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Trampelpfadnomainroad (Book + CD)
*Limited Edition of 50 copies signed by the Artist!* Catalog for the exhibition about Limpe Fuchs as part of ARTS accents. 48 pages with numerous mostly colored pictures and enclosed CD compilation "Limpe & Ensembles: Aufnahmen 1981 - 2017".
The wolfman
For the performance of "the wolfman" recorded here, produced at the university of california at davis, Robert Ashley used an earlier (1960) tape composition entitled "the 4th of july". that composition changes gradually from a parabolic-microphone documentation of a backyard party into a layering of tape loops and tape-head feedback.Long deleted original lp edition of 290 copies only with detail photo from the performance and full score.
In Memoriam-Ostinato / Danse des Dakinis
Mega Tip! * Gatefold cover. Limited Edition * Alga Marghen presents the last chapter from the Feedback Works documentation series, a brand-new LP including "In Memoriam-Ostinato" and "Danse des Dakinis", two previous unreleased tracks by Eliane Radigue. Among the works of fixed duration from the feedback period, "In Memoriam-Ostinato" is the link between "Jouet Electronique" and "Opus 17", and allows you to understand the evolution of her approach. "In Memoriam-Ostinato" is a game of mirroring s…
Collage
Mega Tip! 300 copies only. Alga Marghen proudly presents the previously unreleased “Collage 2” and “Collage 3 (Dies irae)” for magnetic tape, both realised at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI in Milan with the technical collaboration of Marino Zuccheri. These pieces are precious testimonials to Aldo Clementi’s intense and ongoing interest in electronic music in the 1960s. “Collage”, presents some of the most extreme musics ever issued by the label, at the same level as Robert Ashley's “Wolfm…
Oeuvre Désintégrale
Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist, Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. François Dufrene could be considered the younger of the first generation sound poets. Already in the Lettrist Group when he was only 16 years old, with his own style m…
Relationship Studies
Relationship Studies" LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine, or "Relationship Study No. 1" (1967) and the generally titled "Electronic" from the same year.Sounds in motion like race cars, motor cycles, war planes, rocket ships excited Charlemagne sonic imagination when we was still a young teenager. Then came the experience of listening to the electronic music of Tod Dockstader, Alwyn Nikolais, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaffer, Xenakis and "Poeme El…
Intermediary Spaces
2024 Stock, totally sold-out at source, last copies. In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal. Éliane Radigue is considered one of the most innovative and influential contemporary composers, from her early electronic music through t…
Glimpses Of The Inner Firmament (Book)
* Limited Edition of 50 Copies ** Signed*Very nice artists' book by Margarida Garcia. Limited edition of 50 copies. Signed and numbered.
Briefly, Ballare (Book)
*2024 stock* Briefly, Ballare is an artist’s book created by Riccardo Benassi as a response to an unexpected and enlightening event: in a Museum visitors’ book the signatories made complaints – which soon turned to anger – with regard to a work by the artist in question. So Riccardo Benassi decided to transform an apparent obstacle into an actual trampoline, doing so in story form. The artist attempts to analyse the succession of events, his role as cultural operator in contemporary society and …
Il Giro Del Mondo Con Un Tavolino (Book)
*Italian Language Edition* Era un pomeriggio assolato del maggio 1974 quando Roberto si ritrovò in un mercatino di ferri vecchi a Milano e… fu amore a prima vista. Non sapeva a cosa gli sarebbe servito quel vecchio e rugginoso tavolino, ma si fece guidare dalla sua passione per gli oggetti stravaganti e lo acquistò. Scopri il giro del mondo con un tavolino da Milano a Roma, poi Pisa e Venezia, e ancora Parigi, Berlino, Londra, Amsterdam, fino a New York.
Metamorphosis (Book)
*2024 stock* Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni. Anne Brugni's workspace resembles a sort of paper autopsy gone wrong, with marbled organs, multicolored hides and strange texts scrawled in shaky brushed script scattered around. We are witnesses to a new sort of Frankenstein, who pieces all of these disparate parts together to create new …
Kopioitu (Book)
*2024 stock* A double exhibition, a mirroring situation or a splitting divergent show between Helsinki and Brussels. Cut/copy as a secession from site-specificity.A literary approach to the dichotomy of an original and its copy is needed here. Site-specificity is questioned, as well as the increasing demand of tailored art practices providing institutions and administrations. No precise orders will be given regarding the site-specificity question, so the epicentrum of this experiment is a consi…
10 Friendship Songs
** Edition of 200. Artist book + CD ** n the year 2018 visual artist Ken Verhoeven presented his Friendship Paintings, a collection best described as “deconstructed designs for friendship bracelets”, at Trampoline gallery in Antwerp. The subject: the friendship bracelet. A wristband infused with meaningful (?) symbols. Symbols crafted thread after thread. One pulls a string, and … friendship happens. Or … friendship is being manipulated by symbolism. Not unlike a fetish. Ken Verhoeven upcycled t…
Escalier Sous La Pluie (Book + Mini CD)
*Text in French* A staircase drips, not with water but with sound: book / CD dedicated to Fritz Hauser's impressive "sound drawing" for the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles.
Cordiox (Book)
** 2024 Stock ** This catalogue book gathers for the first time the work of artist/inventor Ariel Guzik, focusing on the sound experiment he carried out for his project Cordiox: a monumental stringed instrument animated by invisible magnetic forces. The project, chosen to represent Mexico at the 55th Venice Biennial, is examined in this bilingual (Spanish/English) edition in an introductory essay by curator Itala Schmelz and texts by Osvaldo Sanchez, Karla Jasso, Maria Paz Amaro, and Ariel Guzik…
Ear Lights, Eye Sounds. Expanded Cracked Everyday Electronics (Book)
** 2024 Stock ** This book about the experimental musician Andy Guhl at first looks loud and somewhat confusing, but this is part of its programmatic intent. It is a reference to Guhl’s musical credo: for four decades, he has often moved on the border between music and noise with his disassembled and rewired everyday electronic devices. In addition, two important design decisions remind the reader that a book, like live music, has a temporal dimension: the left hand pages show full-bleed still i…
Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place (Book)
Primetime Contemporary Art is a publication documenting a radical, two-year intervention by the GALA Committee on the primetime television show Melrose Place. Originally published in a limited run in 1998, this extremely rare artist book is reproduced here for the first time as a facsimile edition.
Mel Chin initiated the loose collective of artists known as the GALA Committee in 1995 in response to an invitation to participate in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange…
Long String Installations 1982-1985 (Book)
40 pages booklet in English with artwork and photos, by Paul Panhuysen and Johan Goedhart which compiles several performances and installations by this two artists around Europe. Born 1934, Panhuysen was heavenly involved with the fluxus-related "De Bende Van De Blauwe Hand" before founding the Maciunas quartet. Increasingly concentrated in sound-art, he went on to produce the remarcable sound installations known as "Long String Installations"·
Since 1982 Panhuysen has created over 200 such …
LLND (Book)
*Tiny Edge Wear* Very nice artists' book by Eric Lunde of poetry and wood-block prints.
Piero Umiliani In Parole E Musica (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2023 Stock * Piero Umiliami era un grande musicista, tra i padri del moderno jazz italiano. Era un compositore di musiche per il cinema: oltre a "I soliti ignoti", ne ha firmate altre 150 almeno. Piero Umiliani ha scritto "mah-nà mah-nà", sigla del Muppet Show, e "Il valzer della toppa", col testo di Pasolini. Ha scritto anche sigle televisive per 90° minuto, la Domenica Sportiva, La Corrida... Piero Umiliani era un artista di talento, ma anche un artigiano interessa…