MEOW 001 [A CAT SLEEVE EXHIBITION]: A MANIFESTO

1. MEOW 001 (sounds like: ‘miauw 001’) is the catalogue number of the first release on the American electronica record label Tigerbeat6, run by pioneer (and cat obsessed person) KID 606.
2. To be part of a MEOW 001-exhibition, there are some strict rules:
   a) A cat needs to be depicted on the front (!) of a record/CD.
   b) The image of the cat can be a photograph, animated, painted or drawn.
   c) Tigers and lions (although part of the feline-family) are not allowed in the exhibition.
   d) An artist his/her name like for example Cat Power, Pussy Galore or Felix Da House Cat is not enough to be part of a MEOW-exhibition. Rules a) and b) do have to apply.
   e) The music itself is not important. It’s about the sleeve (exception: see ‘the ultimate cat album’)
   f) The only exceptions that are allowed in the MEOW-manifesto are:
   
   · Logos of independent record labels that refer to cats (Fat Cat, Asthmatic Kitty, Pussyfoot,…)

   · Small details in inlays, on the cd, in a booklet, on the back of the sleeve that show the love for cats from the artist.

   · Logos and details shall only be a small minority of the exhibition.

1. A MEOW-exhibition should be presented in categories to prove the seriousness of a MEOW-exhibition. These categories include a.o.: ‘Lucky Cat’-sleeves, jazz albums with ‘jazz cats’,…
   a) All rules do apply from the MEOW-manifesto, except rule number 2. e).
   The music itself in this category IS important.
   b) The songs on the album should be either:
   
   · About cats

   · Told/sung from the viewpoint of a cat

   · Cat sounds (meowing, hissing, purring, growling…) should be used
   

1. In 2000 Herbert wrote a manifesto - the ‘Personal Contract for the Composition Of Music (PCCOM) - rules which have defined his compositional methods ever since. Like Herbert’s manifesto, the MEOW-MANIFESTO may add rules in future times.
2. 2. Since a cat has only nine lives, MEOW 001 implodes at MEOW 009.

Also on the 28th of June 2007, from 6 to 8 pm
Opening of SUMMER SHOW with Charlotte Beaudry, Aline Bouvy / John Gillis, Stéphane Calais, Didier Marcel, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Tomoo Gokita, Djamel Tatah, Jens Wolf

8PM
Performances by Olivier Babin and David Neaud