New Arrivals
Faits Divers / Musique Pour Faits Divers: A Piece Of The Sky Is
On the occasion of the republication of eight texts by Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "Music for Miscellaneous: A Piece of the Sky Is Missing", an unreleased mini CD included in th…
Ci-gît - To Another Awareness
A text by Antonin Artaud illustrated with a 15-minute, Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "To Another Awareness", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.
Abécédaire
Foreword by Guillaume Belhomme. Bilingual edition (English / French), 15 x 19,5 cm (softcover), 256 pages + CD. An ABC book with which the pianist, composer and improviser recounts his experience of sound (with the score and recording on CD of an unp…
Phonokinetoscope
An examination of the complex and subtle world on display in Rodney Graham's film of an LSD-inflected bicycle ride. Rodney Graham's Phonokinetoscope (2001) is a five-minute 16mm film loop in which the artist is seen riding his Fischer Original bicycl…
The New Analog Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
**Hard-cover edition** A meditation on what was lost—and on what is worth preserving—in the movement away from analog music and culture. Although digital media have created new possibilities for music making and sharing, they have also given rise to…
The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America
2017 edition. 'This extraordinary and brilliantly curated book reveals how the tropes of cultured living were disseminated through the universal medium of music decades before the era of 'designer pop.' Revisionary and essential.' wrote Peter Saville…
Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018
**Beautiful hard-cover edition, 300+ pages ** A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: t…
Michael Snow
Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works …
Experimental Sound and Radio
Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Ta…
Microsound
Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building…
Ways of Hearing
Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. I…
Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music
Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has alwa…
Antiterra
**300 copies, CD version** Squadra Omega is an Italian-cosmic-psych-impro collective that has been active since 2009. In the past 10 years the ever-changing lineup has explored a multitude of sonic territories: their Music for the Third Eye has its r…
Sequenze Per Raffigurazioni Mentali #5
**43 copies** Giovanni Donadini a.k.a. Ottaven is a versatile artist, illustrator, musician and fashion designer. Looking at his drawings, serigraphs, clothes, fanzines and records is easy to see how everything is extremely connected by a common thre…
Plateau
**300 copies, 2020 stock** This LP presents the first recordings of the esoteric Norwegian one-man band Taxgorkhan. Plateau is an instrumental musical travelogue that blends experimental prog, psych and electronic rock in equal measures. The music of…
Leaves in a Stream
**300 copies, 2020 stock** O. Gudmundsen Minde is proud to present the debut album from the mystical Norwegian one-man band Taxgorkhan. Leaves in a Stream is a concept record based on liquid teleportation, ancient myths and psychedelic folklore. Cosm…
Enfant Terrible Vol. 1
**2020 stock** The cartoon composition Enfant Terrible was conceived as part of Norwegian cartoonist and artist Christopher Nielsen’s project where he sought to express himself in as many art forms as possible within one year, 2014 – all for the purp…
Dimpna B. Clarin and the Habagat Singers
Dimpna B. Clarin, a young soprano from the Philippines, recorded her one and only album for Saturn Research, the label founded in Chicago in 1957 by Alton Abraham and Sun Ra. Dimpna B. Clarin and The Habagat Singers was originally released on vinyl a…
Variation Séculaire Géomagnétique
"Massimo Toniutti is an Italian sound designer and experimental musician. He is the brother of Giancarlo Toniutti who is best known for his dark ambient masterpiece La Mutazione which was originally released on the Broken Flag label in the UK and lat…
Refused
The Residents are an American art collective best known for their over 60 studio albums that were recorded over a period of more than forty years. They also created some outstanding multimedia works, mainly three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs. Working…