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**180 gram audiophile vinyl. Deluxe Lift-off Box Set and it includes a 24-page booklet.** Composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, launched its creators to international success when it was first produced in Avignon, France, in 1976, with subsequent performances in Europe and in New York at the Metropolitan Opera. It is still recognized as one of their greatest masterpieces. Einstei…

Over the years, it has become clear that the “thing” that continues to captivate us is in flux, as are its possible definitions. Various contributions to the current issue of this magazine attest to this permanent development, too. And whatever our “thing” might be called or actually might be, the following has become clearer in the recent past: the boundaries separating different artistic practices have been dissolving more and more. Also this second assertion seems to be present again in the i…

**Edition of 40** In 2020 the world-famous Glastonbury Festival was cancelled due to a worldwide plague. To mark what would’ve been the festival’s 50th anniversary, the Revolutionary List project assembled a list containing the names of all artists to have performed at the festival in its history (minus ‘Glastonbury Fair’ in 1971, ‘protected by free admission, free milk, and different organisers’). Occupying the dowsing line of the Pyramid Stage as a makeshift execution site, the Museo De La Bom…

Kasper T. Toeplitz, live electronics, generative video, lights. Myriam Gourfink, stillness. Electronic composition played live by Kasper T. Toeplitz and Myriam Gourfink. Noise and stillness. Also generative video, and the noise of circulating data. What it is not : DATA_Noise is certainly not a dance piece with musical accompaniment, using some sort of the so-called “new technology” – sensors, computers – to be more “modern”. DATA_Noise is a musical project, a composition written for synthesized…

Oscilla is the fifth full length solo album of Japanese artist Miki Yui and it is her first release on her new imprint MY. Miki Yui has a background in fine arts and works in the fields of music, drawing, installation and performance. Her works have been shown worldwide. Compared to her previous albums, "Oscilla" is an generous and playful blend of environmental and pure electronic sounds like microphone feedback, analogue synthesizers or self-constructed solar oscillators which are augmented he…

includes The Original 'Hip Manual'! Plus Beatnik-Jazz Bonus Tracks: John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman Attention, Lee Morgan - Nakatini Suite and The Horace Silver Quintet - Finger Poppin'. Attention, this is one of the non-music cult obscurities that came out of nowhere during decades of music history. This 1961 released fictional dialogue between a moderator and somebody involved in the late 1950s hipster / beatnik movement in which both discuss the meaning of words an…

** Private edition, limited to 150 copies ** Side A is a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and noted surrealist artist Brion Gysin in 1966, this nearly 20 minute avant-garde short features repeated articulations of such random things as “Hello,” “Where are we now?,” and “Look at that picture” instead of music or standard dialogue. The narrative is decidedly nonlinear and perplexing, with no discernible plot whatsoever as we see images of Gy…

**Special edition of 50 copies on blue vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. Comes with a signed and numbered print.** John Driscoll is a composer who is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE) and collaborated on David Tudor’s Rainforest V starting in 1973. He has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe with CIE, David Tudor, Phil Edelstein, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Maida Withers & the Dance Construction Co. and as a solo performer. His work has focused on robotic instruments, music for …

**Edition of 300 copies** Willem the Ridder (1939) is a prolific storyteller, cassette freak and Fluxus artist. George Maciunas made him chairman of Fluxus for Northern Europe and in this role he organised several concerts and Fluxfestivals. He cooperated with Nam June Paik and presented his Piano for All Senses in Amsterdam in his gallery Amstel 47.  He was the co-founder of the Mood Engineering Society (MES) with Dick Raaymakers, Louis Andriessen, Peter Schat, Ton Bruynel, Rob Dubois, Jaap Spe…

**500 copies** The second release on the Henning Christiansen Archive is a compilation of four works from 1967-1972 including a poem set in a bath, an unknown musical work, the musical backdrop to a horse sacrifice and a soundtrack to a school play. What binds these works together alongside the period when written is their basis in ‘song’ and some traditional ‘musical’ elements. What separates it them fromsaid tradition is that they were composed by Henning Christiansen. Op.41 Badat is a simple …

**500 copies** The third release on the Henning Christiansen Archive features a previously unreleased work from 1991. The Wandering Human Being – The Wandering Voice, as the title suggest is a piece for voice and featurues Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tatò, Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Henning Christiansen. Ursula and Henning met the couple Carlo Quartucci and Carla Tatò through the curator Johannes Gachnang on a visit to Genazzano in Italy 1983 and became close friends, collaborating on a variety o…

In November 17, 2019 a six hour performance was undertaken in the car park of The Box gallery in Los Angeles as a part of the Henning Christiansen / Ursula Reuter Christiansen exhibition They Won’t Survive Without The Bird Songs
. Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, son of Ursula and Henning, developed a timeline for the performance which was essentially designed to encompass a contemporary community of like minded artists that spans generations and continents harnessing and continuing the work insti…

