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Special edition of 10 copies with Signed photoprint and CD 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…

Signed Edition of 10 copies Franz Mon (born 1926) is a pioneer in the field of concrete, visual and phonetic poetry. He once licked the new radio play into shape like no other german-speaking playwright before him. As a sound poet and  with his 'articulations' or phonetic pieces, he conceptually renewed sound poetry in the postwar years.A tension of research is generated. Franz Mon is a tireless researcher, his material is language. In "Artikulationen" he speaks of " the dance of the lips, of th…

Special edition of 60 copies with Signed Photoprint and lose labels First recording of the grand scale symphony Traubenfleisch (2007-2017) by Hermann Nitsch, performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach (Austria) on September 2, 2017. Orchestra Klangvereinigung Wien and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano. This Double-LP comes in a full-color gatefold sleeve.

This recording is roughly 80 minutes of the A&E three day performance superimposed. Performed by Paul McCarthy (Adolf / Eva) and Lilith Stangenberg (Eva / Eve).

Errant Sound Reader brings together essays, interviews and documentation of projects by artists and researchers associated with Errant Sound, an artist-run space in Berlin. Since 2014, Errant Sound has been an active part of Berlin's independent art scene, supporting work in sound art and experimental sonic practices. Over the years this has included a range of exhibition projects, performance events, discursive formats, and collaborative initiatives that investigate sound in diverse ways and th…

Tecnocreto, Gwenaël Rattke’s third book for Visible Publications, began during an extended stay in Mexico City in 2019. Collecting images and graphics, Rattke made daily collages in a large blank book to form a long, continuous montage. Upon his return home to Berlin, geometric shapes were airbrushed onto old, porous East German paper and incorporated into the work. Much of the book’s initial inspiration came from a 1970s construction company directory Rattke found in a second-hand bookstore in …

A REAL music magazine on printed paper. As always: substantial content delivered! Maggot Brain returns with issue #21 for Summer 2025. Underground music journalism the way we need it. The way we want it! No corporate sanitization, no algorithm-friendly content, no compromise. Just deep investigation into the music that matters - free jazz, experimental sounds, punk archaeology, and the radical fringes where creativity actually lives. Issue #21 continues the Maggot Brain tradition of taking music…

Beach of the Pliocene, a sought-after release by Ken-ichiro Isoda, epitomizes Japanese ambient’s capacity to conjure landscape and memory. The album blends flute, guitar and environmental sounds in a meditative journey that merges gently melodic lines with the resonance of the ocean, functioning equally as a balm for modern anxieties and a portal for contemplative listening.​

**2025 Stock** As regards content, acoustics and optics, raster-noton.oacis goes beyond the momentary. The texts by top writers like Rob Young (The Wire), Pinky Rose, Peter Kraut (NZZ) and Martin Pesch (e.g. Frieze, Spex, Kunstforum) examine how raster-noton works on the cutting edge of electronic music, computer graphics and video animation, with which supreme ease the label moves between pop/club culture and the fine arts. The creative cover flap includes a CD with audiotracks and multimedia d…

Became These, the newest double LP by Lou Mallozzi, collects previously unreleased sound works spanning 1996–2020. Released by Pentiments in October 2025, it showcases Mallozzi’s enduring practice of dismantling and reconstituting gesture, sound, and language, enveloping the listener in a poetic destabilization of the familiar through experimental audio collage and improvisation.​

Ex Stasis 69, the new audio work by Joseph Nechvatal. Fuses erotic tension, cybernetic poetics, and immersive noise aesthetics into a hypnotic sound experience. Drawing from his decades-long inquiry into “viral” media and the sensual limits of perception, Nechvatal explores the ecstatic collapse between machine, body, and dream.

"Is Spring a Sculpture?" is a collaboration between David Toop and Rie Nakajima, released as a limited edition CD and book on Lawrence English’s Room40 label. The work consists of a series of sound pieces and text fragments exploring the poetics of objects, ephemeral phenomena, and the ambiguous boundaries between sound, environment, and tactile form. Together, Toop and Nakajima sculpt a listening experience that is elusive and sensorially charged, extending their mutual fascination with the int…

Mirages by Razen is a hallucinatory expedition through sand-swept soundscapes where drone, ritual improvisation, and microtonal pulse converge. Recorded in Brussels’ Echo Chamber and released by KRAAK, the album expands the Belgian ensemble’s psych-acoustic vocabulary—desert winds, harmonium breaths, bowed reeds—into a shimmering study of illusion and endurance.

