★The Vinyl Factory
What We Leave Behind: Jean-Luc Godard Archives - Remixes
In a fine tribute to the pivotal events of Mai ’68, Ricardo Villalobos, Jan Jelinek and Petre Inspirescu remix Soundwalk Collective’s collages of archival Jean-Luc Godard material in impressionistic ways for the ‘floor. Across the front, Ricardo V smears the smoky, jazz-wise source material of Death is the Enemy into a bustle of splayed drums and voices with a Gauloises-wisp quality, gradually resolving into a rolling momentum that melts out into a more fractious, psychedelic experience. On th…
What We Leave Behind: Jean-Luc Godard Archives
Invited to explore the archive of the seminal French director Jean-Luc Godard, NYC and Berlin-based group Soundwalk Collective release their new album, What We Leave Behind. Drawing on Godard’s personal collection of shot film, reel-to-reels and historical ephemera, the recordings reveal the moments before and after the camera rolls, from stage directions and on-set asides to rehearsals, false stars and outtakes.“There are boxes filled with sounds, words, chaos, and also silence. For Godard soun…
Power Plants
The soundtrack to Hito Steyerl’s new film installation Power Plants features a new collaboration between UK star Kojey Radical and one of the world’s most influential and important visual artists and thinkers, and a beatific ambient classic by late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota.Exhibited at The Serpentine from April to May 2019, Power Plants features a new film work in an immersive installation that expands throughout the building, it revolves around anticipating the future in unpredictable wa…
Code Name: A To Z
**sold out at source, few copies available** A new project by Ryoji Ikeda comprising 26 sonic frequencies which form an audio conversation derived from the US military use of morse code. Pressed on transparent 12" vinyl with 13 locked grooves each side, the title of each hand etched into the grooves. Released by The Vinyl Factory on the occasion of Elevation 2017, an arts festival in Gstaad produced by LUMA Foundation, where Ryoji is presenting a site-specific installation of Test Pattern.ALFA >…
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cube. Each performance over the course of the exhibition will be recorded, pressed and screen-printed live inside the gallery. The second performance is with Laurent Estoppey.Laurent Estoppey divides his life between the United States and Switzerland. As …
Work n. 117
First released on cassette in 1995. Now available as a 7″ vinyl via VF and Martin Creed’s own label, Telephone Records. The single release coincides with the artist’s hugely popular show, TOAST, at Hauser & Wirth (London) which runs until 09/02/2019 and Artist Rooms at the Tate Britain until 10/03/2019“It’s got everything in it” – Martin CreedSide A All the sounds on a drum machine played one after the other, in their given order, at a speed which makes the piece last …
The Visitors
The soundtrack to the globally acclaimed video installation ‘The Visitors’. Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl. Vinyl housed in a stunning handmade five-panel 1200 micron duplexed sleeve showcasing the photographic stills of the band in situ at Rokeby Mansion and including multi-fold silk art liner notes by Canadian poet Anne Carson. "As with most of Ragnar Kjartansson’s performances and artworks, music and creative collaboration with his friends also play a crucial role in ‘The Visitor…
Sleep/Spiracle
The soundtrack to Pipilotti Rist‘s ‘4th Floor to Mildness‘, the mesmerising and meditative installation showing at Strange Days. Edition of 500. Pipilotti Rist’s (b.1962) mesmerising works envelop viewers in vibrantly coloured kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a ‘glorification of the wonder of evolution,” Rist maintains a deep sense of curiosity that pervades her explorations of physical and psychological experiences. He…
Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty
Edition of 300. Collaboration between artists Rodney Graham and Dan Graham, printed CMYK inner and outer sleeve. Rodney Graham releases his third album ‘Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty‘ in tandem with his exhibition at Lisson Gallery, ‘Central Questions of Philosophy’. Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty is a satiric entertainment continuing the artist’s cultural analysis of the ’60s, which began with Graham’s 1981 video, Rock My Religion a video dealing with the evolution of youth culture during the …
Thanx 4 Nothing
