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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…
Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Book)
DeForrest Brown, Jr.’s Assembling a Black Counter Culture presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.
Brown traces the genealogy and current developments in techno, locating its origins in the 1980s in the historically emblematic city of Detroit and the broader landscape of Black musical forms. Reaching back from the transatlantic slav…
Thing (Book)
Started in 1989 by designer and writer Robert Ford, THING magazine was the voice of the Queer Black music and art scene in the early 1990s. Ford and his editors were part of the burgeoning House music scene, which originated in Chicago’s Queer underground, and some of the top DJs and musicians from that time were featured in the magazine, including Frankie Knuckles, Gemini, Larry Heard, Rupaul, and Deee-Lite. THING published ten issues from 1989-1993, before it was cut short by Ford’s death from…
Elles sont de sortie n° 86 ? 87 - Vaginatlas der ungerichtlichen Medizin
Rare 2009 publication. Edition of 170 copies. A 15x21cm booklet with 32 pages of color drawings on anatomy book pages.
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A beautiful smartphone-size book of often surreal finger drawings made on an outdate smartphone.
Art by Telephone* (book)
Fully illustrated booklet in the very obscure "Elica privata" series.
La scuola della leucemia (book)
Fully illustrated booklet in the very obscure "Elica privata" series.
Le 'N' ragazze più belle del Monumentale di Milano (book)
Fully illustrated booklet in the very obscure "Elica privata" series.
Musique improvisée et questions politiques (Book)
*OBS! book is in French language* Shortly after being introduced to improvised music, Frantz Loriot became interested in its discourse and its political dimension. Influenced by anarchist, anti-capitalist and postcolonial thinkers, he gradually developed his own approach to the practice of musical improvisation. His reflections led him to question the musician Bertrand Denzler. During this interview, the latter discusses various aspects of this practice, including the relationship between sounds…
Gianni Sassi Fuorigabbia - Pubblicità, Grafica, Editoria, Musica, Ecc.
Italian Language Edition Pubblicitario, art director, editore, discografico, promotore di eventi: Gianni Sassi è stato tutte queste cose insieme, e anche molto altro. Dalla Cramps ad “Alfabeta”, da Pollution a MilanoPoesia, passando per riviste d’arte sui generis, concerti memorabili e campagne pubblicitarie spregiudicate, Sassi ha attraversato trent’anni di cultura italiana. Lo ha fatto collaborando con artisti e intellettuali fra i più importanti del secondo Novecento, reinventandosi sempre e …
A Tender Exile
"A Tender Exile" is the result of a deeply personal journey—one shaped by displacement, nostalgia, and the search for belonging. Inspired by "How To Live Together", a book compiling Roland Barthes’ notes for his lecture of the same name, Federico Gargaglione explores four key concepts: Akedia, Xeniteia, Anachoresis, and Thlipsis. These ideas became a framework for understanding his own experiences, ultimately shaping the foundation of this book.
As part of this journey, he traveled to Mount Etna…
Young Predictions
"Young Predictions" discloses the notes of Cypriot painter Polys Peslikas, written between 2018 and 2025. These fragments—gathered in orbit around paintings made over the same period—reflect openly on the canon of painting both as a revered structure and an unruly and obscenely private, testimonial act. The book invites poet and writer Penelope Ioannou into an exchange with the material, her own notes slipping between Peslikas’ as a result of being granted entry into his canvases. Text and paint…
-1/XXX! (Book)
*100 sopies limited edition* During 2011 to 2020, Kikuchi thoroughly shuffled all the minimum-unit elements of the text of a Japanese old porn novel, and then translated them all into Braille. This book has 339 pages of the Braille as b&w printed figures. A book as a conceptual art piece. The short preface are written in Japanese and English.
Better Do It Now Before You Die Later (Book)
Though his years in the New York free-jazz scene of the sixties cemented his reputation as “one of the most forceful and convincing composers and soloists in his field,” saxophonist Sonny Simmons (1933–2021) was nearly forgotten by the eighties, which found him broke, heavily dependent on drugs and alcohol, and newly separated from his wife and kids. “I played on the streets from 1980 to 1994, 365 days a year,” Simmons tells jazz historian and biographer Marc Chaloin in Better Do It Now Before Y…
Vite Altre
*OBS written in Italian language* "Vite Altre" is a small fanzine featuring six short stories, collected through a call launched via social media and word of mouth. It’s a modest project, born somewhat playfully. The idea took shape at the beginning of summer 2024, and the first contributions came from friends and supporters of the initiative. This collection features stories that venture into brief forays of speculative biology and science fiction. Each piece enriches a shared narrative of inte…
ANOK4U2 (Book)
"As you may know if you move in certain circles, Crass was a collective of English punks active between the late 1970s and 1984. Some of them had long been involved in certain creative fringes of the hippie movement in the previous decade. Anarchists and pacifists, they didn't have an easy life: from the very beginning, they had to fight hard to avoid being silenced. In 1985, they were labeled "an association operating on the fringes of the law" and convicted in court for producing "material con…
The Head. Works on Paper (Book)
*200 copies limited edition* The book “The Head” presents a series of drawings and sketches on paper, created by Panos Sklavenitis between 2022 and 2024. Initially conceived as ideas for costumes and stage designs for his ongoing eponymous project, these sketches quickly evolved into autonomous artistic creations, opening new horizons in the exploration of the grotesque.
Through the “#thehead” series, Sklavenitis delves into the concept of the “carnivalesque” and the grotesque body, focusing on …