Bodybuilding (Book + CD)
Berlin-based artists Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun retrace mathematician and astronomer Charles-Marie de La Condamine's journey to South America, though instead of the tropical wilderness, they’ve measured the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro. Instead of compass and quadrant, their tools are microphone and recorder. What remains unchanged is the physical effort of exploring foreign terrain. On foot, and with an assortment of quasi-ritual exercises, the artists move from their residence …
Sketches Of Laugh And Decay (Book + Mini CD)
Very nice artists' book from Stefan Roigk. The musique concrète composition "Sketches Of Love And Delay" continues the multilayered black and white illustrations of the book "Sketches Of Laugh And Decay". It reveals the relationship between exclusively graphical scores and formulated sound collages. From the series Art & Theory of Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Vol. 10.
Miettes (Book)
In reading this text, we rediscover the subtle pleasure we feel when listening to Michel Doneda's solo concerts. Beneath an apparent disorder in which intuition alone seems to guide the unfolding of a pointillist discourse, a highly structured thought process emerges.Never relinquishing primacy to the sensitive approach, Michel Doneda delivers a reflection on improvisation, tested by decades of uncompromising personal practice. Like his music, Doneda's writing gives pride of place to the quality…
Ecstatic Data Sets: The Chorismos Apeiron Scanner (2028 Edition) (Book)
Ecstatic Data Sets is a manual for a music-making machine of the near future. Whilst the technology already exists, these ideas are meant as a speculative projection, if read with a sympathetic ear this book could soon transform inside your mind and become the machine itself. Read it like a compressed file—unzip your imagination and consider a future where music can once again change the world.
God Listens To Slayer (Book)
Sanna Charles has been documenting tribes of Slayer fans around Europe for over a decade. She was drawn to their escapism, and the contradiction between this extreme music and the innocence of their often youthful fans.God Listens to Slayer is a snapshot of a culture that has endured defiantly unchanged over the past 32 years, and an homage to true fans around the world.
Ascoltare. Tra Musica, percezione e cognizione (Book)
*Italian language edition* Se qualcuno, mettiamo una persona con un profondo deficit uditivo fin dalla nascita, ci ponesse la domanda “che effetto fa ascoltare?”, probabilmente noi non sapremmo cosa dire. Cosa succede quando ascoltiamo un brano musicale? E cosa c’è di diverso rispetto a quando percepiamo rumori ambientali o una persona che parla? È possibile pensare l’ascolto in modo da non doversi limitare a un solo specifico caso, come quello della musica, ma da poter affrontare la diversità d…
Switched On – The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women (Book)
** Hardcover. English edition. ** The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music. The book has been edited by independent curator, researcher and label head of Buh Records, Luis Alvarado, and experimental musician, multimedia artist and researcher Alejandra Cárdenas (also known as Ale Hop). Composers and sound artists featured in this historical account include: Alicia Urreta, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elsa Justel, Eulalia Bernard, Graciela Castillo, H…
Dark Sound (Book + CD)
The book contains Ecopolitik, an introduction as an epilogue by José Luis Espejo, a letter to the Huaorani people, two research texts and one bertso, descriptive texts and photos of recordings, a possible chronology, a glossary, a compilation of several texts with testimonies, reports and declarations from different people, groups, institutions, and publications in reference to the impact—direct or indirect—of the noise from the oil industry during its various phases of development on the peopl…
FO(A)RM N°4 (Magazine + CD)
FO(A)RM no. 4 (topography) treats the movement over, through or across a landscape and the act of documenting, utilizing or noticing an interaction with that landscape. It concerns a mapping of the points between self and space – traversing and/or transforming natural and urban environments. Within these pages, intelligent perspectives find fertile soil.Included within are essays by sound theorist Douglas Kahn (Noise Water Meat) on spherics and and cultural theorist Steven Connor (Dumbstruck) on…
Uniformagazine N°4
Recently The Guardian critic Jonathan Jones wondered scathingly if the late Terry Pratchett might have wanted his final posthumous novel “…pulped by a steamroller”; pulped…? Surely flattened more like. Here, as if plucked from a laundry list, then hung out to dry—aired in public maybe—this fourth issue has once again been naturally attracted to, whilst avoiding, some theme or other.