In celebration of The Infinite Mix, The Vinyl Factory release the soundtrack to ‘Thanx 4 Nothing’ by John Giorno. Ugo Rondinone’s immersive video installation features legendary beat poet John Giorno performing THANX 4 NOTHING. In this poem written on his 70th birthday, Giorno looks back at his life – and the people and events that shaped it – with humour and compassion. Performing in a tuxedo and bare feet on an empty stage in the Palais des Glaces theatre in Paris, as well as in a brightly-lit…
Liminals
Artist and film-maker Jeremy Shaw’s 2017 work Liminals is presented by The Store x The Vinyl Factory in partnership with König Galerie at Store Studios from October 5 to December 10 2017.. Originally premiered at this year’s Venice Biennale, the 20-minute film is set against a 1970s cinema vérité aesthetic, and draws parallels between the experimental spiritual gatherings of the ’70s and the effect-laden release of contemporary hedonistic subcultures. It follows a group of 8 dancers as they enac…
Music For Percussion
Ryoji Ikeda - Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and in…
You’re My Favourite Artist
Limited edition of 300 copies. The Vinyl Factory has collaborated with legendary creative director and British artist Scott King to release his first record, an art-world send up and celebrity satire called ‘You’re My Favorite Artist’. Invited to make a record by The Vinyl Factory, Scott King recruited old friend James Fry (Earl Brutus), producer Tim Larcombe and singer Polly Martyn to create a song based on a real experience King had in New York.‘You’re My Favorite Artist’ is a dance track with…
Gondoliers
To coincide with the opening of his major forthcoming UK solo exhibition at BALTIC (17 March – 11 June 2017), The Vinyl Factory presents a new album of music by the acclaimed Canadian artist Rodney Graham and his band. Gondoliers will be released on vinyl and digitally by on 17 March, featuring nine new tracks of lyrical rock and roll. Gondoliers follows the release of Graham’s 2016 album, Good Hand, Bad Hand, also released by The Vinyl Factory and can be seen as the second half of a pairing. Ta…
EP.02
A collaboration between Mexican ambient producer Fernando Corona (better known as Murcof) and multi-award winning French classical pianist Vanessa Wagner, these re-interpretations of modern minimalist scores by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and Morton Feldman bring new life to three iconic 20th century classics. The opening on ‘Metamorphosis 4’ of Philip Glass is carried by a frantic race where synthesizers loops are carried away to the piano, without ever leaving the listener out of breath. The alter…
Cine Opera
Limited edition of 500 copies worldwide, each hand-signed and individually numbered by Michael Nyman. Cine Opera represents Michael Nyman at a creative peak, bringing together the old and the new, a powerful statement on the timeless nature of his work, his continuing relevance, and his enduring success in multiple artistic fields. La Traversée de Paris was first commissioned in 1989 to mark France’s bi-centennial celebrations. Nyman continued to use tracks from La Traversée de Paris in other pr…
I'm Rock Hard (1982 - 1989)
Limited to 200 copies, hand-signed by John Giorno. First release of Giorno’s sound compositions. By the end of the 70s, Giorno had expanded his sound compositions into the world of music, live performance and created his own record label called “Giorno Poetry Systems Recordings” –a platform where vinyl, video works, CD’s, tape compilations, radio broadcasting and telephones could be used as a tools to extend the boundary of poetry and literature. In 1981, when Giorno felt he had done every thing…
512 Hours
2014 Release. * Limited edition of 100 copies worldwide. Hand signed and numbered by Marina Abramovic * 512 Hours is the first major performance by Marina Abramović since her monumental piece The Artist is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2010, in which visitors were invited to sit in silence opposite the artist and gaze into her eyes for an unspecified amount of time. Abramović performed this work every day for three months. In a unique work created for the Serpentine, Abra…
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cube. Each performance over the course of the exhibition will be recorded, pressed and screen-printed live inside the gallery. This performance is from Gunter Muller.Side A: Gunter Muller, 'Refilled'.
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cube. Each performance over the course of the exhibition will be recorded, pressed and screen-printed live inside the gallery. The fifth performance is by Mark Sanders.
Mark Sanders has played with many renowned musicians including Derek Bailey, He…