
  )
• Anthony Burr / Charles Curtis
  Charles Curtis (musician)
  Cellist Charles Curtis is an internationally renowned performer and composer of a wide variety of music, with particular emphasis on the avant-garde...
  
  : Alvin Lucier
  Alvin Lucier
  Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...
  
  (2005
  2005 in music
  -Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
  
  )

Live Series

In 2004

2004 in music

See also:* 2004 in music Record labels established in 2004-January:*January 1**The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.**Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol....

, Antiopic initiated a series of releases of live, improvised performances, titled the Live Series. The Live Series releases are packaged as 3" CDs in cardboard sleeves.

• Carlos Giffoni / Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
   / Jim O'Rourke
  Jim O'Rourke (musician)
  Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
  
  : North Six (2004
  2004 in music
  See also:* 2004 in music Record labels established in 2004-January:*January 1**The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.**Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol....
  
  )
• Sakada (Mattin
  Mattin
  Mattin is a Basque artist working mostly with noise and improvisation.Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost and Rosy Parlane. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the...
  
   / Eddie Prévost
  Eddie Prévost
  Edwin Prévost is an English drummer and percussionist.Prévost began as a jazz drummer before branching out into entirely improvised music. He was a co-founder of the group AMM, and remains its only constant member...
  
   / Mark Wastell / Margarida Garcia / Rhodri Davies): Never Give Up On The Margins Of Logic (2004
  2004 in music
  See also:* 2004 in music Record labels established in 2004-January:*January 1**The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.**Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol....
  
  )
• Tetuzi Akiyama
  Tetuzi Akiyama
  Tetuzi Akiyama is a Japanese guitarist, violinist, and instrument-maker.Akiyama formed the improvisation group Madhar in 1987, and the classical ensemble Hikyo String Quintet in 1994 . In 1995, Akiyama and Sugimoto formed a guitar duo, and played at venues in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit...
  
   / Oren Ambarchi
  Oren Ambarchi
  Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist who in major plays electric guitar and drums, with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Jewish family originally from Iraq....
  
   / Alan Licht
  Alan Licht
  Alan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.-Biography:Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968...
  
  : Willow Weep And Moan For Me (2006
  2006 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....
  
  )

Allegorical Power Series

From June through December of 2003

2003 in music

-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...

, Antiopic published a monthly series of MP3 releases online via the Antiopic website, titled the Allegorical Power Series. According to the Antiopic website, "this series was meant to address the possibilities and roles of abstract or experimental music as social and political response; it attempted to provide a forum and space for artists to present new work as protest and as an exploration of the meaning and potential of sound art in the context of and as response to global injustice."

Volume I: June 2003

• William Basinski
  William Basinski
  William Basinski is a United States avant-garde composer of ambient music via tape music and process music. Basinski is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist...
  
  
• TV Pow
• Ateleia
• Zbigniew Karkowski
  Zbigniew Karkowski
  Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology...
  
  
• Need Thomas Windham
• Dion Workman
  Dion Workman
  Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the...
  
   / Michael Haleta
• Nicedisc
  Nicedisc
  Nicedisc are an experimental audio/video duo consisting of Jeffrey Pash and Nick Phillips. Influenced by the structural film movement, Nicedisc's work thus far has tended towards minimalism and austerity. In 2004, the duo released the DVD "Untitled" on Brooklyn label Rebuild All Your Ruins...
  
  

Volume II: July 2003

With an essay by Jena Jolissaint.

• AGF
  AGF
  AGF may stand for:* AGF , a French insurance company* AGF Management Limited, a Canadian investment management company* Amaranth Greenpeace Foundation, an international organization* Ajinomoto General Foods, a Japanese foodstuffs company...
  
  
• Project Qua Project
• Sylvain Chauveau
  Sylvain Chauveau
  Sylvain Chauveau is a critically acclaimed instrumental music and electronic music artist and composer from Bayonne, France.-Background:Sylvain Chauveau was born in Bayonne, France , and now lives in Brussels, Belgium...
  
  
• Mattin
  Mattin
  Mattin is a Basque artist working mostly with noise and improvisation.Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost and Rosy Parlane. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the...
  
  
• Ultra-red
  Ultra-red
  Ultra-red are a sound art collective founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists. Originally based in Los Angeles, the collective has expanded over the years with members across North American and Europe...
  
  
• Johnny Sinewave
• PowerBooks For Peace
• Luxury Estates
• Jon Philpot
  Bear in Heaven
  Bear in Heaven is a Brooklyn-based rock band formed by Jon Philpot. The sound of the band incorporates influences from psychedelic music, electronic music, and krautrock....
  
  

Volume III: August 2003

Curated and with an essay by Dion Workman

Dion Workman

Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the...

.

