Two And Two
"First CD reissue of legendary collaboration between Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi." "The performance started with a four-channel ambient sound that continued throughout the whole performance. Since I had no sampling possibilities at that time, all of the instruments were recorded solo in my studio on a Revox machine. The recordings -- one channel for each instrument -- were repeated several times in order to create a kind of 'mega-loop' and the final result was transferred to a four-cha…
Tempo Liquido
CD + 16-page booklet. This outstanding album was originally released on LP by Cramps Records (Diverso n.10) back in the late '70s, and it was certainly one of the best from that series "The performance started with a four-channel ambient sound that continued throughout the whole performance. Since I had no sampling possibilities at that time, all of the instruments were recorded solo in my studio on a Revox machine. The recordings -- one channel for each instrument -- were repeated several times…
Invisible-Inaudible. Five electrical walks
These Christina Kubisch five compositions on the CD are based on numerous live recordings of electromagnetic fields, made between 2003 and 2007 in the cities of Birmingham, Chicago, Taipei, Paris, Bremen, Riga, Tokyo, Madrid, London, New York, Berlin and others. The sounds have not been altered electronically or by other means. Electrical Walks is a public walk with custom-made sensitive wireless headphones by which aboveground and underground electromagnetic fields are detected, amplified and m…
Schall Und Klang
Schall und Klang is the result of Christina Kubisch's extensive fieldwork on the trail of Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966), conductor and key figure in 20th century new music. After moving to the village of Gravesano (Ticino/Northern Italy) in 1954, Scherchen established an electroacoustic experimental studio on his premises and created a meeting place for scientists, composers, musicians and sound engineers from all over the world. Among his guests were Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, Edgar Varèse an…
Lautlos (Book)
Hardcover, 126 pages. English/German. This publication is an encounter between the works of two artists from different generations, who never met personally although both spent time in Berlin. Rolf Julius, who was born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven and died in 2011 in Berlin, worked in the tradition of a "music for eyes and ears." Nina Canell, born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, belongs to a younger generation of artists whose three-dimensional work has an emphatically non-monumental quality. With an acut…
The Caesarean Operation, 1973
Limited 80 copies, numbered. Legendary 1973 recordings by the sound artist Yoichi Niisato. The cassette tape recorder played an important role in Niisato's unusual works - as the recording of his footsteps in a subway car - through a cicle of works titles 'Research' that were subsequently described in his autobiographical book, Story, which was published in 1982. "The break is over, and I put on my work clothes. Don’t be cool. The hands that hold a drill are singing. There is a feeling of cold,…
Gas’ Disk, 1970
Production Gas (hereinafter, Gas), an anonymous artist group that was active in Nagoya from 1969 to 1974, released a 7-inch LP record, Gas’ Disk, in 1970. It includes four songs; “Gas no Theme (Gas’ Theme),” “Uta (Song),” “Proo” and “Hiren (Sad Love),” and the group name and title was branded on the wooden jacket. This type of self-produced record was referred to as “private record,” “angura (underground) record” or “personal record” at that time. The members contributed money to press 1,000 cop…
Permutations (Book)
The first collection of the Beat mentor’s long-influential permutation poems—one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature
Simultaneous Soloists (Book)
2024 stock. Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. Joseph and Swagato Chakravorty, and visual materi…
From Hell To Hell
2024 stock. In November 2008 Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel made live recordings with Jake and Dinos Chapman in the run-up to their "Memento Moronika" show in Hanover. The theme, how could it be otherwise, the hell and its inmates. Its about Lucifer and his darksome paradise, tantalisation and perdition, the evil and the libido. The performance of human monstrosity, its prophets and subworkers, about perpetrators and victims, masters and slaves, but also about transgression, and a deepness o…
L'Orso allo Specchio (Book)
Italian only Pubblicato in Inglese nel 2018 da Vleeshal Middelburg e Koenig Books London, Kunstverein Publishing è lieta di annunciare l'uscita del libro nella lingua d'origine. Il libro d’artista raccoglie i ricordi d’infanzia trascorsa prevalentemente in Italia, alcune esperienze di vita e riflessioni personali sulle storie e relazioni famigliari e il loro intrecciarsi con diverse ubicazioni geografiche.
Ho accumulato così tanti libri (…) tutti riguardanti la famiglia. Tutto questo si riversa …
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (Book)
2024 stock. Taking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York's Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants—Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Bill Dixon, Judith Dunn, David Gordon, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Fred Herko, Robert Morris, Steve Paxton, Rudy Perez, Yv…
Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic
2024 stock. Originally issued in 1959 on Smithsonian Folkways, the initial idea for Indeterminacy came from avant-garde pianist, David Tudor, who suggested that John Cage give a lecture that was simply the telling of stories. Cage did this in Brussels in September 1958. For this lecture Cage simply stood in front of an audience and told 30 stories without musical accompaniment. Upon returning to the States in 1959, Cage decided to record the stories, but this time with the musical accompaniment …
Perfect Lives
2023 upgraded and remastered version of Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives -- in 1080P full HD video format, pressed on double-Blu-Ray (175 minutes; stereo; Region 0/worldwide). Perfect Lives has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s." At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980s update of the mythology of smalltown America. Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolvi…
Nude, Unpleasant or Both
*20 copies limited edition* Off-set printed covers in zipper bags, with stapled info card. Dubbed on red cassettes. Limited to 20 copies.
Strains from a Room
*20 copies limited edition* Xeroxed print on orange paper. Transparent cassettes. Limited to 20 copies. Gloomy lyrics meet delicate melodies and dreamy soundscapes
Rot - Oder wie Laut ist Schwarz?
English/German. Kunsthalle Fridericianum between 1 April and 10 June, 2001. The booklet includes many images, a foreword in German by René Block; an essay entitled "Pictures of Sounds" by Volker Straebel in German with a side-by-side translation by George Goodman; a transcription of a conversation between Julius, Straebel and Aki Takahashi in English; Julius' chronology up to 2001, in German; and credits in German
Für den Blick Nach Unten (Book)
German/English. First edition. Softcover. 36 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 11 through April 22, 2007. From the exhibition press release Rolf Julius is one of the most important representatives of contemporary sound art. His nuanced, mostly small-format sound installations explore the visibility of sounds, the audibility of images and the aesthetic and ontological potential of silence in the most subtle way. Since the 1960s, Julius, a constant border crosser between music a…
Schwarz Bleibt Stumm. (Book)
German, English. Rolf Julius's rare exhibition catalogue. Paperback, 22 cm, 79 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations.
Wind (Artist' Book)
English/Japanese. Small naked speakers, iron plates, glass plates, and sand were some of the materials Rolf Julius used to create a sound space. The sky-like tranquil space was filled with whispering electronic sounds that somewhat resembled the songs of crickets.