Sound Art / All styles

beautiful early works by Rolf Julius, who is one of the most significant artists in the border areas of music and fine art. Like John Cage, Julius works with the term of "silence." The sounds in Julius' works have spatial and physical qualities such as expanse, depth, weight and density.

Another beautifully presented Aktionism archival document of the insane Belgian 20th century underground. Pulling Hokusai into space and time, Vercammen organised and executed the very first happenings in Belgium in the early sixties. Great collages, the only real pop artist in Belgium, latex word paintings, pneumatic forms before someone else got bigger with it. Always on the move. The way Wout Vercammen acts, performs, talks and moves is perfectly captured on this LP! When living in Antwerp, c…

His first solo LP, focused on his late 60s compositions. Bernard Heidsieck commenced sound poetry in 1955 with his 'poem partitions' and, since 1966 on, a species he terms 'biopsies'. Both types are rooted in a direct relation to everyday life. Heidsieck sometimes refers to both the biopsies and poem-partitions as 'action' poems (not to be confused with the action poetry of either Steve McCaffery or Robert Filliou). 'Action' since the pieces incorporate the actuality of quotidian soundscapes: su…

beautiful, essential documentation, a compilation of soundpoetry / text-sound activity published on the occasion of the 10th International Festival of Sound Poetry that took place in Stockholm, Amsterdam and London in 1977. Includes sound poetry chronology and discography, interviews with Bob Cobbing and Sten Hanson, articles by Bernard Heidsieck, Francois Dufrene, Henri Chopin, Gerhard Ruhm, as well as amazing visual scores & texts by Bengt Emil Johnson, Ake Hodell, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Chris Ch…

Fluxus Anthololgy is a collection of music and sound events edited by Maurizio Nannucci with full integrety towards the idiology and spirit of Fluxus, one of the most radical art movements of the second half of this century. Limited edition of 1000 and long deleted now - gatefold cover including that features George Maciunas' "Expanded Arts Diagram", clear vinyl

Great (but very little known) 1970's sound/text poetry recordings. Featuring two sound poetry recordings from 1973, "Arbeiten - ein Stuck fur alle" (already released as tape on the S Press label back in 1973) and "Cudrefin (minuit) - Found Music No.1" (previously unreleased). The first 250 copies include an onesided bonus 7inch with his track "Don't you may be, the essential interview" from the famous "Futura - Poesia Sonora" boxset (Cramps Records).Nikolaus Einhorn was born at dresden in 1940. …

Nitsch is notorious as the ‘action artist’ whose controversial performance artworks from the 1960s onward have included the use of blood, dismembered animals and so on. His explorations of multiple media include music, and his reverence for Bruckner as a composer whose works symbolize the expression of a multifaceted cosmic soul of some kind seems entirely genuine and sincere. His organ piece is a good deal less controversial than many of his performances; it consists of a slowly evolving succes…

 Totally essential guide to sound art: a 304 pages book in hard cover + a CD with pieces from Bill Fontana ('Harmonic Bridge'), Steve Roden ('Rust'), Jean Dubuffet ('Terre foisonnante'), Destroy All Monsters ('Jam Smear'), Anthony Burr et Charles Curtis ('Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas' (1973-74) from Alvin Lucier) and Bernhard Gal ('57A').Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art's roots can be found…

This a even more special edition of this massive box. It is limited to 50 copies only, in a magnificent wine-red silkscreen containing a large-sized envelope with a signed and numbered Relict from a Orgies Mysteries Theater Performance.

Awesome original 1st pressing book by the well-know Fluxus artist and muscian, "Teatrino" was a work relating to the musical improvisation group, MEV, Musica Elettronica Viva founded by the pianist Rzewski, a frequent performer of his work (Teatrino, 1963, at a world premiere at the Judson Hall in New York during the Avant-Garde Festival and Strimpellare, 1965).  Importante esponente italiano di "Fluxus", movimento impostato sulla scelta di comportamenti a…

Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritua…

A long deleted artist record anthology by Nicola Frangione, issued in a handful of copies back in 1997 "During the last 30 years Action Art has found fertile fields of confluence between  the  experimentation about vision and gesture and poetic- visual sound dramaturgy. A large space of this research has been characterized by the connection of Performance Art with the arguments connected to the poetics of the “total poetry” and by the development of the performance technologies in a technologica…

long deleted sound poetry CD by Nicola Frangione "Sound poetry in "Rapporti orali e trasversalita sonore" are good opposites to so-called "serious" art production. Sometimes his work flies out of the bound of art production as we know it, and he practices for decades, but it has no harmful effect on the project realization, but quite opposite, we find quality of understandable poetic word in it" International Multimedia

An amazing LP conceived and compiled by Nicola Frangione, back in 1983. In the spirit of the Mail Art movement of the 1980s comes the Mail Music project. Collecting 47 sound art samples sent in from around the world, Nicola Frangione compiles them together in a pastiche manner similar to the Distruct LP compiled by P16.D4. Each side is one continuous track and the individual sound submissions which are approximately 1 - 1.5 minutes long, overlap giving the impression of a collage work. This was …

