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Recorded in 1208 Saalfelden, 01-0209 Brest. Stephen O'Malley: Electrical guitar, Supro, Fulltone tape echo, sine wave, field recording. Originally commissioned for the Enter sound installation series at Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway curated by Anne Hilde Neset. Appears as a 4 channel work which loops for a full day, on a cycle with 9 other artists, every tenth day, for at least two years. More information about Tou Scene and Enter can be found at www.touscene.com. Published by Ideologic Organ (BM…

a legendary sound poetry record released by Tom Phillips, an english visual artist related to AMM and Brian Eno has always a searching and inventive spirit, working and re-working themes involving systems, chance, found postcards, etc., resulting in marvellous paintings and occasional musical compositions. This is his first record

Recorded at The Institute of Contempary Arts (ICA) in London on 1 November 1974 - the first day of the exhibition "Art Into Society - Society Into Art". Legendary artist record, this is the 2nd pressing, and it comes with handmade insert

Awesome artist record, this is the 2nd edition with hand stamped cover, nice gatefold + insert "in 1971 dietrich albrecht changed his real name officially to albrecht/d.a/d. was born in 1944,lives in stuttgart/germany since 1958and acts like an artist since 1966.he worked and performed with beuys, throbbing gristle, vostell, paik, saree and many more.he invented permanent instant performance.he saved raoul hausmann from being forgotten.his work includes:mail art: endless music: processed copies:…

Very rare Hermann Nitsch Picture LP album, qith the recordings of the 5th day (7th of august 1998) of this 6 day event. Limited to 400 numbered copies with letterpress insert, long out of print

Johanna Went is a pioneering performance artist who began performing as part of a street theater troupe that traveled America and Europe in the 1970s. Following her years on the road, she settled in L.A. in the late '70s and began transforming her street theater performances into what would become her signature style. Using found props and hand-sewn costumes, she developed a wild stage act that included live musical backing from legendary performers such as Z'ev and KK Barret of the Screa…

Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen – Schottische Symphonie (Requiem Of Art). A monumental collision of two visionary minds. Released in 1973 on Edition Schellmann, this rare document captures the legendary collaboration between artist-shaman Beuys and composer Christiansen. Schottische Symphonie (from "Celtic") was recorded live at Edinburgh College of Art on August 21, 1970—a mono recording that preserves the raw intensity of the performance. Requiem Of Art (from "Celtic") (Fluxorum Organum …

This mysterious LP follows in the footsteps of "Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda",capturing primal, fiery jams both raw in sound quality and in performance.Flowing with what seems like no beginning or end, he creates a dizzying cerebral drone that combines the hypnotic techniques of Tony Conrad with the primitive sensibility of early Amon Duul I or MEV. Maclise creates a dizzying, joyous sound that remains unparalleled, even today. And his music, while being well-documented, is only barely ava…

One of the earlier Z'ev recodings, under his real name (Stefan Weisser) this amazing artist records develops a personality all it's own, a wonderfully crafted noise product to be played at any speed, depending on the mood, drugs, or time at hand. Pioneered by Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music," the only comparison to be found. Complete of all the instert, hand signed

From the bowels of the southern hemisphere, guitar-electronics noise signor Marco Fusinato gives us the full FA-18 squadron attack. One side is an inferno of mangled guitar spit, relentlessly speeding and colliding with all in its path. The flipside features a giant monochord stuck and struggling to escape from the shards of the volatile overload. Recorded live, then spliced-mixed-mastered by Oren Ambarchi. Cover artwork by Australian colonial convict-forgerer-artist Joseph Lycett. And now... ev…

Jean Baudrillard's "Le Xerox et l'Infini" – originally published in Paris, 1987 – as read by Patricia and Ellen. Recorded on 12 July 2009 by Vicki Bennett in Hersham, England. Translation: Agitac, London, November 1988. Jean Baudrillard is perhaps the most important theorist of the 'after modern'. Though he says himself he has 'nothing to do with postmodernism', many interpret him (along with Jean-François Lyotard) as among the most important prophets of a truly postmodern era. His works have at…

Awesome brand new release, a must for those into sound sculpture, resonant droning sounds, radical art performances - "Corpo Nostro is a complete experience! Dario Buccino delivers to the world a creation that is so exciting, so innovative and so well resolved that it seems he has been doing this for years.  The truth is he has been doing this for years and in his native Italy he is already an underground phenomenon.  For more than a decade, BUCCINO has left his mark on all those who have experi…

Long deleted, this is one of the best antological CD (not to be confused with the one on Tangent) issued by the elusive Hundertmark gallery back in 2001. Very few copies available

