Secretary Of Sensation
Isolde Touch is Asha Sheshadri, a composer and multimedia artist based in Southern California. Secretary of Sensation is a seven-chapter narrative occurring in Our Town (1052–1119). Voice, synthesis and original text. The music Asha Sheshadri makes as Isolde Touch is boldly literal. Perhaps literal is inexact; concrete is closer, as her sounds have a clarity that ties them directly to their origins (a piano is exactly a piano). Conceptually she deals in abstraction, but sonically she’s unafraid …
Haze - Almanacco Di CUltura Di Sonora N.1 (Magazine)
*Italian Language Edition* Un libro/almanacco con cadenza quadrimestrale che raccoglie saggi, interviste, approfondimenti sulla ricerca sonora contemporanea per un concetto allargato di musica. Nel primo volume: Busoni, Bennink, Anderson, Mayr, Sax, Zappa, Zorn.
13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History (Book)
Born out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators were formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums, and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators’ pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal arguments, drug busts, and forced psychiatric im…
Jazz Border - La Scena Jazz Italiana (Book + DVD)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* La scena jazz italiana in un video e un libro di Claudio Chianura, con la partecipazione dei maggiori e più interessanti protagonisti in attività…Interviste e riprese originali con Francesco Bearzatti, Stefano Bollani, Claudio Cojaniz, Franco D'andrea, Zeno De Rossi, Maria Pia De Vito, Stefano Di Battista, Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu, Rita Marcotulli, Christian Meyer , Roy Paci, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Stefano Zenni.
Adolphe Sax e il Sassofono (Book)
*Italian Language Edition* Un'immersione nella storia di Adolphe Sax, l'inventore del Saxofono, e della nascita di uno strumento musicale rivoluzionario. Una riflessione attorno alla gloria postuma di monsieur Sax e della sua affascinante invenzione, col prorompente impatto avuto sulla musica e sulla società moderna, al pari della chitarra elettrica, ma, diversamente da questa, dopo un percorso pieno di ostacoli. Strumento dalla voce umana, l'unico ibrido: per metà ottone, per metà legno, per me…
Tragicommedia Dell'Ascolto (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* In questo nuovo testo, che segue il fortunato "e non chiamatelo jazz", Giancarlo Schiaffini utilizza le sue esperienze di compositore, esecutore e improvvisatore per celebrare l'ascolto come momento indispensabile di una fenomenologia del discorso musicale. La sua apertura all'intero universo sonoro, senza limiti alla curiosità o pregiudizi restrittivi, fa sì che queste esperienze musicali, da metà anni '60 fino a oggi, abbiano come caratteristica princip…
William Parker - Conversazioni Sul Jazz (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* Dagli anni Settanta tra i maggiori protagonisti del jazz contemporaneo, contrabbassista, leader, protagonista inesausto di un'enorme mole di incisioni, catalizzatore della scena newyorkese del jazz neroamericano d'avanguardia, e apprezzatissimo anche in italia, William Parker si racconta in una lunga intervista che ripercorre la sua esperienza e illumina la sua originale visione musicale. "nella musica ognuno deve poter scegliere il proprio ruolo: la libe…
Lo Spirito Della Musica Creativa (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* Come ha opportunamente notato Herbie Hancock, in questo lavoro "Garrison Fewell ha realizzato una brillante riflessione su creatività e spiritualità, analizzando in profondità la relazione tra due temi che ispirano le esplorazioni di moltissimi pionieri della musica jazz avant-garde". La serie di originali dialoghi con celebri improvvisatori quali John Tchicai, Han Bennink, Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Oliver Lake, Joelle Léandre, William Parker, Wadad…
Loiter Volcano
The excellently titled Loiter Volcano was a constant source of somewhat surprising pleasure the first time I listened. "Surprising" because the general attack leans a bit more toward efi (I suppose "post-efi" has been appropriate for a good while) than I normally care for. But this mix of electronics, percussion and cello simply filled the space in a manner that held me rapt throughout. As with the other release featuring Dumont, it's partially about the textures and their creative deployment bu…
Centre Of Mass (For Cymbal And Resonant Objects)
Solo improvisation for cymbal and rotating objects
Scrub
A duo improvisation recorded in an exhibition space with several of Max Eastley's sound sculptures, and next door to a park where a firework display was taking place...
