Gamelan Coming & Going
Recorded in 1985, this long piece, unpublished until now, belongs to the Gamelan series, which Philip Corner has worked for years and counting dozens of pieces. In the word of the author, the piece, for two pianists "...represents one of the most “curious” manifestation in the Gamelan series. The increment-link, high-to-low, is maintained on the chromatic scale of the piano keyboard, giving durations from 1 to 88. However they are realized in both directions at the same time. And counted out lou…
Six Juxtaposed Works
First release by japanese artist Hideaki Shimada aka Agencement since 2001. "Six Juxtaposed Works“ presents new pieces for violin, viola, cello, electronics and tape. Performed and recorded between 2013 and 2017. Shimada (born 1962) plays violin improvisations since the late 1970’s and formed the Agencement project in the early 1980’s adding electronics and tape-techniques to his play and releasing the first self titled cassette in 1984. Between 1986 and 2001 he published four more Agencem…
Music Without Musicians
Paul Panhuysen, Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, was invited by De IJsbreker in Amsterdam in 1997 to curate a program of mechanical orchestras. This book documents the orchestras created by the six artists Trimpin, Frédéric Le Junter, Ulrich Eller, Ad van Buuren, Pierre Bastien and Harald Kubiczak. The CD features original recordings of each of the six orchestras. The accompanying essays by Kitty Zijlmans and Leon van Noorden use the programmatic title of the project, ’Music Without Musicians,’ as a…
Textum Web
**rare original** Terry Fox’s Textum Web artist book of mixed-media drawings and constructions about phrases taken from the folk poetry of tabloid headlines with messages in braille and morse code. 54 p.: ill.; 30 cm.
I'm Rock Hard (1982 - 1989)
Limited to 200 copies, hand-signed by John Giorno. First release of Giorno’s sound compositions. By the end of the 70s, Giorno had expanded his sound compositions into the world of music, live performance and created his own record label called “Giorno Poetry Systems Recordings” –a platform where vinyl, video works, CD’s, tape compilations, radio broadcasting and telephones could be used as a tools to extend the boundary of poetry and literature. In 1981, when Giorno felt he had done every thing…
Glitter in My Tears
Glitter in my tears’ marks the 20th anniversary of Janek Schaefer’s career as a recording artist, having now released 30 albums. His music is best comprehended through examining his time as an architect, and how that forged his innate sense for constructing tactile atmospheres, that navigate through unknown structures and forgotten spaces, creating profound new places. Over his career he has placed focus on the relationship between body, medium, and sound, creating a field of work that defies ea…
Stitching in Process: Windmixed Data
**In process of restock** "Pentiments continues its collaboration with the legendarily enigmatic American sound art pioneer Leif Brush, this time with an extensive double LP release representing the most comprehensive collection of his recorded work to date. In plumbing the depths of his archives, weve unearthed and gathered a great breadth of his decades-long sonic research, spanning from his early work as a grad student to various lecture documents from his eventual tenure at UMD, with many cu…
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"In 1965, eight guys from London, Ontario, decided to start a free-improv group — 'free' to the point of building their own instruments, which they decided couldn't be set up to produce specific pitches... Their vocalist, schoolteacher Bill Exley, banged on a cooking pot and bellowed hilariously about stupidity and destruction and Canada. They didn't treat what they were doing as an advanced, visionary form of experimental music, but as a big, stupid, fun, ecstatic noise. By the '90s, noise arti…
An Idea In Everything
2016 release. When David Greenberger first embarked on what has become a life-long journey, drummer Chris Corsano was not yet five years old! In 1979, after graduating from art school in Boston, Greenberger took the job of activities director at the Duplex Nursing Home, an all-male elder care facility in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and began collecting the stories, poems and music reviews of its aged patients for what became his Duplex Planet project, an undertaking that would eventually…
Immediate Landscapes
Sound artist Akio Suzuki crisscrosses the world with his self-made instruments. British tenor/soprano sax player John Butcher is a leading figure in improvised music. These two musicians have been carrying out duo performances since 2002. The six tracks on this CD are recordings of their duos in Scotland in 2006 and Tokyo in 2015. In June 2006, an event was held in which Suzuki and Butcher visited and performed in places around Scotland that have highly distinctive acoustic characteristics. Butc…
Peripheries: Sound portrait Belgrade 2014 – 2016
Katharina Klement was born in Graz, Austria, and is a ‘composer-performer’ in the field of notated and improvised, instrumental and electronic music. She has participated in numerous crossover projects in the areas music-text-video-performance, several works for mechanically and electronically customised piano, sound installations, and is the founder or a member of many ensembles for improvised and composed music. "In 2014, I spent nine weeks in Belgrade, focusing on the questio…
Not A Bird / Transcarnation One
Thomas Müller (b. 1970 in Munich) is a Berlin-based video artist, experimental musician, painter, and photographer. For an exhibition in 2005, he burned three of his oil paintings and displayed the resulting pile of ashes as a sculpture entitled "three of my favourite pictures". These particular ashes were reused in new paintings, some of which have again been burned to produce further ashes for further paintings. Thus began a cycle of ash-based works entitled "not a bird", ranging from large ca…
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cube. Each performance over the course of the exhibition will be recorded, pressed and screen-printed live inside the gallery. This performance is from Rie Nakajima.
