Antiopic is an

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

in Chicago, Illinois. It was started in New York City in 2002 by David Daniell and James Elliott.

Discography

* Need Thomas Windham: ''employment patterns'' (2002) * David Daniell: ''sem'' (2002) *

Ultra-red Ultra-red are a sound art collective founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Dont Rhine and Marco Larsen. Originally based in Los Angeles, the art collective has expanded over the years with members across North American and Europe. Members in Ultra ...

: ''¡Amnistía!'' (2003) *

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 ...

: ''Ching'' (2003) * Joyce Hinterding: ''Spectral'' (2003) *

Ateleia ''Ateleia'' is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. It contains the following species: * '' Ateleia albolutescens'' Mohlenbr. * ''Ateleia apetala'' Griseb. * ''Ateleia arsenii'' Standl. * ''Ateleia glazioveana'' Baill. * ''Ateleia gummifer ...

: ''Swimming Against the Moments'' (2004) * Anthony Burr/

Charles Curtis Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Sena ...

: ''

Alvin Lucier Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Mi ...

'' (2005)

Live series

In 2004, 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 Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (guitar and vocals). In 2004, ''Rolling ...

/ Jim O'Rourke: ''North Six'' (2004) *

Sakada Sakadas ( es, sacadas; krj, manga sakada; ilo, dagiti sakada; hil, mga sakada; roughly "imported ones") is a term for migrant workers in and from the Philippines, doing manual agricultural labor. Within the Philippines, sakadas work in province ...

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Mattin Mattin is an artist from Bilbao 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 P ...

Eddie Prévost Edwin John Prévost (born 22 June 1942) is an English percussionist who founded the free improvisation group, AMM. Early years Of Huguenot heritage, Prévost's silk weaving ancestors moved to Spitalfields in the late 17th century. He was bor ...

/Mark Wastell/Margarida Garcia/ Rhodri Davies): ''Never Give Up on the Margins of Logic'' (2004) *

Tetuzi Akiyama Tetuzi Akiyama (Akiyama Tetsuji) (born 13 April 1964) 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 (which also included T ...

Oren Ambarchi Oren Ambarchi (born 1969) is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion. Biography Oren Ambarchi was born in Sydney to an Iraqi Jewish family. Ambarchi has been performing live since ...

Alan Licht Alan Licht (born June 6, 1968) 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. His earliest mus ...

: ''Willow Weep and Moan for Me'' (2006)

Allegorical Power series

From June through December 2003, 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."Allegorical Power Series description
on Antiopic's website

Volume I: June 2003

William Basinski William Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic c ...

* TV Pow *

Zbigniew Karkowski Zbigniew Karkowski (born 14 March 1958 – 12 December 2013) was a Polish experimental musician and composer. Karkowski was born on 14 March 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, ae ...

*Need Thomas Windham *

/Michael Haleta *

Nicedisc Nicedisc are an experimental audio/video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quic ...

Volume II: July 2003

With an essay by Jena Jolissaint *AGF *

Project Qua Project A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal. An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of even ...

Sylvain Chauveau Sylvain Chauveau (born 1971) is an instrumental music and electronic music artist and composer from Bayonne, France. Background Sylvain Chauveau was born in Bayonne, France (1971), and currently lives in Brussels, Belgium. He is a composer of m ...

Johnny Sinewave Johnny is an English language personal name. It is usually an affectionate diminutive of the masculine given name John, but from the 16th century it has sometimes been a given name in its own right for males and, less commonly, females. Variant ...

* PowerBooks for Peace *

Luxury Estates Luxury may refer to: *Luxury goods, an economic good or service for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises *Luxury tax, tax on products not considered essential, such as expensive cars ** Luxury tax (sports), surcharge pu ...

* Jon Philpot

Volume III: August 2003

Curated and with an essay by

Okkyung Lee Okkyung Lee (born 1975 in Daejeon, South Korea) is a South Korean cellist, improviser, and composer. Lee moved to Boston in 1993, where she received a dual bachelor's degree in Contemporary Writing and Production and Film Scoring (Berklee Colle ...