Originally released under the title "Bleistiftmusik" as a C30 cassette in a signed and numbered edition of 80 copies by Edition Hundertmark as 74. Karton.  "I was surprised that it was possible to read the acoustic event from the object drawn, and some insecurity about the association of visual signs and sound phenomena (caused by the directional openness of the reading process) appears to increase even more the attraction of seeing them combined.  The pencil-sound piece did not always remain th…

A collaboration between Burroughs, producer Hal Willner, and politico-rappers Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. It features Burroughs reading excerpts from seven of his books set to music by the Heroes, mostly a slow, lazy funk that sounds like it was lifted from a '70s blaxploitation soundtrack. Highlights include the 16-minute, decidedly Burroughsian holiday treat "A Junky's Christmas" and "Words of Advice for Young People," which first appeared on the Smack My Crack collection, minus the music…

Long-lost recordings culled from performances between 1979 and 1982 from the loose group of feminist performers known as Disband. Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson screamed, shouted, sang, and stomped through the heyday of New York City's new- and no-wave scenes, blurring the line between performance art and live music. Mirroring the chaos and temporarity of that time, the band split up in 1982 having never produced a record. This is the firs…

Little-known composer Hiroaki Minami was a professor of electronic music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music and is a pioneer of synthesizer music in Japan. He built a private studio for his self-made synthesizer in his home in 1976, and shortly thereafter, he composed this piece, Electronic Symphony No. 1, filled with spacey and very noisy analog synthesizer sounds, much like Roland Kayn's '60s concrète works. Contains liner notes by the artist in Japanese and English; h…

in 1967 henning christiansen proposed to joseph beuys that he composes a major work for organ titled "fluxorum organum" for beuys's planned aktion "eurasienstab". henning christiansen composed a piece with five movements. the organist franz meiswinkel played the composition on the organ in düsseldorf's liebfrauenkirche. the first "eurasienstab" aktion took place in 1967 in vienna at the galerie nächst st. stephan. in 1968 there was a repeat performance at the wide white space gallery in antwerp.…

A complete overview of Peter Vogel's work, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD with musical installations recordings. Peter Vogel is a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic and musical sculpture. he was formally trained in physics, and has explored technology's intersection with dance, musical composition, and visual art since the late 1960s. + one cd with different installations.

One his best work, this is the rare 33rpr EP released in 1976 for the italian Pari e Dispari art gallery "The word "hymn" roughly translates the traditional meaning of the Sanskrit term "Gatha," and the spiritual nature of the work is toward de-emphasization of the individual egos of the author and the performers, to open them up to what is going on around them. In the Buddhist sense this could ultimately lead to union with all things. Mac Low does not try for anything that ambitious -- such an …

one of the earlier sound poetry recordings ever released, a gem by the lettrist sound-poet Jean-Louis Brau. 1 copy available

Music Overheard is an audio response to the  Super Vision exhibition, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubiweb) back in 2006. As visual artists respond to the enormous changes—scientific and cultural—caused by new vision technologies, music overheard poses an analogous question to musicians and sound artists: what are we hearing now that we didn’t hear before? With Henri Chopin, Taku Unami, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, John Duncan, Christof Migone and many more

Amazing artist book with a 7" enclosed, packaged in 16-page booklet which includes an introduction by Paul Zumthor (in French) and 8 typewriter poems by Chopin.

awesome NWW related LP: there is not too much information on albrecht/d. to be found on the net. when you google for him: you will mostly find albrecht dürer: and of course there is a connection: as an instant performance and as a contribution to the albrecht dürer jubilee in 1971 dietrich albrecht changed his real name officially to albrecht/d.a/d. was born in 1944,lives in stuttgart/germany since 1958and acts like an artist since 1966.he worked and performed with beuys, throbbing gristle, vost…

a rare NWW-list related items. Unique sound poetry mixed with manipulated voice experiments, improv piano and a few other odd bits. Part of Viennese Actionism, Fluxus related early (1973) LP. 1 copy available

An incredible long out of print 'cult' release either on musical and artistic profile: this project, the second release for the New International (N.I.R.) label, was a suitably absurd, logistically complex and expensive project: A limited edition of 1000 3 X 12″ Lp Box sets were divided up to form a series of 10 X 10 ‘canvas’ made of record covers. Ten painters were commissioned to paint a painting on each of the ten ‘canvasses’ which were photographed and made into ten postcards. the canvases w…

Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of "Poème-Partition X", extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 pages hardbound book, limited to 350 numbered copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a visual wonder and a major experimental printed work. Bernard Heidsieck memories of an historic lecture at the Jean Tinguely atelier is included as an introduction, as well as his testimony on Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysin's "Dream Machine". Also on th…

Rare original tape, by the conceptual artist Martin Creed, Work n. 117 is a sound piece that rattles through every percussion sound on Creed's synthesiser: all the sounds of a drum machine played one after another, in their given order, at a speed which makes the piece last one minute." on side A and the same in reverse on side B.

