Materialien Zur Postmoderne In Bild Und Ton
"Claus Bohmler works with the media. Since they seem to function so well, he takes them apart, examines them, and then, perhaps, assembles them anew. This process doesnt create chic elements for the living rooms of the communication-theorists, the…
Quarter Tone Music - Musique Ultrachromatique
Rare and long deleted double LP focused on the microtonal work of Ivan Wyschnegradsky. The result is one of the most unique concept albums ever created, presenting complex, strange, and beautiful atonalities perhaps only hinted of in the work of Wysc…
Bismarckstrasse 50
original One sided 7" flexi-disc in clear green vinyl. Record was part of the invitation card for Knoebel's exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Möller in Otterlo, Netherland, in 1983 and repackaged in 1998 in a beautiful 3-fold cover for the Galer…
sounds for 4 cinema
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art., 1968, First Edition. EvaTone Soundsheet in Wrappers, Square 8vo, 4pp, 4 b&w illustrations, 2 sided EvaTone 7 inch 33 1/3 flexi-disc. This is the audio documentation of Happenings/Performance artist Robert Whitman…
La pleine des respirs
Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri chopin (born 1922), produced and recorded november 2003 - january 2004. Mastered and cut june 2006 by Rashad Becker-D&M. Edition of 491 copies in printed glossy outer- and innersleeve, with …
De Gelofte
The rawness of untreated acoustic instruments, and the raw playing of objects, without any effects, is like dopamine to me. It connects me to life and my Self on the deepest level possible. No make up, no fashion-style, just raw energy put straigh…
DE GEDACHTE
The most evident sound is a shrieking, frictional rubbing of strings and/or metals - like a wrecked violin or a creaking door's noise, but not quite. It's incessant, uneasy, anarchic and unclassifiable."(Massimo Ricci, Touching extremes) - an asto…
Klankteksten ? Konkrete Poëzie Visuele Teksten
This is one of the rarest and earlier sound poetry LP compilation, issued for the 1971 Amsterdam exhibition. 1 copy available
Operations Of Spirit Communications
Die Stadt is very pleased to announce the release of a long time project, an LP by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. C.M. von Hausswolff is a prolific sound composer for almost 20 years now who lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden. He was the founder of no…
s/t
Released in conjunction with a live performance that took place at the 'Lagerhaus' Bremen on 26. September 2003. Exclusive tracks by all three artists. John Duncan's 'The Gossamer Dispatch' is another fine example of his work with Shortwave sounds an…
Three Overpopulated Cities Built By Shortsighted Planners...
Minimalist sound artist CM Von Hausswolff gives his two cents on the state of overdevelopment in various urban environments the world over in this, his second disc for the Sub Rosa label. It's hard to say precisely how the music here relates to town …
Operation of Spirit Communication
Features two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 - in his installation The Complete Operations Of Spirit Communication, Carl Michael von Hausswolff takes up central themes of his previous work and adapts them for a display especially created for the s…
Australian Sound Sculptures
Two amazing sound droning sculptures works by environmental sound artist Bill Fontana. In Fontana's words, "I was fascinated with how familiar sound sources had many possible acoustical perspectives, and how the simultaneous perception of these possi…
To Strike the Iron
Kenichi Kanazawa is a sculptor (born in Tokyo, 1956) uses cut and cracked iron plates mainly. He often performs during his exhibitions, the sounds of plates striked by sticks and scrubbed by rubber balls are very static and spacy like Harry Bertoia.…
Oto - Date In Wakayama 2005
Sound Artist Akio Suzuki carried out an exhibition around Wakayama city (south of Osaka) in 2005. This catalog contains some photographs of installation, interview, drawing and text. Attended CD includes field recording on his action "Oto-date walk" …
En rouge et noire
an excellent and breathy recording with lush piano elegies awash in a radical sonic realm that is profoundly reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine but in a very hectic/spirited way, truly an excellent and underrated recording that explores new piano p…
Polyphonix 1 (Première Anthologie Sonore)
Using John Cage’s slogan “New Music: New Listening” as it's mantra, Polyphonix 1 is a compilation of 27 poets from both Europe and the United States, collected at poetry festivals held during 1979 to 1981. Originally released as a co-production of Cr…
Savinio, Musicien 1914 - Récital Mi-scénique Par Luigi Rognoni
Original copy of this awesome double album by visionary futurist composer Alberto Savinio, issued in 1978 by Multhipla label. A very rare item, original and in new codition, for those into avant garde artists editions, fluxus related, broken music ec…
belle confusion 969
long out of print, Produced in part by the Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music (CDMC), and the Spanish National Radio (RNE). Recordings made between 1990-1996 in tropical and sub-tropical forests of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica…
Musiques Machinales
1 copy only, long out of print - for many years, Pierre BASTIEN has developed his personal music based on musical machines made with Mecano. His orchestra MECANIUM is his backing band both on album and on stage. All this creates a tender, delicate an…