Arbo X
Tibor Szemző is not only a skillful and experienced Hungarian musician but also a media artist with a vast imagination. His last LP, Arbo X – Csoma Grooves, refers to his full-length film A Guest of Life released in 2006, for which he not only directed but also composed all the music. The film is inspired by the life of Alexander Csoma de Körös, a remarkable polyglot from the 19th century who set out from his native Transylvania to central Asia on foot to look for the roots of the Hungarian l…
Landslide
** Edition of 300 ** 13 Presents Landslide by Gianluca Favaron, Stefano Gentile, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Rod Modell. On October 9, 1963, 260 million cubic meters of rock broke off from the top of Monte Toc. It fell into the reservoir of the Vajont dam, producing an enormous wave of at least 50 million cubic meters of water. The dam, completed in 1959 and one of the biggest in the world at the time, did not suffer any serious damage. However, flooding destroyed several villages in the val…
Per Le Strade dell'India
* Original 1977 copies. Comes with a 8 page booklet * voices, small bells, big cymbals, sarangi and drums, street musicians, buskers -- this puzzling collage of a journey made in 1976 on the roads of North India by Aktuala's sitar player Fabrizio Cassano is hypnotizing. It opens the way to the state of trance.
Gradual Small Fires and a Bowl of Resonant Milk
Gradual Small Fires (and a Bowl of Resonant Milk), was commissioned by the university of Hong Kong’s new media school, and more specifically, the work was created initially for Daniel Libeskind’s building for the university’s CMC (Creative Media Center). For the grand opening of the building, several sound and new media artists were invited to create works on site. The work consisted of 5 different pieces – each object constructed of plexiglass, and each sound work anchored by a recording of a f…
Mass Files
From the hands of the Swiss visual artist Veronika Spierenburg, comes "Mass Files", a truly stunning 5 LP box set of field recordings made in various corners of the globe during the last year, capturing the changing sonic landscapes in which we have lived. Political, prescient, and filled with hope and imagination, it's one of the most exciting offerings we've seen emerge from the complexities and challenges of this time, and about as historically important as releases come.
Cocoon
Deepchord’s Rod Modell and Viennese sound artist Marit Wolters join forces on "Cocoon", bringing us paraphysical field recordings, subterranean rumbles, cosmic sounds and deep drones, providing us with mystical sonic environments for contemplation.
Oropendola: Music By and From Birds
* Original 1995 edition, long out of print. * Oropendola: Music by and from Birds weaves together a rich tapestry of music and wildlife recordings from Madagascar, Kenya and Brazil, featuring the songs and habitats of birds from around the world. The booklet provides written information by Douglas Quin about his wildlife recordings and his compositions. It is illustrated with scores and spectrographs. The considerable time and energy spent in the field, obtaining recordings, is an integral part…
Deutsche Bundesbahn
**Edition of 300. In process of stocking** Two previously unreleased recordings from Philip Corner's "Gong/Ear" series of works. Side A was recorded on a South German night train ride in 1990, side B in the Alps in 1994. "Riding the rails. Down the Rhine at-night alone in a compartment making music for my-self with those Korean-shaman-cymbals given as a gift from Ho-Sun Cheon (husband of Hong-Hee Kim who later will organize the festival 'The SeOUL of Fluxus' and invite-me come-and-participate) …
Ki-date
Few copies back in stock, longtime sold-out at the source. This is Akio Suzuki's brand new fantastic item consisted of an exhibition catalog and DVD boxed! He carried out an exhibition at a small museum in Aichi pref. in last summer. This DVD includes his installations, talking with poet Syuntaro Tanikawa, live performances and some past events in 3 hours and a half !! Also small catalog is included many photographs of this exhibition and very rare performances in earlier period. 189 pp, text is…
Seven Sounds, Seven Circles
English Edition, Hand-signed. This monograph is a compendium of Lothar Baumgarten’s work and artistic thinking. The various essential aspects of his work, such as language, architecture, photography and history are highlighted in four essays. A current interview with the artist, conducted by Christian Rattemeyer, a biography of his work and a well-informed introduction by co-editor Kaira Cabañas make this publication the first seminal book on Lothar Baumgarten. As with many of the artist’s previ…
Masterclass
Edition of 150. A masterclass in linguistics and a repeat reminder of the trouble one can get into when carrying a name that is either too long, too short or too complicated for most tongues to twist around. The screen printed image on the flipside holds the key to this mystery. (And if you squint at it for a while it might also reveal Paul McCartney’s real identity.) Includes a bent piece of leftover screen printed carboard and a sticker.
