a sounding of sources
Malcolm Goldstein has been labeled an “improviser” and a “composer-violinist” (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, “At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation,” and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of t…
Five Sound Installations
Five Sound Installations is a DVD-ROM (for MAC and PC) that contains 5 sound compositions generated in real time by a computer algorithm. The works are: 'Room Piece Twenty-Four'; 'Noema'; 'Steiner Suite'; 'Unintending'; 'Scene'. 'Sound Art, algorithmic composition, chance operations, multi-channel sound systems, immersive installations, computer music; these terms all intersect at a point defined by the new XI release 5SI by MJS. Schumacher is a composer, curator (he runs Diapason, NY's only 'so…
Hollywood
The birth of Akira Rabelais' Hollywood has its roots in the composer's lifelong interest in field recordings and in the desire to create a piece of work dedicated to Los Angeles: Texas-born Rabelais has used a Tascam recorder to capture almost four hours worth of sounds on Hollywood Boulevard, between Betty Grable's and of Rod Serling's stars
the cat inside (+ B. Gysin, W. Burroughs)
An art installment in wich the artist has imagined the room 25 at the Beat Hotel rue Git-le-Coeur, where Brion Gysin and William Burroughs lived between 1957 and 1965. The room was an improvised center of intellectual and creative avant-garde. They used there tapes and tape recorders, they discovered through their work that language manipules us and that one can enlarge his perception fields using language. The question what is the use of a tape-recorder leads to the question what is the use of …
Materialien Zur Postmoderne In Bild Und Ton
"Claus Bohmler works with the media. Since they seem to function so well, he takes them apart, examines them, and then, perhaps, assembles them anew. This process doesnt create chic elements for the living rooms of the communication-theorists, the sociologists, or the simulation-apocalyptic, but rather the same sort of rudimentary raw material as found in notebooks, drawings, miniture cameras, radios, photostats, and cassettes. Its these poor media that open eyes and ears. Not bound to a …
Quarter Tone Music - Musique Ultrachromatique
Rare and long deleted double LP focused on the microtonal work of Ivan Wyschnegradsky. The result is one of the most unique concept albums ever created, presenting complex, strange, and beautiful atonalities perhaps only hinted of in the work of Wyschnegradsky's forebears (such as Harry Partch, Alois Haba, Julian Carrillo, Lou Harrison, La Monte Young, Ben Johnston, Terry Riley, Charles Ives, John Eaton, Henk Badings, etc.). This unique release is the opus magnum of Wyschnegradsky, containing th…
Bismarckstrasse 50
original One sided 7" flexi-disc in clear green vinyl. Record was part of the invitation card for Knoebel's exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Möller in Otterlo, Netherland, in 1983 and repackaged in 1998 in a beautiful 3-fold cover for the Galerie Block exhibition, and published in 120 copies, hand signed
sounds for 4 cinema
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art., 1968, First Edition. EvaTone Soundsheet in Wrappers, Square 8vo, 4pp, 4 b&w illustrations, 2 sided EvaTone 7 inch 33 1/3 flexi-disc. This is the audio documentation of Happenings/Performance artist Robert Whitman's late sixties multi-media installations at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item (catalogued on page 54 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists") still in the unsent printed mailing envelo…
La pleine des respirs
Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri chopin (born 1922), produced and recorded november 2003 - january 2004. Mastered and cut june 2006 by Rashad Becker-D&M. Edition of 491 copies in printed glossy outer- and innersleeve, with text by Henri chopin (original french, plus english & german translations), and photography by Florence Gonot-Yterce.” “Prologue Les souffles”, “La plaine des respirs vivace comme il se doit”, “Finale Les répressions cassées”.
De Gelofte
The rawness of untreated acoustic instruments, and the raw playing of objects, without any effects, is like dopamine to me. It connects me to life and my Self on the deepest level possible. No make up, no fashion-style, just raw energy put straight onto recording." (Raymond Dijkstra)again an astonishing LP in red velours luxurous hardcover box with debossed black and debossed, gold print, Handmade boxes, Numbered / signed. With inlay and personal statement. Edition of 50 copies.
