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Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri chopin (born 1922), produced and recorded november 2003 - january 2004. Mastered and cut june 2006 by Rashad Becker-D&M. Edition of 491 copies in printed glossy outer- and innersleeve, with text by Henri chopin (original french, plus english & german translations), and photography by Florence Gonot-Yterce.” “Prologue Les souffles”, “La plaine des respirs vivace comme il se doit”, “Finale Les répressions cassées”.

The rawness of untreated acoustic instruments, and the raw playing of objects, without any effects, is like dopamine to me. It connects me to life and my Self on the deepest level possible. No make up, no fashion-style, just raw energy put straight onto recording." (Raymond Dijkstra)again an astonishing LP in red velours luxurous hardcover box with debossed black and debossed, gold print, Handmade boxes, Numbered / signed. With inlay and personal statement. Edition of 50 copies.

The most evident sound is a shrieking, frictional rubbing of strings and/or metals - like a wrecked violin or a creaking door's noise, but not quite. It's incessant, uneasy, anarchic and unclassifiable."(Massimo Ricci, Touching extremes) - an astonishing LP in red velours luxurous hardcover box with debossed black and debossed, gold print, Handmade boxes, Numbered / signed. With inlay and personal statement. Edition of 50 copies.

This is one of the rarest and earlier sound poetry LP compilation, issued for the 1971 Amsterdam exhibition. 1 copy available

Die Stadt is very pleased to announce the release of a long time project, an LP by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. C.M. von Hausswolff is a prolific sound composer for almost 20 years now who lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden. He was the founder of now defunct Swedish label Radium and still is one of the two King's of Elgaland-Vargaland (together with fellow artist Leif Elggren). His works (also under the name PHAUSS in his early years) have been released on labels such as Touch, Sub Rosa, Fire, …

Released in conjunction with a live performance that took place at the 'Lagerhaus' Bremen on 26. September 2003. Exclusive tracks by all three artists. John Duncan's 'The Gossamer Dispatch' is another fine example of his work with Shortwave sounds and a sort of more aggressive version of his acclaimed 'Phantom Broadcast' CD. C.M. von Hausswolff delivers a spoken word piece for the first time 'The way The Breeze Lays'. 'The Gobblestone Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat. No 8' by Leif Elggren is a …

Minimalist sound artist CM Von Hausswolff gives his two cents on the state of overdevelopment in various urban environments the world over in this, his second disc for the Sub Rosa label. It's hard to say precisely how the music here relates to town planning: Von Hausswolff concentrates on conjuring the kind of stark, austere glitch-driven soundscapes found on his work for labels like Raster Noton, using what sounds to be entirely synthetic sources, so again, it's difficult to establish any conc…

Features two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 - in his installation The Complete Operations Of Spirit Communication, Carl Michael von Hausswolff takes up central themes of his previous work and adapts them for a display especially created for the series O.K Spektral

A pioneering testament to environmental sound art of the 1970s and 1980s

 Kenichi Kanazawa is a sculptor (born in Tokyo, 1956) uses cut and cracked iron plates mainly. He often performs during his exhibitions, the sounds of plates striked by sticks and scrubbed by rubber balls are very static and spacy like Harry Bertoia. All tracks in this first released CD was performed by artist and percussionist Sachiko Nagata. with 34pp full color booklet (texts in Japanese)

Sound Artist Akio Suzuki carried out an exhibition around Wakayama city (south of Osaka) in 2005. This catalog contains some photographs of installation, interview, drawing and text. Attended CD includes field recording on his action "Oto-date walk" (hearing the environmental sounds at points of walking area) and performance. Recording and mix by Hans Peter Kuhn. 86pp, text in Japanese, English and French.

an excellent and breathy recording with lush piano elegies awash in a radical sonic realm that is profoundly reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine but in a very hectic/spirited way, truly an excellent and underrated recording that explores new piano possibilities. Beautiful digipack edition + large booklet

Using John Cage’s slogan “New Music: New Listening” as it's mantra, Polyphonix 1 is a compilation of 27 poets from both Europe and the United States, collected at poetry festivals held during 1979 to 1981. Originally released as a co-production of Cramps Records, John Giorno’s “Giorno Poetry Systems” and Association Polyphonix in 1982. Published by Multhipla Records, original and very rare nowadays, gatefold cov.+ inner

Original copy of this awesome double album by visionary futurist composer Alberto Savinio, issued in 1978 by Multhipla label. A very rare item, original and in new codition, for those into avant garde artists editions, fluxus related, broken music ecc.

long out of print, Produced in part by the Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music (CDMC), and the Spanish National Radio (RNE). Recordings made between 1990-1996 in tropical and sub-tropical forests of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Senegal, Gambia, and China. Composed during fall of 1996 at Messor Studios and Musica 2 Studio, RNE, Madrid.

