Resonant Spaces
Edition of 300. Comes with 16pp booklet. The work presented here for the very first time is the full documentation of Japanese sound artist and instruments builder Akio Suzuki’s solo works performed as part of ‘Resonant Spaces’, a tour with UK saxophonist John Butcher arranged in 2006 by the Arika organisation. ‘Resonant Spaces’ allowed people to experience sound in some of the remotest regions of Scotland for a series of site-specific performances in natural, prehistoric, manmade and industria…
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** 500 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music…
Dark Morph
**Deluxe edition. Black printed artwork with embossed outer sleeve.** Collaboration between Jónsi (Sigur Rós) and composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Created as part of TBA21–Academy’s expedition program on the research vessel Dardanella. This album is exclusively composed of recordings made during an expedition to Vanua Levy, Matangi, Vanua Balavu, Vulanga and Totoya in Fiji, except the voices of the Humpback whales recorded in Tonga, August 2018.
Secret Performance: Works 2009-2015
Pairing the "Hommage to Home Electronics" released by Omega Point, this anthology is an archive containing a large number of unpublished documents, which further extensively covers the extensive experimentality of Veltz.This archive board opens its curtain on the silent track "World is Loud". Although Akira Matsuoka (aka Veltz) often presents a silent approach, this track is an artistic response unique to Veltz towards a modern situation filled with too much information and disturbing air. In a…
This Accidental Co-action as an Incident 1972
Restocked, reduced price - Limited 100 copies, signed and numbered. As a co-action by Norio Imai, Toru Kuranuki, and Saburo Muraoka, we inject the sound of our heartbeats into a street corner for 10 days from July 20th, 1972. The heatbeat sound is transmitted through three sets of equipment that respectively consists of a tape recorder inside this cafe, a speaker on its roof, and an oscillograph in its show window. In this co-action street noise and the rhythm of human as a living matter interpe…
An Introduction to Methods from Cognition No.III 1973
Restocked, reduced price Limited 80 copies, numbered. Legendary 1973 recordings by the sound artist Morihiro Wada (1947-2007). When a transition from one articulated time and space to another begins, language is generated as a factor for the first time. When language needs a certain meaning, it means that a beautiful misunderstanding of communication has already begun.I can’t do anything but see a discrepancy between what is actually expressed and me. The greater the discrepancy is…, there is…
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Power Plants
The soundtrack to Hito Steyerl’s new film installation Power Plants features a new collaboration between UK star Kojey Radical and one of the world’s most influential and important visual artists and thinkers, and a beatific ambient classic by late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota.Exhibited at The Serpentine from April to May 2019, Power Plants features a new film work in an immersive installation that expands throughout the building, it revolves around anticipating the future in unpredictable wa…
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*200 copies, LP, 180 gr. vinyl*. Olga Szymula is polish experimental sound maker and performer. She currently lives and creates her electro-acoustic worlds in Denmark. Her works take forms in concerts, records, film scores, installations and performances. She bends and plays around with music forms, combining playful melodies and songs with abstract forms and noises. Her debut LP is "like a toothpaste tube of psilocybin rainbows and juttering dislocations. A sizzle of torn circuitries and bright…
Le Petit Duc
Le Petit Duc [The Little Scops Owl] is a sound work by Danish artist Knud Viktor, made between 1978 and 1983. Viktor was classically trained as a painter at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950’s. Le Petit Duc is primarily composed of recordings Viktor made of an owls nest in the spring and summer of 1978. Narrated by Viktor himself and put together from recordings throughout a whole nesting season, Le Petit Duc tells the story of an owl family. The piece speaks to children and adul…
Gasworks
Gasworks by Gerald Fiebig collects his sound installations, radiophonic compositions, and live performances relating to the former gasworks in Augsburg-Oberhausen. They were created between 2010 and 2016, some in collaboration with colleagues EMERGE and Christian Z. Müller. Among the compositional materials of the album are processed recordings of the sounds of gas and industrial machinery, stories told by a former gasworks employee, and live improvisations in the echo chamber of the large gas t…
