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Batee2
*Limited 300 copies* Nervous + Sensitive Egyptian Synthwave with Arabic vocals by Panstarrs - solo project of Youssef Abouzeid who has previously appeared under different monikers such as Captain Solo or YZEID. This LP - equal parts Suicide and Mohamed Mohie - pushes Youssef's detached and melancholic signature sound along radical and unconventional arrangements further into bolder electronic horizons while pulverizing any notion of established verse / chorus song structures. Youssef Abouzeid is…
The Ronnell Bright Trio
*2022 stock. In process of stocking* One of the few albums ever cut as a leader by pianist Ronnell Bright – a player best known for his accompaniment behind famous vocalists, like Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson! This rare date was cut in Paris – at a time when Bright was visiting the city with Vaughan – and it's a stripped-down trio date with a nicely relaxed feel – one that has Bright really opening up on the keys, in ways you don't always hear on his material with singers. Other players in the…
Antico Teatro Da Camera
Having had a good career as lyricist, singer-songwriter Gianni D'Errico, from Brindisi, released some singles in the early seventies that went unnoticed, and an album that was released only in 1976, after his death (in September 1975, run over by a car). The LP, Antico teatro da camera, is usually considered as one of the best prog-inclined albums by solo artists, and a hard to find one! Produced by Equipe 84 leader Maurizio Vandelli (who also acted as producer for the first album by Reale Accad…
Lie Together, Die Together
**100 hand-numbered copies** Lie Together, Die Together is a collection of images that work better as mental notes, sometimes just a reminder of a possible project to come, sometimes just falling for a strange aesthetic beauty. The memory images are at odds with photographic representation. From the latter’s perspective, memory images appear to be fragments —but only because photography does not encompass the meaning to which they refer and in relation to which they cease to be fragments—. Simil…
It Was the Streets that Raised Me
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Coming from a HipHop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines selftaken photographs of our surroundings and found footage ranging from movie stills to reproduced magazines and record covers. Both layers are intertwined in a fictional script, formulating an attitude which links Leipzig in 2010 to the New York City of the late 80…
Triggered Sound
Triggered Sound is Palaver Press’ first print publication, having originally been established in 2011 to publish sound works. This book is a collection of commissioned photographs taken by sound artists, documenting the various objects in our world that playback pre-recorded sounds at the push of a button or the winding of a gear. Alarms, toys, tape players, megaphones, subway speakers, automated messaging systems, samplers, etc. The objects of triggered sound are photographed in environments bo…
Interviews by Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Clara Rockmore, Beatriz Ferryra
Spanish/English edition. Perfect bound. 110 pages, edition of 50 copies This publication gathers interviews with four artists who are pioneers in the in the field of electronic experimental music, Clara Rockmore interviewed by Robert Moog, Pauline Oliveros interviewed by Miya Masaoka, Beatriz Ferreyra interviewed by Jason Gross and Laurie Spiegel interviewed by Dena Yago.
Memory in Motion: Percussion in Surround
“Memory in Motion: Percussion in Surround” was a research project developed to examine how percussionists memorize musical actions within ensembles. As part of this research, director Aiyun Huang commissioned new works to compliment selected existing repertoire. Zihua Tan wrote Sorites to compliment Iannis Xenakis’ Persephassa and Alcides Lanza wrote mnais mnemes to compliment his own earlier composition sensor VI. In both cases, the composers were asked to use the identical setup and notational…
Haunted Bedrooms
Jilk are a UK based collective of musicians, fusing a bewildering collage of home-found sounds with the ambient soundscapes of washy synths, exquisite strings, insect-like clicks and cuts, and huge gorgeous waves of all encompassing experimental noise. Collaboration and open minded exploration are at the centre of all that they do.A year on from their debut release for Castles In Space, Jilk present their new album; “Haunted Bedrooms”. Eight diverse tracks exploring themes of rebellion, protest,…
The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois (Book)
** 2021 Stock ** This pamphlet is comprised of a pair of structurally identical plays, each composed by means of chance operations around the time of the editing and publication of An Anthology of Chance Operations by Mac Low with La Monte Young. Each play is made up of five partially improvised conversations in which the dialogue is derived from a highly restricted lexicon: the first uses words made from the letters that spell out the word “Port-au-Prince” to construct nonsensical “pseudo-sente…
The Destructive Character (Book)
The Destructive Character by the Dutch composer, multimedia artist and theorist Dick Raaijmakers (1930) treats of a subject which, when considered from the aspect of the constant media coverage on destruction -- whether ecological, military, or economical -- should still be our very present and pressing concern. The Destructive Character is a commentary on an essay form 1931 by Walter Benjamin bearing the same title and included in this publication. In his reaction, Raaijmakers focuses on the fa…
Sensorialité excentrique (Book)
"All that man has undertaken and done until today was: only failure !!!! A New Civilization! urgently!"
