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Edition of 80. "Rompighiaccio Destiny" is an auto generated composition resulted by the random interactions of two different tape recorders left to play and mixed without any external intervention except for some subtile variations of equalization, pitch and modulation through a delay used in effect send.  "We have an increasing desire in any case to get firm ground under our feet. The floe has been a good friend to us, but it is reaching the end of its journey, and it is liable at any time now …

* Limited edition of 20 copies * edition which comes in a cardboard box and is limited to twenty copies. Coming with an explanation about the recordings - of readings at the festival by Armand, Ira Cohen, Louis Lehmann, Hans Verhagen and Simon Vinkenoogand - Ruigoord with a special thank to Hans Plomp and Yvonne van Doorn organising poetry and spoken word events in Ruigoord for decades and hopefully decades to come. This tape is not only a tribute to the five Ruigoord Trophy holders (all artists…

Mappa invited me to make a work for cassette release. At the time I was putting finishing touches to a work for CD that was the result of 3 years of collection, distillation, presentation and consideration. I had made a conscious decision to stop composing in favour of making work for installation and performance. However, the idea struck me to make a ‚format-specific‘ piece. For many reasons the cassette didn’t excite me in the same way as vinyl or CD. But then I considered the compact cassette…

Limited edition of 70 copies presenting Nina Zivancevic a great writer and according to the recordings a great narrator and interviewer. Comes with insert of a photo taken at the time.

The acoustic situations presented in Ten-Room Banquet were constructed by hybridized processes. Their constituent matter explores relationships between an idea of synthetic and of « picked up reality ». Field recording, « sound-designed » spaces, performative situations, synthesizers, analog and digital studio manipulations... are used to experiment different approaches to audio perception. Through concrète compositions, a poetic narrative unfolds, from nervous collages to smoother sequences. Ta…

New state being baby hallucinations.

Artist and musician Rosa Barba paired up with drummer Chad Taylor for their first duo record, In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility. Documenting a September 2019 performance and installation at New York's Park Avenue Armory, part of an invitation by pianist Jason Moran, the CD's two mesmerizing tracks clock in at over 30-minutes each. Patiently built as collaborative soundscapes, they feature Barba's unorthodox conjoining of cello and film projector in which she uses the celluloid as an…

**Glass mastered CD • 6-panel digisleeve (coated 350gms cardboard)** Operating between Italy in Japan, since its founding in 2018, 901 Editions has carved a singular path through the landscape of experimental sound. Like its predecessor, Farmacia901, the label is founded around principles of minimal beauty, music as design, and sound as malleable material, issuing stunning works by Akio Suzuki, Steve Roden, Minamo, Yann Novak, Giovanni Di Domenico, Asmus Tietchens, and numerous others. Their lat…

Morning prayer. Children playing. Cooking dinner. Singing a lullaby. The quotidian sounds that form our everyday experiences are those recorded in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, while visiting Mahallas. Following "Siberian Field Recordings", his recent dazzling cassette release on Second Sleep, and his contribution to the "MMXX" series on Matière Mémoire Éditions, we are glad to offer copies of what is possibily Carlos Casas' most 'hidden' release. Released on occasion of his cross-discipl…

** Edition of 300 ** Mark Vernon presents the second volume of his Sonograph Sound Effects Series – the follow up to the unexpectedly popular ‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’ LP. This time the focus is on sounds of plumbing and sanitation: drainpipes, plugholes, leaks, squeaky taps and cisterns. Vernon has recorded many of the sounds from unusual perspectives, in extreme close-up scenarios, using contact mics or small binaural microphones to get into tiny inaccessible spaces. There is also a part…

Tip! ** Edition of 200. CD in cardboard wallet + printed inner sleeve + 6 pages accordion booklet ** Ron Nagorcka (1948) is a composer, performer, and naturalist. In 1988 he moved to a remote forest in northern Tasmania, where he built his own house and solar-powered studio (some fascinating photos of his home-studio are present in the booklet attached to this release). This CD collects his first works recorded in his forest residence in Tasmania, his music sites on the borderline between docume…

