New Arrivals
Cassiopeia
**250 copies** Two unreleased tracks from the critically acclaimed album sessions, limited 10 inch! Two groovy tracks from reed player Ville Vannemaa's Cassiopeia album, with him on this date is vibraphonist Panu Savolainen, Kasperi Sarikoski on trom…
Andersabo
**CD version** Building on nearly a decade of friendship, with an evolving creative partnership spanning roughly half that time, Swedish / Australian synthesist, John Chantler, and Danish saxophonist, Johannes Lund, return with Andersabo, their secon…
Atlantis
Following closely on the heels of his ravishing solo album Tomorrow is Too Late, Stockholm-based synthesist and improviser John Chantler switches gears to unleash the stunning second album by his trio with saxophonist Seymour Wright and drummer Steve…
Control Voltage Project
Control Voltage Project is a long running project of Alper Maral and Mert Topel. Alper Maral is one of the most significant sound discoverers around Turkey through auditory and academical researches he has made about experimental electronic music. Me…
Mort Aux Vaches
**2LP Limited Edition 125 copies. Transparent Blue Vinyl.** First time on vinyl, brand new mastering, and new cover design (a 1974 drawing by Charlemagne Palestine). This is the first release in the 'GodBear' series, a project consisting in the re-is…
Avatar Blue
"Over two hours, this two-CD is comprised of 30 tracks of Pro-Earth Ocean free-electric trance logos. The music expresses Spencer Clark's desire to mimic the swimming motions of aquatic life, and to project the plentiful life of Earth's ocean into th…
Listening Patterns. From Music to Perception and Cognition (Book
Listening Patterns is dedicated to facing the great diversity of discourses on listening in today's literature and to proposing a possible key of interpretation. The book develops the analysis of listening, in its most general sense, in three parts w…
Sorcière, Ma Mère / The Top of the Left Ear
A more than strange novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers, accompanied by a new musical piece by Nurse With Wound on a 3" MiniCD.Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) is a German writer and director. Author of short stories, novels and plays, he has developed a literat…
Lea Tanttaaria / Great-God-Father-Nieces
A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of Art Brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing th…
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…