1 copy only, long out of print - for many years, Pierre BASTIEN has developed his personal music based on musical machines made with Mecano. His orchestra MECANIUM is his backing band both on album and on stage. All this creates a tender, delicate and emotive machine music that seduced Pascal DOMELADE from the beginning. A terrific mixture of J. Dubuffet and John Cage

another beautiful 10" issued in a very limited private pressing picture-disc (330 copies), beautiful tape collage and electronic work

This extremely rare and long out of print LP from 1983 documents a remarkable multidisciplinary artistic collaboration between Philip Corner, one of America's most important experimental composers and Fluxus pioneers, and Klaus Peter Brehmer, a leading figure of German conceptual art. Selected by Ursula Block for her legendary gelbe MUSIK label in Berlin, this work represents a unique translation between visual art, music, and scientific analysis. Philip Corner (born 1933, The Bronx) is internat…

2014 repress! Finally, a CD reissue of Yoshi Wada's most important and most rare LP, Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, originally released in 1982 on the India Navigation label. Yoshi Wada is a Japanese sound installation artist and musician -- he moved to New York in the late 1960s, and became well-known as a Fluxus artist with links to La Monte Young, and has been involved in many performances and sound installations. However, he has released only two recordings,…

another beautiful and totally spaced out super-deluxe 100 copies only box “my overall philosophy is to keep my kitchen closed. and the lid on the pot. i need to build up pressure; the only time i release pressure is when playing music. it's all about transformation. guess i need to have some distance between me/my music and the public. in fact i like to see the public as non-existent. releasing my work i only do for metaphysical reasons; to keep all psychic and physical channels open, and mainta…

Sculptor, painter, drawer and composer of electro-acoustic music. Active in music since 1988 both as a composer and in several different formations and projects. Releases have taken place on labels as Korm Plastics, La Scie Doree, etc. Since 2003 all his music has been published by Le Souffleur. In his solo-music the composer uses since a few years only acoustic sources, sometimes combining them with simple electronic devices to 'adjust the hard sounds of the outerworld to the soft sounds of my …

Re-release of Ira Cohen's legendary 1968 film, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Celebrated internationally for more than 30 years, and recently screened as part of the 'Day for Night' program at the 2006 Whitney Biennial."I must say this is the most chemically abused piece of cinema I’ve ever seen – I actually feel under the influence now, I don’t know if I’m safe to walk home. It’s so narcotic that I’m surprised it’s legal to buy over the counter… all this and it was made in 1968 – one ye…

A 7" that lives up to its title by the enigmatic man from Organum. Just the sound of machine guns. Not very much manipulation. The two tracks were produced using original archive recordings of the Imperial War Museum in London as a sound source. Second edition of 200 copies on black vinyl

Robert Whitman is a seminal figure in the context of Expanded Cinema and multimedia performance. During the 1960¹s Whitman distinguished himself with sophisticated theatrical works involving interaction between live performers and filmed images. Unlike Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow, whose performances were highly expressionistic, Whitman sought an imagistic theater through works described by Lynne Cooke, Dia's exhibition curator as" magical, poetic, luscious and mysterious. sly one of the least-k…

"A box with dvd (two versions, one on ntsc and one on pal), a 264 pages book, two audio cd. The dvd presents the film Silent room : "A cross-sected view of 16 people, 16 rooms, 16 private lives, Silent Room is an x-ray vision of 16 interiors. In this film-poem, the room is felt from the inside. An interior steeped in discontinuity, where unusual and poetic communications unfold wordlessly, through a contamination of the senses. Rather than a story line, there is a set of tableaux vivants, each c…

This debut album shows that Antonio Della Marina's many years of exploration and investigation have paid off. Each sound seems to have been put in the right spot. The music breaths an overall calmness, as if the external world has no influence. And this ambient music in a complete state of balance. Peaceful and sophicticated, this ist he perfect sound to let go of all stress and worries.The piece lasts one hour and is a beautiful sine wave like piece along the lines of 'Music On A Long Thin Wire…

Time was intensifying to the point of becoming alarming, but primarily I was interested in seeing how far it would go. By 1901 I had found that a 10 inch disc playing for three minutes was better for most types of popular music, even popular songs, and the popular 'single' was born. As for myself: I was a lump of thinking ice. I thought of myself as a statue carved from a block of ice and this mad hallucination made me proud with an intense pleasure that is truly secret.