Music created through the use of old, modified, Lenco turntables, modified and manipulated in countless ways. But it has more in common with the anti-electronica of Pan Sonic or the early minimalism of Steve Reich, than to other experimental turntablists.

Of all the recent influx of stock we've received from NY's Olde English Spelling Bee records, this compellingly innovative set from Bruce McClure must surely be one of the most challenging - and in turn - rewarding. 'Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture' contains four excerpts of mind-bendingly dense and skewed improvisations from the renowned film maker, using an array of guitar pedals and the optical sound signals from multiple film projectors to create dizzying sonic patterns which hark back to the…

"Scultori di suono: percorsi nella sperimentazione musicale contemporanea" raccoglie una serie di percorsi attraverso i grandi cambiamenti avvenuti nella sperimentazione non ortodossa e nel modo di fare e di pensare il suono negli anni Novanta: la glitch music e la rivoluzione ‘riduzionista’, i primi segnali di ‘dissenso’, il ritorno della melodia, il rapporto tra suono e spazio, le poetiche della frammentazione, della decadenza, della memoria."Scultori di suono" comprises a number of paths thro…

Collected here are three radioplays from three Fluxus affiliates, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht. Each piece is built from a simple element and features a text recited by the author and sometimes others. Corner's piece is an homage to Erik Satie, built from a sparce two chord piano figure and a recitation that teeters along the stereo field. Knowles' piece, which she delivers along with Brecht, Hanna Higgins, and Jessica Higgins, is built from a long list of bean names on top o…

Very nice catalogue with many colour-pictures of installation-works and texts in german & english, released on the occasion of the PARKPLATZ-exhibition (Wolfsburg, Juli-September 2006) from this german soundart-artist. On the CD 63 minutes of material with highly abstract and nice droning musique concrete

Soundtracks To A Color: Gold & Black was an installation at LA Municipal Art Gallery as part of the COLA (City of Los Angeles) Fellowship exhibition from 2004. The installation consisted of 2000 posters: 1000 Gold and 1000 Black. Two separate rooms were covered with these posters that were covered solid in their color with the name of the color printed rather large in dead center. At the bottom of each poster was listed the instrumentation for each particular soundtrack to the color. The GO…

Rare and long out of print, this is the legendary Fluxus anthology that comes in screen printed wooden box with sliding cover including 204 page A4 book largely being a scrapbook of things relating to the artists on the cassettes (as well as Guiseppe Chiari and Ray Johnson) and details about the pieces including many pictures, plus a large discography of Fluxus recordings, plus 7 scores (all A4 format) by Joe Jones, Dick Higgins, Robert Filliou, Henning Christiansen, Wolf Vostell, Ken Friedman, …

Book of photographs by Jan Jedlička, taken at a Halloween party for hospital staff in a London pub that gave the series its name. 52 pages, stitch-bound, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.

Ultra limited release: "Danse" was part of a sound/visual installation called "Labyrinthe de violence".  Previously unpublished, this radical experimental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for “Œuvres sonores 2”, a 2-day-event organised by Emanuele Carcano at Beaubourg on April 5th & 6th, 2009. "Labyrinthe de violence" was an installation for tape sounds and 2 slide projectors conceived in …

Book of 39 video stills from Jan Jedlička's 1999 film Le Cuoche, a 36-minute portrait of the women who run the Ristorante Macchiascandona near Grosseto, Maremma. 80 pages, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.

(Halb) Schwarz is the first CD to collect a wide range of Rolf Julius' diverse compositions from several years. The Berlin-based sound, installation, action, and sound artist began experimenting with various forms of contemporary music in the 1970s. (Halb) Schwarz deals with the world of "small sounds," a term coined by John Cage to designate sounds so subtle that they are usually barely discernible.

Vol. 2, refers to his music as "small music" utilizing collage, abstract environmental sound acoustics, and a flair for beautiful, subtle, shifting layers of sound. Klangbogen (Small Music Vol. 2) features a crinkled array of pulsing, chirping environmentally-tinged sound -- gravitating somewhere near the vortex where the Het Apollohuis artists, Selektion crew and Bill Fontana never quite meet