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Ohm+ : The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948 - 1980
met with critical acclaim, this award-winning box set celebrated the composers and inventors who led the electronic music revolution. Five years later due to continued demand from passionate aficionados (eBay sales at $150, etc.) we're now re-releasing the Special Edition OHM+ containing a bonus DVD with over two and a half hours of performances, interviews, and experimental video. Three CDs (42 original music tracks from 1948-1980) packaged in a deluxe fold-out digipak, slipcased with a 112-pag…
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music vol. 5
Sub Rosa presents the fifth volume of the highly-acclaimed and successful Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music series. This installment highlights pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif's "Points, Mouvements"), a country ("Shur, Op. 15" by Alireza Mashayekhi), a studio (Helmut Lachenmann at the IPEM), and historic (François Bernard Mâche's "Prélude"), and radical ("Spectrum Ripper" by Masonna/Yamazaki "Maso" Takushi) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. All this organized …
wahrnehmungen 1980/1981
excellent triple lp / 7” box containing music from 5 separate cassette-only releases on the pre-selektion “wahrnehmungen” label by label-heads p.d. (later known as p16.d4.). A gorgeous set, the first thing on vinyl on demand i’ve been inclined to stock (although i imagine i’ll be bringing in more of these records over the next few months.) those wishing to witness the birth of the selektion universe via a... selektion of noisy, lo-fi tape experiments & general pre/post-industrial sound-smithing …
jazzin the black forest
fantastico documentario sulla storia della label discografica MPS > A brief history of a pioneering jazz label MPS (for Musik- Produktion Schwarzwald) is known as the German „Blue Note“. The label was established by producer and music enthusiast Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer (also named HGBS) from 1968 in Villingen. After he left the SABA enterprise, he made high class jazz productions in a wide variety. Till the 1980s, over 600 jazz vinyls were released in the whole spectrum from traditional Jazz t…
Light sculpture Scultura leggera
an exhibition related to sound, sculpture and light curated by Simone Menegoi and Daniela Cascella, and featuring work by Francesco Barocco, Simone Berti, Gianni Caravaggio, Rolf Julius, Wolfgang Laib, Christiane Lšhr, Max Neuhaus, Gabriel Orozco, Paolo Piscitelli, Steve Roden, Michael Sailstorfer, Hans Schabus, Rachel Whiteread, Erwin Wurm. Awesome book with color ill., 200 pages
extended play
Awesome catalogue for a record exhibition curated by Christian Marclay & Ursula Block in the format of a box (sized 18 x 18 x 1.5 cm) including 51 single sheets (with texts, statements of the artists) and 1 flexidisc, 17 cm, 33 RPM, with excerpts from exhibited records. Emily Harvey Gallery, New York 1988. Long out of print
Fluxus Anthology Volume 1
2004 release; essential overview of the various fluxus artists’ dabblings w/ sound, covering work recorded between 1961 and 1995. Highlights include: Dick Higgins’ 1961 “in memorian” (”the piece was made by assembling loops of a dub of a phonograph record of 16th century dance music. the dance is heard, simultaneously, up the 16 times as slow as the original, backwards as well as forwards, giving a sort of cinematic effect”). Robert Watts’s 1969 “string record composition” (simply astounding ear…
Snatch Paste: An Assortment of Snatch Tapes
Compilation of one of the best DIY-tape labels of the early '80s compiled by Philip Sanderson (former member of Alien Brains) from the three Snatch Tape Compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81) with the odd extra bonus drawn from other Snatch Tapes." Artists include: David Jackman, Storm Bugs, Mannequin Movies, Philip Sanderson, Tony Clough, The N4s, Alien Brains, Karl's Empty Body, Orior and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies.
Zeitenwechsel 2
A beautiful sound art compilation featuring works by Ellen Fullman, Horatio Vaggione, Fast Forward, Takehisa Kosugi, Mario Verandi, Olga Neuwirth, celebrating the 35 years of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Comes with 32-page booklet.
