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It Was the Streets that Raised Me
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Coming from a HipHop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines selftaken photogr…
Triggered Sound
Triggered Sound is Palaver Press’ first print publication, having originally been established in 2011 to publish sound works. This book is a collection of commissioned photographs taken by sound artists, documenting the various objects in our world t…
Ur-Geräusch / Primal Sound
* 2021 Stock. Language: English, German * “Ur-Geräusch” (Primal Sound) is the title of an essay by Rainer Maria Rilke, which was published in 1919 and subsequently lent its name to the exhibition by Carsten Nicolai that was mounted last year at the K…
Conversations with Filmmakers
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania, came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded his daily observations. He became the barometer…
Le Città Invisibili (Le Città e i Morti) LP
**First time on LP. 300 Copies in colored vinyl** A Marco Dalpane's unreleased recording (mainly known for the cult album “Scorie” released with Tiziano Popoli) produced in 1991 for Radio Rai as an accompaniment to the reading of Italo Calvino “Le ci…
Delirious Cartographies
Tip! Arbitrary presents »Delirious Cartographies« by composer, improviser and synthesist Richard Scott. Part of the Danish imprint’s Framework editions, this release includes three pieces on 12” vinyl and 6 printed drawings – as well as a text by Sco…
Franco Battiato, Nucleus (Book)
Absolutely recommended. Photographs by Roberto Masotti, texts by Carlo Maria Cella, Silvia Lelli, Luca Scarlini. This is the third volume dedicated to musicians-composers that Masotti has collected for and with the publisher Seipersei after those ded…
Interviews by Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Clara Rockmore, Beatriz Ferryra
Spanish/English edition. Perfect bound. 110 pages, edition of 50 copies This publication gathers interviews with four artists who are pioneers in the in the field of electronic experimental music, Clara Rockmore interviewed by Robert Moog, Pauline Ol…
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
“I appeal to the young. Only they should listen, and only they can understand what I have to say. Some people are born old, slobbering spectres of the past, cryptograms swollen with poison. To them no words or ideas, but a single injunction: the end.…
Fluxus Music
"Where does music fit into George Maciunas´s definition? Where does music fit into Fluxus praxis? Music fit where all the other individual arts fit into Fluxus - into a process of de-definition that robs music and the other arts of media that is …
Clara Rockmore by Robert Moog
Theremin´s virtuoso interviewed by synthesizser´s maverick Robert Moog in 1977. "I am a violinist and a musician. I wanted to see if it were possible to use the theremin to make real music. Bach couldn't write for the theremin when he was alive, bu…
1984/5 Il ladro di anime / Diario segreto
Daniel Bacalov is a composer of music for theater, cinema, and dance who has studied classical guitar and percussion. He composed the music of numerous theatrical performances represented in many international theatre festivals. His first two publica…
La Camera Astratta
**100 Copies in light Blue vinyl** “La Camera Astratta” is the result of the amazing collaboration between
Piero Milesi e Daniel Bacalov with the experimental theatre-performance
of the Studio Azzurro and Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. An idea of
imme…
Il Cavaliere Azzurro
Limited clear vinyl, edition of 100. One of the many characteristics of Italian avant-garde theatre, from the seventies through the eighties, was the overlap of acting with the physicality of movement - reality with fiction and the stage with real…
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
2011 release. Amazing work completed Sept. 2011, an exploration of the music inherent in everyday speech, collected from all kinds of oral sound sources (fishermen, farmers, city-dwellers, etc.), highly processed vocal material between musique con…
Saccharine Scores
Saccharine Scores is an album/art book documenting Sean McCann's
recent chamber compositions. Ranging from the 10-person ensemble
performance of "Portraits of Friars" at Fylkingen, Stockholm in February
2018, to his first quartet piece "Victorian …
The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival
*Last copies, almost sold out at the label. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies.* After years of preparation, Recital is proud to present The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival box set. Held in New York in 1980, this was the last…
Variations on a Natural Theme for Orchestra (Book)
* Rare original artist' book - Music scores and instructions for performance * Variations on a Natural Theme (1982), as in Dick Higgins words, is a large orchestral work, in some ways a companion to the Ten Ways, since this time it uses gamuts (in th…
Sonata for Prepared Piano (Book)
*Rare original arist' book - Music scores and instruction for performance* Sonata for Prepared Piano (1982) is a short work which, again, uses photoderivations as parts of the notation—this time nature with incomplete figure photographs, mostly obscu…
Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird for Violin and Harpsichord (Book)
Rare original artist' book - Music scores and instructions for performance Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird (1981)...is a playful variation on the name of a poem by Wallace Stevens whose work I have always admired, though, goodness knows, there is no m…