Mozart Mix (Print)
Screenprint from one of the first sound multiples ever created. Published by Edition Block in two versions: the complete sound installation in wooden box (edition of 35-36 copies) and this screenprint in red (70.2 x 70.2 cm, edition of 35, signed and numbered). Created for the 200th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death, Mozart Mix reflects Cage's fundamental aesthetic principles of chance, indeterminacy, and the dissolution of boundaries between composer, performer, and audience. The s…
Gelbe Musik (1991)
This copy is slightly damaged in transportation and has been mounted on plexiglass for protection and presentation. A rare signed and numbered screenprint created for the tenth anniversary of Ursula Block's legendary gelbe MUSIK record store in Berlin. Edition of 60, signed and numbered, 54 x 100 cm. Founded by Block in 1981, gelbe MUSIK was one of the world's most important places for New Music enthusiasts, a gathering point for collectors, artists, and radical sound practitioners. Cage (*1912 …
The Readymade Boomerang (Print)
Rare signed and numbered screen print by the legendary composer and conceptual artist. Published in a total edition of 60 numbered copies. Two-color screenprint, 70 x 100 cm. Created near the end of Cage's life, The Readymade Boomerang continues his lifelong investigation of chance operations, visual composition, and the dissolution of boundaries between art forms. The title evokes Marcel Duchamp's readymade while suggesting return, repetition, and transformation - key concepts in Cage's practic…
Gelbe Musik (1991)
A rare signed and numbered screenprint created for the tenth anniversary of Ursula Block's legendary gelbe MUSIK record store in Berlin. Edition of 60, signed and numbered, 54 x 100 cm. Founded by Block in 1981, gelbe MUSIK was one of the world's most important places for New Music enthusiasts, a gathering point for collectors, artists, and radical sound practitioners. Cage (*1912 Los Angeles – †1992 New York City), student of Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, was among the most influential co…
Künstlerschallplatten. gelbe MUSIK (Poster)
Original exhibition poster, 1987. Big Size. A rare document from the origins of the legendary Broken Music project. In 1987, a small Hamburg gallery—an artists' cooperative—invited Ursula Block of gelbe MUSIK to organize a groundbreaking exhibition of artists' records. To accompany the show, this poster was printed, featuring images of exhibited objects and short texts. The exhibition followed Block's first KÜNSTLERSCHALLPLATTEN (Artists' Records) show at gelbe MUSIK in Berlin in 1986, which inc…
Gelb
The second chapter in Schnitzler's color trilogy of pure electronic minimalism. Released in 1981 on Edition Block, Gelb continues the radical sonic experiments begun with Grün, stripping electronic music to its most stark and uncompromising essence. The original Edition Block pressing is exceptionally rare and highly sought after by collectors of minimal electronics, early industrial sound, and the German underground. "The chronology of Schnitzler's solo releases in the 1970s -- and even more so…
Afrika Para Noia
A.R. Penck makes his explosive entry into recorded sound with Hinter der Wüste sterben die Gespenster (Afrika Para Noia). This is Penck's first record—a monumental document from 1979, released as an extremely rare private pressing. The legendary neo-expressionist painter channels his raw visual power into uncompromising free jazz, leading TTT with Frank Wollny on drums, Heinz Wollny on saxophone, and himself on drums. Recorded live, the music erupts with primal energy and fierce collective impro…
An Hour for Piano
Artist book concept and design by Luigi Castiglioni. Comes with a 10-inch vinyl recording of Tom Johnson’s voice reading the Program Notes + an autographed facsimile of Tom Johnson’s composition Maloma dedicated to Morton Feldman that inspired the present work. Written in 1971, Tom Johnson's An Hour for Piano stands as a landmark of American minimalism, born from improvisatory sketches Johnson created in 1967 while accompanying a modern dance class at New York University. Johnson gradually expan…
1965/1-∞
** condition: M/NM ** Limited edition of 400. Gatefold sleeve. In 1965, while sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, French-born Polish painter Roman Opałka conceived an idea that would consume the rest of his life: to paint numbers sequentially from one to infinity, a project that would become one of the most profound meditations on time, existence, and mortality in contemporary art. Upon arriving at his studio the following day, Opałka began painting small number…
Conduite Forcée
** Edition of 300. One time pressing. No digital. ** In 1934, Swiss engineers completed the Chandoline Hydroelectric Plant, channeling Alpine water through 16 kilometers of concrete pipe. By 2023, the turbines had stopped. The plant was empty, silent - a cathedral to obsolete energy with perfect acoustics and nothing left to say. Christian Marclay saw an instrument. For the inaugural Biennale Son in 2023, the artist who made his name destroying vinyl in 1980s New York turned the entire hydroelec…
FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field
FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field witnesses Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt in deep collaboration, melting minimal composition and polyrhythmic invention into a sprawling sound experiment. The album pulses and stretches, dissolving genre boundaries and conjuring a space where tradition is not static, but ever-evolving.
