Sechs
** 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…
Chöre & Soli
** 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…
7 Tödliche Unfälle Im Haushalt
** 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…
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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.
Installation Sounds
The first collection of works by solo artist "Radio ensembles Aiida" by female artist A. Mizuki has been completed, performing a performance using multiple BCL radios. As recorded in the title "IIn A Room (Radio of the Day #1)", all the recordings were done in her room. An everyday ensemble called Diary, which captures everything from the morning bird cries, to the rain, to the last train, to the electromagnetic waves emitted by PCs and various appliances, etc., which surround her every day. The…
Installation Sounds
2017 Release. Installation Sounds For Voltage Controlled Broken Analog Tv comprises the first installation exhibition at Contemporary Heights, and the sound of the third exhibition from here Art & Space 2016. (The sound of the second exhibition, Ginza kitchen, has not been recorded because the sound source is lost.)Recordings at Contemporary Heights include conversations in cafe spaces and classical in-store BGM. Unintended ambient feeling exudes a mysterious balance. Although the machine has no…
Kinetic Sculptures
2015 Release. Includes an insert with liner notes by Stephen Cornford (Japanese translation by Nao Nishihara and Yoko Sato) and Minoru Hatanaka (English translation by Yoko Sato and Stéphane Shibatsuji-Perrin, and an 8-page booklet with black and white photos by Stephen Cornford. CD compiling recordings of installation works for musical instruments made between 2006 and 2010. Stephen Cornford’s practice exists at the junction between sculpture and music, using sound and noise to investigate the …
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…
Angelic Tecnology 1
Edition of 100, numbered. Reissue of a holy-grail double C45 boxset released on Hironari Iwata's Angakok label in 1988. It features H.n.a.s., Asmus Tietchens, Haiginsha (aka Hironari Iwata), Conrad Schnitzler, Toukaseibunshi (aka Hironari Iwata again), Roberta Settels, Human Flesh (aka Alain Neffe), Bene Gesserit, P16.D4, Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant (aka Achim Wollscheid), The Haters, Defict Des Annee Anterieures and a young upstart called Merzbow.
Voltage Controlled Broken TV Music
Edition of 100, signed and numbered. In the last 10 years Akira Matsuoka (aka Veltz) has established himself as a key figure in the next generation of Tokyo noise artists. His work covers a wide range: metal junk noise, erased tapes, field recording and audio dedications to analogue television. Analogue broadcasting in Japan was switched of in 2011, an event recorded by Matsuoka and presented at the end of this album. The collection of broken televisions he has since amassed have become his prim…
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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Abstinence
“Abstinence” is the debut release of
visual collagist / sound explorer Kostas Kefalianos. It features a
selection of private tracks, recorded directly on tape between
2013-2014. Pro dubbed cassettes ltd to 100 copies.
Promnesia
"Promnesia" is a collection of four pieces, divided into pairs and composed between mid 2014 & late 2015. On these recordings, Alexiadis is using mainly electronics to create unearthly tonal worlds, absorbing the listener into the nebulous environment of his detailed, semi- abstract sonic structures. Panos Alexiadis (b. 1984) from Athens, Greece. He has studied the classical piano and sound engineering. Afterwards, he started research on sound, experimenting with software synthesis, electric gui…
Orphne
“Orphne” (Όρφνη) consists of two electro-acoustic pieces, equal in the procedure of synthesis, using a pallet of processed voices and saxophone along with modular synthesizer and cymbals. Panos Alexiadis (b. 1984) from Athens, Greece. He has studied the classical piano and sound engineering. Afterwards, he started research on sound, experimenting with software synthesis, electric guitar, piano and even toy instruments.
Making Sense of Sound
In 2016, elnicho and Buró-Buró curated a panel as part of the "SOMA Wednesday" program in the context of the elnicho#5 festival. The theme revolved around the relevance of sound in art and the relationship between them. From a socio-cultural point of view, sound is around us and has historically been a vast territory of exploration. How have anthropological, folkloric and vernacular elements influenced our current listening experiences? Music not assimilated in the past is now revisited through …
Sound Before Meaning
This booklet is an attempt to employ incidental movements that are often overlooked or ignored, those winding conversations that inevitably occur between friends who share a passion for a common theme. Over the course of nearly a year, this conversation blossomed out of friendship among the participants. The three of us worked in different fields approaching avant-garde and experimental practice. Therefore, we believe that sharing aspects of these experiences and the conclusions they draw could …
Making Room for Sound
Sound and music seem to have been underwhelmingly part of contemporary museums. However, they are shyly making their way in the area of contemporary art, often via visual artists keen on using sound in their work or inviting musicians or sound-focused artists to collaborate. But how are visual arts curators situated both within and outside the boundaries of institutions, and how do galleries and museums deal with the increasing importance of sound? Does its lack of tangible value make it a less …
Limitless Listening
Keith Rowe explores the nagging questions that the field of visual arts began to interrogate in the 20th century, bringing them to the musical universe under the counter. These inquiries are about the ways we experience modifications to the notion of space in music, the preponderance of the role of listening in the resignification of sonic events, and the timbric exploration translated to the whole world, beginning with everyday life. (...) Keith ignores the disciplinary boundaries that separate…