Frédéric D. Oberland and Irena Z. Tomažin’s »ARBA, DÂK ARBA« was conceived as the soundtrack for the eponymous installation piece by the French artist Fanny Béguély. First presented as part of the group exhibition »Panorama 21 - ›Les Revenants‹« at Tourcoing’s Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains in December 2019, Béguély’s chemically painted photographs focused on humankind’s propensity for self-examination and its attempts to probe the mysteries of the past, present and future. Ob…

** Limited edition of 80. The two cassettes comes with a laser printed insert** First in a series of compiled recordings dug up from CCC’s and other archives. Vol. 1 contains: Robert Graves discussing love, black arts and mushrooms + two tracks by Angus MacLise, previously released in ‘Green Groceries’ magazine, 2000, then a J.G. Ballard interview and reading. Also, Louise Bourgeois in her studio in Brooklyn, ‘Doodlings’ by Angus MacLise, previously released in 2006, and Harry Hoogstraten readin…

** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where his love of nature and interest in man’s relationship to the environment developed. Environmentalism, Buddhism and a fierce anti-war stance fuelled much of his poetry, which has won him acclaim since the 1950s and 1960s. After having attended Princeton University, Merwin and his then wife …

** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Simon Vinkenoog was born in Amsterdam in 1928. After having worked for the Dutch publishing house Querido he moved to Paris in 1948, where he started working for the books and publications department of UNESCO. From Paris he launched the Dutch literary journal Blurb, which published Dutch and Flemish writers and poets, such as W.F. Hermans, Hugo Claus, Armando, Lucebert and Paul Rodenko. Vinkenoog’s own poetry saw its fir…

** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Clark Coolidge (1939) grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Brown University before moving to New York in the early 1960s. In New York he befriended Ted Berrigan and saw his first book Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric published in 1966. Coolidge moved to San Francisco the next year, where he joined the psych-folk band The Serpent Power as a jazz drummer. His poetry has been published extensively since. Among his ma…

** Limited edition of 80. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Tune in and enjoy the ride: with an interview with Martin A. Lee, author of ‘Acid Dreams’, then Wavy Gravy speaks about the Green Acid + Ken Kesey on the Perry Lane gang, plus a Dinner with Timothy Leary & G. Gordon Liddyand finally Later in LA with Bob Costas, June 5/6, 1991 (Ben Schot)

Moniek Darge has been active as a composer, violinist, performer and audio artist since the early '70s. She is most widely recognized as one half of the pioneering new music group Logos Duo alongside her partner Godfried-Willem Raes. The Logos Duo, which operates under the umbrella of the Logos Foundation, have been celebrated both at home in their native Gent, Belgium and on the international stage. They have performed their work in countries as diverse as Brazil, New Zealand, Japan and the US.…

** Deluxe edition with extensive booklet, 300 copies ** First time vinyl issue of key works from the Belgian artist-musician Moniek Darge. Following a deep-excavation of the Logos archives London’s Horn of Plenty presents ‘Bratschebraut’ - four works utilising prepared violin, electronics, tapes, and voice. These recordings are from the same era as Moniek’s classic ‘Sounds of Sacred Places’ LP. 'Bratschebraut' extends the story of Moniek's work during this period: playful, intimate, raw, and qui…

**CD in gatefold carboard wallet, 300 copies. To be released in mid July 2020.** Works, 2020 includes two new compositions, Different Speeds for Decay Instruments (for electric piano; the score of this piece adorns the front cover) and Music for Glass, Plastic and Rubber. Japanese musician Reizen is based in Tokyo, he composes and performs using mainly drone and minimalist techniques. He plays electric guitar, the inside of pianos, and creates works of phonography. He formed the drone quartet Ne…

A stunning collection of anecdotes, photographs, articles and sound clips that do not intend to be complete - they form a retrospective of the evolution of Logos since 1968

**200 copies** Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum. For more than 20 years, while listening to the environment, Éric La Casa (born 1968, Tours, lives and works in Paris) has been questioning the perception of reality and has expanded the notion of what's musical today. Through his aesthetic of capturing sound, his work fits equally into the fields of sound art and music. As a result o…

Tip! **Very few copies available.** PCT / Oubon presents a sound recording created by Salad for the Shokki's Home Center exhibition in December 2019. Audio is contained on a MicroSD card housed in a real mini-digital player complete with headphones, charging cable and instructions. According to the label, the music is 'to be enjoyed while walking in a park or sitting on your favourite bench'.

