Little Symphonies: A Phil Spector Reader (Book)
Phil Spector is the reclusive maverick producer who invented The Wall of Sound. This collection gathers together the best articles, interviews and reviews about the enigmatic man and his revolutionary music. At the forefront of the sixties pop explosion, Phil Spector was the man who raised the profile of the record producer to undreamed of heights. Using a combination of imagination, musicality and sheer chutzpah, his records became as important and influential as any from that exciting decade. …
Six Ateliers - Concerts Jacques Lejeune
Late 80's original copies of the Ateliers de Musique Êlectroacoustique (Studios for Electroacoustic Music) program, designed by Jacques Lejeune himself, and ealized in conjunction with Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). 24-page book, large size, with original texts in French, many pictures, list of works and so on
Fonstret N.3 - Edition Festival For Other Music (Magazine)
Fonstret is a project of Stockholm’s Edition Festival for Other Music focused on publishing new works and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.
Book sewn with open spine. 170 x 239mm. 192pp. 1+1 Pantone 546C, 120 gsm offset paper inside, 300 gsm offset paper covers.
Text by:
Johan Arrias, Elsa Bergman, Nadine Byrne, Erik Carlsson, Scott Cazan, Jon Collin, Mats Dimming,Niklas Fite, Marta Forsberg, Joel Grip, Mats Gustafsson, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Isak Hedtjärn, Karin Hellqvist, …
Vinyl Age: A Guide To Record Collecting Now (Book)
From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services, digital technology has paved the way for the analog revival; from multiplatinum megahits to ultra-obscure private presses, millions of records are available for purchase from all over the world. Vinyl Age …
Volume ! n° 16-2 / 17-1 - La Voix Pop (Magazine)
2024 stock. This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.When ethnomusicology tackles music that is produced in recording studios in both the North and the South, when queer performances venture into Asturian folklore, when bureaucracies produce world music, when raggadub and punk from Marseille are observed from the radios, restaurants and streets they have stemmed from, when Mandingo music is analy…
Volume ! n° 19-2 - Terrains Communs (Magazine)
This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.When ethnomusicology tackles music that is produced in recording studios in both the North and the South, when queer performances venture into Asturian folklore, when bureaucracies produce world music, when raggadub and punk from Marseille are observed from the radios, restaurants and streets they have stemmed from, when Mandingo music is analyzed as a mai…
Sketchbook, September 1977 (Book)
Sketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key insights into the artist’s mind before her move to New York in 1978, where she would go on to have a prolific career making lifelike dolls, theatrical sets, photographs, drawings, and paintings.
Containing drawings, behavioral diagrams, and occasionally confessional writing, the journal is a record of imagining the body and mind re…
Songs Without Words And Music (Book)
Very nice artist's book by Ramuntcho Matta.
Sound of Sounds (Book + 2CD)
*2024 stock* Pianist, composer and sound artist Hans Otte is still undervalued in Europe, and the Anglo-American cultural scene just starts to notice him. Ingo Ahmel's bilingual study of his biography and artistic work highlights Otte’s view of life and his aesthetical orientation, providing the fundamentals for an adequate reception. At the centre of the book are the solo piano cycles Das Buch der Klänge (The Book of Sounds, 1979-82) and Stundenbuch (Hours Book, 1991-98) as well as the related …
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life (Book)
The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. From his pioneering compositions as part of New York's vibrant avant-garde scene (alongside artists including Philip Glass, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg) to his genre-expanding disco productions, from his new wave and art pop to his posthumously released folk songs, Russell crafted timeless and foundationally influential work until his premature death in 1992 from AIDS-related illnesses.