Five new Uniformbooks titles have been published so far this year: in the spring a new edition of the modernist se…
Uniformagazine N°3
The following commentary was written about three books by Richard Long from the late 1970s: “Throughout these publications, the photographs are definitive records of moments within a landscape, whether of a single geometric form made with material from the particular terrain, or a composed view of a landscape from within the duration of a journey. Where a sculptural form has been introduced into the landscape, this will occupy a central, foregrounded position within the image. The language is di…
Unshelfmarked - Reconceiving The Artists' Book (Book)
In Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists’ book, Michael Hampton vets the medium’s history, postulating a new timeline that challenges the orthodox view of the artists’ book as a form largely peculiar to the twentieth century. Post-Deweyed, these works form an entirely new corpus, showcasing the artists’ book not as a by-product of the book per se, but both its antecedent and post-digital flowering, many salient twentieth-century features proleptically flickering here and there through time, it…
A Worm's Eye View From a Bird's Beak (Book)
A career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon's scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-color documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and performances. The publication features newly commissioned texts including three long-form essays by Aruna D'Souza, Anthony Huberman, and Dylan Robinson/Patrick Nickleson; experimental short-form writing by Raven Chacon, Lou Cornum, Ingir Bål Nango, Marja Bål Nango, Eric-Paul Riege, Ánde Somby, a…
Long String Installations 1982-1985 (Book)
40 pages booklet in English with artwork and photos, by Paul Panhuysen and Johan Goedhart which compiles several performances and installations by this two artists around Europe. Born 1934, Panhuysen was heavenly involved with the fluxus-related "De Bende Van De Blauwe Hand" before founding the Maciunas quartet. Increasingly concentrated in sound-art, he went on to produce the remarcable sound installations known as "Long String Installations"·
Since 1982 Panhuysen has created over 200 such …
Audio Erotica, Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s–1980s (Book)
An archive of aural sensations past, teeming with rare and previously unpublished vintage hi-fi brochures Remember roller-skating while wearing your first Walkman? Or relaxing to easy listening in your pure white Philips lounge? Or playing chess on your JVC tabletop radio? All these scenarios can be found in the geeky and rarefied world of the vintage hi-fi brochure, where graphic design and acoustic apparatus make magical music together.From austere postwar Britain to poppy pre-millennium Japan…
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely (Book + CD)
** 2024 Stock **360-page hardback biography with CD, includes 290 sepia photographs
CD features rare and electrifying audio recordings of Pentecostal worship services in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia accompanied by a fiery sermon preached by Brother Claude Ely.Penned by Macel Ely II, Ain’t No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely is written as an oral, biographical history taken from the recorded interviews of more than 1,000 people in the Appalachian Mountains who knew Broth…
Cordiox (Book)
** 2024 Stock ** This catalogue book gathers for the first time the work of artist/inventor Ariel Guzik, focusing on the sound experiment he carried out for his project Cordiox: a monumental stringed instrument animated by invisible magnetic forces. The project, chosen to represent Mexico at the 55th Venice Biennial, is examined in this bilingual (Spanish/English) edition in an introductory essay by curator Itala Schmelz and texts by Osvaldo Sanchez, Karla Jasso, Maria Paz Amaro, and Ariel Guzik…
Ear Lights, Eye Sounds. Expanded Cracked Everyday Electronics (Book)
** 2024 Stock ** This book about the experimental musician Andy Guhl at first looks loud and somewhat confusing, but this is part of its programmatic intent. It is a reference to Guhl’s musical credo: for four decades, he has often moved on the border between music and noise with his disassembled and rewired everyday electronic devices. In addition, two important design decisions remind the reader that a book, like live music, has a temporal dimension: the left hand pages show full-bleed still i…
L'Art De La Radio (Book + CD + DVD)
** 2024 Stock ** Yann Paranthoën? His name symbolizes the art radio (as they say cinema or art photography). He discovered a way to tell the world through sound, inventing a language and totally renewing the basics of radio broadcasting. In its broadcasts, speech is a material carving, as well as the life of sounds or silences. Similarly, for him, the voice is primarily a music before being meaningful. In both written desecrating the image, he changed the order of things and renewed our relation…
L'Appeso / El Colgado / The Hanged Man (Book + 7")
*Limited Edition of 515 copies* L’Appeso (The Hanged Man) is the first sound work by the artist Marcelo Expósito to be released on vinyl, published in book-disc format by the Barcelona label G33G in its legendary tarot series. Inspired by Nanni Balestrini and Luigi Nono this work is about the current naturalisation of fascist violence and its other side, the difficulty of dealing with the Italian and European insurrections of the 1960s and 1970s. It is intended to illustrate the current global c…