DE GEDACHTE
The most evident sound is a shrieking, frictional rubbing of strings and/or metals - like a wrecked violin or a creaking door's noise, but not quite. It's incessant, uneasy, anarchic and unclassifiable."(Massimo Ricci, Touching extremes) - an astonishing LP in red velours luxurous hardcover box with debossed black and debossed, gold print, Handmade boxes, Numbered / signed. With inlay and personal statement. Edition of 50 copies.
Klankteksten ? Konkrete Poëzie Visuele Teksten
This is one of the rarest and earlier sound poetry LP compilation, issued for the 1971 Amsterdam exhibition. 1 copy available
Operations Of Spirit Communications
Die Stadt is very pleased to announce the release of a long time project, an LP by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. C.M. von Hausswolff is a prolific sound composer for almost 20 years now who lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden. He was the founder of now defunct Swedish label Radium and still is one of the two King's of Elgaland-Vargaland (together with fellow artist Leif Elggren). His works (also under the name PHAUSS in his early years) have been released on labels such as Touch, Sub Rosa, Fire, …
s/t
Released in conjunction with a live performance that took place at the 'Lagerhaus' Bremen on 26. September 2003. Exclusive tracks by all three artists. John Duncan's 'The Gossamer Dispatch' is another fine example of his work with Shortwave sounds and a sort of more aggressive version of his acclaimed 'Phantom Broadcast' CD. C.M. von Hausswolff delivers a spoken word piece for the first time 'The way The Breeze Lays'. 'The Gobblestone Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat. No 8' by Leif Elggren is a …
Three Overpopulated Cities Built By Shortsighted Planners...
Minimalist sound artist CM Von Hausswolff gives his two cents on the state of overdevelopment in various urban environments the world over in this, his second disc for the Sub Rosa label. It's hard to say precisely how the music here relates to town planning: Von Hausswolff concentrates on conjuring the kind of stark, austere glitch-driven soundscapes found on his work for labels like Raster Noton, using what sounds to be entirely synthetic sources, so again, it's difficult to establish any conc…
Operation of Spirit Communication
Features two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 - in his installation The Complete Operations Of Spirit Communication, Carl Michael von Hausswolff takes up central themes of his previous work and adapts them for a display especially created for the series O.K Spektral
Australian Sound Sculptures
Two amazing sound droning sculptures works by environmental sound artist Bill Fontana. In Fontana's words, "I was fascinated with how familiar sound sources had many possible acoustical perspectives, and how the simultaneous perception of these possible perspectives could transform the acoustical meaning of the sound." In 'Kirribilli Wharf' (1976), Fontana's goal was to capture the sounds of a water environment from multiple acoustical perspectives, and to accomplish that he placed microphones i…
To Strike the Iron
Kenichi Kanazawa is a sculptor (born in Tokyo, 1956) uses cut and cracked iron plates mainly. He often performs during his exhibitions, the sounds of plates striked by sticks and scrubbed by rubber balls are very static and spacy like Harry Bertoia. All tracks in this first released CD was performed by artist and percussionist Sachiko Nagata. with 34pp full color booklet (texts in Japanese)
Oto - Date In Wakayama 2005
Sound Artist Akio Suzuki carried out an exhibition around Wakayama city (south of Osaka) in 2005. This catalog contains some photographs of installation, interview, drawing and text. Attended CD includes field recording on his action "Oto-date walk" (hearing the environmental sounds at points of walking area) and performance. Recording and mix by Hans Peter Kuhn. 86pp, text in Japanese, English and French.
En rouge et noire
an excellent and breathy recording with lush piano elegies awash in a radical sonic realm that is profoundly reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine but in a very hectic/spirited way, truly an excellent and underrated recording that explores new piano possibilities. Beautiful digipack edition + large booklet