Nightingale Cities
Outstanding release. Five years in the making, David Rothenberg’s Nightingales in Berlin project includes a book, a film, many live concerts, and this double CD, including a 20 page color booklet of stills from the film and music not available in any form online. Here’s what Rothenberg says about the project: “I used to make interspecies music largely on my own, seeing myself as some kind of individual explorer seeking out musical ideas with creatures we can’t even talk to. But in recent years I…
Phonopoetics
Edition of 300. Introduction by Henri Chopin. Serbian-Hungarian poet, actress, and visual artist Katalin Ladik has to be considered as one of the most pioneering artists alive. Educated in the former Yugoslavia, Katalin Ladik (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1942) began her career with interventions on Radio Novi Sad (1963–77) and as an actress with the avant-garde theatre group Bosch+Bosch in the city of Subotica (1977–92). Her work is bound to feminist matters in Eastern Europe and reflects the personal, so…
Larry Dubin and CCMC
Original 1978 3xLP Box, few copies available and of course long out of print. After the untimely death of Larry Dubin in 1978, only 47 years young, Michael Snow compiled what he and the group thought were some of the best recordings that really emphasized the unique drumming tsunami that was Larry Dubin. The 3 records gather together recordings from 1976 to 1978. Features artist Michael Snow on synthesizer, trumpet, percussion, piano, etc along with Larry Dubin, Casey Sokol, Allan Mattes, Peter …
Opto_phon
Edition of 300 in full-color sleeve with printed inner sleeve and insert, containing images of optophonic tools and drawings, and extensive linernotes. Barbara Proksch (born 1943 in Berlin, living in Salching, Lower Bavaria) is a German visual artist. After having studied Lettering and Illustration, she first worked in graphic design and theatrical painting before in 1982 deciding to become a freelance artist, concerning herself mainly with drawing. Her works are characterized by her long lastin…
Music First
A collection of music pieces composed and performed by Enrico Serotti (of Confusional Quartet fame) for the works of Eva Marisaldi. "Museum/Art" edition including 16 page coloured inner booklet with introduction by Guido Molinari.
Turva Lingua
Last Copies ** Edition of 200** Turva Lingua is the long-awaited, incredible debut album by mysterious Portuguese actor and performance artist Nu No. But who really is Nu No? Nuno Marques Pinto has been a relevant presence in the Portuguese Punk scene since the 80s. Cutting his teeth in the world of underground theatre through the 90s and early 2000s, he eventually started working with sounds in recent years, focusing on the (de)construction of language and the manipulation of pre-recorded spoke…
Gesti Sul Piano
Edition of 250 copies, historical recordings from 1975 and 1980. Giuseppe Chiari was one of the leading names associated first with Fluxus (being the only Italian member of the interdisciplinary art group since 1962) and later with Conceptual and Performance Art as well as Sound art. Coming from a background of different disciplines, he established new theoretical and practical standpoints in relation to music and art: his approach was always irreverent, walking the tightrope between to do or no…
Live In San Francisco
Edition of 200 copies, with printed inner sleeve. Great sound performance held at with an introduction by Charles Amirkhanian. Enzo Minarelli is one of the most significant sound poets of our time. First and foremost, he is a distinguished, important, even profound creative artist. His body of work, which he most appropriately terms "poly-poetry", includes not only conventional sound poetry, but also embraces inter-media sound poetry (his performances frequently include slide projections, musiqu…
Songbook #7
Songbook #7 is the new volume of Mattin's Songbook series, one of the most interesting works in the current experimental, improv and noise field. Songbook #7 features Farahnaz Hatam, Colin Hacklander, Lucio Capece, Moor Mother, Cathleen Schuster, and Marcel Dickhage and was recorded in November 2017 at Digging the Global South Festival in Cologne, while Europe was (still is) slowly going down. Layers of avant-garde tradition culminate into a set of songs that go beyond themselves. In times of in…
Drums and Nature
Two long tracks from reknowned sculptor Walter De Maria featuring a tribal drumming pattern and the sounds of nature. The two pieces included were originally recorded in 1964 and 1968. Produced by Estate of Walter De Maria in association with Gagosian Gallery in 2016. In the case of Walter De Maria, a seminal figure in the history of environmental art, these recordings from the 1960s signal the role of sound in his early practice. Cricket Music (1963) and Ocean Music (1968), were made during an …