★Dinzu Artefacts
Monumental Indifference
Tip! *2024 stock. 20 copies limited edition* "Monumental Indifference attunes the listener to an insular world of surprising density and rich texture, pricking the ears towards hyper-awareness of the unpredictable movements of metallic objects and th…
Yellow
*2024 stock*"Yellow brings together acclaimed LA-based musicians Kozue Matsumoto, Patrick Shiroishi, and Shoshi Watanabe. With total expressive command of their instruments, the trio unfurls a brilliant and impassioned free improvisation of the highe…
Stegla
Originally presented as a sound installation at the Buskerud Kunstsenter in Drammen, Norway, Joakim Blattmann’s Stegla is based on sound recordings of small movements in trees and of the insects living inside them. In the installation, these recordin…
Transmissions From The Radio Midnight
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* This project, entitled Transmissions From The Radio Midnight, started around 2006, when I acquired a Sony TCM F59 — an AM/FM radio and cassette recorder combined in a slim, handheld body. Since then, whenever I went …
Looking For A Ruler
*100 copies limited edition* A strange and alluring admixture of guitar and sine tones, electronics, and field recordings. The sounds have a crystal-like clarity that allows for the perception of their depths and distances. Its episodic form is struc…
Distance Between Us
*100 copies limited edition* Eventless Plot joins forces with a duo of clarinets for the aptly titled Distance Between Us, an extended composition that gives sensual expression to the nature of distance and its implied correlate, closeness – reflecti…
Distance Between Us
*100 copies limited edition* Eventless Plot joins forces with a duo of clarinets for the aptly titled Distance Between Us, an extended composition that gives sensual expression to the nature of distance and its implied correlate, closeness – reflecti…
Entre Pliegos
Entre Pliegos embarks on a quest through shared sonic ancestry to explore the immediacy of communication, invoking a mercurial, yet at times uplifting, musical environ. The drones and growls of low strings flow into explosive electronics, while ecsta…
Pulse, Puls-ar, Procession
A sweeping composition for instruments, field recordings, and electronics that seems to gather and reflect the forces and creative impulses of the world. Originally realized as a quadraphonic piece, it has been reworked for stereo as a 24-minute stud…
NEN (feat. Pierre Bastien)
*100 copies limited edition* Inspired by the work of Arte Povera, NEN achieves a high level of perceptual density with a limited sonic palette, combining remnants of musical instruments and electronics between fragments of samples and field recording…
Models of Duration
*Limited edition of 400 copies.* The latest from the uncompromising John McCowen is a split release between Dinzu Artefacts and Astral Spirits. Models of Duration follows the same trajectory as McCowen's other amazing solo releases - Solo Contra (Int…
Sonic Animism: The Emergence
"Sonic Animism" is a site-determined body and sound performance that investigates the state of the sentient-being on the non-human agency brought by technological sonic happenings.
The framework of the performance is an artificial environmental cycl…
Abstersion
Dinzu Artefacts presents Abstersion by Lorenzo Abattoir. An exquisite collage exploring the internal sound-world of an upright piano. The piano here has shed its traditional use as a musical instrument to emerge as a wonderfully sonorous body in itse…
La vie des objets
*100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking.* Dinzu Artefacts presents La vie des objets by Charles Barabé. Kaleidoscopic textures of crackling noise and subterranean drones woven from a ubiquitous 'silence.' Vinyl records sampled and process…
Unnameable Element
*100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* 'Trumpet, piri, and Vocalnori (amplified gongs via the voice) unfold a splattering of sounds, gurgling textures, gestural outbursts, and fragmented melodic runs. With their uncanny doublings and wa…
Bird Helmet
With a sonic arsenal as comprehensive as Joakim Blattmann’s on Bird Helmet, it’s no surprise that a very particular - and abstract - atmosphere can be conjured so well. The prolific artist, whose body of work mostly consists of live performances and …
Before We Were Foam We Were Unbridled Waves
Erasure of the contradiction between real and imaginary. Temporal layers are juxtaposed with different speeds, creating polyphonies of sound spectrums. The time flux is not regular or linear, it's bent."The latest dispatch from Los Angeles experiment…