• Okkyung Lee
• Raz Mesinai
  Raz Mesinai
  Raz Mesinai is a New York City-based composer, producer, musician, writer and visual artist...
  
  
• Rosy Parlane
  Rosy Parlane
  Rosy Parlane is an electronic musician from New Zealand, based in London since 2000. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions record label.-Overview:...
  
  
• Toshio Kajiwara
• Julien Ottavi
• Tim Barnes
  Tim Barnes
  Timothy Kent "Tim" Barnes is a Democratic party politician in Tennessee, representing the 22nd District as State Senator since 2009. He is perhaps best known for his primary challenge of then-State Senator Rosalind Kurita in 2008.-External links:...
  
   / David Daniell
  David Daniell (musician)
  David Daniell is an American guitarist and composer active in experimental music, improvisation and electroacoustic composition.He has been active with the trio San Agustin since 1996...
  
  

Volume IV: September 2003

• Alejandra and Aeron
  Alejandra and Aeron
  Alejandra and Aeron are Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman, , artists based in Oslo, Norway. They make intermedia art including sound art and installations, web projects and video art...
  
  
• Marina Rosenfeld
  Marina Rosenfeld
  Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York.- External links :*http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/art/26736/marina-rosenfeld*http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_rosenfeld...
  
  
• Mark Wastell and Graham Halliwell
• o.blaat
• Christopher DeLaurenti
  Christopher DeLaurenti
  Christopher DeLaurenti is a Seattle-based composer, improvisor, and phonographer. A new music rabble-rouser, he also writes music reviews and articles. His electro-acoustic works are composed of field recordings and often deal with political issues, political protests in particular...
  
  
• Tu m'
• psi
  Psi
  -Alphabetic letters:* Psi 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet* Psi , a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek-Mathematics:* Tangential angle of a curve*Chebyshev function*Dedekind psi function*Digamma function...
  
  
• Ateleia
• John Hudak

Volume V: October 2003

• Osso Bucco
• Stern
  Joel Stern
  Joel M. Stern is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stern Stewart & Co., and the creator and developer of Economic Value Added . He is a recognized authority on financial economics, corporate performance measurement, corporate valuation and incentive compensation and is a pioneer and leading...
  
   / Guerra
• j. frede
• Nishide Takehiro
• omnid
• Freiband
• Margarida Garcia
• Unstable Ensemble

Volume VI: November 2003

• We're Breaking Up
• Lovely Midget
• Presocratics
  Presocratics (band)
  Presocratics is an American experimental music duo of Need Thomas Windham and Jon Philpot.Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and electronic music composer Need Windham met producer Jon Philpot in Atlanta, Georgia in the middle 1990s...
  
  
• duul drv
• Julien Ottavi and Dion Workman
  Dion Workman
  Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the...
  
  
• Desist

Volume VII: December 2003

With an essay by Matthew Hyland.

• Kaffe Matthews
• Steinbrüchel
• Anthony Pateras
  Anthony Pateras
  Anthony Pateras is a multidisciplinary musician living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He performs on piano or analogue electronics, and composes written works for ensembles, orchestras and soloists.-Discography:SOLO:...
  
   and Robin Fox
  Robin Fox
  Robin Fox is an Anglo-American anthropologist who has written on the topics of marriage, human and primate kinship systems, and evolutionary anthropology and sociology. He was born in Yorkshire. He founded the department of anthropology at Rutgers University in 1967 and remained a professor there...
  
  
• Blevin Blectum
  Blevin Blectum
  Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician.Blectum comes from a musical family, and she studied the violin during her youth. At Mills College, she partnered with Kevin Blechdom to form Blectum From Blechdom, a performance art electronica duo. In 2001, Blectum From Blechdom won an Award of...
  
  
• The Debt
  Ultra-red
  Ultra-red are a sound art collective founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists. Originally based in Los Angeles, the collective has expanded over the years with members across North American and Europe...
  
  
• Ateleia and David Daniell
  David Daniell (musician)
  David Daniell is an American guitarist and composer active in experimental music, improvisation and electroacoustic composition.He has been active with the trio San Agustin since 1996...
  
  
• erikm
  Erikm
  eRikm has appeared on the artistic scenes in 1992.His early experience as a musician , and as a visual artist led him to composition and turntables....
  
  
• Barry Weisblat
• Annette Krebs
• Loren Connors
• Sinistri
• Andrew Burnes
• Alessandro Bosetti
• Anna Ghallo / Ryan Smith
  Ryan Smith
  Ryan Smith may refer to:*Ryan Smith *Ryan Smith *Ryan Smith *Ryan Smith , Canadian rugby union player...
  
   / Chuck Bettis
• C.Rosenau / J.Schoenecker / J.Warchol