Tammisalo Tapes - The Final Early Recordings
*300 copies limited edition* Five early tracks of thundering noise from the finnish noise king. While perhaps best known as being one half of Testicle Hazard, his solo CD albums Bats In The Attic and Moon Over Torrelorca are modern day classics in our book, and we just felt it couldn't hurt to have some the recorded steps leading up to those albums made available in the compact disc format as well. Three rare odds-and ends kind of tracks, and finishing the disc is Keränen's Green Car Crash, orig…
Sounding
*In process of stocking* "I wrote the texts in this book as a kind of memorial device to recordings I made in Zürich between February 5 to March 22, 2020. Though not a direct reaction to the Covid pandemic, the transformation of the city due to restrictions of movement in the public space made these recordings only first possible in many ways. Of course, what immediately became noticeable after the first shutdown of the city occurred was how quiet the normally noisy urban environment had becom…
Manual for the construction of a cart as a device to elaborate s
Bilingual edition (English / Portuguese). 21 x 27,5 cm (softcover), 72 pages (17 color & 15 b/w ill.). 2009. Edited by Octávio Camargo & Brandon LaBelle. Contributions by Ricardo Basbaum, Alex Cabral, Octávio Camargo, Ken Ehrlich, Jennifer Gabrys, Brandon LaBelle, Margit Leisner, Josina Melo, Rubens Pileggi, Ines Schaber. Extending artistic research and work taking place since 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil, the publication brings together documentation and related texts that aim to elaborate on the q…
Neum
Neum is a book of drawings, prints and diagrams by eli keszler made in conjunction with the presentation of the neum installation at the south london gallery Ð a large scale piece, occupying a 150 wide by 50 foot tall space made up of 16 overlapped and splayed piano wire, activated by a mechanical system which is featured as part of the group show 'at the moment of being heard'. the book consists of over 65 drawings, sketches and diagrams of various sizes dimensions and medias as well as 3 silk …
Sachez Lire
A résumé of Lemaître's techniques and style, to be able to read his cryptic hypergraphies.
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation from the main group.
Le Soulevement De La Jeunesse Explique Aux Retraites Qui Gouvern
The sociological approach, post- liberal economic perspective and post-Marxist, the new social justice, posterity, the reformist exception a t therevolutionary pantheon. The author draws on the " Manifestes du Soulèvement de la jeunesse ", written by Isidore Isou between 1950 and 1966 to inform the current political and economic situation of youth.
Pure de toute peur
While the institutions keep on celebrating dead artists, Editions AcquAvivA is publishing the very first catalog on the work of Aude Jessemin, the most significant feminine Lettrist artist of the Sixties (and Jacques Spacagna’s first wife). Aude Jessemin has accomplished a very important hypergraphic work that has been totally erased from the history of the Lettrist movement. For her 80th birthday, the book dealer Paul Veyssière will host Aude Jessemin and her publisher Frédéric Acquaviva…
Lettre aux grands de ce monde
For the 10th anniversary of Isou’s death (on July 28, 2007), the Editions AcquAvivA publishes the up-to-now unpublished “Letter to the Great Ones of the World”, which tells a lot about Isou’s strategies at a time when nearly no one was interested in his ideas. Before a flood of academic theses, books and catalogs on Isou (some of them related to the announced Isou retrospective at Centre Pompidou next year), this letter is a good occasion to remember Isou’s so special spirit of creation.