The Scale of Things
In The Scale of Things Robert Schwarz relies on evocative and enveloping patterns, with strong explorations of natural environments. The implications of the field recordings are given room to develop, but this is balanced with musicality and a pre-arranged structure. Seven tightly worked compositions reverberate here with a particular and abstract essence that is not easy to decipher.Distantly rooted in musique concrète, ”The Scale Of Things” discloses an uncanny, multilayered sonic universe of …
Dark Matter
'I don't do anything special with the instruments. I don't use extended techniques. I use the pure sound of the instruments, with alterations in tuning to make audible [acoustic] beating.' This statement introduces a new Alvin Lucier mindblowing LP record, that includes two compositions for flutes and glissando flute, “13 degrees of darkness” and "Double Himalaya", as well as a fantastic version of the legendary "Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas".Performed by Manuel Zu…
Full Circle Sounding
"Kye is proud to present 'Full Circle Sounding', the brand new LP by Montréal-based composer, improviser and violinist Malcolm Goldstein. 'Full Circle Sounding' comprises the complete recording of Goldstein's headline set at the 2014 Kye Festival, which took place at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY: 'Judson Piece #6 (with improvised violin extensions)', "but one bird sang not", and 'Sheep Meadow (with improvised violin extensions), plus an additional new studio improvisation 'Soundings', reco…
And away with the minutes
This volume discusses the music-related works and collaborative projects of Dieter Roth in Concrete poetry, the Vienna Group, Fluxus and artists' music. It includes a DVD with an excerpt from the video recording of the Abschöpfsymphonie of 1979.German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998) worked in such widely varied media as drawing, painting, assemblage, installation, printmaking, artist's books, literature, action and film. Since 2008 one his most important works, the monumental Garden Sc…
Kew. Rhone.
Released in 1977 the songs on Kew. Rhone. engaged lyrically with three interrelated themes: Omen (the reading/interpretation of signs), Nomen (the power of names, the pros and cons of identity), and Numen (the spirit in matter, the numinous). This illustrated exegetical memoir likewise engages with those themes in an experimental reading and interpretation, an attempt to name and identify some of Kew. Rhone.’s sources, and to invest the material with something like a ‘spirit’.Kew. Rhone. would n…
On Listening
On Listening is a unique collection of forty multi-disciplinary perspectives drawn from anthropology, bioacoustics, geography, literature, community activism, sociology, religion, philosophy, art history, conflict mediation and the sonic arts including music, ethnomusicology and field recording. These specially commissioned contributions explore the many ways in which skilled listening can mediate new relationships with our physical environment and the people and other species that we shar…
Sen No Ongaku
Legendary debut album from Japanese composer Jo Kondo, originally released in 1974 on the highly collectable ALM Records label (East Bionic Symphonia, Takehisa Kosugi, Somei Satoh, Yuji Takahashi, John Cage, Akio Suzuki). Since the early 1970s, Jo Kondo's compositions have stood on a concept he has named "Sen no Ongaku" (i.e. "Linear Music"), music consisting of a "line" of single notes, hocketted over different instruments. Over the years, the "line" of notes has gradually evolved a much thicke…
Opera from the works of Tadanori Yokoo
2015 restock....Very last copies, long out of print: back in 1969 avant-garde composer Toshi Ichiyanagi hooked up with Uchida Yuya’s damaged psych rock group Flowers and illustrator Tadanori Yokoo to realise a double-LP set that would combine Fluxus-damaged pop art moves with abstract acid rock, avant electronic drone, frail almost-songs, rehearsal sketches, big band marches bisected by iron-blue drones, wildly evocative field recordings and intimations of limitless, hallucinatory space, all in …
Wolman et son double
Is it to "en finir avec cette idée des chefs-d'oeuvre" ("be done with this idea of masterpieces"), as Antonin Artaud proclaimed, that Gil J Wolman calls his recording Wolman et son double, in a détournement of Artaud's famous essay collection and "masterpiece" Le Théâtre et son double (The Theatre and Its Double) (1938)? Artaud's Tête-à-tête performance at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier on January 13, 1947, had a major impact on the future sound poets of the "poésie physique," François Dufrêne,…
Driven To Extremes (Anti-record)
Art edition. Limited edition of 30 numbered copies. "Driven To Extremes" displays 4 high definition photographs of car dashboards and accessories as well as one of a huge inflatable. Quality stuff. The record itself seems to be sprayed gold then sandpapered smooth. The gatefold sleeve is itself held together by strong electrical tape.