In 1993, in a decision unprecedented in his oeuvre, Kawara transformed One Million Years (Future) from a written to recorded state. The impetus for this metamorphosis was an exhibition for Dia Center for the Arts that ran from January 1, 1993, to December 31 of the same year. The exhibition was comprised of three parts, a selection of one thousand Today paintings, the ten volumes of One Million Years (Past) and the recording of One million Years (Future), in which a male and female voice contin…

This CD is consisting of 9 tracks mainly his self-made sound object 'Analapos' and 'De Koolmees', and 2 tracks of them are recorded for announce sound of opening and closing of Yokosuka Museum of Art. They are so clear and spacy. Booklet is written by himself, David Toop and others. Text in Japanese and English.ALM Records is well known label that has released many avant-garde LP titles in 70-80's. Especially about Akio Suzuki, two LPs has been released - obscure solo LP (limited 100 copies) and…

Immaculate original copy of his rare 1st book issued in Italy by Morra in 1975 - 207 pages + 45 pages of pics (b/n) + interview. This book was published by Giuseppe Morra, friend and collector of Hermann Nitsch since the 60ies, very early-on recognised the complexity and power of the artist's work and had a major part in realising different performances and happenings.

an exhibition related to sound, sculpture and light curated by Simone Menegoi and Daniela Cascella, and featuring work by Francesco Barocco, Simone Berti, Gianni Caravaggio, Rolf Julius, Wolfgang Laib, Christiane Lšhr, Max Neuhaus, Gabriel Orozco, Paolo Piscitelli, Steve Roden, Michael Sailstorfer, Hans Schabus, Rachel Whiteread, Erwin Wurm. Awesome book with color ill., 200 pages

* Complete Edition, with poster (58 x 83 cm, numbered and signed) and  Blood relic (numbered and signed)* this is the towering edition of Hermann Nitsch’s yearly aktions, twenty discs (full-color professionally printed compact disc recordables, each in their own jewel-case with different artwork for each disc, also professionally printed), two separate soft-cover books (one an original first-edition of a mid-80s nitsch catalogue! - itself something of a “holy grail” with prices ranging in “broke…

Two LPS in 180 Gram Vinyl High Quality Pressing. "'I have one Sinfonie' professed Hermann Nitsch identifying with Bruckner who made a similar claim of his symphonic output. For comparison, La Monte Young has a similar concept, for example, The Tortoise, His Dreams, and Journey's from 1964 -- eternity, with each realization, the piece never ends; it's a continuation. Professionally recorded in 1990 in Vienna and realized by a professional orchestra, the 8th Sinfonie by Hermann Nitsch is a triumph…

Packaged in the same elaborate LP-jacket as it's companion volume (CORTI 18.2), this features 2 exclusive CDs of music from Day 3 of the 6-Tage-Spiel des Orgies Mystries Theater; the 2 releases are stickered to differentiate. The third disc is the same CD-ROM as found in 18.1. "Packaged in 12" deluxe gatefold sleeve with 12" full-color printed inner-sleeves. Limited Edition: 500 copies. Day 3 of Vienna Aktionist Hermann Nitch's magnum opus total experience in a 6 Day excess, a Baccanalian rite t…

This is a record album from longtime collaborators Jonathan Bepler and Matthew Barney titled The Man in Black/ Drone Harness. Two-sided vinyl picture disk and folio jacket printed in four-colors on paperboard, gatefold sleeve showing images from the film which Barney regards as a sculpture. Houdini as the grandfather of Gary Gilmore, blood sacrifice to access Morman heaven, stunning landscapes and speed metal - signed by both Barney and Bepler on the center of the actual record.gatefold pic:

Awesome catalogue for a record exhibition curated by Christian Marclay & Ursula Block in the format of a box (sized 18 x 18 x 1.5 cm) including 51 single sheets (with texts, statements of the artists) and 1 flexidisc, 17 cm, 33 RPM, with excerpts from exhibited records. Emily Harvey Gallery, New York 1988. Long out of print

2007 release. François Dufrêne (1930-1982) is one of the leading artists from the post-War European and French art scene. He played a key role in many of the initiatives of Lettrism, Nouveau Réalisme and sound poetry. In François Dufrêne's oeuvre, art and poetry intersect in a reciprocal experimentation of the possibilities of transgression of their specific grammars. His oeuvre constitutes a singular example of this special relationship between art and language, which throughout the 20th centur…

During the years 1980-87, German trio Die Tödliche Doris was absolutely legendary in the Berlin underground music and art scene. Embodying the pure, obscure spirit of "neue deutsche welle," their releases and live shows revealed a raw post-punk sensibility with performance art. Die Todliche Doris are still widely considered one of the most radical, intelligent and influential German avantgarde bands of the last two decades. Now this DVD brings the music of the legendary, long unavailable LP Gehö…

Restocked, last copies: limited edition of 323 copies, this LP is a live recording for piano, voice and electronics. Issued in a beautiful red vinyl pressing, it's a terrific minimal droning piano in La Mount Young vein

RESTOCKED, last copies rare edition of 150 Copies only in white vinyl, with biographical insert and full color cover. Highly recommended document of fluxus member Joe Jones.