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Hasla (Book + DVD)
"I was in this land called Hasla. A far-off land in which everything seemed familiar and yet oddly alien; a place you have never traveled to and yet which in a strange way is similar to every city you've ever visited, which – no sooner did you arrive – you already left again. At least that's how I remember it. But how can I tell of a land that doesn't exist?"
Hasla consists of electroacoustic compositions that are inspired by a poetry of localization and spatialization of sound. Calmly and tran…
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…
B!AS-International Sound Art Exhibition (Book+Dvd)
*2024 Stock * Christina Kubisch is part of the first generation of sound artists to develop their own techniques, such as magnetic induction, in the course of realizing their installations. Since 1986, the trained composer has added light as an additional formative element to her work with sound. This book compiles works that can be viewed as straddling the border between music and visual art.
The book also contains elements about the history of her work from 1980 to 2000. This is the bookstore …
Zeitversetzt/ Shifted in Time
*2024 Stock *Hardcover, large format. Christina Kubisch (Berlin) internationally renowned for her sound installations and Bernhard Leitner (Vienna), whose sound-space compositions have opended up new fields for media art, have collaborated on projects for the Art Festival "pèlerinages" near Weimar (Germany 2004). In an old castle, Kubisch has created invisible sound zones based on induction loops as well as an installation with fluorescent light and sound surfaces. Leitner has created a sound-s…
KlangRaumLichtZeit
*2020 Stock * Christina Kubisch is part of the first generation of sound artists to develop their own techniques, such as magnetic induction, in the course of realizing their installations. Since 1986, the trained composer has added light as an additional formative element to her work with sound. This book compiles works that can be viewed as straddling the border between music and visual art.
The book also contains elements about the history of her work from 1980 to 2000. This is the bookstore …
Stromzeichnungen (Book)
* 2024 Stock * Christina Kubisch is one of the pioneers of sound art, with numerous sound installations, performances and compositions to her credit, along with an extensive body of accompanying material that actually forms the springboard for her work. Included are drawings, visual musical scores and text and image sketches from the last 35 years, most of which have never before been shown. Topics treated include architecture, acoustics, the composition process, electronic sound generation, ele…
Tokyo Jazz Joints (Book)
Big Tip! Japanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insular worlds where time ceases to exist, removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of this unique culture that captures the transient beauty of these spaces. Established in 2015 to document Tokyo’s myriad »jazu kissa«, the project has gradually expanded to cover the whole of Japan. These dedicated jazz listening spaces are slowly vanishing in the face of changing trends, ageing custom…
The Hub: Pioneers of Network Music (Book)
The US ensemble The Hub is one of the pioneers of network music and live coding. The formation consisting of Tim Perkis, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Phil Stone, and Mark Trayle emerged from the League of Automatic Music Composers in 1986. They revolutionized electronic music with democratically organized composition and performance processes operating in networks and received the Giga-Hertz Prize from the ZKM | Hertz-Lab. The publication depicts the collective’s work in a…
KD – Karen Dalton (Book + Dvd)
* French edition 15,6 x 23,5 cm (softcover) 384 pages (188 color ill.) + DVD 94", English / French (English / German / French subtitles) * Between a film diary and a manifesto on the creative process, this book is a wild and enchanting journey in Karen Dalton's footsteps, the cult singer and her breathtaking voice, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the '60s, and offers an investigation combining texts, photographs, drawings and archives, at the crossroads of the worlds of art, music and …
Fluxus, Events, Music (1964-2021) (Book)
* bilingual edition (English / French) 10,5 x 15 cm 40 bound cards * Marcel Alocco's Events, some poem-scores to be performed in a real or imaginary space. This bilingual edition in a new format is completed with previously unpublished works: "Forgotten Pieces" (1966-1976) and "Rhapsody, Baie des Anges" (2021). These events are meant to be performed again by anyone who wishes to. Some of the pieces in this book were performed on stage by the author during Fluxus concerts organized by Ben with Se…
Diaphanes #10 – Punk Philology (Magazine)
* texts in English and French 22,5 x 33,5 cm (softcover) 124 pages * This issue matchmakes an unlikely couple, rhymes skill with kill and junk with spunk, spells Dolls, Pistols, Clash in Greek and Latin, invites retrospection and opens up future prospects in textscapes and noisy proclamations. What can still be read in past provocations? What freedom forces meaning into text? Why is philology not an island holding off the barbarians, while punk meant using rotten wood dust as tinder? Don't we li…
Polyphone (Book)
* Hardcover 16,5 x 23 cm 288 pages 67 color and b/w illustrations. German & French * The publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition brings together works by more than 20 international artists that focus on the encounter of multiple voices and sounds. Polyphone deals with perceptual aspects, as well as with the socio-cultural and political dimensions of polyphony. Here, polyphony refers to both the musical term and the linguistic definition according to Mikhail Bakhtin, who points to the a…
Teasing Chaos (Book)
Restock due soon * 224 pages 110 color and b/w illustrations * David Tudor (1926–1996) was one of the leading pianists and interpreters of contemporary music in Europe and the USA in the 1950s. His ability to respond to the indeterminate character of demanding scores by composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Christian Wolff and to execute their at times ambiguous instructions was unique and fascinated his contemporaries. In the early 1960s, he made the transition from interprete…
Buried in Noise
Hardcover edition. This artist's book is the first comprehensive monograph on sound and media artist Paul DeMarinis, born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. DeMarinis has avidly followed the development of communication media, interested in discoveries being made in the realm of physical phenomena and the corresponding objects and devices that have been invented as well as in their cultural and social aspects. His works embody an aesthetic culture of invention permeated by a critical, yet humorous and …
Ultra Sounds - The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio
* 2020 Stock * Ultra Sounds is the first study of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES), an early »laboratory« for the production of electronic and electro-acoustic music, and the first of its kind in the Eastern Bloc. It was established in fall 1957. Composers and engineers working there produced some of the most original and often challenging electronic music, »musique concrète« and radio plays of the era. The Studio formed an island of international connection, hosting many leading comp…
Radiophonics Volume 1 - Radiophonic Cultures
* German Edition. 2020 Stock * Radio, which developed over the course of the 20th century into a crucial form of communication, is currently undergoing processes of fundamental reorganization under the general heading »digitalization.« When considered under the older term »radiophonics,« these processes unleash conceptual possibilities that surpass the simple scheme of economization or the acceleration of production- or broadcasting-forms. These conceptual possibilities are addressed by the exhi…
Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music
* 2020 Stock * Sanne Krogh Groth's Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music A Study of EMS – Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964-1979, is the first book that explore the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. EMS was established in 1964 with the intent to create an international center for research in sound and sound perception, and to build one of the world's most advanced hybrid studios. The principal creators of the studio were rooted in Swedish modernism, and had the EMS-pro…
Automatismus der Rotation
* 2020 Stock * 1000 people watching a tractor concert in southern Sweden is only one event documented in this magnificently designed book. "Automatism of the Rotation" presents several of Sven-Ake Johansson pieces of music written for automobiles: crescendo and decrescendo – elements of classical composing – find their way into a world of familiar sounds presented in a new light. Honking signals from cars, the sound of Harley Davidsons, windwheels and other sources of sound are being interpreted…
Light as Air
* 2020 Stock * "I am not investigating in the objective world, I am investigating sensitivity." This quotation of sound artist Felix Hess reveals a lot about his works of art: In his fragile-looking objects and installations he constructs detectors to register sound waves which we cannot perceive because they lie outside our range of hearing. How light changes into sound is just one of the questions the artist deals with in his art works. In another case, the calls of frogs in Australia, Mexico …