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (b. 1977) is an Icelandic mus…
Punti Sulla Curva III
Third chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margareth …
Stratégies Obliques Ø
Tip! **Limited edition of 200 copies on white vinyl** Over the last few years, we’ve been graced by a steady trickle of material from Steve Roden and Small Cruel Party, each drawing to power and creative rigor of both artists into the forefront of our minds and hearts. Now, the French imprint, Ferns, delivers an incredible split LP, Stratégies Obliques Ø, encountering these two veteran experimentalists weaving startling tapestries of sonic abstraction, created by deploying Brian Eno and Peter Sc…
Snapshot from the Island
A rare pearl of Hungarian experimental music, Tibor Szemzo’s sublime debut album Snapshot From The Island [1987] is widely regarded as one of the best ambient & minimalist music of the time. Remastered from the original tapes, limited edition
An Anthology of Chants Operations
**Edition of 200. Triangular cover** While often laying unobserved below a landscape of the seemingly unfamiliar, experimental music is the imagining of the future, embedded in a quest for fundamental truth. It is a music that attempts to speak of who we are, fueled by curiosity and formed into creative languages that seek new relationships to meaning and communication through organizations of sound. New Mexico based performer, improvisor, composer, and sound artist Raven Chacon’s latest LP, An …
Goat Music
Goat Music is the documentation for David Shrigley’s film, Laughterhouse, about goats whose cries sound like humans. Contrasting the limits of comedy to the unlimited appetite of goats, this artist’s edition is a prime example of Shrigley’s biting humor. Comprising a picture disc and an artist’s book, Goat Music includes recordings of the goats in the film as well as the soundtrack Shrigley composed to accompany the opening performance in Hydra. Shrigley’s project for Deste’s renovated former sl…
Both
Second Editions presents Both by claire rousay. Claire Rousay has been exploring the sensitivities of sound always in relation to "the self" and "the other", equally. Her work is always seen as a contribution, as engagement. Recording, collaging and composing become acts of considering, remembering, giving. Therefore music becomes a context, or more precisely, a habitat. But what does it say about this music when the artistic choice goes deeper, when it is not only an urge to express but to find…
Curtain
Limited edition of 150. Includes 16-page color pamphlet of artwork & text by Baron. Derek Baron is a composer, musician, and artist. Curtain is a diary. Both in musical and non-musical situations, they attribute a filmic quality to their journal-like aural self-documentation. Dreams turn real then dissolve. Single phrases and events arrive and leave, abruptly. Yet, the overall sense of place that Baron creates is understood. Opening Curtain is the eponymous piece. A 21-minute live chamber work f…
Play
Tip! **Very few copies available.** PCT / Oubon presents a sound recording created by Salad for the Shokki's Home Center exhibition in December 2019. Audio is contained on a MicroSD card housed in a real mini-digital player complete with headphones, charging cable and instructions. According to the label, the music is 'to be enjoyed while walking in a park or sitting on your favourite bench'.
Around the Plywood
**300 copies** Document of salad, who performed BGM and sound performance for the exhibition "new lagoon in Hokan-Cho, Okayama " curated by Ayako Tsutsumi (edition.nord).
Salad is a music team consisting of Masami Baba (Based in Hyogo) and Nagai Tsume (Based in Niigata). Ayako commissioned Nagai Tsume to compose the BGM for the exhibition. Masami Baba is a sound artist who has been attracting Ayako's attention for some time.This work is a reconstruction based on the sound of their first performa…