Sound Art / All styles

"In the building where Gudinni lives there's a large rooftop with several obsolete parabolic antennas, their dishes taller than me pointing in several directions. one late afternoon when the sun was getting lower in the sky we installed 3 pairs of microphones in different spots on the rooftop. we started making sounds moving around the space, as if getting closer / moving away from an imaginary audience scattered around us, from each other, from the traffic of cars, dogs and airplanes." - Anne-F…

Woodscratcher (Scratching Wood) is a composition and sound generating machine from Austrian composer, media-artist, sound-sculptor and performer, Winfried Ritsch.Already known as collaborator in different projects with Bernhard Lang (pieces from his series Differenz/Wiederholung, Trike), Peter Ablinger (Klavierautomat), Ritsch created “my own dedication to noise pieces of experimental music from 70s onwards”. This machine cuts a 2-5cm thick disk of a wooden trunk in a circular line along the gro…

This Embodiment consists of work stemming from exhibitions and performances by Hanne Lippard over the past number of years. Including texts from her most recent exhibition entitled ‘Flesh’, at Berlin’s KW, that saw the artist use ‘her body and words to counterfeit perimeters given by established standards in art production and create a universe where the audience is physically as well as mentally brought outside of their confinements.’ The works collected display the various areas to which Lippa…

This new limited edition box set has been created in celebration of Carsten Nicolai’s much-loved interactive installation bausatz-noto, now showing at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition at 180 Studios. Four Technics SL-1210 turntables are integrated into a table. On each of these turntables lies a specially produced vinyl record with endless grooves, each of which provides the visitor with the opportunity to play several sound loops endlessly. The table functions as an instrument, allowing the…

Luigi Gaggero, a native of Genoa, has graced the stages of Europe’s most prestigious venues. He is currently Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra as well as musical director and co-founder of the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, with which he has recorded acclaimed CDs of con- temporary music repertoire. Before launching his conducting career, Gaggero performed for 25 years as a cimbalom player and percussionist, collaborating with the finest European orchestras and ensembles …

**20 copies only** A Take on "Piece for Guitars" is an extension of the installation called Pieces for Instruments, which features three filmed sound performances entitled Piece for Drums, Piece for Microphones and Piece for Guitars. In each performance, a musical instrument is dragged through a different natural site. This approach aims to use the ground as an actual "musical score", in order to question how landscape shapes culture and, more specifically, sonic and musical imaginaries. Piece f…

"Noise Graphics (1980-1990)", is a comprehensive archive documenting the visual culture of noise music through vinyl and cassette cover art from the genre's formative decade. The 244-page hardcover book presents an extensive collection of graphics produced between 1980 and 1990, capturing the raw aesthetic of underground music before the internet transformed how music was distributed and promoted. This archive serves multiple audiences: noise music enthusiasts discovering rare and forgotten rele…

Japanese Punk graphics from 1980 to 2010 compiled by Masala Noir.

New Wave & Post-Punk tape and vinyl graphics from 1980 to 2000 compiled by Masala Noir.

The ultimate tribute to the great Lower Eastside sage, poet, mystic. A sturdy black box in an edition of 50 copies of which 20 copies are available for commercial sale. With: A chap by Robert Yarra, an interview with Lionel, an eulogy by Louise Landes Levi, a letter by Lionel, a postcard (with Ira Cohen), a short tape with Lionel reciting his poetry and three high quality photoprints (numbered and signed) by Dutch top photographer Marco Bakker. For the Harry Smith, Fugs, Bruce Conner fan.

A 98 page book, fully illustrated, with contributions by Huncke, Ann Charters, Gerald Nicosia, Raymond Foye, Charles Plymell, Kit and Arthur  Knight, Gordon Ball, Robert Yarra a.o. Included is a box with two tapes with the interviews and stories and 25 postcards with, so far, unpublished photos of Huncke and friends. An edition of 75 numbered copies Herbert Edwin Huncke was an American writer and poet, and an active participant in a number of emerging cultural, social and aesthetic movements of …

Judith Malina & Julian Beck - NYC 1983 reading. A reissue of a recording that was part of CCC's Archives tapes, long OOP. With 2 facsimile press photos.

