Lautlos (Book)
Hardcover, 126 pages. English/German. This publication is an encounter between the works of two artists from different generations, who never met personally although both spent time in Berlin. Rolf Julius, who was born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven and died in 2011 in Berlin, worked in the tradition of a "music for eyes and ears." Nina Canell, born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, belongs to a younger generation of artists whose three-dimensional work has an emphatically non-monumental quality. With an acut…
Resonanzen / Resonances
*2024 Stock * Hardcover, 224 pages + audio CD. Sound art is among the most fascinating phenomena in the development of modern artistic expression. It has changed our awareness of space and made us realize that our everyday surroundings are also resonance spaces. This book documents examples of the work of important protagonists of sound art while also providing essays on the subject from the standpoints of music science, philosophy and perceptual psychology
Sounding Spaces (9 Sound Installations)
*2024 Stock * English / Japanese Book (Hardcover, 80 pages) with interviews and explanations about the works presented during the exhibition of the same name held @ ICC Tokyo, july 11 - september 29, 2003.
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…
103 Arten Beethoven zu singen / 103 Ways of Singing Beethoven (book)
*2024 Stock * English/German artits' book, 32 pages.
Über die Stille (book)
*2024 Stock * English/Danish book, 54 pages, catalogue of the exhibition‚ Über die Stille. Audiovisuelle Installation von Christina Kubisch‘ at the Office of Arts of the City of Kaiserslautern from April 4th to May 16th 2008 in the Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern
Contemporary German Sound Installations: Black listen to red (Red listen to black) (book)
*2024 Stock * English/Danish book, 68 pages, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, in 2003
Klangi
*2024 Stock * English/Finnish Hardcover book, 52 pages with audio CD, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Museum of Archaeology and Contemporary Art Aboa Vetus Ars Nova in Turku, in 2010
El Hotsaren Espazioa. Begiradaren Denbora - Espacio Del Sonido. El Tiempo de la Mirada
*2024 Stock * English/Spanish Hardcover book, 128 pages with audio CD catalogue, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia - San Sebastiàn (Spain) in 1999.
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 …
Contes de sons qui se prennent pour un autre
Surface noise is the inspiration for this recording by Anri Sala. “I wanted to compose a soundtrack that mostly sounds, when played on the vinyl, like one is only listening to the physical attributes of the medium itself: the sound of the static crackling of the vinyl played by the stylus. As if it was contact music. However, in the course of the composition…the crackling starts to evolve, gradually taking the shape of other sounds. One hears hints of percussion and sometimes even distant sounds…
Instruments Inside Out
In her exhibition In a Perpetual Now, Rosa Barba fills the modernist spaces of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin with sculptures, films and projectors deployed on an architectonic structure (Blind Volumes / Backstein, 2021) modelled after Mies van der Rohe’s plans for his unrealized Brick Country House project (1924). Creating a maze of lines and surfaces around the gallery, this streamlined metal form sets the stage—one architecture encapsulated in another—for the artist’s activation of a poly…
Poems: Written, Drawn, Selected And Read By Jimmie Durham
** Limited Edition in Gatefold cover with 12-page LP-size booklet ** Poems: Written, Drawn, Selected and Read by Jimmie Durham is the first vinyl record published in the LP series of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) founded by Marius Babias and Sergio Edelsztein (Ediciones Inauditas). The recording took place in Berlin in April 2021. Jimmie Durham reads from his books Columbus Day (1983), Poems That Do Not Go Together (2012), and Particle / Word Theory (2020), as well as other, unpublishe…
Covering The Surface
Recordings from a multimedia installation with live/sounds performance by Marcia Bassett, Ursula Scherrer and Sergej Vutuc at The Film Gallery, Paris 3.22.2022. Performing schematic gestures printing to light transmission. Overlay Actions Parallel Projections. Visual Marking Variations. Illuminated Light Exchange Form. Expanded Performing.
A La Maison Live
Edition of 30. Limited edition professional archival-quality, Grade-A CDr cover empty chair comes with copy of the performance poster (mini-size). . Images, words, and actions blend and transform space into an immersive environment of rhythm, color, light, and signal distortion created by Marcia Bassett and Ursula Scherrer. A La Maison Live, audio documentation from 2022.03.19 recorded at à La Maison Residency, Paris, as part of the Maison d'hôte monthly program. At the closure of their residenc…
Simultaneous Soloists (Book)
2024 stock. Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. Joseph and Swagato Chakravorty, and visual materi…
Concerto For Modern, Movie, And Pop Music For Ten Instruments And Voice
Artist's book / exhibition catalogue and audio CD published in conjunction with "Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice" a concert by Stephen Prina held at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 18, 2010 and a screening of two films by Prina held March 19, 2010.. For 30 years, Stephen Prina (born 1954) has enjoyed a simultaneous career as a visual artist and as an acclaimed musician, both under his own name and with The Red Krayola. Having kept his artistic int…
Rot - Oder wie Laut ist Schwarz?
English/German. Kunsthalle Fridericianum between 1 April and 10 June, 2001. The booklet includes many images, a foreword in German by René Block; an essay entitled "Pictures of Sounds" by Volker Straebel in German with a side-by-side translation by George Goodman; a transcription of a conversation between Julius, Straebel and Aki Takahashi in English; Julius' chronology up to 2001, in German; and credits in German
Für den Blick Nach Unten (Book)
German/English. First edition. Softcover. 36 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 11 through April 22, 2007. From the exhibition press release Rolf Julius is one of the most important representatives of contemporary sound art. His nuanced, mostly small-format sound installations explore the visibility of sounds, the audibility of images and the aesthetic and ontological potential of silence in the most subtle way. Since the 1960s, Julius, a constant border crosser between music a…
Schwarz Bleibt Stumm. (Book)
German, English. Rolf Julius's rare exhibition catalogue. Paperback, 22 cm, 79 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations.