The Aubergine Dream
Performed with Nell Peto on the occasion of her 12th birthday. Also features appearances from Amelia Borg, Christine Borg, Alfred Schnittke, Edward Lawrenson and Rialzu. Recorded at Cafe Oto, London on the evening of the 4th august, 2017 during the 2 day event "Fuck you wheres my sugar". Two nights around the themes of depression and hysteria curated by Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood. Thanks to Shaun Crook for recording.
Alphabet
Alphabet explores the combinatorics between signs on one side and signals on the other. The performance, inspired by the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville twisting the scientific rigor to privilege phonetic acquaintances, revisits the strategies of representation invented by the man to tell the world around him in the digital age. Alphabet invites the spectator to immerse themselves in the multiple relationships that, through language and its digital translations, maintain words and things.After…
Electronic Music
Bent Lorentzen is widely considered one of the key figures and pioneers of early Danish electronic music and he was one of a few classically trained composers seeking out the possibilities of the new technology in the 1960’s. Lorentzen composed a fairly large number of electronic works, – mainly in the 60's and 70'es. Furthermore, he developed a significant educational practice in and around electronic music, conducted workshops, taught at courses, and published articles in both national and int…
w/hair ph<> n mus|x
**100 copies** "What’s this? Listening through the split spaces of experience. Brain full of place fragments and music. Auto-location and orientation. Auto-relation and alone-ness. Off-grid expanse. Virtual zero. In shops, stations and toilets. The feel of the sound of shifting in the seat looking for no-thing.Klaysstarr (Iain Findlay-Walsh) is a Glasgow-based sound artist. He also plays in improvising duo Zoming Flakes, pop group In Posterface and formerly with prog-punk maximalists Lapsus Ling…
Weltformat
**200 copies, 2LP version, 180g clear vinyls housed in a six-panel gatefold cover that unfolds to reveal the graphic score of the album.** Ending the decade of silence which followed more than ten years of remarkable, critically acclaimed activity by the partnership of veteran experimentalists, Luigi Archetti and Bo Wiget, the duo returns with what may be their most ambitious effort to date, Weltformat, issued by Die Schachtel.Switzerland-based Luigi Archetti and Bo Wiget began collaborating in …
Pari & Dispari
"My first contact with the Pari&Dispari Archive and the Panizzi Library of Reggio Emilia dates back to nearly a year ago, when I was given the opportunity to collaborate in an exhibition project tied to documenting important performance experiences derived from the work and career of Rosanna Chiessi.This consisted in a visual trajectory comprised of images dedicated to many events, exhibitions, and performances organized by Chiessi for fairs in Bologna and several other places. The experiences d…
Artist’s Invitations 1965-1985
This book aims to illustrate a little-known aspect of '60s, '70s, and '80s art, the “artist’s invitation,” namely the material (be it a card or piece of paper) printed for the specific purpose of documenting an exhibition. The criterion employed to choose the material was that of privileging the participation of the artist him- or herself in the creative process that led to the object’s production. The artistic context on which this book focuses is that of Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Land Art, P…
Groundsound vol. I
**200 copies only** Put together by the Italian sound poet Enzo Minarelli, Groundsound vol. I is a snapshot of 1970s and 80s voice and soundworks by a special selection of practitioners, including the French sound poet Bernard Heidsieck, sound artist Terry Fox, legend Henri Chopin, bp Nichol (of Four Horsemen/Canadada fame) Peter Finch/ Bob Cobbing, Antonio Aragão and the phonetic poetry pioneed Ilse Garnier. "I like the idea of having the female voice of Ilse Garnier, whom I was lucky enough t…
Loudspeakers
Charles Amirkhanian (b. 1945) can be regarded as a central figure in American music, and on several fronts. As a composer, he's been pervasively innovative in two genres: text-sound pieces, in which he can draw engaging rhythmic processes from wacky word assemblages such as 'rainbow chug bandit' and 'church car rubber baby buggy bumper'; and natural-sound electronic pieces which go far beyond the usual confines of musique concrète to create long, poetic sound narratives poised between collage an…
Siberia / Sirens
** 2026 Stock. ** Siberia / Sirens presents two major sonic artworks in which Susanne Skog tests how far documentary sound can be bent before it becomes something closer to hallucination. Her practice is rooted in narrative forms - experimental radio, radio drama, documentary - but here the story is never handed over as plot; it emerges obliquely, through texture, pacing, and the slow recomposition of field recordings into abstracted, almost cinematic space. Drawing on her own recordings from ar…
Am Grabe (At the Grave)
Am Grabe (At the Grave) is an ongoing audio ritual executed by Stefan Fricke and Alper Maral. Since 2015, they have been visiting the graves and burial grounds of composers from various eras in order to record the sounds and noises present. Each sequence is a pure field recording, serving as a memento of a bit more than 4 minutes in length. After having been compiled for a series of radio programmes, selections from Am Grabe here appear on audio media for the first time. This edition commemorate…
Church Waves
Double 12" exploring wave phenomena in all their forms - sound waves, water waves, the wave as universal principle. Site-specific installations captured on vinyl.