**300 copies** Document of salad, who performed BGM and sound performance for the exhibition "new lagoon in Hokan-Cho, Okayama " curated by Ayako Tsutsumi (edition.nord). Salad is a music team consisting of Masami Baba (Based in Hyogo) and Nagai Tsume (Based in Niigata). Ayako commissioned Nagai Tsume to compose the BGM for the exhibition. Masami Baba is a sound artist who has been attracting Ayako's attention for some time.This work is a reconstruction based on the sound of their first performa…

**300 copies** This work was recorded on 6 August 2015, 70 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, in a certain place in Hiroshima-city. The work consists of the following three sound sources. -70-minute field recording, including sunset time, at Hiroshima-City, on August 6, 2015.-The sound source that converted VLF waves into audio at times the same as the above.-The sound source that converted ELF waves into audio at times the same as the above. A motion appears as a function of …

**300 copies. The leaves assembled on the CD package were collected around the pond where the recording was made.** As in Eisuke Yanagisawa's own words: I set the recorder on the shore and collected it the following day. At midnight, the growling of animals (which turned out to be the sound of bullfrogs, an alien species) reverberated around the pond. Mizorogaike, which consists of a pond and a wetland, is located on the northern edge of the Kyoto Basin. Many aquatic plants, insects, fish, wild …

**100 copies** Rie Nakajima: a handle of Japanese sliding door (fusuma) from her grandmother’s house, Japanese rice bowls, coils, jars, shells, flower pots, plastic bags, tin foil, tin cans, chopsticks, a bamboo pot, stones, cups, and kinetic objects made by Rie herself.

**400 copies** Reissue of Hermann Nitsch’s very first release, originally published 48 years ago by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies..Produced and recorded at the WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, the Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (Aktion 38b) is "neither a radioplay nor a work of music. it merely portrays the acoustic part of an "abreaktionsspiel“ (a play of abreaction). the special and specific usage of the acoustic possibilities are in the foreground, while the visual par…

Restocked, last copies... Reissue of the rare & infamous double 7“ originally published by FMP in 1973. Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, and Han Bennink.At the beginning of the work, the fifteen invited children aged eight to ten years were asked to come for four days in a row, so that a fixed, unchanging group could be expected. In practice, this was difficult to carry out, since every af…

Edition of 50. Killer! Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (b. 1977) is an Icelandic musician and sound artist, founding member of Stilluppsteypa. Sigmarsson was born in Akureyri, Iceland and studied sound art at the Fachhochschule in Hannover, Germany from 1998 to 2003. "Here are two men who are working very often together; in fact, I was thinking they could have chosen a band name by now. I am a big fan of their work, either in collaboration or solo. Playing drone-based music is what they do, perhaps, …

**2020 stock** The influential Detroit “anti-rock” group Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw) made raucous music, irreverent art and legendary zines, performing and disseminating their activities through an elaborate self-mythology. The Destroy All Monsters zines have been reprinted in facsimile editions, but the art objects made by the members have never been examined as independent works. Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1974–1977 is the first retrospe…

**12 pages, leporello, offset, 27 x 126 cm (unfolded) ** The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962. incinPerforming and visual artist Ben Patterson (born 1934) was a founding member of Fluxus' participatory, do-it-yourself, anticommercialist avant-garde network. While many Fluxus artists, influenced by John Cage's precedent, employed conceptual techniques borrowed from music (e.g., the event score), Patterson's fusion of…

**2020 stock. 560 pages!** The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.  Utopia belongs to those concepts that haunt both the history of ideas and the history of artistic practice. In this fourth issue,Tacetsets off to listen to the sounds of utopia emerging from sound art and experimental music, but also from sound design and our everyday use of sound technology. Mixing science-fiction short stories, theoretical analysis and artists' writings, this i…

Art & vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist's records in Switzerland. Since the beginning of its existence, the record has always been used by visual artists as a form of distribution for their sound practice. First experimented with by the early avant-garde movements, the role of these sound supports was later redefined in the context of the proliferation and hybridization of forms between sound and language.  While recording media such as discs or cassettes were used to document happenings, r…

Renowned as both choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) also revolutionized dance through his partnerships with the many artists who created costumes, lighting, films and videos, and décor and sound for his choreographic works. Cunningham, together with partner John Cage, invited those artists to help him rethink what dance could mean, both on the stage and in site-responsive contexts. His notion that movement, sound and visual art could share a “common time” remains one of the m…

Nieves is proud to bring us a much deserved reprint of Raymond Pettibon's anthology of drawings which was first published in 2014. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957 in Tucson, lives and works in Venice Beach) is mostly known for his comic-book-like drawings to which he appends disconcerting and sarcastic texts. His work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their…

**Reprint of the near-mythical book first published in 2014.** This Zine contains a selection of Dash Snow's critical Dada-esque collages, which range from cum-glittered tabloid covers starring Saddam Hussein to straight text pieces to sculptural works composed of items like books and skeletal fragments; and a smattering of the photographs and Polaroids that originally made Snow famous outside of street art culture, where he began writing graffiti. This Zine contains a selection of his critical …

The ultra-blackness manifesto: a Deleuzian reading of the philosophical and socio-political stakes of the current electronic music scene (publication marking the reactivation of the influential label Mille Plateaux, with texts by an ensemble of international musicians, artists and theorists: Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Gerriet K. Sharma, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner...). Ultrablack of Music speculates on the manifold wa…

"Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content -- art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more -- with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. Cover feature is a three-parter on Moondog. Our editor's phone interview with him from 1998, some amazing never-before-seen-images, and crucially this series of archival interviews from 1953. Shana Cleveland: The singer-songwriter / L…