The Portable John Latham (Book)
*2024 stock* This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham (more information here), presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images, the publication retraces Latham’s pioneering practice over six decades, from the late 1940s to his death in 2006. Published on the occasion of John Latham: Anarchive in asso…
The 120 Days Of Musica (Book)
*2024 stock* 120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.Traitor to his country, Frédéric Acquaviva composes against adversity and for more than a quarter of a century, a bordeline and transgender musical work, with the modus operandi “Never repeat yourself”. “The 120 Days of Musica” aren't Fluxus gags, nor imaginary lettrist works, nor situationist ambiant derives, nor actionist actions, nor contemporary music from ancient times…
Throbbing Gristle - An Endless Discontent (Book)
In 1976 the British band Throbbing Gristle emerged from the radical arts collective COUM Transmissions through core members Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, joined by Hipgnosis photographer Peter Christopherson and electronics specialist Chris Carter. Though having performed previously in more low-key arts environments, their major launch coincided with the COUM retrospective exhibition Prostitution at London’s ICA gallery, showcasing and contextualising an array of challenging objects f…
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon – Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-Run Community Art Spaces in Southern California (Book)
*2024 stock* Before the onset of the social and cultural backlash that was brought on by the Reagan administration in the early eighties, Southern California was ripe territory for the genesis and development of emancipation movements for and by African Americans, Chicanos, pacifists, Marxists, feminists and homosexuals. Starting in the late sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance art, video, installation and collaboration, which led to the const…
Improvising Sculpture As Delayed Fictions (Book)
*2024 Stock* Experimental musician, sound and visual artist Félicia Atkinson (born 1981) lives on the wild coast of Normandy (France). She has played music since the early 2000s. She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don't speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-a…
Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality(Book)
Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, an…
Rrose To The Occasion (Book)
*2024 Stock* In 1984, John Cage gave a concert at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Thomas Wulffen seized the opportunity to talk to him about his work, about Berlin, and about Germany. The hitherto unpublished interview shows this major avant-garde artist in a relaxed mood, perfectly at his ease, though not without a light touch of irony. An historical document.
The Middle Matter – Sound as interstice (Book)
*2024 Stock* This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies. The Middle Matter is a reader which brings together thoughts on the nature of sound; its substance, specific qualities, and potential—with a specific curiosity to its propensity to occupy the spaces in-between, the instertitial gaps between different spaces, times, cultur…
Grau Schweigt (Book)
*2024 stock* Pushing the envelope between visual arts and music, Rolf Julius began in the 1970s to develop his own concept that can be classified as belonging to the young genre of sound art in Germany. "I create a musical space with my images. And with my music I create a pictorial space. Images and music are on equal footing. They meet in the mind of the viewer/listener and give rise to something new." In this publication, Julius shows series of prints that serve as a score for piano and other…
L'Enveloppe (Book+MiniCD)
If you have read his Well Weathered Piano, you know Ross Bolleter's poetry. In Average Human Heart, inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s The Book of Embraces and Jorge Luis Borges’s Ficciones, Bolleter offers more than 100 vignettes (or "left hand stories") primarily on music and musical experience.
Born in 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Ross Bolleter is an avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on old pianos that have been found after having been left exposed to the ac…
Journey To A Plugged In State Of Mind (Book)
*2024 stock* An exploration of the greatest albums, experiences, and tunes from more than a century of electronic sound
From anarchic sound art manifestos of the early 1900s to the three minute radio-friendly hits of the late 20th century, via tape manipulations, WWII surplus gadgetry, synthetic versions of the Beatles, and the development and domination of the synthesizer, the sequencer, and their descendants which form the basic building blocks of much of the music we listen to today, the his…
Music Autopsies - Music Essays And Interviews (1999-2022) (Book)
‘…music can conduct autopsies on received historical narratives and current ideologies of power and exploitation; it can tell things as they were, as they are, and perhaps, as they could be.’ (Benjamin Dwyer)
In this book, the direction of readers’ attention is naturally drawn into music; but more often it is drawn outwards. This is the metaphoric idea of ‘autopsy’: music can not only conduct investigations into extra-musical thoughts of discipline, but also into political and socio-cultural are…
Sinusoidal Run Rhythm (Book)
Sinusoidal Run Rhythm is generated by adding up in-phase cosine functions in whole number ratios. They are temporally and dynamically shifted in their maxima compared to corresponding notated rhythms and feature a physicality that is not present in discretely controlled rhythms. sinusoidal run rhythm thus conceives of rhythm as a wave and clearly stands out from the conventional rhythm theory of a European musical tradition. It opens up an inexhaustible variety of beguiling physical music.
The v…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg - In Search of Freedom (Book)
David Fanning’s book is the first full account of Weinberg’s life and works in any language. Drawing on unpublished materials in the family archives and on the personal reminiscences of those close to Weinberg, he tells the story of a composer who devoted his life to music against heavy odds, memorializing those who did not live to share in his problematic freedom.
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–96) made two narrow escapes from the Nazis: in 1939 from his native Warsaw to Minsk, then in 1941 to Tashk…
Perspectives (Book+2CD)
Very rare artist's book! A full-color book with 56 pages of paintings and visual works by Wolfgang Meyer-Tormin and Luc Ferrari, with photographs by Alberto Ricci. Limited private edition, 200 copies - 75 pages and 2 CDs, English - German - French
Disc 1 – Wolfgang Meyer Tormin– Vom Klavier pour Klavier IV – Sieben Stücke (1987)– Aspekt II (1983)– Vom Klavier pour Klavier IV – Neuen kleine Stücke (1985)– Zwölf Klangfelder (1968)– Aspekt IV (1983)– Von Fern Her (extrait de Vom Klavier pour Klavie…
Sonic Agency - Sounds And Emergent Forms Of Resistance (Book)
*2024 stock* A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic though…
Artists on Bruce Nauman
In the late 1960s, while still a recent graduate with scant means, artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explored a trio of interwoven subjects: the studio, the daily practice of making art and the role of the artist. He outlined the latter, for example, in a memorable neon sign, alongside more commercial counterparts affixed to the exterior of his building. The work’s cool spiral letters traced the claim, at once ironic and heartfelt: “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.” Ques…
Agnes Martin
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Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. Martin attributed her grid-based works to metaphysical motivations, lending a serene complexity to her oeuvre that has defied any easy categorization. Perhaps for this reason, critical and scholarly analysis of her paintings has been scarce-until now. This important new anthology…
Advertisements 1971/1972 (Book)
2024 stock Actionist, maker of objects, writer and graphic artist Dieter Roth created an exceptionally diverse and convoluted oeuvre. In Lucerne he published a series of small ads twice weekly in the newspaper «Anzeiger Stadt Luzern und Umgebung», consisting of an aphorism and signed by his initials. Embedded in advertisements from «real» life, these ads conjured the surreal, subversive side of existence as in statements like «A good beginning is an evil end», «A tear is as evil as a good word» …
Tears In Lucerne (Book)
2024 stock Dieter Roth left his mark in Lucerne: close, long-standing friendships and traces in his works. Tränen in Luzern (Tears in Lucerne) complements the volume Inserate 1971/1972 with material for the original version of the Tränenmeer (Sea of Tears) project that – with its instalments and different stages of development – counts as one of Roth’s major literary projects. An in-depth essay by Stefan Ripplinger places Tränenmeer within Roth’s œuvre as a whole, and an entertaining interview …