The Man in Black / Drone Harness
This is a record album from longtime collaborators Jonathan Bepler and Matthew Barney titled The Man in Black/ Drone Harness. Two-sided vinyl picture disk and folio jacket printed in four-colors on paperboard, gatefold sleeve showing images from the film which Barney regards as a sculpture. Houdini as the grandfather of Gary Gilmore, blood sacrifice to access Morman heaven, stunning landscapes and speed metal - signed by both Barney and Bepler on the center of the actual record.gatefold pic:
extended play
Awesome catalogue for a record exhibition curated by Christian Marclay & Ursula Block in the format of a box (sized 18 x 18 x 1.5 cm) including 51 single sheets (with texts, statements of the artists) and 1 flexidisc, 17 cm, 33 RPM, with excerpts from exhibited records. Emily Harvey Gallery, New York 1988. Long out of print
François Dufrêne
2007 release. François Dufrêne (1930-1982) is one of the leading artists from the post-War European and French art scene. He played a key role in many of the initiatives of Lettrism, Nouveau Réalisme and sound poetry. In François Dufrêne's oeuvre, art and poetry intersect in a reciprocal experimentation of the possibilities of transgression of their specific grammars. His oeuvre constitutes a singular example of this special relationship between art and language, which throughout the 20th centur…
Gehorlose Musik
During the years 1980-87, German trio Die Tödliche Doris was absolutely legendary in the Berlin underground music and art scene. Embodying the pure, obscure spirit of "neue deutsche welle," their releases and live shows revealed a raw post-punk sensibility with performance art. Die Todliche Doris are still widely considered one of the most radical, intelligent and influential German avantgarde bands of the last two decades. Now this DVD brings the music of the legendary, long unavailable LP Gehö…
Old Souls Wearing New Cloths
Restocked, last copies: limited edition of 323 copies, this LP is a live recording for piano, voice and electronics. Issued in a beautiful red vinyl pressing, it's a terrific minimal droning piano in La Mount Young vein
Meditations 18.2
RESTOCKED, last copies rare edition of 150 Copies only in white vinyl, with biographical insert and full color cover. Highly recommended document of fluxus member Joe Jones.
Fluxus Anthology Volume 1
2004 release; essential overview of the various fluxus artists’ dabblings w/ sound, covering work recorded between 1961 and 1995. Highlights include: Dick Higgins’ 1961 “in memorian” (”the piece was made by assembling loops of a dub of a phonograph record of 16th century dance music. the dance is heard, simultaneously, up the 16 times as slow as the original, backwards as well as forwards, giving a sort of cinematic effect”). Robert Watts’s 1969 “string record composition” (simply astounding ear…
Piano Work
Another outstanding slab of 'Lo-Fi What The Fuck Is Going On?' from one of my heros... I know alot of you noise heads will be turned off by the 'piano' in the title...but man... no one has ever made more CRUDE sounds on a piano than corner... seriously... have no clue WHAT The fuck is going on... think he is just banging on the outside of the piano and throwing stuff at it... people are talkin...coughing...hangin out...at one point someone even fucking SITS on the microphone...Edition of 300 cop…
Greetings From 'L', We Are All Green
LAST COPIES, price reduced....Awesome and rare album by the french Fluxus artist, filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and Happenings maestro Robert Filliou, in a limited, numbered edition of 150 copies. Performed in 1977 at Judson Church November 18, 1977.Includes insert with biographical information.
Robert Filliou (born 1926 in Sauve, South of France) took 1943 part in the Re'sistance. After the end of World War II he moved to the U.S., worked there for the Coca-Cola company and studied econo…
Auftauchen
John Duncan: Mayday (1983) / Le Donne-Bhennet: Might Find Land 1980) / Tom Marioni: Drum Crushing (on Sand Paper) ( 1978). Edition of 99 copies.
the glass orchestra
Glass Orchestra was a Toronto-based new music ensemble that works exclusively in the medium of glass, employing custom- or hand-made instruments (eg, glass harmonica, flute, xylophone) and 'found' objects (bowls, wine glasses, bottles, tubes, etc). The Glass Orchestra dates its beginnings to late 1977, it was based initially at the Music Gallery and has given many of its concerts in museums and art galleries. The ensemble performed at the Ontario Science Centre in 1979, 1987 and 1988, at Expo 86…
October 25th, 2001. Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
In 2001 Thomas Buckner organized a series of concerts at the Merkin Hall in New York City asking contemporary classic composers to perform together with another artist of their choice. When Robert Ashley – already one of the most anticipated guests – decided to invite his old friend Walter Marchetti to perform together, the peak event of the series was set. It was the first concert of Italian composer Marchetti in the States for more than 30 years.The night of October 25th, 2001, the audience at…
De musicorum infelicitate
edition limited to 300 copies only, and long sold out now, the spectacular hardcover book and gatefold double LP presentation... "Two years ago Alga Marghen issued the third compact disc by Walter Marchetti, the mysterious and inaccessible De musicorum infelicitate. The edition included a folded poster with the presentation written by Gabriele Bonomo, a series of aphorisms to introduce the listeners to this work. The composer had then decided to let this edition circulate with no extra informati…
bradycard
bradycard, a medical term means: to have a very slow heart-rhythm, mostly under 60 beats per minute. the soundwork consists of digitally processed hackbrett (cymbalon), a combination of minimal digital soundscapes, fieldrecordings and acoustic phrases. it is built of very slow, from meditative to almost lethargic gestures that bring the mind into a smoothly, flowing state.
>momentum<
This CD contains tracks that are based on works for specific spatial and temporal conditions. Sound installations are very different from compositions for CD, because circumstances differ widely from one situation to the other. In general, my approach to sound installations is more conceptual and systematic than my approach to sound works for CD. The spaces and events involved demand a more specific response to composing than the loudspeakers in my studio …
Musica Iconologos
A surprising release from the radical Fluxus composer, Yasunao Tone
- an encoded description of the visual image in utmost detail. In the
mythical future, somebody can translate the sounds of this compact disc
back into pictures. Personnel: Yasunao Tone and Craig Kendall - image selection and processing; Craig Kendall - computer programming, digital sound creation, manipulation; John D.S. Adams - assistant producer and audio consultant.
70 mph (you have no friends)
rare audio cassette with artist designed black on cream insert and standard cassette casing. Early soundwork by Weiner with music by Peter Gordon. 1 copy available
Utopia andata e ritorno
2006 release. Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence that is an objective future, but, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality -- the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is music's sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the…
The bird of paradise
Limited to 200 copies only, and long out of print nowadays, Walter Marchetti's Bird of Paradise: Hunting in the City. Performance time: from dawn to dusk. Leave your home, with a cool head, and carrying a briefcase full of birdcalls, of the kind used by hunters, as well as a portable tape recorder, slung across your back on a carrying strap. You will use it, at the proper time, to play a tape, which has also been placed in the briefcase. Once outside, you begin your performance of 'The Hunt' by…
Nei mari del Sud. Musica in secca
Walter Marchetti's Nei mari del Sud may be regarded as the 'epitome' work of all his recent musical output. Firstly for it represents the original re-elaboration of a former work achieved in 1982; secondly, the manipulation techniques here applied rise in the same principles formerly developed for recording the Antibarbarus set of pieces, a cycle to which the new work therefore refers in terms of an ideal continuity, though it preserves some peculiar characters strictly connected with the source…