Hippie Histories
Recordings made by John Chick in Bali in 2009. Chick was one of the original members of the Bardo Matrix crew (along with Dana Young, Gregg Sharits and Craig Love) which was a psychedelic lightshow in Boulder, Colorado at first. In the early seventies he moved to Kathmandu where he started the Spirit Catcher bookstore, which sold booklets of poetry and traditional rice prints from temple rubbings. It was under this imprint Ira Cohen and Angus MacLise published their works. He also ran the …
Hallucinatory Huareches
Edition of 180 copies. Reissue of the Slowscan cassette from 1985. Recorded December 1984. Engineered by Rick Potts & Joseph Hammer. Le Forte Four (Rick Potts, Joe Potts, Tom Potts, Susan Chapman & Chip Chapman) were the original line-up of the Los Angeles Free Music Society or LAFMS. While they were working on their first album ‘Bikini Tennis Shoes’, they changed their name from LAFMS into ‘Le Forte Four’ and used the name LAFMS for the label on which they released that album in 1975. All…
Solo Voice I - X
Solo Voice I – X is the first LP by C Spencer Yeh devoted entirely to the voice. Yeh’s practice has its most obvious precedents in the sound poetry scene of the ‘60s and ‘70s—recalling an outlier group like the Four Horsemen, at their most raw and a-verbal, as much as the circles and canons forged around post-Lettrist France—as well as in figures like Joan La Barbara.
Over the past few years, he has moved from virtuosic, intensely physical performances to more focused studies whose specifi…
Gour
New works by Swiss musique concrete composer and visual artist Marc Zeier / G*Park. Active since the early 80's Zeier was a founding member of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe. He lives and works in Zürich as a composer, installation- and video-artist and plankton fisherman. Gour presents one long composition of his highly fascinating and unique crypto electro-acoustics based solely of micro field-recordings and natural phenomena. 'Musique concrete seems eternally old-fashioned and eternally modern…
Das Munchner Konzert 1974
Third part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. This is the Münchner Konzert 1974 performed by all-star artist line-up of Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus. Originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975. Now reissued as a double-CD set, packaged in illustrated LP-Gatefold sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork), with printed innersleeve and a reprint of the original fullcolour concert-poster by Günter Brus. Edi…
Two Radio Solos
2009 release. Two Radio Solos is a cassette of 2 playing-the-radio improvisations done in 1980, reissued in conjunction with the 2009 exhibition awashawave, curated by Christof Migone. Apart form being one of the greatest experimental film makers of all time, Canadian Michael Snow (b Toronto 1929) has also extensively played piano, trumpet, synth and percussion on numerous records and live performances. His recorded output includes many jazz and improvisation records, with the Canadian Creative …
Lost City
Lost City project started as a series of photographs shot by visual artist and composer Aki Onda in New York starting right after 9.11 in 2001. A decisively introspective response to the major world event taking place, his pictures were devoid of direct references, but documented his immediate surroundings, focusing on how what happened resonated on a personal micro-level.Since 2005, Onda has been presenting this series as slide projections, which function as a visual score for improvisation, a…
Ce Phenomene Negatif d'une Maniere Satisfaisante
Awesome new Lp by the enigmatic Raymond Dijkstra, here playing Harmonium, Tuba, Fork, Feedback and Mellotron, helped by Timo van Luijk at Monochord and Frédérique Bruyas on vocals / from the label press "I remember having walked that Road adorned with beautiful old Oaktrees in my Hometown in Friesland… the Road swirling through a Landscape now filled with old big 19th Century Houses, some in Jugendstil Style, others in a more Classical Style, but everything was softly pulsating… It was covered i…
Poésie Action: Variations sur Bernard Heidsieck
This documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Chamboissier and Philippe Franck, in collaboration with Gilles Coudert, brushes an intimate portrait of Bernard Heidsieck, pioneer in the sound poetry movement since 1955 and founder in 1962 of action poetry. The film takes viewers into Heidsieck's 'double life' as an artist and a banker, exploring his work through a series of conversations and seldom-seen audiovisual archives. Interviews with other major figures from sound poetry add to viewers' unde…
Tsiit lau tsui - Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol.1
Yannick Dauby is a french sound artist based in Taiwan since 2007. He relentless explores the soundscapes of his adopted island through field recording, audio documentaries and community projects. He also composes electroacoustic music and he's often found performing live using found objects, analogue devices and digital processing. He has created soundtracks and sound environments for contemporary dance, public art and films as well as being involved in various ecological and local traditional …