Interstitial Spaces
Interstitial Spaces marks Martin Brandlmayr’s first venture with Faitiche and explores those rarefied, nearly invisible moments at the threshold of musical narrative—what lingers after conclusion, what bristles before commencement. Here, Brandlmayr—Radian and Polwechsel's celebrated percussion mind—deploys field, film and record scraps, sculpting from absence a delicate, audio micro-drama.
Wildlife & it's Results
The tape Wildlife & it’s Results by Sue Fishbein, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, captures a collage-based soundpiece from early 1980s San Francisco. A key figure in the mail art network, Fishbein constructs an aural patchwork where found sound, irony, and cultural debris converge into a sharp yet playful critique of everyday noise.
From the Archives Vol. 13 (Tape)
From the archives vol. 13, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, gathers rare recordings from key figures such as Lawrence Weiner, Ulises Carrión, Michael Gibbs, and others. This collection traces the porous boundaries between conceptual art and sound, where language, gesture, and environment intersect in works both fleeting and resonant.
Dick Higgins
This tape by Dick Higgins, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a 1977 interview conducted by Michael Gibbs in Barton, Vermont. A crucial Fluxus figure, Higgins reflects on intermedia, publishing, and experimentation, creating a vivid self-portrait where personal recollection and artistic theory flow into one another.
Afrikan Klavierkonzert
The tape Afrikan Klavierkonzert by Rolf Julius, recorded in 1980 and now reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, reveals the German artist’s delicate approach to sound: sparse piano textures, environmental resonance, and a restrained poetics of listening that dissolve boundaries between music, silence, and space itself.
Ulises Carrion
The self-titled tape by Ulises Carrión, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, revisits his elusive Trios & Boleros, a work once privately circulated. Here, Carrión reimagines popular form through a deconstructed lens, where fragments of music and voice are refracted into conceptual gestures that linger between intimacy, satire, and radical sonic experimentation.
Morgen II
Morgen II by Pier van Dijk and Robert Joseph revives the radical Dutch sound poetry of the 1980s. This tape, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a sprawling word-piece where language fractures, collides, and reforms, blurring the divide between voice and noise, gesture and rhythm, memory and rupture.
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Signed. Comes with its original record bag/shopper! When George Maciunas died in New York in 1978, aged 47, Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik did what artists do when words fail: they played. The piano duet they performed at Düsseldorf's Kunstakademie lasted precisely 74 minutes, the numbers inverted as if time itself could be bent backward in grief. An alarm clock ended the performance at 9:14 pm, another numerical echo of Maciunas's brief, incendiary life. This wasn't theater. It was something ra…
Kartoffel-Opera
Edition of 150. This ultra-limited 7" presents the first audio documentation of Henning Christiansen's Potato Opera, a conceptual masterwork that stands among the most radical gestures in Fluxus history. Originally performed in 1969 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, this piece embodies the radical questioning of musical convention that defined the post-1968 avant-garde. The inaugural performance in 1969 brought together Henning Christiansen with artist Lene Adler Petersen and painter Ursula Reute…