Presque Rien n°2 – Ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple
** Bilingual edition (English / French) 24 x 32 cm (spiral bound), 40 pages (ill.) ** Facsimile scores and documents about the work recorded by Luc Ferrari during summer 1977 and premiered in 1979 during Festival d'Automne at Centre Pompidou, Paris. "Ten years ago, 'Presque Rien n°1' bore the subtitle 'Sunrise at the Seaside'. This piece of magnetic tape was in fact a sort of report on this daily event. Thinking about Presque Rien later on, I wondered what it was about. Looking for almost nothi…
Presque Rien n°1 – Le lever du jour au bord de la mer – 1967-70
** Bilingual edition (English / French) 27 x 35 cm (spiral bound), 37 pages (ill.) ** Historical pictures, texts, indications about project, list of recorded sounds, full edit plan & manuscript facsimile of the piece achieved by the composer at Deutsche Grammophon studios in 1970 in Hannover, from the recordings dated July 1967 in Vela Luka, Croatia. "Following the total disappearance of abstract sounds, this piece could be considered a sonic photographic slide, the outcome of a whole evolution…
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 3 – Cars
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.
Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pioneer and a major figure of musique concrète an…
L'Escalier des aveugles – Recueil de nouvelles
Bilingual edition (English / French) 27 x 35 cm (spiral bound), 101 pages (ill.) Facsimile scores and documents about the radiophonic work created by Luc Ferrari in 1991. This publication around "L'escalier des aveugles" features never released before contents; including notes from the editor, full transcription of the dialogues (Spanish/French/English), historical documentation about the project, sound map, facsimile manuscript from the composer & afterword.Through these 101 pages, you will ha…
Méandre(s) – Une expérience de fabrication collective spontanée (Book+CD+DVD)
A sound and music experience along the Dordogne, with the company Le Chant du Moineau and the Ensemble UN orchestra, accompanied by a group of invited researchers (with a composition by Lionel Marchetti, as well as extracts from conferences, on CD and a film by Camille Auburtin on DVD).
Anniversary issue by Gruenrekorder
Limited edition of 50 copies. Blank tape with nothing on it – just to free up your mind. Ready to record & listen in your own sound environment.
Tonarm, P.S.
2017 release ** Edition of 50 copies housed in a full colour printed cardboard slipcase. Gregory Büttner (b. 1972) is a Hamburg based sound artist, curator and label owner and has been a key figure in the city's experimental/improvised music scene for more than 10 years. As the person in charge of the 1000füssler imprint and one of the main organisers of the annual „Blurred Edges“ festival for contemporary music, Büttner has collaborated with countless local and international artists over the ye…
Skyscraper Martini Guitar
Limited edition of 50 Excellent tough poetry with music, think Charles Bukowski and Steve Richmond. Incudes, a map with broadsides.
COOP a-script (Book)
COOP a-script is an artist book based on two performance scripts by Fia Backström, extending her exploration of visual and spoken language, global community, bureaucratic jargon, and mood and communication disorders. The first section of the book, “Aphasia as a visual way of speaking, on A-production and other language syndromes,” consists of a text written in four parts. When this work was performed at The Poetry Project in New York City, the artist organized the script across the venue’s floor…
Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World (Book)
Last copies, long sold out at source. 504 Pages!| Scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from Bolivia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Switzerland and forty-six other countries discuss artistic expressions that may not make big headlines yet, but anticipate major changes to come. Produced in often times small studios from Jakarta to La Paz, Cape Town to Helsinki, these works experiment with the new possibilities of the Internet age and illuminate new spaces beyond the confines of commercialism, propag…
Game Room - A Tribute To The Great American Loser
*Edition of 200 copies* Les Levine is a naturalized American Irish artist, born October 6, 1935, in Dublin, Ireland. Known as a pioneer of video art and as a conceptual artist working with mass communication. In 1967, he won first prize for sculpture in the Canadian Sculpture Biennial. He designed the cover of the beat poets like John Giorno (founder of Giorno Poetry System). Levine was one of the first artists to work with video and television. His work was to become a precursor to the new gene…
Two Sisters
** Exclusive coil bound 52 page A4 landscape score book to full album ** The new album from Sarah Davachi on her own Late Music imprint is a collection of nine extended compositions for chamber ensemble and solo pipe organ. "The expanded instrumentation on this album includes carillon (a keyboard instrument comprised of very large cast-iron bells), choir, string quartet, low woodwinds, and trombone quartet, alongside sine tones and electronic drones. Among the pipe organs featured on the album…
John Zorn
In Italian Una ricca monografia dedicata da Maurizio Principato a uno dei maggiori protagonisti della nuova musica, tra jazz, colta e sperimentazione. John Zorn è uno dei musicisti di punta della scena newyorkese e questo libro esplora per la prima volta l'intero universo del'artista americano, rivelandone la storia, la formazione e l'esemplare filosofia di vita. Una guida alla labirintica discografia, alle numerose collaborazioni, alle molteplici ispirazioni.
Ehm
Xing presents the new LP Ehm by Canedicoda and Renato Grieco, seventh release of XONG collection - artist records.
Breakthrough
Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian writer and intellectual (1909-1974). Throughout his life, he held a strong interest in the field of parapsychology and was particularly intrigued by the possibility of an afterlife. Raudive devoted much of his research to investigating Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and in 1971 published a book on the subject entitled "Breakthrough". EVP refers to instances of audible voices on electronic recordings, which are often interpreted as originating from a paranormal sou…
Recordings On Sex Instruction
Take a step back in time to 1951 with these 4 charming dramatizations. Their purpose is to offer guidance to grown-ups on how to have important conversations with children about sexuality, including masturbation, menstruation, the miracle of new life, and the wonders of marriage. With a playful and engaging tone, where the young ones are full of questions and the grown-ups are warm and understanding, it presents an idyllic world in which adults and children are wonderful.
Alien Abductions: First-Person Testimonies of Alien Abductees
*In process of stocking* Buckle up for some wild extraterrestrial tales on this tape! You'll hear from those who claim to have been whisked away by aliens in their shiny saucers. First up, we have the classic Betty Hill's Zeta Reticuli escapade, the OG of alien abduction stories. But wait, it gets better! We also have Elizabeth Klarer, who says she had a love affair with an extraterrestrial, resulting in a family of three. And more out of this world stories.
Writings
** 2023 Repress ** Writings is the first collection to widely survey the singular Tony Conrad polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, …
A Strange Celestial Road (Book, Hardcover)
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s.
A Strange Celestial Road (Book, Paperback)
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s.