Louise Landes Levi - reissue of her Jack Kerouac Centennial reading that was part of her long out of print CCC boxset. The originally one-sided tape has new artwork and on the B side new material by LLL and Bombay Lunatic Asylum.

Robert Joseph soundpiece Rondo nr 1 1977. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague Joseph Robert was born and raised in the Midwest. However, he has always been partial to Hawaiian beaches. Nevertheless: Go Badgers! After living and working for several years in rural Japan, he now resides in London with his wife, writer and poet Leilanie Stewart. In his spare time, you can find him at the British Museum trying to teach himself how to read Sumerian cuneiform. Don’t worry,…

Word Events Performance, Utrecht 10/6/1976. With Michael Gibbs, GJ de Rook and Ulises Carrion. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague.

An edition of 26 copies, archivala releases from different recording sessions, mostly in collaboration with Charlie Morrow (from 1980 to 2010. Greta Monach (1928-2018), an early proponent of computer generated concrete poetry. Greta spent her childhood in indonesia and curaçao. In 1946 she returned to the hague, where she saw abstract painting for the first time, and started to think about abstract (non-semantic) poetry. For decades she experimented without success. from 1946 to 1948 monach stud…

Writers Forum anniversary reading at the Poetry Society, Londom 20/10/1973. Featuring Bob Cobbing/abAna, Eric Mottram, Lee Harwood Bill Griffiths, Peter Finch/abAna a.o. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague.

The Jack Kerouac Centennial chap with contributions by all the participants of the event we organised in 2022. 60 pg, fully illustrated, an edition of 100 numbered copies. Readings by Louise Landes Levi, Ed Sanders, Antonio Bonome, Thomas Keller and a host of others.

Disquiet. Loss. Choice. The courage to venture onto a road. Choosing another one. And disquiet again, having ascertained that neither leads to new lands: the images which make up 'An Imitation of Life' convey all this to the observer, that is, the very act of seeing. The gaze of a 9 year old, roughly eight hours of footage, the grain of a VHS-C: archeological finding of the first childhood brainwaves, the 78 video stills contained in these pages and organized according to a random logic by the v…

Marking its first decade of activity, Blume returns with the first ever vinyl release to attend to the seminal American composer James Tenney’s “Postal Pieces”, among the most important suites of 20th Century avant-garde composition.

The next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, not on glossy paper and is not expensive. It’s… ‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, th…

This bundle includes the following items:- Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies - Sonic Topologies (2LP, clear vinyl)- Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies - Gotthard Transect (2Tape in special box)- Ludwig Berger - Garden of Ediacara (LP)Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies - Sonic Topologies (2LP, clear vinyl)"How many ways are there to listen to a place? “Sonic Topologies” presents a wide range of sonic research in Zurich’s urban landscape—underground and above ground, underwater …

A Journey Of Wanderings & Wonderings From Summerisle is a special zine that dives into the actual myths and contexts that underpin The Wicker Man, the 1973 film that’s often held up as one of the greatest ever made. Stone circles, pagan rituals, even the history of apples… a wonderful deep dive for fans.

”Music From The Soil, Music For Everyone"

2024 stock. Sound is ephemeral. It does not belong to anyone. It cannot be captured in words. Writing on sound art usually focuses on the same familiar figures, but this treatment will broaden the field to explore artistic practitioners like the godfather of movie sound, Walter Murch, the king of the jungle Chris Watson, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, pioneer wildlife recordist Ludwig Karl Koch, American pioneer composer and master teacher James Fulkerson, uncompromising compose…

2024 stock. This volume published by Yilmaz Dziewior and Katrin Sauerländer is the first in the Museum Ludwig's new series "In their own words." The series is dedicated to contemporary artists who, in addition to their visual oeuvre, have produced texts that take an independent approach to the concerns of their times and presents, above all, approaches that have proved influential and continue to inform current debates. Valie Export is regarded as one of the most important international pioneers…