* 300 copies * Trying to set musical events in a sculptural form, the Düsseldorf/Wuppertal based artist and musician Detlef Funder (a.k.a. Konrad Kraft), develops the temporary audio-sculpture. Knowing that a tonal event can never take the materiality of a real sculpture, Konrad Kraft attempts this special transformation with the help of various elements. Human imaginativeness, time, as well as the tonal event itself are the elements for the listener to form an individual audio-sculpture and to …

**Edition of 150 copies. Four softcovers, a hardcover, a vinyl record, and a dustjacket, arranged in a layered set** Box set comprising five books, a vinyl and a supplementary dust jacket, each highlighting different practices and transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by digital communication. Fog Friend Font: Ways of Doing Multilingual Sense is the editorial framework for a unique set of discursively related publications. It comprises seve…

**Edition of 200 copies. Box containing three folders, one vinyl, 300 pages,** Mahalla – The Survey offers a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims at a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating Uzbek cultural heritage: the mahalla (luxury box set including numerous documents, a 7" vinyl record by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen). Historically forged by family, ethnic and professional ties, the traditional mahalla is a neighbourhood…

ɅV (phonetic transcription for ‹of› or ‹off›) is a vinyl record consisting of spoken words, which can be used as a DJ-tool to compose artifical dialogues. It makes use of 32 monosyllabic words on each side recited by two synthetic voices which were collected from the website of the New York Times and the Politically Incorrect subforum of the messageboard 4chan, thus mirroring two opposing extremes of current online debate in the materiality of an LP. Mixing two copies of this record in a DJ-setu…

Building on the back of a pretty stunning series of releases over the last year and beyond, Vinyl on Demand returns with one of their most ambitious outings yet, Los Angeles Free Music Society's "-1974~1983+", a stunning, deluxe 13LP box set - issued in a limited edition of 500 copies - of early material that has never before been issued on vinyl, from one of the most important outfits in underground, experimental music from the American west.

**Moss Green vinyl, edition of 500 copies** "FUJI||||||||||TA, real name Fujita Yosuke, is a Japanese sound artist and pipe-organ builder, he provided us with one of the prettiest, weirdest records that passed over our desk last year, essentially a custom-built organ duet with a bat colony, recorded in a cave beneath Mt. Fuji. It’s now been remastsred by Rashad Becker (with whom Fujita will be collaborating on a performance for Issue Project Room next month) and captures a sound somewhere betwee…

Tip! ** Edition of 100, bilingual (German / English). Signed and numbered. Interview with Wolfgang Müller with original recordings from Die Tödliche Doris** On August 27, 2018, Wolfgang Müller arranged to meet his longtime friend Tabea Blumenschein for an interview at her apartment in Allee der Kosmonauten. He had noted personal and artistic station of her life. At that time, he had no idea that it would be the last interview with Tabea. This interview, actually more of a personal conversation …

** Edition of 100, bilingual (German / English). Text and photo accordeon by Christian Y. Schmidt and an aerosol. Original drawing by Hartmut Andryczuk ** When Christian Y. Schmidt returned to Berlin with the last flight from Beijing on 12 February 2020 to promote his book Der kleine Herr Tod, he felt like he was on a strange planet. In January and February he had already witnessed the pandemic measures in Beijing. With this knowledge advantage, he tried to warn his numerous virtual friends and …

** 2021 Stock. Sold-out at source ** 6th CANT release - recording by Katya Shirshkova "The Pond", homage to the work of the same name by Ben Patterson. Katya Shirshkova: When I was 8 years old, Ben Patterson came to Irkutsk. They told me to show how I play Bach, and I did. Poorly. I also decided to play improvisation, unintentionally, I just got upset and played - I always liked to hold the keys and listen more. Ben liked it. He showed me a trick with a coin, I was scared. And dad became an hono…

Tip! Voce a vento represents the result of a choral, visual and performative intervention realized by Claudia Losi in the Cilento countryside in Southern Italy in 2018. Commissioned by Jazzi association, Losi chose a collective direction in which choral and polyphonic singing played a central role and developed with a collective and inclusive direction. For a few days, some thirty women from both the Emilia and Cilento regions have used their voices to dwell on the tracks of Monte Bulgheria in t…

A look at the activist artist group Guerilla Art Action Group (Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna, Joanne Stamerra, Virginia Toche and Jean Toche), The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976: A Selection is a compilation of manifestos, letters and press communiqués issued by the group (to Nixon, Hoover, The Secretary of Defense and Museum officials.) Originally published in 1978, the publication documents the art actions by the Guerrilla Art Action Group between 1969 and 1976

Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series with two readings by Judith Malina of the Living Theatre, a performance by F.A. Nettelbeck with Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb and recordings from an event at the Wichita Art Museum with Charles Plymell and Bob ranaman.