Raz Mesinai Raz Mesinai (born 1973) is an American record producer, musician, composer, artist, writer and educator from New York City. He has released recordings since 1989 under the monikers Badawi, Sub Dub, Ghost Producer, Psy Co., and Raz Mesinai and is t ...

Rosy Parlane Rosy Parlane, also known as Paul Douglas, is an electronic musician from New Zealand who currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions recor ...

* Toshio Kajiwara *

Julien Ottavi Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * Julien (opera), ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * Julien (album), ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * Julien (song), "Julien" (so ...

* Tim Barnes / David Daniell

Volume IV: September 2003

Alejandra and Aeron Alejandra and Aeron, also known as Bergman and Salinas, are Alejandra Salinas (Spanish: born 1977 in La Rioja) and Aeron Bergman (American: born 1971 in Detroit), artists living in Detroit, Michigan. They are an artist duo producing media, perform ...

Marina Rosenfeld Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City.Mark Wastell Mark Wastell (born Orsett, 1968) is an English free improvisation musician who plays cello, double bass, electronics, tam tam and percussion. He performs solo and in various group and collaborative situations, notably IST (with Simon H. Fell and ...

and Graham Halliwell * o.blaat * Christopher DeLaurenti * Tu m' *psi *

* John Hudak

Volume V: October 2003

Osso Bucco ''Ossobuco'' or ''osso buco'' (; lmo, òss bus, label=Milanese or ''òs büüs'' ) is a specialty of Lombard cuisine of cross-cut veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine, and broth. It is often garnished with ''gremolata'' and tradit ...

Stern The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Ori ...

Guerra Guerra is a Portuguese, Spanish and Italian term meaning "war". Notable people with the surname Guerra include: People Arts * Aaron Guerra, American guitarist * Adam Daniel Guerra, American drag queen also known as Venus D-Lite * Ana Clara Guer ...

* j. frede * Nishide Takehiro * omnid * Freiband * Margarida Garcia * Unstable Ensemble

Volume VI: November 2003

* We're Breaking Up * Lovely Midget *

Presocratics Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of the ...

* duul drv *

and

* Desist

Volume VII: December 2003

With an essay by Matthew Hyland. *

Kaffe Matthews Kaffe Matthews is a British electronic composer and sound artist. She collaborated on the work ''Weightless Animals'', which won a BAFTA Scotland award. Biography Matthews is from Good Easter in Essex, England.Steinbrüchel *

Anthony Pateras Anthony Peter Pateras (born 1979) is an Australian-born composer, pianist and electronic musician. He has released several solo albums and collaborated with other artists. Pateras has performed and recorded in Australia, North America and Euro ...

and

Robin Fox Robin Fox (born 1934) is an Anglo-American anthropologist who has written on the topics of incest avoidance, marriage systems, human and primate kinship systems, evolutionary anthropology, sociology and the history of ideas in the social scien ...

Blevin Blectum Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) is an American electronic musician and multimedia composer. She is celebrated as an "icon of deviant and cerebral electronic music". Early life and education She was born Bevin Kelley in 1971. Her younger brot ...

* The Debt *

and David Daniell * erikm * Barry Weisblat *

Annette Krebs Annette may refer to: Film and television * '' Walt Disney Presents: Annette'', 1950s television series * ''Annette'' (film), a 2021 musical film Other * Annette (given name), list of people with the name * Annette Island, Alaska * Tropical Storm ...

Loren Connors Loren Mazzacane Connors (born October 22, 1949) is an American guitarist who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. His music has touched on many genres ...

* Sinistri * Andrew Burnes * Alessandro Bosetti * Anna Ghallo / Ryan Smith / Chuck Bettis * C.Rosenau / J.Schoenecker / J.Warchol