Artist Rie Nakajima is known for arranging small devices in an installation-like manner, presenting the movement of each device as a “performance.” This “performance” may be an attempt to highlight the interaction between humans and devices, as well as the states of response between devices and the space they inhabit, by minimizing human intervention. This piece is a recording of Nakajima’s performance in the courtyard of a castle, where she was invited to perform at a festival in France in 2016…

Mshukai is an improvisation group that revolves around Imao Takuma, known as a contemporary artist and percussionist Pedal. The group performs in unconventional spaces such as baseball fields or inside closets, responding playfully to the environment. This tape documents their performance in the headwaters of a river in Koga, Shiga Prefecture, where they brought equipment and played around a campfire. Additionally, recordings capture their studio session in Kanazawa, where they listened to the a…

The photographic volume 'Long Play' by Arme Reimer, which has long been out of print at the publisher, is an insightful photo book about the era of the long-playing record. Over the past ten years, photographer Arne Reimer has visited old record stores and also record collectors in Europe and the USA. His contemporary portraits as well as his interior shots are carefully dedicated to the past. 'The vinyl record was once the dominant medium,' writes Ulf Erdmann Ziegler in his essay on this subjec…

On the cover: This is a really packed, special issue of Maggot Brain, with the feature cover story a comprehensive interview by celebrated writer Sasha Frere-Jones with essayist Lucy Sante (who's written for every issue of MB since the start), on the occasion of her awesome memoir about transitioning, I Heard Her Call My Name. Inside: Phill Niblock: A tribute to the genius musician, filmmaker, label head, and generous promoter of ecstatic sound, by Steve Silverstein. Tresa Leigh: An in-depth fea…

100+ pages of underground music, art & culture. This issue features exclusive interviews with Donovan, Adam Green, P.G. Six, Modern Nature, Moving Gelatine Plates and Pete Brown (pt. 2), as well as features about Cornwall's Psychedelic Underground, the Gathering of the Juggalos, Folklore Tapes, LSD Underground 12, VASCHA, book reviews, new music reviews, creative writing, poetry & more.

100+ pages of underground music, art & culture. This issue features interviews with Pete Brown, Dana Gillespie, Gruff Rhys, Alex Merry and Benjamin Myers, as well as features about the lesser-known UK free festivals, Argentinian underground magazine Expreso Imaginario, Gwawr Records, The New Eves, Burd Ellen, Aphex Twin, Shovel Dance Collective, Angeline Morrison & much more...

Big Tip! ** 100 copies, signed and numbered. With a signed drawing by Hermoine Zittlau*  Hermoine Zittlau was to appear again as a band in December 1987 for the last performance of Die Tödliche Doris. This time together with Etsuko Okazaki and Tabea Blumenschein. It was the opera "Autofahrt in Deutschland", which I developed with Nikolaus Utermöhlen as the last joint Die Tödliche Doris band project. Two years later, in 1989, Hermoine Zittlau reappeared at the presentation of "Die Tödliche Doris …

Massive 2003 fully illustrated book on the Living Theatre including pages on Young and Zazeela's Well-tune Piano performance in Italy.

1993 postcard advertising concerts in NYC by La Monte Young's Ensemble and others.

DIA Foundation's program for the Winter/Spring 1993 season including Young & Zazeela's installations.

Seriously funny 1993 illustrated program for concerts in NYC by La Monte Young's Forever Bad Blues Band, Blue Gene Tyranny, Diamanda Galas, etc.

1993 MELA Foundation form and catalogue with products by Young, MacLise, Maxfield, Riley, etc.

Spectacular oversize 1972 French magazine with a "La Monte Young Special" of several pages of interviews, pictures, etc., plus front cover.

Nice 1996 postcard for a concert of music by La Monte Young with rare picture of the composer.