New Arrivals
Blanc et Rouge
Awesome reissue: presenting yet another collection of 'absent' works is an evidence of their creators' critical approach and lack of consent to political pressure, under which they had to function. This album is only a selection of compositions b…
The New Year Is Over
Nine long and extraordinary tracks collected in a 3 CD, among fluctuating ambient atmospheres, hypnotic rhythmic progressions, circular and motionless stasis, acid psychedelic escapes, evocative electronic reflections... Slow suites of "classic" ambi…
Mort aux vaches
CD, 3-panel engraved sikscreened cover ltd. 500ex. Perhaps I told this before: one sunday afternoon two years I went out to see the farewell event of a band that I never heard of, Dagpauwoog, but I knew all of its members (including Rutger Zuydervelt…
What Space Is Made For
The monumental set 'What Space Is Made For' has been recorded in their secret base on the Western Alps, and unlike MCIAA's previous works, it's mostly made of short pieces and songs. In addition to their (un)usual instrumentation (electric and acoust…
Works 1987-1993
Both of these projects hardly need an introduction. Merzbow is since the late '70s the project of Masami Akita working in the field of noise music, having released a few hundred CDs/LPs/cassettes by now. In 1987 Kapotte Muziek was then the solo proje…
Noise Music: A History
Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses …
26 September 2007
Arthur is back! "On the cover: Born Again! A talk with Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond. Features: One Man, Goofing Off: Journalist Joel Rose visits 80-year-old Zen humorist/media innovator Henry Jacobs. Plus, an appreciation of Jacobs' radio and T…
See this Sound. Audiovisuology
A totally essential real sound art bible, 452 pages! A companion volume to 2009's See This Sound, this all-embracing compendium brings together texts on the various art forms that have combined sound and image. The full spectrum of audiovisual art …
Surface Tension Supplement No. 1
Edited by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle. Essays by Jennifer Gabrys, Robin Wilson, Michael Rakowitz, Claudine Isé, Octavio Camargo, Kathy Battista, Brandon Lattu, Simparch, e-Xplo, James O'Leary, Kristin Kreider, et al. 'Following the success of …
The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts: John Cage, Morton
an amazing book that xplores the influences on the four musicians in the early 50s who, because of their deep interest in art, associated closely with the New York School of painters: Varese, Wolpe, Feldman and Cage. Musicians and artists have always…
MSS Meesterd issue 7 (October 2012) zine
the seventh issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general. this MSS was mostly made during a short trip to dui otok and zadar in croatia where decent home made wine and a daily dip in the sea produced a rather ha…
See this sound
An interdisciplinary compendium of audiovisual culture, this very nice art catalogue explores the connections between image and sound in art, media and perception. "Artists today take an engagement with the sound of this world for granted. The former…
vecchia signora che viene aggredita da un cane
a 60 pages zine made as a contribution to the "changez, een belgenshow" exhibtion at 21 rozendaal in een schede/holland. this zine collects the short period right before this exhibition. all work is made or found between november 4th, when tyfus join…
Issue 5. August 2012
the fifth issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general.This issue was made in vienna in the beginning of august, made in between, after, and before swimming, train rides, visits to exhibtions by Burroughs, danie…
The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design
This book introduces a subject that will be new to many: sonic arts. The application of sound to other media (such as film or video) is well known and the idea of sound as a medium in its own right (such as radio) is also widely accepted. However,…
Issue 10. January 2013
the tenth issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general! MSS MEESTERD issue 10 was made in Vienna and on the Rigi mountain in Swiss during the end of last year, it collects mostly landscape drawings i've made …
N°2
bilingual edition (English / French). 21 x 27 cm (softcover). 144 pages (color & b/w ill.)Second issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms, both in contemporary art and hist…
A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond: Captain Beef
A treasure trove of archival articles and interviews with the great one. Hard to find. This book compiles tons of articles interviews, and press clippings about Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. It contains 40 separate pieces of writing, includ…
Endless
"endless is an early catalogue covering carsten nicolai`s art works. the book is one of the first collaborations between rastermusic and noton. 18 p. german/english." (label info)
Beyond utopia
2012. English edition, 18,5 x 24 cm (softcover), 126 pages (b/w ill.). Edited by Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley. Contributions by Maria Fusco, Marie-Anne McQuay, Paul O'Neill, Elizabeth Price, Jane Rendell, Lee Stickells, Robin Wilson. Based on…