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Gaku-No-Michi (1977-78)
Restocked. “Gaku-no-michi”, Tao of music or Ways of music. Film without images for electronic and concrete sounds. Produced at the electronic music studio of NHK Radio, Tokyo 1977-78. “Jean-Claude Eloy is a French composer, born in 1938. He studied at the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music, where he won First Prizes in Piano, Chamber Music, Counterpoint, Ondes Martenot, and studied composition with Darius Milhaud. He attended summer courses at Darmstadt (Pousseur, Scherchen, Messiaen,…
Anahata (1984-86)
Restocked! Primordial vibration. Sound ceremonial with a contemplative character for two voices of Japanese Buddhist monks (traditional Shômyô techniques - traditional temple chanting - in a larger, modern and creative form), three Japanese Gagaku instrumentalists (traditional court music in a modern and creative form), one percussionist (with a percussion instrument orchestra) and electro-acoustic (fixed interactive sounds). Electronic studio of the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam (1984-86)…
Tammisalo Tapes - The Final Early Recordings
*300 copies limited edition* Five early tracks of thundering noise from the finnish noise king. While perhaps best known as being one half of Testicle Hazard, his solo CD albums Bats In The Attic and Moon Over Torrelorca are modern day classics in our book, and we just felt it couldn't hurt to have some the recorded steps leading up to those albums made available in the compact disc format as well. Three rare odds-and ends kind of tracks, and finishing the disc is Keränen's Green Car Crash, orig…
Volume 1. "Inhale"
“The debut record of Luft (the duo comprised of Mats Gustafsson and Erwan Keravec) - is a two volume album of exceptional explorations within the bagpipe and reed universe ——unknown music of poetic beauty and high energy cascades. Fast moving changes in texture and layers vs static repetitions and alternatives densities and melody treatments! Vol 1 - is focusing on the interaction between the two persons/ instruments - with a huge variety in extended techniques and various ways of treating the i…
One reason to live. Conversations about music with Julius Nil
This is the challenge posed by Julius Nil, Sunday nights on Resonance FM in London. Each episode, Nil invited one guest to choose one piece of music to listen to and talk about. One Reason To Live compiles fourteen insightful, inciteful, conversations with some of the most important and innovative figures in jazz, rock, classical, sound art, cultural theory, and philosophy. Guests include David Toop, John Parish, Kaffe Matthews, Steven Connor, Eric Roth, Scanner, Andrew McGettigan, Brandon LaBel…
Sounding
*In process of stocking* "I wrote the texts in this book as a kind of memorial device to recordings I made in Zürich between February 5 to March 22, 2020. Though not a direct reaction to the Covid pandemic, the transformation of the city due to restrictions of movement in the public space made these recordings only first possible in many ways. Of course, what immediately became noticeable after the first shutdown of the city occurred was how quiet the normally noisy urban environment had becom…
Manual for the construction of a cart as a device to elaborate s
Bilingual edition (English / Portuguese). 21 x 27,5 cm (softcover), 72 pages (17 color & 15 b/w ill.). 2009. Edited by Octávio Camargo & Brandon LaBelle. Contributions by Ricardo Basbaum, Alex Cabral, Octávio Camargo, Ken Ehrlich, Jennifer Gabrys, Brandon LaBelle, Margit Leisner, Josina Melo, Rubens Pileggi, Ines Schaber. Extending artistic research and work taking place since 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil, the publication brings together documentation and related texts that aim to elaborate on the q…
Musiques de Concert
Passionate about music from childhood, it wasn't until later, at the age of 22, after reading À la recherche d'une musique concrète by Pierre Schaeffer, that she decided to study composition. After classical training in harmony, she met Michel Puig, a pupil of René Leibowitz, who taught her writing and analysis upon Schönberg Theory. In 1970, she began a two-year internship at the Research Department of the ORTF under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. Between 1973 and 1975, she took part in a r…
Neum
Neum is a book of drawings, prints and diagrams by eli keszler made in conjunction with the presentation of the neum installation at the south london gallery Ð a large scale piece, occupying a 150 wide by 50 foot tall space made up of 16 overlapped and splayed piano wire, activated by a mechanical system which is featured as part of the group show 'at the moment of being heard'. the book consists of over 65 drawings, sketches and diagrams of various sizes dimensions and medias as well as 3 silk …
Wanted
A call for an open supertemporal novel by one of the creators of Lettrist books. Edition of 100 copies.
Sachez Lire
A résumé of Lemaître's techniques and style, to be able to read his cryptic hypergraphies.
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation from the main group.
Le Soulevement De La Jeunesse Explique Aux Retraites Qui Gouvern
The sociological approach, post- liberal economic perspective and post-Marxist, the new social justice, posterity, the reformist exception a t therevolutionary pantheon. The author draws on the " Manifestes du Soulèvement de la jeunesse ", written by Isidore Isou between 1950 and 1966 to inform the current political and economic situation of youth.
Spermatozoides II
Awesome book from this prolific author.
Bernard Heidsieck (November 28, 1928 – November 22, 2014)[1][2] was a French sound poet, associated with various movements throughout a long career: including Beat, American Fluxus, and minimalism. Heidsieck was born in Paris. In the course of his career, he served as vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and as president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre National du Livre. He organised the first international festival …
Spermatozoides III
Awesome book from this prolific author.
Bernard Heidsieck (November 28, 1928 – November 22, 2014)[1][2] was a French sound poet, associated with various movements throughout a long career: including Beat, American Fluxus, and minimalism. Heidsieck was born in Paris. In the course of his career, he served as vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and as president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre National du Livre. He organised the first international festival …
Postcard Theatre Book
"My first postcard theatre in the 70s was a comment on the outsider status of women in the music world. Branding Beethoven as a lesbian was a way of turning the tables on the music establishment. (...) this was a time about raising consciousness about women in music." Artist book edition of 100 copies.
Photos Imaginaires Médicales
Photos Imaginaires Médicales (partiellement) Néo-Nazis! Photos of medical tortures on Lemaître to be interpretated as an inifinitesimal artwork. A radical photobook by the most important lettrist photograph.
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation…
Galipettes
Queste 6 fotografie delle coreografie lettriste avrebbero dovuto essere pubblicate in Paris Match nel maggio del 1965.
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation from the main group.
Et des hommes
Editions AcquAvivA are publishing their 27th volume with an unpublished and genius work of comics collages on a piano score, at the occasion of Wolman’s exhibition at La Plaque Tournante, Berlin.
Biopoetry
The book presents the Biopoetry manifesto (2002) in its original English form translated to several languages. It features many images never published before, starting with the cover.
Pure de toute peur
While the institutions keep on celebrating dead artists, Editions AcquAvivA is publishing the very first catalog on the work of Aude Jessemin, the most significant feminine Lettrist artist of the Sixties (and Jacques Spacagna’s first wife). Aude Jessemin has accomplished a very important hypergraphic work that has been totally erased from the history of the Lettrist movement. For her 80th birthday, the book dealer Paul Veyssière will host Aude Jessemin and her publisher Frédéric Acquaviva…