* Limited Edition: 100 numbered & signed copies | Hardcover Book + Exclusive 7" by Maurizio Bianchi * There are artists who document culture, and then there are artists who remake it in their own brutal image. Miguel Ángel Martín belongs firmly in the second category. For decades, this Spanish visual provocateur has been creating work that fuses aesthetic precision with social critique, building a singular universe where underground music, transgressive imagery, and razor-sharp graphic design co…

Ebbing Ice Lines is Pablo Diserens’s attentive fieldwork voyage across the Arctic’s melting frontiers—a collection of sonic essays mapping disappearing ice through the sounds of water, animal life, and shifting glacial surfaces, bringing listeners into intimate proximity with an environment in flux.

Tracing Basalt in the Onsernone Valley by Pablo Diserens and Ludwig Berger transforms the Swiss valley’s basalt terrain into a living instrument, blending environmental recordings and experimental acoustics into a meditative portrait of place and presence.

Near the Bear is Cheryl E. Leonard’s intimate Arctic meditation, interweaving field recordings and natural objects into five cinematic pieces that speak to both the wildness and vulnerability of Svalbard and Greenland’s landscapes.

An extraordinary archive documenting over three decades of radical sound culture. Founded in 1981 by Ursula Block in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, gelbe MUSIK was one of the world's most important places for New Music enthusiasts, experimental sound, and artists' records. This complete set of 16 original sales catalogues represents the evolving inventory and vision of the legendary store, chronicling the development of sound art, free jazz, contemporary composition, and avant-garde practice from the early…

Paperback. 248 pages. The essential continuation of Ursula Block's legendary 1989 Broken Music. Artists' Recordworks exhibition and publication. This volume traces the development of the vinyl record as an artistic medium from the post-war period to the present across seven decades. Based on the 2022-2023 exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, curated by Sven Beckstette and Ingrid Buschmann, the book presents over 700 records arranged in ten chapters, establis…

A rare artist record and sonic memoir. Published in 1977 in an edition of only 100 copies, hand numbered and signed by the artist on the record label. The B-side features grey/black art by Nam June Paik. This extraordinary document captures Paik performing his radical reinterpretation of Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht at a Merce Cunningham dance event—playing the original 78 RPM record at 16 RPM, four times slower than intended. Paik writes in the liner notes: "In 2 weeks I will be 45. It i…

A rare printed score on parchment paper, approximately A3 size. Originally folded and sent as an invitation card to an exhibition, this work embodies Suzuki's philosophy of listening, chance, and the spatial dimensions of sound. Akio Suzuki (*1941 Pyongyang) is known as a pioneer of sound art, but the breadth of his activities and the form of his works far exceeds the normal boundaries of sound art. It is perhaps more as a "quester after sound and space" that he has received the most attention f…

A rare offset print by the radical German composer and visual artist. Published by Edition Block in an edition of 60, signed and numbered, 50 x 100 cm. Dieter Schnebel (*1930 Lahr – †2018 Berlin) was among the most uncompromising figures in post-war experimental music, exploring the boundaries between sound, silence, notation, and performance. A student of theology and musicology, Schnebel brought rigorous intellectual inquiry to his compositions, which often investigated the physical gestures o…

A rare screenprint and offset print by the legendary video art pioneer. Published by Edition Block in an edition of 60, signed and numbered, 55.4 x 82 cm. Nam June Paik (*1932 Seoul – †2006 Miami), the founding father of video art, consistently explored the relationship between technology, media, and organic life throughout his career. TV-Dog embodies this investigation—the fusion of the electronic and the biological, the mechanical and the animal. The work reflects Paik's playful yet profound e…

One of the first sound multiples ever created. Published by Edition Block in an edition of 36 copies, signed and numbered. Complete sound installation in wooden box (10.2 x 86 x 81 cm) containing 25 cassettes with different recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart compositions, 5 tape decks with built-in speakers, and accompanying screenprint. Created for the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, Mozart Mix is considered the first sound installation published as a numbered edition. Cage composed wor…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

** 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…

Christian Marclay's 2023 piece for the disused Chandoline hydroelectric plant in Switzerland: golf and tennis balls dropped into the penstock 4.5 kilometres uphill, recorded as they crashed into the turbine hall.

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 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.

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, 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.

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.

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.