This Paul Panhuysen work is a composition in two parts. The same magic square is transposed in two versions. One can be experienced by the eyes, the other one by the ears. Both parts are produced from the numbers of the same magic square of 5. A magic square is a series of numbers arranged in a square grid so that the sum of each horizontal and vertical row and of the corner diagonals is always the same.Magic squares reveal harmony of number and refer to the nature of existence and a cosmic orde…

Joseph Beuys – Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee. The voice of one of the twentieth century's most radical artists, captured in sound. Released in 1970, this legendary document presents Beuys in pure vocal performance—no instruments, no mediation, just the artist's voice as raw material and conceptual force. Recorded live, Beuys transforms language into rhythm, mantra, and protest. The repetitions of "Ja Ja Ja" and "Nee Nee Nee" become hypnotic incantations, political gestures, and sonic sculptures. This is …

A rare exhibition poster  for this legendary sound installation hald at Ink gallery in Zurich, 1981, based on the same materials "Celtic Symphony", which he performed together with the Danish composer Henning Christiansen back in 1970. "Das Kapital" had already started at that time, some interesting information cna be found here "the acoustic system serves for the sound recording for example of the human tongue, for language, singing and other sounds and for the reproduction of the recorded sign…

Magnificent original poster documenting an early Charlemagne Performance at Modern Art Agency gallery in Naples back in 1973. Large Format (cm105 x 80 cm), the poster is hand signed by the artist (on bottom), and is in great condition despite its age, having just a few age wear all around. 2 copies available

Double LP intended to allow the listener to recreate the environment resulting from the simultaneous playback of Holy 1 and Holy 2. Both composed in 1967, the complete 42 minutes of Holy 1 occupy the first disc, with the shorter Holy 2 fitting on side C. Side D features the music of Holy 1 and Holy 2 created in 1968 for Gus Solomon, a choreographer and student of Merce Cunningham. Edition of 380 copies. 1 only available   From Charlemagne Palestine's liner notes: "Holy1 and Holy2 were both reco…

Amazing 2LP document of the Fluxus and associated art scenes from the US and elsewhere. The line-up on these records are amazing. Comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a 2-sided pull-out poster with artwork/words from all involved. gatefold sleeve with titles and text-information inside. *With inserted Introduction by Robert C. Morgan (folded sheet) and folded sheet with portraits of the participating artists: i.a. Jud Fine, Eleanor Antin, Terry Fox, Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Vincenzo Agnett…

A legendary album, The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp realized by Petr Kotik and S.E.M Ensemble. Work planned and composed in 1913, based on chance operation. Recorded 7 May, 1976. B2 is a track for player piano, recorded in Buffalo, New York on a Steinway player piano. 1 copy available

First release of this 1997 performance featuring Takehisa Kosugi performing an updated version of his seminal “catch-wave” for solo violin & electronics (the original recording of which has become something of a perennial around here) ...comes as a double-wide jewel case (love these - haven’t seen one in eons !!!) containing a fat 32-page booklet of ocean-photos (not dis-similar to the closing frames of the Taj Mahal Traveller’s “on tour” film actually) & a booklet with new liners (in japanese &…

Original, and very hardto find nowadays, this is the amazing set of solo violin (with lot of electronics) conceptions recorded live in New York by Fluxus operative, Taj Mahal Travellers frontman and renowned minimalist Takehisa Kosugi. This one threads a dart through your heart with all of the continuous invention of Tony Conrad’s most psychoactive conceptions. ! copy available, still sealed

Rare artist's record, with an amazing versions of Tudors electronic environment masterpiece, performed by David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Numbered edition of 200 copies. Packaged in plain black jacket with insert and obi, and pressed on red vinyl. New and unplayed, one copy available

After three albums on Tzadik, Sub Rosa and Orkhêstra, setting instrumental compositions - or improvisations - for small ensembles against electroacoustic treatments, the young French composer Pierre-Yves Macé now presents his first full-scale work of musique concrète. Passagenweg takes its inspiration from philosopher Walter Benjamin s (1892-1940) Arcades project, an unfinished lifelong attempt to document industrial modernity through Parisian iron-and-glass covered arcades. The Surrealists, suc…

original, pristine copy of his first artistist's book, an outstanding treatise on his music theory where the author  expresses his ideas in the form of a concrete/visual form.  An exceptional performer and a remarkable explorer of a new visual and minimalist dimension within music, Giuseppe Chiari has consistently produced work in which the techniques of art "proper". 144 pages (unnumbered), cm 24x17

A collection of early text-sound compositions: "Dynamisme intégral", (1966), "Présence du Soleil" (1971), "Dentales soufflées" (1979), "Le Peur" (1958/1969). Edition of 400 copies. "The works of sound poet Henri Chopin can hardly be called spoken word, but are rather sound collages created with vocal noises, often without the use of words or even the sounds of syllables. The 37-minute title track, "La Peur" (The Fear), recorded in 1958 and 1969, is one of Chopin's more intense and formidable pie…

