New Arrivals
Shirotama
'A CD and DVD beautifully packaged to discover the work from sound artist Tetsuya UMEDA. CD : Soundtrack : Sten¡C, recorded in a room, 2007. Metz, recorded at an installation at Musiques Volantes, Metz, France, November 8, 2008.Bubbles, recorded at a…
Deserted Islands of the mediterranean
special gallery edition artists book, issued for the 2009 exhibition held at Villa Romana (Florence), a research project on the deserted island of mediterranean by visual artists Amedeo Martegani, Armin Linke, Giulia Di Lenarda, Giovanna Silva and th…
Day Is Done
Day Is Done, a major new video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, is a feature-length musical. It enunciates a career-long interest in American subcultures and folk events through the re-staging of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed int…
Partitions de réactions
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 ph…
Great Bear Pamphlet Series
Complete set, originally published between 1965 and 1967, the Great Bear contributors were a who's who of the sixties avant-garde: George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam Jun Paik, Diter Rot and Emmett Williams, wer…
Musik Oblik: Musics In The Margin 2
This is the second volume of the Musics in the Margin compilation series. Like volume 1 in 2006 (SR 254CD), this new production mixes visual arts with music, focusing on the affinities existing between three visual art fields considered on equal t…
Parkanlage
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 materia…
Corpo Nostro
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 wel…
Bodyanalysis: Actions 1964-1970
A core member of the artist collective around Hermann Nitsch, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler -- instigators of Viennese Actionism -- it was during the early 1960s that Viennese painter, performance artist, graphic artist and writer Günter Brus …
Stand up comedy
Alessandro Bosetti‘s music for the last decade has documented the de- and re-contextualization of the human voice through a variety of means. Il Fiore Della Bocca achieved this through the natural alterations of ‘normal’ speech exhibited by the vo…
Suite For Five - Summerspace - Interscape
n 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician John Cage, created some of the most iconocl…
Plastic Materials
THE WIRE'S BEST OF 2010 Over the past decade, Marina Rosenfeld's work has come to represent one of the most progressive approaches to experimental sound emanating from New York. Rosenfeld is equally known as a composer for large-scale performances an…
Manual for the construction of a sound
Surface Tension Supplément N°4. 'Organized as a temporary working group, the Manual project set out to explore sound and auditory experience as platforms for social meeting, urban intervention and environmental investigation. Developed in collaborati…
A forest dark
Conceived as as a soundtrack for the silent movie “Inferno (1911, Milano Films)” A Forest Dark is the new album from Satan is my Brother, after four years from the eponymous debut on Boring Machines. This new chapter sees the band expanding to fiv…
Un Autre Chemin Vers L'Ultime
Keiji Haino is an individual that never ceases to provoke new ideas in the minds of those that meet him. And so, although he is usually surrounded by amplifiers, a myriad of effects pedals, and cables plugged into his guitar, he nonetheless amazed hi…
Squadra Omega
Squadra Omega is a psych/avant/kraut rock collective with former and present members of the Mojomatics, With Love and Be Maledetto Now! devoted to free improvisation, psychedelic jams and mind blow ups. It is said that all empires are built upon the …
UL8
Written and recorded in Whitby, York and Rotherham (UK) during summer 2010 by Mark Fell (one-half of the duo snd). Mastered at Dubpates and Mastering Berlin in 2010 by Lupo. Part 1: The Occultation of 3C 273. Using 32 operator frequency modulation …
The Original Ultra Bide
Originally released in 1984, this Hidjokaidan side project Ultra Bide, lovely and far more listenable than most Japanese noise-rock bands, throwing space-rock, psychedelia, electronica, traditional Japanese sounds
Improvised Music from Japan 2009
Improvised Music from Japan 2009 takes a look at improvised/experimental music festivals and concert series in Japan. Covered in the book are 33 of the many festival/series events taking place around the country. The articles (some written by the org…
The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong
Second 7" release for Dirty Knobby takes us on another diversion through a hellish landscape peppered with brittle discordance and fuzzed out string burn, courtesy of an old cheaply produced Indian 'banjo', or bulbul tarang, which had the wooden keyb…