Ism Hexadome At Mass Moca
Stunning package featuring music from Suzanne Ciani, Ben Frost, Rene Lowe, Lara Sakissian aka Foozool, Peter Van Hoesen and more. Under the Electric Sea Limited edition vinyl set featuring eight live installations from the ISM Hexadome, recorded in binaural sound at MASS MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts) in December 2019. Listening to the recordings on headphones recreates the detailed sense of spatialisation and movement of the ISM Hexadome’s immersive 52-channel sound system tha…
Partners: A Biography of Jerry Hunt
Jerry Hunt (1943–93) was among the most eccentric figures in the world of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early ’90s made use of readymade sculptures, medical technology, arcane talismans and all manner of homemade electronic implements to form confrontational recordings and enigmatic, powerful performances. Tracing Hunt’s life across his home state’s major cities to a self-built house in rural Van Zandt County, this memoir…
Try Saying You're Alive!
A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950), Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s. Recounting sixty years in the life of this "screaming philosopher." Try Saying You're Alive! traces Tomokawa's beginnings in the Akita Prefecture as a "runaway toddler," his adolescent basketball career, and his wanderings as a day laborer, gambler, painter, actor, drinker, and av…
Music For The Williamson Tunnels (A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water)
Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water As Brian Eno made music for environments rather than from them (Music For Airports) these CDs are best listened to within the strange damp world of the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool. The ceilings of these caverns are thin and the sound of dripping water can frequently be heard, but not necessarily seen. It is a sound that has intrigued artists for nigh on a century and this collection brings together historical piece…
Ryoji Ikeda EP
Crucial early work from the Japanese master of digital minimalism - like Thomas Köner or Lustmord, but with more bass. Ryoji Ikeda needs no introduction here - the Japanese composer and A/V originator has been impressing the world with his game-changing hi-frequency rhythmic loops and stark monochromatic visuals since the mid 1990s, and has never gone astray. This special Sähkö vinyl EP combines two of Ikeda's most important early pieces, 'Luxus 1-3' from his 1995-released solo debut "1000 Fragm…
The Haunted
The Italian imprint, Von, returns with "The Haunted", two stunning sides that delve into the rich sonorous world of Camille Norment. Comprising stunning recordings for glass harmonica and other sound sources - pressed on crystal clear vinyl in a highly limited edition available exclusively through SoundOhm - recalling everything from mid-century electroacoustic music, the sounds of the koto, gamelan, and Tibetan singing bowls, it's one of the most immersive and mesmerizing releases we’ve heard a…
Recitarcantando
*Yellow Vinyl. Gatefold Cover * Of all of Demetrio Stratos' recordings, this 1978 live date with violinist Lucio Fabbri is easily the most accessible and least adventurous. That said, Recitarcantando is also perhaps the most songlike and beautiful of Stratos' albums and deserves recognition for showcasing the vocalist as a singer of uncommon power and originality. This album does showcase various aspects of the investigations undertaken on his previous studio recordings, including the "Investiga…
Notes on other music / Заметки о другой музыке
** EN/RUS, Golden Edition ** Notes on Other Music, a book collecting photographs, essays, interviews and conversations with artists who have performed at Stockholm's Edition Festival for Other Music since its inception in 2016.
Essays:Eliane Radigue — Occam Ocean (by Kate Molleson)Sarah Hennies — GatherFrançois Bayle — For an Invisible Music, an AcousmoniumFrançois J. Bonnet — AfterwordAnnea Lockwood — Sound Streams (by Louise Gray)
Interviews:Leila Bordreuil (by John Chantler)Terre Thaemlitz (b…
KNVF
** Edition of 300 ** Following the release of her 2018 solo tape, Ggggg (Anticausal Systems), vocalist Charmaine Lee returns with her debut LP, KNVF, for Erratum Musical (Paris, France). In just two years, the album marks a considerable evolution from the austere concentration of Ggggg towards expansive sonic worlds. Inspired by the arcs of popular music, Charmaine freely and fearlessly navigates a wide range of aesthetics, digging beneath each surface to disclose a highly personal sense of musi…
Tell from the Grass
** Edition of 200 copies. The album is pressed on high-quality vinyl, and all sleeves are screenprinted by hand in two colours, on heavy paper. comes with a download coupon. ** Morc Records presents Tell from the Grass by Soccer Committee. More than a decade after her last solo release, Mariska Baars graces us with a new mini-lp. Her sound is as minimal and spartan as the volume of her output. The songs are still slow, stripped-down and quiet, made with an overwhelming love for tone and sound, f…
Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009
Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009 by composer, performer, humanitarian, and Deep Listening™ founder Pauline Oliveros document her activity over this period and the many recent advances that have taken place in the fields of electronic and telematic musical performance, improvisation, artificial intelligence, and the role of women in contemporary music. Featuring contributions by John Luther Adams, Monique Buzzarté, and Stuart Dempster.
