Sound Art / All styles

Hard cover Edition, large format. Long out of print. One of the pioneers of performance and multimedia work, constantly cited as key to the burgeoning postwar genres now considered standard fare in art galleries and museums, Robert Whitman's work of the 1960s and 1970s has long been inaccessible because of its ephemeral nature. This publication and the exhibition it accompanies are the first to reexamine his seminal early work, begun under the influence of Allan Kaprow in the late 1950s. Early p…

180g black vinyl 2LP boxset w/ booklet. Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (2020) lives on past the sound installation at Dia Beacon in this two-disc vinyl set. Recorded live at the museum, the album includes four tracks of studio versions from the artist’s commission and live recordings from Dia Beacon that highlight the acoustics of the space. The LPs are supplemented by a sixteen-page booklet of liner notes with an introduction to the project by commission curator Kelly Kivland, a note on the wor…

It probably goes without saying that here at Soundohm, we’re huge fans of all things Lasse Marhaug. Since the early 90s, he has remained one of the most radical and ambitious creative musical voices working in Norway, spanning the fields of noise, free improvisation, jazz, rock and, metal, producing a remarkable catalog of solo work as well as collaborations with Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, and a slew of oth…

Press release as a small poster for the 1980 performances of Laurie Anderson's United States at the Orpheum Theater in New York.

Rare small photographic poster for Laurie Anderson's 1980 exhibition at Holly Solomon Gallery in New York.

Invitation card to a Steve Reich Ensemble concert at the Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1973.

Beautiful tri-folded illustrated invitation to a 1973 exhibition of hand-annotated scores by Steve Reich.

First 1974 edition of Steve Reich's important book. A must for anyone in new music.

Beautiful invitation in the form of a small leporello to the presentation of the release of the 2LP+score edition of Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece Drumming at the Denise René / Hans Mayer Gallery in 1972.

Postcard with the order form for the 2LP+score edition of Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece Drumming by John Gibson and Multiples Inc. from the Denise René / Hans Mayer Gallery.

Spectacular first numbered and signed edition of the score of Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece published by John Gibson in 1971 and printed in the form of a leporello to accompany the 2LP recording of that wonderful piece.

Rare fully illustrated catalogue of installations and performances by the great Alvin Lucier published in 1991 by daadgalerie.

Still sealed 5xLP box set on Labor from 1981 presenting the monumental work based on Gertrude Stein's text by Czech composer/conductor/flutist Petr Kotik that has long been considered a masterpiece of underground music.

One of our favorite transcendental minimalist records ever offered here in its first 1974 Shanti gatefold edition in excellent condition.

Beautiful two-sided oblong poster for a program of music and poetry events by Richard Landry, Gerald Malanga and Michael Garrison at Zürich's Ink in 1979.

Rare invitation card to a 1972 music event with Richard Landry and other members of the Philip Glass Ensemble at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.

Rare invitation card to a 1972 event at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York presenting music by Philip Glass and film by Richard Serra.

*2024 repress* Second-Hand Reading is composed of hundreds of drawings superimposed on pages from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and other lexicons and encyclopedias. Like figures on a stage, drawings of the artist, scenes from nature, geometric shapes and phrases dance to music by Neo Muyanga across a backdrop of definitions and classifications. These rational sequences of words are counterpoised with the intuitive and the imaginary. William Kentridge is one of South Africa’s pre-eminent…

* Limited Edition 300 Copies + 16 Pages Booklet * Axis Axis is pleased to release the audio format of one of the most important oeuvres in the field of Italian art and experimental poetry: Machiavelli 30 by Vincenzo Agnetti. Putting the last piece starting from the original work, conceived as a book and published by Guanda in 1978, Agnetti decided to recite the whole text in front of a portable tape recorder, and the 17’ audio in this vinyl is the output hitherto unpublished. The edition is cura…

* Limited Edition 300 Copies + 12 Pages Booklet * The album contains several and unpublished performances by Vicinelli and tries to return all the vocal grades and timbric spectrum of her practice. The performative overstatement of the meaning alternates with purely phonetic aspects of poetry. The side B of the LP ends with an unpublished moving audio recording of Vicinelli who, almost sleeping, tells about a dream she dreamt to director Alberto Grifi, her partner at the time. Patrizia Vicinelli…

16 international sound artists and musicians explore the materiality, spatiality, technicality and diverse cultural, social and political forms of sound, questionning the relationship between improvisation and composition, between performance and installation, etc.

Rare original 1985 private release by Malcolm Goldstein of intese sound explorations, never re-issued.

Resynthese FAVN is a ten-CD box set and publication presenting a new realization of Florian Hecker’s 2017 thirteen-channel installation of the same name. First exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien in the exhibition “Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese,” and elaborating upon ideas first presented in the 2016 project FAVN, the ten works that comprise Resynthese FAVN present iterations of synthetic timbre produced using “…spectral operators, moving between analysis and synthesis, between discriminative an…

Great catalogue of this 1999 event of legendary minimal piano performances in Rome.

Flawless original copy of on Shandar of Charlemagne Palestine's beautiful album of strummin music from 1974. One of the milestones of American minimalism.

Outstanding copy in mint condition of the crucial first double 1974 LP by Charlemagne Palestine released as a numbered and signed art edition by Sonnabed Gallery.

Original 1986 edition on Lovely of music for bandoneaon and cybersonic console by Mumma featuring David Tudor and Pauline Oliveros. Only the best of the best!

Long sold-out second edition of 500 numbered copies of this stunning set of 4LP, CD and book in heavy box celebrating Alvin Lucier's 85th birthday.

Legendary sound installation for audio oscillator and electronic monochord. 1980 first edition on Lovely Music from 1980.

Fourth installment of Innova's documentation of seminal American Avant-garde composer Harry Partch's work. A rare VHS presenting a 1971 film version of Partch's major dramatic work Delusion of the Fury.

Dischi Fantom’s Sussurra Luce series, blurring the boundaries between text, music and voice, returns with their third instalment, Hanne Lippard’s “Talk Shop”. Sculpting a fascinating bridge between radically experimental sound practice, conceptual art, and sound poetry, across its two sides the Berlin based multidisciplinary artist taps an almost dada sensibility, delivering a suite of poems and texts where singular words and sentences are looped and repeated creating a sensory experience of the…

First installment of Innova's documentation of seminal American Avant-garde composer Harry Partch's work. A rare VHS presenting four historic films.

Original copy of CRI's 1973 double LP re-issue of Harry Partch alien sounding avant-garde major opus recorded in 1953.

Original 1971 firt release on CRI of Harry Partch's monumental opus for an ensemble of unique instruments as a 3xLP box set.

Four-sided flyer for the sound installation of John Cage's Mozart Mix at the legendary gelbe Musik Gallery in Berlin in 1993.

Very nice small photographic poster for the exhibition dedicated to John Cage during the Venice Biennale of 1993.

Small two-sided flyer for a performance of John Cage's Europeras 3 and 4 at Hebbel Theater in Berlin in 1990.

Fun hard-bound and beautifully printed 1983 artist book on How to Make Pies and Cakes, a collaboration between John Cage and Lois Long.

Big two-sided invitation card to a 1983 Fluxus exhibition at daadgalerie in Berlin featuring John Cage and Nam June Paik.

Signed copy by John Cage of first issue of American art/music magazine from 1978 completely devoted the composer.