Sal Randolph
Free Words



Free Words Walk
Free Words is a book that belongs to whoever finds it. Copies are infiltrated onto the shelves of bookstores and libraries by a worldwide network of distributors who operate independently. No permission is asked -- the book is simply placed on a shelf or display table, brazenly or by stealth.

For the Free Words walk Sal Randolph will lead a group through the famous new and used bookstores of New York's East Village to experience the situational thrills of nonobedience. Every participant will be given copies of the book to place wherever they choose along the route.

Logistics: The Free Words walk will start at the Opsound office at 648 Broadway, room 1005 (10th floor), at 2PM on Friday May 9th. Allow 2-3 hours for the walk.

The Free Words Project
FREE WORDS is a book which belongs to whoever finds it. 3000 copies have been produced by artist Sal Randolph and are being distributed free worldwide. The books are placed on the shelves of bookstores and libraries creating an art situation that infiltrates public and commercial space.

The book is simply placed on the shelf. It is clearly labled as free. What someone does when they come across it is up to them.

Over 2500 copies of the book have already been distributed in sites across the United States and around the world, primarily through a network of volunteer distributors. The text of FREE WORDS is a list of 13,000 words which has been placed in the public domain. “No Rights are Reserved,” declares the copyright page. The artist has been accumulating this list of words for the past ten years and is now making it available to anyone for any use whatsoever.

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bio:
Sal Randolph lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving gift economies and social architectures, including Free Words, the Free Biennial and Free Manifesta. She has recently been developing new work in the areas of open source/copyleft music distribution (Opsound) and political organization (Opcopy).

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Sal Randolph
Opsound Audio Blog



Opsound Audio Blog
What is the sound of psychogeography? The moody ambience of car tires on a wet street. The scuff of walking. Little snippets of overheard conversation. Music from the open door of a bar you're passing. During the days of the pys-geo-con participants in New York and anywhere will be able to phone into the the Opsound audio blog and record psychogeographic reports. Results will instantly be posted as streaming mp3s to the audioblog site where they can be heard from anywhere, and also remixed, rearranged and incorporated into other music and sound pieces.

Logistics: How to phone in your report: call the audioblog number: 1-661-716-BLOG (1-661-716-2564). When the voice asks you for your 'primary telephone number' enter 212-212-2121. Your pin code is 2121. Anyone can call, and reports can be up to two minutes in length. You are encouraged to begin by saying who and where you are, and your report can include both verbal descriptions and (loud) ambiences.

About Opsound: Opsound is an experimental record label. It is a kind of
laboratory for looking at how artists can release music in a way that is 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 Oposound (and other) microlabels both on the internet and in the physical world.