Duos Auf Präparierten Instrumenten
Munich's legendary experimental ensemble Phren - active since 1968! First vinyl since 1989! Founded by Michael Kopfermann, the group developed a radical approach to prepared instruments and noise-tone synthesis, rejecting the limitations of tempered tuning. This LP documents the duo of Carmen Nagel-Berninger (prepared viola) and Inge Salcher (prepared flugelhorn) - recordings from 2010 and 2018 showing decades of refined practice. Gut strings, unusual tunings, extended techniques. A living tradi…
The Women’s March, 1789
Edition of 300 copies. Throughout the installation, designed with Hala Wardé, Nan Goldin and Soundwalk Collective work with underground waterworks, walls and sculptures to highlight the historical moment. The power of the women marching, their memory frozen in the surroundings are evoked in the sound installation using the voices of well-known women (Isabelle Adjani, Élodie Bouchez, Laetitia Casta, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nan Goldin, Isabelle Huppert, Isild Le Besco, Anna Mougl…
Sense Sound / Sound Sense
** Expanded and revised edition, published on the occasion of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 ** "Keeping the rebellious nature of its wicked subject intact, Sense Sound Sound Sense nevertheless provides an impeccably researched, crystal-clear narrative of Fluxus's true revolutionary spirit." The Wire)Truly necessary catalogue accompanying an extensive exhibition dedicated to art works and musical scores and their relationship with Fluxus, an interdisciplinary movement of internatio…
Outlaws in Language and Destiny
**2019 stock** Recordings by Joana Escoval of insects singing in the Costa Rica rainforest and a 180º orthodontic X-Ray in Lisbon, 2013-14. Pressed Mono at 45rpm on clear acetate and encased in a double-sided poster with two found photos: each presenting a child and a bird, both in Amazonia and in Sweden.Joana Escoval examines
how everything is entangled and connected. This is the reason why
Escoval’s sculptures can not only be perceived as appearances in their
raw, authentic state but as dis…
Realejo
Black Truffle is pleased to present Realejo, the first vinyl release from Brazilian sound artist and composer Manuel Pessôa de Lima. Having composed works for diverse contexts including cinema, contemporary dance, theatre and television, Lima’s live appearances often take the form of self-reflexive lecture performances that combine electro-acoustic sound, red light, video and spoken text, moving unpredictably from the hilarious to the distressing.Realejo consists of two side-long pieces of highl…
Conversations With the Anthony Burgess Cassette Archives
Double CD version. Includes color insert. Double LP/CD curated by Alan Dunn in collaboration with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Sub Rosa. Anthony Burgess's second wife Liana carried a cassette recorder with her at all times to capture her life with the author and their son Andrew. This extraordinarily intimate audio archive of over 1,000 cassettes now sits with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and artist Alan Dunn has been granted access to select excerpts from it …
Vampir-Cuadecuc
**130 copies. Art Edition** Carles Santos was a multi-disciplinary artist, perhaps best known outside of Spain as a composer of scores for his lifelong collaborator, radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella. Made in 1970 during the final years of Franco’s dictatorship, Vampir-Cuadecuc is an astonishingly creative assault on the regime and, arguably, Portabella’s most influential work. Filmed behind the scenes during the production of Jesús Franco’s Count Dracula (1970), Vampir-Cuadecuc is a hig…
Works 1958-1979
2019 repress. "This is a wide panorama of Nam June Paik work as musician -- 'Hommage à John Cage' (1958-1959), 'Étude for Pianoforte' (1959-1960) and 'Simple' (1961) are good exemple of neodada music and de-structuration in the late 50's, this is basically irreverent audio-collages. 'Prepared Piano for Merce Cunningham' (1977) captures an improvised performance by Paik on a de-tuned piano. While 'Prepared for Merce Cunningham' was later mixed and edited for use by Merce Cunningham, this raw, str…