Dark Architecture
A duo improvisation recorded in an exhibition space with several of Max Eastley's sound sculptures, and next door to a park where a firework display was taking place...
Music from the Resting State
Mega Tip! **Edition of 300 copies, comes with insert** Some Fine Legacy is pleased to announce Arnold Dreyblatt’s Music from the Resting State. Though widely celebrated for the pioneering high-energy exploration of alternate tunings in his Orchestra of Excited Strings, Dreyblatt’s parallel work as an artist over the last forty years has received less attention in experimental music circles. This LP is drawn from a major installation work, The Resting State, exhibited at the Neuer Berliner Kunstv…
John Giorno in Florence
2024 Stock. John Giorno is perhaps best known as the star of Andy Warhol’s Sleep. More significantly, Giorno’s multimedia publication and performance projects have consistently transgressed and redefined the boundaries of literature and mass media. The publisher of Giorno Poetry Systems LPs, CDs, tapes, and videopaks, Giorno first made his mark in the late sixties as the innovator of the Dial-A-Poem System (1969): a twelve-line telephonic system allowing callers to hear one of twelve different p…
Minimetal 11 Mantras (Book)
22 years ago, Nik Emch and Laurent Goei formed the Zürich-based artist duo Minimetal. They produce musical visual art projects and play both underground venues and white-roomed art galleries. Their “sound sculptures” are a veritable torrent of guitar sounds, drums, vocals – and images. A torrent that has been carrying audiences off into a hypnotic stratosphere for 22 years now. Minimetal is punk, rock, art and above all: a lifetime project. Back in the early ’90s Emch and Goei composed 11 songs …
Gunslinger Books 1 & 2
Tape comes with two inserts. One reproduction of a Ed Dorn Poetry Reading Flyer and one with a quote of Ed Dorn. Edition of 80 copies. Edward Merton Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his first eight grades. He later studied at the University of Illinois and at Black Mountain College (1950-55). At Black Mountain he came into contact with Charles Olson, who greatly influenced his literary worldvie…
I (Tape)
Nice Music is pleased to present 'I', the stunningly beautiful debut release from Sydney's Skyline, comprised of Del Lumanta (one half of duo Video Ezy with Nina Buchanan, Paradise Daily) and David Akerman of Dead Farmers (RIP Society). The duo's thoughtful attention to crystalline sonic detail conjures a rich glow around the edges of their elongated ambient synth and piano plateaus. Dutiful care has been taken with the mix over these four pieces, each gleaming with a warm and very genuine incan…
Fluxus Arte per Tutti
158 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English/Italian edition. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the prominent role Italy came to play in the Fluxus movement, which emerged in the late 1950s. It explores the editorial experience of Fluxus, the creation of “editions” – objects, graphics, artists’ books – and the important role this had in the movement’s spread. Inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute, these works were accessible to the wider public and in turn contributed to the F…
In Là
Timed in celebration of his 80th birthday, the venerable imprint, Alga Marghen, releases “In Là”, a stunning LP comprising a brand-new work by the groundbreaking English composer Gavin Bryars
Volume ! n° 20-2 – La fin des genres musicaux ? Catégoriser les musiques populaires (Magazine)
A historicist approach of music genres. Recent journalistic discourses have announced "the end of music genres", while common sense tends to perceive the latter as imposed categories, restricting the freedom of both artists and audiences In contrast to this preconceived idea, this special issue of Volume! draws on a historicist approach of the phenomenon to discuss the formation and development of music genres such as disco and dance, traditional music, heavy metal, dungeon synth, urban music, i…