Caverne Sonore
A collaborative effort between Italian's two best record labels, Black Sweat and Holidays
Co-Existence
** Hand numbered edition of 250. Silscreened see-trough cover ** Co-Existence is a piece composed by sound artist Shigeru Ishihara (Dj Scotch Egg/Scotch Rolex) during his artistic residency at MAO, Turin's Museum of Asian Art, inspired by the temporary exhibition Buddha10 - A Fragmented Display on Buddhist Visual Evolution curated by Davide Quadrio and Laura Vigo held at that time at the museum. The artist acoustically explored the natural reverberations that characterize the museum and an anci…
Verbosonies and Phonographies
* 220 copies limited edition. * Herman Damen is a Dutch artist and language designer who, among other things, has created visual poems, performance works and verbosonies – a genre that Damen developed where vocalised morphomic elements are assembled in different ways. In his works he has been exploring ‘kinetic language’ and the spatial aspects of language. Damen’s manifesto “Semiotic Theatre” states that his work “places itself outside official literature and wants to fascinate, shock or activa…
For Jon (Fragments Of A Time To Come) 1977
*2024 stock. Custom CDr* Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation to enter in the 1977 Italia Prize Competition, Lars-Gunnar Bodin - For Jon (Fragments of a Time to Come) 1977 is structured as a “dramatic cantata…with vocal sections for both chorus and soloists alternating with recitatives and ‘instrumental’ interludes.” The texts are based on “’surrealistic science fiction’—testimony and reports about experience in other worlds, real or imaginary.” The liner notes provide an introdu…
Punk Art History (Book)
The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a ‘no future’ generation refusing to be the next artworld avant-garde, instead choosing to be the ‘rear-guard’. Skov draws on personal interviews with punk art protagonists from London, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin, among others the members Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris), members of…
Spirit Of Ecstasy / The Way To Nepal
2024 Stock. 180 gram vinyl + extensive booklet. Reissue of this rare 1980 LP which features two avant-garde masterworks from Swedish composer/artist, Ake Hodell. "Spirit of Ecstasy (Racing Car Opera)," composed in 1977, is a bizarre experiment in "non-music," and an amazingly weird opera that tells the story of the first half of the 20th Century through that powerful symbol, the automobile. It features a compelling story despite consisting mostly of the repetitive chanting of car names, and it d…
Waters' Witness #03 (Book)
An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.
Parazoan Mapping #2 (Magazine + Digital Download)
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file. Through their individual practices, Taku Unami and Eric La Casa have contributed greatly to what we think about how we listen and practice sound and music, and often indirectly challenging where these two tightly linked categories might collide or overlap. Parazoan Mapping #2 continues their publ…
Monk ABC (Book)
*Text in English and French* A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book. More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…). “I never have dreamed. I would like to, but how?” New revised and augmented edition of the book first published in 2017. Jacques Ponzio is a French writer and musician, and a leading specialist on the works of Thelonious Mo…
Il Giro Del Mondo Con Un Tavolino (Book)
*Italian Language Edition* Era un pomeriggio assolato del maggio 1974 quando Roberto si ritrovò in un mercatino di ferri vecchi a Milano e… fu amore a prima vista. Non sapeva a cosa gli sarebbe servito quel vecchio e rugginoso tavolino, ma si fece guidare dalla sua passione per gli oggetti stravaganti e lo acquistò. Scopri il giro del mondo con un tavolino da Milano a Roma, poi Pisa e Venezia, e ancora Parigi, Berlino, Londra, Amsterdam, fino a New York.
Split Friction (Book)
*300 copies. Texts in English and German* Split Friction is an interdisciplinary project by Birgit Ulher that moves in the field of tension between exhibition, video, performance, concert and sound installation. The videoworks "How to Get Away I & II", "How to Get Away by Car", "Wanderlust", "Flotsam & Jetsam" contain moving object sounds in indoor and outdoor spaces, which were recorded in places with special acoustic properties. The sound and concert installations "Public Transport" and "Robo…
Curva Cieca Oblio
Tip! 150 copies limited release
Xing presents the new LP Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ by Muna Mussie and Massimo Carozzi, twelfth release of 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 15 collector's editions, each accompanied by a black fabric envelope containing the words of the piece Cieca, that refers to a popular song of Italian colonialism, embroidered in gold thread. The album cover is a w…
Untitled (Book)
Very nice artists' zine by Faith Coloccia. Includes photographs, collage and paintings.
Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Faith Coloccia. Includes artwork, documentation and composition notation from the album "Mare Decendrii". Limited edition of 100 copies. 60 pages, 7" x 8", perfect bound, professionally printed on uncoated heavyweight stock, full color and black and white, hand numbered.
LLND (Book)
*Tiny Edge Wear* Very nice artists' book by Eric Lunde of poetry and wood-block prints.
Immaginare La Musica (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2023 Stock* Descrizione Immaginare la musica. Per un'estetica fenomenologica della composizione contemporanea. Dopo aver affrontato il ruolo dell'improvvisazione nella musica moderna in "E non chiamatelo jazz" e aver celebrato l'ascolto quale momento indispensabile di una fenomenologia del discorso musicale in "Tragicommedia dell'ascolto", completando una originale trilogia sulla musica del nostro tempo, in questo volume Giancarlo Schiaffini affronta le forme della c…
Sketches Of Laugh And Decay (Book + Mini CD)
Very nice artists' book from Stefan Roigk. The musique concrète composition "Sketches Of Love And Delay" continues the multilayered black and white illustrations of the book "Sketches Of Laugh And Decay". It reveals the relationship between exclusively graphical scores and formulated sound collages. From the series Art & Theory of Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Vol. 10.
Miettes (Book)
In reading this text, we rediscover the subtle pleasure we feel when listening to Michel Doneda's solo concerts. Beneath an apparent disorder in which intuition alone seems to guide the unfolding of a pointillist discourse, a highly structured thought process emerges.Never relinquishing primacy to the sensitive approach, Michel Doneda delivers a reflection on improvisation, tested by decades of uncompromising personal practice. Like his music, Doneda's writing gives pride of place to the quality…
God Listens To Slayer (Book)
Sanna Charles has been documenting tribes of Slayer fans around Europe for over a decade. She was drawn to their escapism, and the contradiction between this extreme music and the innocence of their often youthful fans.God Listens to Slayer is a snapshot of a culture that has endured defiantly unchanged over the past 32 years, and an homage to true fans around the world.
juHrop
Limited and numbered edition of 250 copies. Die-cut box, 5 inlays and extensive booklet (Libretto). The opera "juHrop" was recorded with great effort at the Studio für Komische Musik Berlin and at the studio of Diamanda Galas in New York from 1996 to 2001. It is orchestral music produced with electronic devices and voices of Chinese singer Wu Jiang, David Moss, Diamanda Galas, Udo Scheuerpflug, Margarete Huber and the Moabiter Motettenchor. It was broadcasted in full length on "Deutschlandradio …