Listening In Dreams: A Compendium of Sound Dreams, Meditations And Rituals for Deep Dreamers
I am waking up, moving through deep layers of sleep-my dream changes-a lively band is playing over in the corner of the room-a small dance floor. I step out from the table and begin to move in time to the music. I'm aware of shadowy figures watching me.Listening in Dreams is a journey into the fascinating world of sound and dreams. Begin an exploration in these pages that you can continue every night during sleep. Learn how to create rituals and play with dreams with your friends and family.
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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment. Deep Listening® is a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros in order to enhance her own as well as other's listening skills. She teaches this practice worldwide in workshops, retreats and…
Motor For An Unknown Vehicle
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 300. Includes signed and numbered insert. ** "Motor" is the second part in a trilogy, preceded by "Das Baank" (Fragment Factory/Rekem Records) in 2016. The Motor started a long time ago with small basic fragments used for different steps (phases) like installations and performances. Those fragments were put together over the years into a longer piece presented on this LP. Motor is now a 32 minutes long continuous piece of sounding matter. Autonomous and free in itself. …
Heiligenstadt
** Edition of 300 ** BJ Nilsen is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work primarily focuses on the sounds of nature and how they affect humans. Recent work has explored the urban acoustic realm and industrial geography and mining in the Arctic region of Norway and Russia. His original scores and soundtracks have featured in theatre, dance performances and film. Judith Hamann is a cellist and performer/composer from Melbourne, Australia, now based in Berlin. Her performan…
Siamoises
** 2021 Stock ** Eryck Abecassis (b 1956) is a french-algerian composer, musician and electric guitar player. He went to Paris in 1976 to study film at the CLCF (Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français) and worked as a photographer. From 1979 to 1983 he took private lessons in composition and harmony with Julien Falk (1902-1987) and studied Jazz orchestration with Derryl Hall at the Centre d'informations musicales in Paris. In the following years he took various courses at IRCAM, among others in …
Musique Inconcrète
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 300 ** After the quickly sold out »Ggràn« cassette, released on Fragment Factory in 2016, we are very happy to welcome back the Italian sound artist Mauro Diciocia aka Torba for his 2nd contribution to the FF label catalogue. »Musique Inconcrète« is the follow-up to »Musica Conventionale«, released earlier this year on his own Edizioni Aaltra imprint, and marks the second installment in a trilogy of related recordings, informally named »Le Musiche«. While being active i…
Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio
Marcus Schmickler's music is designed for multi-channel sound projections and references German electronic music tradition, spectral music, experimentalism as well as 1990s club music. His artistic practice explores avant-garde trajectories in electronic music composition, formal systems, sonification and psychoacoustics. EMEGO 296 features two new major works from this audacious sound explorer.
Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio premiered at Donaueschinger Tage fur Neue Musik 10.20.2018 having being…
Kairos & the Dwellers
** Edition of 200 12” 140g LP. Inside-out coloured printed outer & inner sleeves ** For its second release, forms of minutiae is pleased to present "Kairos & the Dwellers", an electroacoustic drone album by field recordist and sound artist Manja Ristić.
Stranded on the island of Korčula (Croatia) since the beginning of the current global health circumstances, Manja Ristić roamed on the isle’s shores in quest of new sonic encounters. She approached the Adriatic wilderness by deploying her tools a…
From the Archives Vol. 7
50 copies. Volume 5 in the seminal series "From The Archives". Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series with Ray Edward Johnson, a seminal figure of the Pop Art, Fluxus & Mail Art movements, American Beat Generation poet Gary Snider and legend Takeisha Kosugi