The Devil's Cradle: The Story of Finnish Black Metal
Heavy hardcover book, approx. 500 pages. “The Devil’s Cradle: The Story of Finnish Black Metal” by Helsinki-based journalist Tero Ikäheimonen is a definite history of one of the most uncompromising and brutal music scenes in the world: the Finnish B…
The Matrix Poems: 1960-1970
The Matrix by Norman H. Pritchard (1939–1996) gathers a selection of the Concrete and Black Arts poet’s work from 1960 to 1970. The seventy-one poems collected here might be regarded, as Charles Bernstein has written, as “sound” poems, being tethered…
Microgroove: Forays Into Other Music
* 2021 Stock * A collection of more than 50 essays, interviews, and profiles featuring such musicians as Michael Hurley, P.J. Harvey, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, Milford Graves, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Koko Taylor, Jaap…
You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen
Throughout the heady years of New York's 1960s and 70s music scenes, James Hamilton was on hand to observe and photograph some of the most significant bands, musicians and performances of the twentieth century. Serving as staff photographer for the V…
Shotgun Architecture
** 2022 Stock ** The sound of a gunshot doesn’t usually lead to quietude, while the tragedy associated with the sound seems to demand this. The bang excludes all surrounding factors and attracts all the attention. In a social way the bang is more of …
Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists
** 2021 Stock ** Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists is the first survey on the obscure and fascinating phenomenon of record labels founded and run by visual artists. It reflects on the way these extra-artistic activities contribute to re…
Sound American no. 26 - The Occam Ocean Issue
Tip! The OCCAM Ocean Issue, focuses on the radical musical eco-system of French composer Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM Ocean project. In a first for the publication, this issue is built solely around interviews with the performers that have collaborated wit…
Behind the facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking** Hard-cover. Cloth boards issued without dust jacket offset-printed sewn bound. Critical anthology of the art journal Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, w…
Black Mountain - An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933 / 1957
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth cent…
The Eye is not the only Glass that burns the Mind
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The retrospective Terry Fox: Elemental Gestures, which opened at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2015 before being shown in Mons, Wuppertal, and the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2017, clearly demonstrated Fox’s key role in …
Sounds Like Silence - John Cage - 4’33” – Silence Today
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The title of this book and the exhibition it documents—Sounds Like Silence—is ambiguous. On the one hand, silence effectively »sounds«—or as Cage put it, »There is no such thing as silence.« On the other hand, sound …
Radio Revolten - 30 Days of Radio Art
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Leading art institutions such as Tate Modern, the São Paulo Biennial, and Documenta have now recognized that an ongoing artistic use of the airwaves has generated an autonomous genre called radio art. Over the last f…
Hearing
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Robert Morris’ sculptural installation »Hearing« includes an audio recording of a fictitious hearing that is focussed on the aesthetic, political, historical and moral views of a »witness«. The work is taken as a poi…
Escalier du Chant
* 2021 Stock. Language: English, German * How can songs reflect political events? How does a song become a political song? The artist Olaf Nicolai invited eleven international composers to write songs that reference political events which were of cur…
Ur-Geräusch / Primal Sound
* 2021 Stock. Language: English, German * “Ur-Geräusch” (Primal Sound) is the title of an essay by Rainer Maria Rilke, which was published in 1919 and subsequently lent its name to the exhibition by Carsten Nicolai that was mounted last year at the K…
Soundfair - Exhibiting Music 2007 / 2013
* 2021 Stock. Language(s): English, German * How can one put music on exhibit in an art context? This was the question preoccupying curator Clara Meister, artist and composer Ari Benjamin Meyers, and producer Thomas Mayer when they started Soundfair …
Notes (8 pieces) Source a New World Music: Creative Music
* In process of stocking * This book was published by Corbett vs. Dempsey and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago on the occasion of the exhibition: Wadada Leo Smith, Ankhrasmation: The Language Scores, 1967-2015; October 11 - Octobe…
Graphic: Design Work, 1959–2013
* In process of stocking * Brochure for an exhibition held at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston. October 8–November 14, 2013. Includes an essay by curator John Corbett. Design by Sonnenzimmer. Artist and musician Peter Brötzmann is best known as o…
Paintings and Objects
Catalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey, October 26 - November 30, 2007. Includes an essay by John Corbett. Design by Kathi Beste. Artist and musician Peter Brötzmann is best known as one of the preeminent figures in contemporary improv…
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium
From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record f…