Rie Nakajima was born in Japan and lives and works in London. Nakajima works wi…
Kunstradio
Third in a series of seven. Includes 7-inch embossed front cover with die-cut hole back cover + grooveless opaque vinyl with an off-center hole in addition to the center hole + two 7″x7″ full colour inserts + AIFF and MP3 (320 kbps) versions of 7 tracks, 45:11 total. Edition of 77.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist. He has a Master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and has performed in Europe and Canada on many occasions. His instal…
Avatar
Second in a series of seven. Includes 7-inch embossed front cover with die-cut hole back cover + grooveless opaque vinyl with a burn mark made by a soldering iron on one side + two 7″x7″ full colour inserts + AIFF and MP3 (320 kbps) versions of 5 tracks, 31:18 total. Edition of 77.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist. He has a Master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and has performed in Europe and Canada on many occasions. His insta…
Silo City
Edition of 77 copies. includes 77 grooveless 7-inch opaque white vinyl records, plus 2 full-colour inserts, and embossed die-cut cover. First presented as part of null point 7: Decay/Reverberate, Silo City, Buffalo, New York, June 12-14, 2015. Curated by Colin Tucker. Publication (vinyl object and digital) contains 6 tracks, total running time 33:41. Tracks based on recordings done at Silo City during a site visit in summer of 2014 and during the presentations/performances onsite the foll…
Greatest Hits
Edition of 300. A release featuring the first twelve presentations of Hit Parade, where a total of 180 performers in Seoul, Montreal, Quebec City, Dundee, Winnipeg, Porto, New York, Toronto, Rotterdam, Kitchener, Milan and Melbourne, lying face down hit the ground 1000 times with a microphone.
Up- And Downgrades Pt.1
For his first solo exhibition at Pinkie Bowtie, which ran between 15 April and 7 May this year, Dennis Tyfus has gone back to basics. Using the age-old tradition of the self-portrait, he draws a pathetic yet whimsical tale of daily life and the mundane annoyances that befall him. These inconsequential frustrations are offset by bright and poppy colours, resulting in a deceptively cheerful set of drawings, luring you in.This catalog ue collects all the drawings that were shown during the exhibiti…
Dances Interdites
Slowscan vol. 38 is a expanded re-issue on vinyl of the Dances Interdites tape originally released on Balsam Flex, a London-based label run by artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Peter Finch is a poet and short story writer living in Cardiff, Wales. He works in both traditional and experimental forms and is a performer on the reading circuit. In the sixties and seventies he edited the ground-breaking literary magazine, second aeon, exhibited visual poetry internationally and…
Waterways : four saliva studies
Soundtrack to Vito Acconci’s 1971 video “Waterways: Four Saliva Studies” as well as a remix by undo (Christof Migone and Alexandre St-Onge) entitled “Vito Acconci’s undoing.” cd in custom cardboard box with video stills of each Acconci study covered by hand in silver paint. "New York artist Vito Acconci belongs to that generation of conceptual players, including Chris Burden and Denis Oppenheim, who were more interested in what th…