Musica 109. Lezioni sulla Musica Sperimentale
Italian edition. "Music 109" prende il nome dall'aula della Wesleyan University dove Alvin Lucier ha insegnato per oltre quarant'anni. Il libro nasce da quelle lezioni, e ne conserva il tono: quello di un compositore che ti siede accanto e ti spiega,…
A Profound Loss of Meaning, El Llamado
Two of the latest releases from Tochnit Aleph - Daniel Löwenbruck's project, for three decades one of the most radical and consistent spaces in the international experimental landscape, now operating from Denmark - that share a common obsession: soun…
Diastima
On Diastima, Luigi Turra moves inside Sylvain Chauveau’s sparse graphic scores with a hyper‑reduced electroacoustic vocabulary, turning each page into a fragile interval of tension, suggestion and nearly vanishing sound.
Waterforest
On Waterforest, Yoichi Kamimura turns a multichannel installation into an intimate atlas of water and ice, braiding global field recordings into a quietly immersive study of climate, memory and the act of listening to landscapes.
Keith Tippett: Mujician
Bomb! 328 pages hard-cover book, large format + 2CD of previously unreleased recordings. Keith Tippett (1947-2020) occupies a singular place in the history of British improvised music - a pianist of extraordinary range whose work moved fluidly betwe…
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data-cosm [n°1] Exibition Booklet
Published by 180 Studios in 2025, this limited edition booklet accompanies data-cosm [n°1], the monumental new installation commissioned and produced by 180 Studios as part of their long-running creative partnership with Ryoji Ikeda - a collaboration…
Paris 1919 (Book)
John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil crisis, and Cale was at a crossroads. The white-hot rage of his Velvet …
Computer World (Book)
Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played, packaged and released and, in the process, helped…
Suicide (Book)
New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple, two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma. Armed only with amplified AC current, Suicide's Alan Vega…
Switched-On Bach (Book)
So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the C…
Sorrow Tears And Blood (Book)
Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria.
Clyma Est Mort (Book)
The Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C at their noisy, improvised b…
Saudades (Book)
The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians …
Tropicália (Book)
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post-colonial world.
Shoegaze (Book)
What the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so-called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss-take given by the notoriously catty and scene-obsessed British music p…
Krautrock (Book)
Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.
In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the Euro…
Inside the Studio - Spaces of Electronic Music Production Berlin/Cairo (Book)
When you think of techno and electronic dance music, you first think of clubs and festivals, ecstatic dancers and enraptured DJs. But in which spaces is this music actually created? Artists' studios and writing rooms of authors and composers have lon…
Supersédure 2
Second Edition of Supersédure 2. Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama use percussion and field recording like scalpels on everyday life, shaving tiny ruptures into routine until small, repeated gestures cross an invisible line and start to sound like ev…
1988
*50 copies limited edition* For almost a decade, starting in 1980, I worked almost exclusively with walkman recorders and cheap cassette players. From the beginning, sound recordings were intuitively for me "worlds in themselves", always markedly dif…
1981-1983
*30 copies limited edition* This piece is extremely subtle and contains extensive sections with silence and quasi-silence (obviously intentional and compositional). Virtually all its audio content is completely inaudible through laptop, smartphone or…