Now, in a landmark publicat…
The Influence of Transcription
Edition of 50 copies with 12-page booklet including a full transcription of the audio contents and texts by Rasmus Östling and early Fluxus member Ken Friedman. Translated by Hugo Strandberg, designed by Tom Backström and mastered by Sean McCann. Pentiments is happy to offer a uniquely modest document of contemporary Fluxus homage by Finnish artist Rasmus Östling. For this work, Östling paid visits to early Swedish Fluxus member Bengt af Klintberg (best known for his booklet The Cursive Scandina…
Upstream Ensemble
Edition of 100. forms of minutiae and TBA21–Academy present "upstream ensemble", a communal happening and aqueous sound piece initiated and composed by field recordist, artist, and f–o–m co-founder Pablo Diserens. During the 2022/23 digital residency hosted by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean-Archive.org, Pablo Diserens launched an open call inviting members of its online platform ocean comm/uni/ty (and external enthusiasts) to venture into the world and record aqueous sonic encounters. The aim of this co…
FasFari
Tip! *Collector’s edition: 20 copies, each accompanied with a graphic and text table, designed and hand drawn by Alessandro Bosetti with phonetic alphabet, 30 cm x 30 cm, signed by the artist*
Xing presents the new LP FasFari by Alessandro Bosetti, thirteenth release of the XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, together with a print run of 20 collector's editions. Each of these are accompanied with a graphic and text ta…
Black (Red) Book
German/English. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 16 through December 15, 2000. Essay by director Regina Coppola. Includes numerous color illustrations, biographical information, list of previous exhibitions, and a checklist.
On Air
Transparent CD, packaged in clear acetate gatefold cover with opaline outer sleeve The final and comprehensive document on the series of installations named "On Air" or "Magnetic Air" which Christina Kubisch exhibited in Italy and Europe from 1982 to 1986. Twenty years later, "on Air" has remained a fascinating listening experience, and represents a unique illustration of the artistic integration of sound and vision.The interactive section provides a virtual journey through the spectacular 1984…
Schall Und Klang
Schall und Klang is the result of Christina Kubisch's extensive fieldwork on the trail of Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966), conductor and key figure in 20th century new music. After moving to the village of Gravesano (Ticino/Northern Italy) in 1954, Scherchen established an electroacoustic experimental studio on his premises and created a meeting place for scientists, composers, musicians and sound engineers from all over the world. Among his guests were Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, Edgar Varèse an…
Night Flights
Absolutely crucial reissue of Christina Kubisch's masterwork Night Flights.This is the first time it's been available in 20 years and the first time it's ever been issued on CD. Night Flights is made up of three massive works of sound collage. Her sensitivities and abilities are akin to a bonsai master sculpting the perfect Juniper or Joseph Cornell hard at work putting the finishing touches on a box. It's hard to imagine a world where half the records on Important could have been possible witho…
Mono Fluido
"Mono Fluido' collects two major compositions from Christina Kubisch which, until now, have been unreleased. Extensive liner notes and & photographs detail the origins of the work. Heavy drones and deep emotions run through these newly discovered pieces." In 1980, the deeply fascinating sound artist Christina Kubisch made some professional recordings in an Italian studio for the soundtrack of Fabrizio Plessi's 'Liquid Movie'. She returned to the sounds in '81, mostly field recordings of swinging…
Lautlos (Book)
Hardcover, 126 pages. English/German. This publication is an encounter between the works of two artists from different generations, who never met personally although both spent time in Berlin. Rolf Julius, who was born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven and died in 2011 in Berlin, worked in the tradition of a "music for eyes and ears." Nina Canell, born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, belongs to a younger generation of artists whose three-dimensional work has an emphatically non-monumental quality. With an acut…
Wellenfang - Wave catcher
On the occasion of Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 Christina Kubisch developed an extensive project based on her electromagnetic investigations in the Northern Ruhr area. It included a central exhibition at the Skulpturenmuseum Marl, five Electrical Walks in various cities of the northern Ruhr area, the video film Wave Catcher in collaboration with Peter Simon and Eckehard Güther, and the publication of a catalogue with DVD. Texts by Uwe Rüth, Rahma Khazam, Christina Kubisch. 72 pages, numerous ima…