The Ritual Year Book - Dave Pearson's English Calendar Customs 1973-1983
A hauntological beauty reminiscent of Seventies folk horror movies and Broadcast’s soundtrack work
Folklore Tapes: Ten Year Anniversary Book (2011-2021) (Book)
186 page full colour photo book, covering ten years of 35mm photography in the field, stage and studio. Includes essay by Jez winship and archival artwork. The Tenth Anniversary Book is filled with hitherto unseen images and text. Over the past decade, Folklore Tapes have amassed a vast archive of 35mm and slide film photography, detailing their activities on stage during live performances, and on-site during fieldtrips. This behind-the-scenes material will finally see the light of day through t…
File Under Popular: Theoretical and Critical Writings on Music (Book)
This substantial book was written in 1984/85, soon after the band broke up and while memories were still fresh. It was written very much from the perspective of the time – that’s more important than it may sound in such a project: hindsight has its own value, but it loses the essence of the moment, the context, the freshness; the feel of unfamiliarity. Originally written as a master’s degree thesis, it was updated and published in book form in 2000 by the Norwegian University of Science and Tech…
Henry Cow : an Analysis of Avant Garde Rock (Book)
Theoretical and critical writings on Music. 200pp. Illustrated with woodcuts and Photographs. Chapters on Sun Ra, The Residents, Phil Ochs and Elvis Presley, What Is Popular Music?, Progressive Music in the UK, Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms, Henry Cow, Rock in Opposition etc.L
Heads Together – Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73 (Book)
A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
Reminded by the Instruments. David Tudor's Music (Book)
** 768 Pages | Over 300 illustrations ** David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and his later performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity …
We Are in Open Circuits. Writings by Nam June Paik (Book)
* Hardcover Edition. Large size, nearly 500 pages * Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Arguably the most important video artist of all time, and certainly among the most influential and prolific, Paik was a legendary innovator who transformed the electronic moving image into an artist's medium. He wrote incessantly—corresponding …
Hagoromo (Book)
English edition, 21,5 x 28,5 cm (Hardcover), 472 pages. Edited by Luca Cerizza and Cristiana Perrella. Contributions by Fiona Bradley, Luca Cerizza, Laura Cherubini, Carlo Falciani, Chus Martínez, Jeremy Millar, Cristiana Perrella, Marco Scotini, David Toop, Andrea Viliani. The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist. In Japanese Nō theater, Hagoromo is the title of a pièce featuring the fisherman Hakuryo, a magical mantle of phoenix feathers, and a Tennin, a dancing spirit…
Ocean of Sound
Italian Edition. 384 pages «Negli anni mi è capitato spesso di descrivere Oceano di suono come «uno dei libri di musica più importanti mai scritti» e ogni volta la definizione mi è sembrata fuorviante, imprecisa, non in grado di restituire il respiro di un’opera che, in un impeto di entusiasmo, il mensile «The Wire» arrivò a paragonare nientemeno che alle Città invisibili di Italo Calvino». - dalla prefazione di Valerio Mattioli. La straordinaria storia sonora di David Toop inizia nelle foreste…
Oh, Tongue (Book)
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world. A collection of experimental texts, imagined dialogues, news animations and poetic thoughts on life and politics. The book contains an afterword by Fred Dewey and a postscript by poet and Fluxus artist Jackson MacLow. American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti (born 1935 in Flo…
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past
** 376 Pages, soft cover ** Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the mid-1960s and century's end commodified drone- and loop-based records as "ambient audio": slow, spare, spacious audio sold as artful personal media for creating atmosphere, fostering c…
Handmade electronic music. The art of hardware hacking. Second e
** 452 Pages, soft cover ** Nicolas Collins's Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making—as well as creatively cannibalizing—electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electr…
On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement (Book)
470 pages. Paperback edition. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than a classical phenomenon—minimalism changed everything. Its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the broader avant-garde landscape, informing the work of Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, John and Alice Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others.
On Minimalism moves …
An Anthology of Chance Operations (Book + Poster)
English edition ** 63 pages, B&W, soft cover, square format. Includes complimentary A3 poster ** An Anthology of chance operations, concept art, anti art, indeterminacy, plans of action, diagrams, music, dance constructions, improvization, meaningless work, natural disasters, compositions, mathematics, essays, poetry. LaMonte Young and Jackson Mac Low.Edited by La Monte Young in 1961, designed by George Maciunas and originally published in 1963, An Anthology.... contains productions by more than…
Interviews by Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Clara Rockmore, Beatriz Ferryra
Spanish/English edition. Perfect bound. 110 pages, edition of 50 copies This publication gathers interviews with four artists who are pioneers in the in the field of electronic experimental music, Clara Rockmore interviewed by Robert Moog, Pauline Oliveros interviewed by Miya Masaoka, Beatriz Ferreyra interviewed by Jason Gross and Laurie Spiegel interviewed by Dena Yago.
R. Schumann, Balilla Pratella, Luigi Russolo, Edgard Varese
Spanish/English edition. 85 pages, edition of 50 copies. A compilation of seminal texts for the young electronic musician. Perfect bound / ByW /
R. Schumann - Consejos para Jóvenes Músicos
Balilla Pratella - Manifesto para Músicos Futuristas
Luigi Russolo - El Arte del Ruido
Edgard Varese - La Liberación del Sonido
The Guests Go in To Supper (Book)
Rare 1st edition from 1986. Nearly 400 pages, large size, paperbound, smythe-sewn. Texts, scores and ideas of 7 American composers using language in composition: John Cage (Mushrooms et Variationes), Robert Ashley (Improvement), Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Charles Amirkhanian, Michael Peppe, and Kenneth Atchley.
Published by Burning Books, 1986. Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan, Kathleen Burch and Michael Sumner. Introductions by Charles Shere and Frances Butler.
Qicksand (Book)
Quicksand was written to be an opera libretto. But it was written in the form of a novel. . . . I am devoted to "mystery" stories. I read them one after another, mostly two or three times. Some of the best writers today are writing in this form. So, I thought that I would try to make an opera libretto from a mystery story, told verbatim. That is, the libretto and the novel would be the same: no scenes moved around or actions adapted to the proportions of a libretto, just tell the story the way i…
Atalanta (Acts of God) (Book)
Rare 1st edition hard cover. The definitive text of Atalanta (Acts of God) is followed by an Afterword by Robert Ashley. An excerpt from the Afterword: "I had already decided who the three characters of Atalanta (Acts of God) would be: Max Ernst, a long-time artistic hero for me; Willard Reynolds, my uncle, a storyteller to whom I had listened for most of my life; and Bud Powell, a legendary jazz pianist. The "successful suitor" in the Atalanta myth now has three forms (reminding us of his succe…
Perfect Lives
Rare 1st edition hard cover. The definitive text of Perfect Lives is accompanied here by Robert Ashley's plot synopsis and his own candid account of the making of the opera. This is the first publication of the complete narrative of this major work of twentieth century arts and letters. Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan. 8 1/2 x 7 inches, 224 pages, clothbound, smythe-sewn. Published by Burning Books with Archer Fields Press, 1991.
"Ashley calls the libretto part of a great oral tradition, and, …