Ellen Fullman: Transmission Particle 1 for Long String Instrument and Oboe (2001; 9:00 min)[Ellen Fullman, long string instrument; Eliza Slavet, oboe]Horatio Vaggione: Scir for contrabass flute and tape (1988; 11:37 min)Beate-Gabriela Schmitt, contrabass fluteFast F…
WRITING ALOUD
Writing Aloud is an anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, and brings together a highly diverse collection of essays, interviews, meditations, visual projects, text-sound scores and audio by some of the leading individuals in the field of cultural and performance studies, experimental music and contemporary art.Starting from the perspective that the sound of the voice is crucial to our perceptions and understandings of language, to the creative possibility…
WOOF 7 INCHES
This CD comprises all four 7" releases by the British underground label, WOOF RECORDS, plus extra tracks by THE WORK and THE LOWEST NOTE. All tracks were originally released on vinyl between 1980 and 1985, but most have never before been issued on CD. This disk features a who's-who of the London art-rock scene from those years (Bill Gilonis, Mick Hobbs, Tim Hodgkinson, Rick Wilson, Andy Bole, Trefor Goronwy, to name a few), plus the Belgian expressionist-singer, CATHERINE JAUNIAUX.Disk Includes:…
WOODEN GUITAR
A simple title with a simple concept. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama …
Voices Of Dada
Archive aural document collection edited by James Nice and originally released via Sub Rosa in 1989. This unique CD compiles over an hour of original sound recordings made between 1912 and 1959 by luminaries from both 20th Century art movements, including: Marinetti, Antonio Russolo, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Wyndham Lewis, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck. Includes musical and interview material, tone poems, and sleevenotes. Artwork…
Variations: A London Compilation
Released in 1995, this debut compilation is a showcase of seven London-based experimental artists. Features John Wall (sonic sampling collage wizard), Andrew Jacques (Put Put member using a microphone and guitar amplifier for disruptive sound sources, sampled by Wall), Crow (great, futuristic fragments of experimental sound/text recordings by a UK installation artist), Alquimia (dream-state mutterings and aura, from an experimental artist from Mexico City), John Grieve (powerful electronic-like …
Variations 3: A London Compilation
A third and final collection of lesser-known and infrequently recorded artists living in London. Features: Syngen Brown (all the music is made using second generation sound sources as well as his own environmental recordings), Wits (first release by four women who specialize in live work. Along with their use of conventional instruments -- voice, electronics, keyboards and percussion -- and a dancer, they also fill the stage space with a huge supply of everyday objects that are noisily explored …
Variations 2: A London Compilation
Second edition of Paradigm Discs Variations compilation, originally released in 1998. Another collection of lesser-known and infrequently recorded artists living in London. Beautifully packaged and musically focused -- unlike so many "experimental" compilations loaded up with 30-second toss offs by "name" artists, this features nine pieces of ultra-quality sound fabrication, with the intent of providing durable home listening. Features: Akemi Ishijima (crackling electroacoustic genius), Michael …
Variable Resistance (Ten Hours Of Sound From Australia)
An exhibition companion compilation for the exhibit of the same name at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held September 7-17, 2002. Packaged in a standard jewel case with an O-card and a 24-page booklet.
UNTITLED SONGS
This new double CD compilation project departs by celebrating the seminal Gesang der Jünglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen. 21 sound artists and composers share their views upon this piece and reflect its groundbreaking dimension, as for the first time in 1956 it fused electronic and acoustic sounds within a new idea of sonic and listening space. With: @c, Achim Wollscheid, Andre Gonçalves, Andrew Deutsch, Anna Homler, Anthony Pateras+Robin Fox, Asmus Tiechens, cmv Hausswolf, Dale Lloyd, Derek Holz…
UNDECIDED
Compilation containing six lengthy solo tracks by some of the most fascinating improvising musicians currently active in Japan. The CD documents a series of lecture-concerts, exploring the meanings, methods and implications of free music, which took place between September 2003 and February 2004 at Mesar Haus in Tokyo.