<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><a href="https://wearenotsick.com" style="line-height: 19px;" class=""><strong class="">We Are Not Sick</strong></a><span style="line-height: 19px;" class=""> </span><span style="line-height: 19px;" class="">is proud to announce the availability for immediate remixing of all source material from their album</span><span style="line-height: 19px;" class=""> </span><em style="line-height: 19px;" class=""><a href="https://wearenotsick.com/sad-by-design-the-album" style="line-height: 19px;" class="">Sad By Design</a> </em><span style="line-height: 19px;" class="">at the Internet Archive.</span></h1><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class="">This includes the audio stems of <a href="https://wearenotsick.com/remix#remix-sad-by-design" class="">each song</a>, allowing the complete remixing using any element from the original edition.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">We invite the world to reconfigure, reshape, and re-envision the project into new expressions of the themes we have explored. All remixes will be published on our YouTube channel and will be eligible for inclusion on the next official release from We Are Not Sick.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">Submissions should be shared via email to <a href="mailto:john@wearenotsick.com" class="">john@wearenotsick.com</a>. The final date for submissions is 15 May 2021.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">Please share this announcement with anyone who may find it engaging!</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><strong class=""><br class="">Source files</strong></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">Not only are the source audio stems available, but the entire collection of Geert’s words as recorded for source material of the album have been catalogued and curated – <a href="https://archive.org/download/wearenotsicksamplerelease001sadbydesign/Extracted%20Words%20List.txt" class="">2075 individual utterances of 848 different words</a> are available in individual files, just waiting to be re-composed into new phrases for your own remix.[^1]</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">Or if you would prefer to use some of Geert’s original phrases, there are <a href="https://archive.org/download/wearenotsicksamplerelease001sadbydesign/RAW%20and%20Processed%20Phrase%20List.txt" class="">419 phrases to choose from</a> – often with at least two variations of each, allowing you to find the one that best suits the sound you are working towards.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">[1]: These were extracted from <a href="https://archive.org/download/wearenotsicksamplerelease001sadbydesign/REX%20Phrase%20List.txt" class="">363 REX files</a>, an excellent choice if you are using a REX-compatible sampler such as Dr. Octorex, Kontakt, or most other commercial sampling software.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><strong class=""><br class="">About We Are Not Sick</strong></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">We Are Not Sick is a hybrid lecture/music performance by Geert Lovink and John Longwalker. Combining a diversity of text-, image-, and music-genres, the project reflects on the encroaching sadness provoked by social media architectures.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class="">The first album of material, <em class="">Sad By Design</em>, is available on for <a href="https://wearenotsick.com/sad-by-design-the-album" class="">streaming</a> everywhere and for purchase at <a href="https://wearenotsick.bandcamp.com/releases" class="">Bandcamp</a>. It exists as a re-interpretative soundtrack to Geert’s <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/" class="">book of the same name</a>.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>