The third Joe Jones archival CD release on this label. A single 31-minute recording of said exhibition, August 31st, 1985. Jones' mechano-constructs whirring/clanking all the while, generally refusing to sit still. Back cover shots display several motor-agitated automatons with single beaters attached to end(s), pre flail. Heard: motorik-accent hand drum, metallic ping, bells, possibly glockenspiel (?), distant melodic informations, presumably of aleatoric/wind-based selection. Joe Jones' music …

An aural journey from the source of the river, in the high peak area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; Annea Lockwood traces the course of the Hudson through on-site recordings of its flow at 15 separate locations. Annea Lockwood has recorded rivers in many countries to explore the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches. The listener will find that each stret…

Packaged in a round petri case with a sponge and a piece of lichen Limited numbered edition of 250 copies Includes 10-page accordion-fold insert with details of the release and series"There's no better way to visually represent the music of Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse than with the various bits and fragments of nature's detritus, stones, pebbles, sticks, leaves, branches, dust and dirt. This newest release from Chasse goes a step further, encapsulating the disc itself (a little 3" cd) along w…

another awesome release from ed. graphon, with an elaborate packaging as usual...it comes with drawing (paper-lasercut) by Judith Egger, letterpress, in embossed case. The album is a  dreamy journey using a pedal steel guitar and  theremin. Shadowgraph – an x-ray through harmonics and melodics, inspired by the attempt of the inventor Nicolai tesla to photograph what was inside his head. Limited 250 copies

now deleted, this is the first release from Edition Graphon, issued in a lavishly packaged in embossed slip case with inner sleeve that folds out in four directions to a '+' shape, plus 6-panel insert. Subtitled 'sounds from an abandoned house in the forest of Epesses/Lac Léman, may 2003', it's focused on birds, butterflies and other animals seen only in sounding forms by the internal eye, entering the night in an ecstatic sleep state, dreaming with the sound of a human hidden light. Leaves with…

* 350 copies * Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including some of the seminal electronic/tape collage pieces by Malcolm Goldstein, created in close connection to the sulphuric New York pre-Fluxus environment of the early 1960s. The 1960s downtown New York City, rich with activities, doors opening upon a world fertile with possibilities: the delightful unknown. Malcolm Goldstein first worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, then joined the Judson Dance Theater with da…

Housed in a gatefold sleeve with a 36-page catalogue. The first LP is John Cage Speaks MUREAU by John Cage, its title assembled from the first syllable of the word "music" and the author's name "Thoreau." Malte Hubrig writes "The performance of Mureau -- its letters, syllables and words read by John Cage in a uniform intonation of the voice -- frees language of its meaning and opens it to sound." The second LP is Terry Fox's Culvert, a performance that took place at the University of Montana in …

From the Joyce archives with the exclusive permission of the Joyce foundation, the only two recordings of the author, reading from "Ulysses" in Paris during the twenties and from "Finnegans Wake" in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

long out of print, this is the limited to 500 copies deluxe vinyl LP + CD rom documenting the 3rd day, 5th of August 1998 Aktion at Nitsch castle. Packaged in heavy laserdisc gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves, heavy vinyl release...At its most basic, the entire work is composed of a steady bed of shrieking wind instruments, on top of which various brass players intervene in short, often single-note bursts. The music is propelled by a drumming whose style is both drunken and militant.. t…

long deleted, last copy of this outstanding box: Hermann Nitsch is perhaps the best known of the notorious Vienna Actionists. His carefully choreographed performance art frequently involves cacophonous noise, buckets of blood and animal dismemberment, turning gory excess into ritualistic spectacle. Nitsch's undoubted Gesamtkunstwerk is his Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters, a six-day 'play' that was first performed in its entirety in 1998 at the artist's Prinzendorf Castle, in his native Austria.The…

One of contemporary music's greatest and most elusive mavericks returns to Tzadik with yet another CD of ear-bending electronic sounds. A student of Stockhausen and close collaborator of John Cage and David Behrman, Maryanne Amacher has been creating acoustic art, electronic soundscapes and site-specific installation work since 1967. A new CD of Amacher compositions is a true cause for celebration and Teo! is one of her greatest works. The winner of Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Musics cat…

84 page Hardcover book with embossed cloth cover & spine, also includes 12 page cd-booklet. Recorded & mixed between 1988 and 1995. Sound sources are stones collected all over the world. Beautiful artist book by Giancarlo Toniutti in collaboration with Siegmar Fricke, that comes with a nice CD (with an extra booklet) "speaking of "KO/USK," there has been a double trajectory in composing/recording it. On one side, following a decision implying the use of such sound sources (stones), a decision li…

Included in 160-page, hardcover book with bilingual (Italian/English) 'Any and all sounds are music : the sounds that surround us, whether we are in a concert hall or not...' 'We can begin from this quote by John Cage to unearth the traces of one of the most emblematic happenings of our time. In June 1978 Cage's Train marked a watershed in musical culture. It drew a line which parted those who think of music as an artistic expression based on a tonal system (or beyond that, on any system at all)…