Fluxus Music
"Where does music fit into George Maciunas´s definition? Where does music fit into Fluxus praxis? Music fit where all the other individual arts fit into Fluxus - into a process of de-definition that robs music and the other arts of media that is …
Who Cares if you Listen
"Towards this condition of musical and societal "isolation," a variety of attitudes has been expressed, usually with the purpose of assigning blame, often to the music itself, occasionally to critics or performers, and very occasionally to the public…
Music as Gradual Process
Minimalism´s father Steve Reich explains his composition method in this short essay which was first published in his book " Writings about music 1965-2002" ."I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening th…
The Art of Noises
Luigi Russolo´s 1914 futurist manifesto on the inclusion of ambient sounds in music.
“Let us invite young musicians go genius and audacity to listen attentively to all noises. Our increased perceptivity, which has already acquired futurist eye, will …
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
“I appeal to the young. Only they should listen, and only they can understand what I have to say. Some people are born old, slobbering spectres of the past, cryptograms swollen with poison. To them no words or ideas, but a single injunction: the end.…
Rotating Surfaces
After his stunning “The Shape of Failures Past” release (Granny records 2013), Yannis Kotsonis (Sister Overdrive, Acte Vide, Knot Gallery) returns with “Rotating Surfaces”. Kotsonis is now introducing us to a less known sonic side of him. He is leavi…
Calls
Calls presents 11 improvised pieces recorded on a reel-to-reel machine throughout 2015 and 2016. Employing a mixed bag of source material and a half drafted vocal approach, these 11 tracks explore the notion of ‘contact calls’,which are irregular, no…
Solo Exhibition
This is a threat! A monumental 8CD box, supremely well-curated (and tirelessly hard-working) "Solo Exhibition" is the definitive solo career retrospective by seminal musician and visual artist Jasun Martz. Spanning the full range of his non-standard,…
The Order of Sounds A Sonorous Archipelago
Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an ‘organ of fear’ and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity, and variety of m…
Music for Public Ensemble
First full-length album by Sean McCann since 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble, built around a fascinating conceptual framework, spanning a wide array of aesthetic and conceptual ideas, many of them outside the field of music. Three years in the m…
Quadrat
On “Quadrat” : Quadrat is the title of Konrad Kraft’s (aka Detlef Funder) newest album, this time released on 12” vinyl. In some ways this album constitutes a kind of continuation of his previous work, which started with Temporary Audiosculptures. A …
Das Tränenmeer
The actor and director Martin Engler has appeared on many stages in Germany and abroad, most recently in the Theater Basel. In addition to acting, he lectures at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin (The Ernst Busch Acting Academy) a…
Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln' s Profile
This two cd set includes remastered recordings of Kelley's 55 minute performance poem "Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile" at Artists Space, New York on dec. 5th, 1985 and the peristaltic airwaves, a live performance that aired on kpfk …
Profondeurs Vertes
Profondeurs Vertes is the title of a three-channel video installation produced by Mike Kelley for the louvre, paris, in 2006. the music on this cd functions as the soundtrack music for the three videos. Profondeur vertes begins with a traditional sea…
Kandor 10
Original motion picture soundtrack for videos originally presented at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California in 2011. Moody evocations of exotic and decrepit alien cultures. Music by Mike Kelley. Produced by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel."
Flüchtige Musik
The trio Argo was formed in Darmstadt in 1985 by Hans Essel (violin), Marit Hoffmann (viola), and Thomas Stett (clarinet). It existed until 2016 when it was forced to an end by the untimely death of Stett. Argo set out to explore new ways of free col…
Overlap - Recouvrement
I Dischi Della Casa Rossa proudly presents this LP record art multiple by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, produced on the occasion of the artist’s new sound installation at La Maison Rouge in Paris. The LP features two identical sides of unmanipulated fir…
Italian Cathedrals, Sound Archive 2006 / 2014
“Cathedrals” (pietroriparbelli.bandcamp.com) is a sound archive born in 2006, conceived and developed by Pietro Riparbelli. Opened to many artists and researcher’s contribution, up to now it has tens of hours of field recordings, captured inside cath…
Ritorno All'Acqua
A composition (based on rough field recordings and tape loops) about evolution, the baptism of Jesus, about human beings who change deeply form and essence in their life time but also about a conscientious involution. Andrea Penso (Italy, 1985) is a …
Plastic Ono Band
This long-overdue vinyl reissue of Yoko Ono's seminal, but massively under-appreciated Plastic Ono Band has all the makings of a classic rock nostalgia trip: Ono, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman. All the …