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Fluid Compostings (Book)
This interview of Brandon LaBelle with curator, artist, and researcher Berit Fischer offers insight into her transformative approach to contemporary art practice that challenges conventional notions of empathy and ecological awareness.
Noor's Heroes – Umm Kulthum (Book)
Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series, this story introduces Umm Kulthum, the legendary Egyptian singer whose voice united generations across the Arab world. Rising from humble beginnings to iconic status, she broke barriers, shaped music history, and became a symbol of culture, resilience, and national pride.
Noor's Heroes is a children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world. Through engaging stories and vibrant illustrations, young readers discover …
Revolutions for the Future – May '68 and the Prague Spring (Book)
A wide-ranging collective reflection on the philosophical legacy, current resonances and historical articulation of May '68 and the Prague Spring.
Transcendental Mathematics (Book)
In Transcendental Mathematics, Eric Schmid confronts the fundamental epistemological problem that has haunted philosophy since Kant's fourfold division of knowledge into analytic a priori, synthetic a priori, synthetic a posteriori, and the notoriously empty fourth cell of analytic a posteriori, a schema whose boundaries have been successively contested throughout analytic philosophy, from Carnap's logical empiricism (which sought to collapse the synthetic a priori into the analytic a priori thr…
umlautmachine
*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Experimental label hearsay unveils umlautmachine, a captivating new tape from renowned sound poet and conceptual artist Chistian Bök. Available now via Bandcamp, this limited-edition release pushes the boundaries of phonetics, noise, and textual abstraction, transforming the written word into an auditory machine of umlauts, glitches, and rhythmic eruptions.
Chistian Bök, celebrated for his genre-defying works like the bestselling Eunoia – a lipogrammatic …
trocabolário
*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* hearsay records proudly announces the release of trocabolário, a captivating new cassette by Portuguese sound artist Fernando Aguiar. This limited-edition tape pushes the boundaries of experimental audio, transforming words, syllables, and phonemes into a mesmerizing tapestry of sonic invention.
Fernando Aguiar, known for his innovative explorations in granular synthesis, field recordings, and conceptual sound design, delivers trocabolário as a playful y…
babas - letras (Tape)
*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Underground tape label hearsay proudly releases "babas - letras", a mesmerizing new cassette from enigmatic artist babas. Dropping into the world of lo-fi experimentation and poetic soundscapes, this release captures the raw essence of whispered words dissolving into sonic haze—perfect for fans of avant-garde audio poetry and tape-loop reverie.
"babas - letras" weaves fragmented lyrics ("letras") with drooling, dreamlike textures ("babas"), evoking a bilin…
Spectre Code - The Art of Sound and Poetry in Algorithms (Book)
Spectre Code – The Art of Sound and Poetry in Algorithms is a collection of code-driven poems, composed in the Python programming language. Each poem functions as both an executable script and a standalone work of poetic expression, generating rich soundscapes and algorithmic visuals. Whether read on the page or run through a compiler, Spectre Code Invites an experimental and innovative interaction with poetry.
The author, who works under the name C:\VEhF\, is a sound artist and experimental ele…
MEANS 4: Participatory Economics (Magazine)
Issue 4 of our magazine: 76 color pages of essays, artworks, scores and music relating to our theme of community, economics, and capitalism. Includes free DL of an accompanying album.Sunbathing in the shallow end of late-stage capitalism, it is easy to think of ‘the economy’ as an abstract imposition, something that directs the tenor of our lives but over which we except little control. Mortgages, credit scores, inflation, the stock exchange, each some fiscal boogieman that lives forever in the…
Afterlife Halitosis (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* Unpublished collages from 2010-2025 period. 32 pages.
Look at K (Book)
The anti-fascist alliterative text, precursor to Oulipo, by Olavi Laiho, written in 1944 in Oulu prison just before his execution for high treason.
Finland and Socialism (Book)
Translated into English for the first time, Alexandra Kollontai's gripping account of the early years of the socialist movement in Finland, originally published in 1906 and banned the following year with an arrest warrant issued for Kollontai: a first-hand report and political analysis of the organisation of workers against tsarist autocracy and capitalist oppression.
Kollontaï's writings give an overview of the early years of socialist history in Finland, in which she played an active role, and…
A Shot in the Factory (Book)
This book explores the theme of workers' struggles at the heart of Finnish director Erkko Kivikoski's 1973 film, drawing on a seminal report by writer Marja-Leena Mikkola on female industrial workers and placing both works in the broader context of the history of the Finnish labour movement.
A Shot in the Factory: Workers into the Frame is based on the 1973 Finnish film directed by Erkko Kivikoski. Set at the dawn of the neoliberal era, the film A Shot in the Factory [Laukaus Tehtaalla] tells th…
Optically Suspicious (Book)
Edited, designed, and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book, which inaugurates the Tehnika series, is based on research conducted on the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Optically Suspicious is a publication by Matrijaršija on the life, work, and cultural and artistic activities of the Union of Graphic and Typographic Workers of Yugoslavia. The book is the result of research in the Union's archives in the Printed Material Collect…
Dramatic Depiction of the German Peasants' War of 1525 (Book)
First English edition of the visionary play by German playwright and communist activist Berta Lask (1878–1967).
Elles sont de sortie #99 – Dead Dogs Vaginas (Book)
Luxurious reproduction of a sketchbook by Bruno Richard dating from 1987. This enormous ESDS opus includes numerous drawings in a raw, dirty and neo-primitive style. A type of drawing by Bruno Richard that would later be featured in the anthology Nègres Vulves Noires Bites. Preface by Gary Panter. Bruno Richard (born in 1956 in Curepipe, Mauritius) is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Co-founder with Pascal Doury of the magazine Elles sont de sortie in 1977, one of the first French gr…
Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys (Book)
The definitive publication accompanying the most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to one of the most visionary composers and polymaths of the 20th century
Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation (Book)
Other Minds is pleased to inaugurate Other Minds Books with Peter Garland’s work of memoir and criticism, Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation. The composer Peter Garland met the composer Ingram Marshall in 1970; both were students during the early, golden years of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) learning electronic music and composition from Morton Subotnick, James Tenney, and Harold Budd, as well as Javanese gamelan from Robert Brown. Out of this Marshall was abl…
Identity Pitches (Book)
In Identity Pitches, artists Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel have composed conceptual music scores based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte. Utilizing three of the most popular designs (Setesdal, Fana, and the eight-petal rose of Selbu) of this ubiquitous garment, Janvin creates scores for both solo and ensemble performers by mapping the knitting patterns onto the harmonic and subharmonic series and integrating the tuning principles of traditional Norwe…
Live Audio Essays (Book)
Live Audio Essays presents transcripts from performances and films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, an artist known for his political and cultural reflections on sound and listening. Abu Hamdan’s intricately crafted and heavily researched monologues are at times intimate, humorous, and entertaining, yet politically disquieting in their revelations. Using personal narratives, anecdotes, popular media, and transcripts rooted in historical and contemporary moments, the artist leads the reader through his in…