Adam Bohman arrived on October 8, 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands for a one-off improv concert with Richard Crow. For two days he recorded his adventures on his vintage taperecorder resulting in a kaleidoscopic aural collage.

** 50 copies. The cassette comes with two laserprinted and xeroxed inserts** Recorded 1995 & 1996 at home in Portland Oregon USA. Surrealistic sounds by Smegma veterans Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia. Recorded in 1995 and edited by Ju Suk in 2021. A collage of otherworldly music. 'I'm not sure how we got some of the sounds going'

** Limited edition of 70 copies with small insert with a photo of Charles Plymell in close coorperation with Cherry Valley Editions * An intimate reading by one of the last original Beats. Recorded at his Cherry Hill farm.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practices zooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South Asian dance music and investigates sound as part of a wider assemblage of cultural technologies, politics and practices. Carla J. Maier investigates how sounds from Hindi film music tunes or bhangra tracks have been sa…

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound. Within the areas of musicology, art history, and, later, sound studies, Sound Art has evolved at least since the 1980s into a turbulant field of academic critique and a…

Mute Records is one of the most influential, commercially successful, and long-lasting of the British independent record labels formed in the wake of the late­1970’s punk explosion. Yet, in comparison with contemporaries such as Rough Trade or Stiff, its legacy remains under-explored. This edited collection addresses Mute’s wide­ranging impact. Drawing from disciplines such as popular music studies, musicology, and fan studies, it takes a distinctive, artist- led approach, outlining the history …

The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the often daunting complexity and abundance of resources and influences that confront them as they work to achieve a personal expression. From pop to classical, the book speaks to the creative ways that new composers mix and synthesi…

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future? Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of "Sonic Labor." Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary "Living with Sounds." The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and…

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of understanding the unexpected, the dissonant, the unfamiliar. It presents noise as a negativity with no fixed identity that can only be defined in connection and opposition to meaning and ord…

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and c…

A stunning marvel and the first text from the wild and wonderful mind of Henry Flynt, "Three Essays on Spirituality and Art", across 196 pages - issued in a beautifully produced edition of 500 copies - takes on a rarely explored subject in contemporary context, seeded in the anti-authoritarian positions that Flynt laid down at the dawn of Fluxus and has embraced ever since. Radical, vibrant, and fascinating, before us rests an essential illumination of the inner workings of one of the most impor…

In Sound arts now, Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle explore contemporary artistic practices and theories, and what contributes to or hinders artistic and career development. This is conducted through a series of interviews with artists and curators, putting the often-unheard voice of the maker at the centre of the discourse.  There is a conscious shift of reference away from the “white men from the global north” who have dominated the canon during the decades of the discipline’s emergence and establ…

In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine­channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance—the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects—as a model of art’s fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpe…

Acoustic Justice engages issues of recognition and misrecognition by mobilizing an acoustic framework. From the vibrational intensities of common life to the rhythm of bodies in movement, and drawing from his ongoing work on sound and agency, Brandon LaBelle positions acoustics, and the broader experience of listening, as a dynamic means for fostering responsiveness, understanding, dispute, and the work of reorientation. As such, acoustic justice emerges as a compelling platform for engaging str…

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salomé Voegelin expands ‘possible world theory’ to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleau­Ponty’s phenomenological life­ worlds, creates a view on the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count, politically and aesthetically. How to make them thin…

From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world, music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target of critique in the 1950s, to electroni…

Steve Beresford's polymathic activities have formed a prism for the UK improv scene since the 1970s. He is internationally known as a free improviser on piano, toy piano and electronics, composer for film and TV, and raconteur and Dadaist visionary. His résumé is filled with collaborations with hundreds of musicians and other artists, including such leading improvisers as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and John Zorn, and he has given performances of works by John Cage and Christian Marclay. In this b…