New Arrivals
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 …
Exposition of Music
In 1963, Nam June Paik created a new genre of exhibition with his first solo show, The Exposition of Electronic Music-Electronic Television at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, West Germany. Fresh from his studies with John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen…
Issue 6. September 2012
the sixth issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general.Every visit to antwerp by the icelandic showmaster Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson in the last few years has been spiced by up and down outbursts of colaborative…
Rock/music writings
The first collection in English of Dan Graham’s influential body of writing on Rock and Roll music. Stretching from the late 60s to the late 80s, Rock/Music Writings contains the following 13 essays, most of which are currently out-of-print or see…
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…
Spaces Speak, are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architectur
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater. We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dar…
27 December 2007
"On the cover: Celebration. Features: It's Coming Down Baby!: Erik Davis catches up with Sir Richard Bishop -- gypsy picatrix, ex-Sun City Girl and guitarist extraordinaire; The Way of the Riff: Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny and Om's Al Ci…
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…
Unconstituted praxis
Three years ago we suggested to Mattin the possibility of publishing a book containing all his texts to date. Mattin was a little reluctant since much of the material was already available online in one form or another. However, at that stage this…
Issue 3. June 2012
"the third issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general.this third issue collects 20 full colour silkscreens of photographs and photo collages, of recent and/or good times, some may recognize the likes of Vincen…
N°5
5th issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...): Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Erik Bünger, Destroy A…
Noisers
Tracce, percorsi e geografie del nuovo rumore USA: All’alba dei 2000, l’universo delle musiche indipendenti americane è stato invaso da un’inattesa, temibile generazione di estremisti sonici. Nomi come Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, sono solo…
MSS Meesterd issue 8 (November 2012) zine
the 8th issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general. while cleaning up my archive for the exhibtion "forward in time (15 jaar ultra eczema)" at lls 387 in antwerp, i found back a mountain of drawings my parents…
Scultori di suono
"Scultori di suono: percorsi nella sperimentazione musicale contemporanea" raccoglie una serie di percorsi attraverso i grandi cambiamenti avvenuti nella sperimentazione non ortodossa e nel modo di fare e di pensare il suono negli anni Novanta: la gl…
cover art
amazing monograph produced in 500 hand-numbered copies with a short essay on Han Bennink and his relationship to art and then a description, accompanied by colour illustrations, of all the covers he has produced for ICP and other labels between 1967 …
Issue 4. July 2012
the fourth issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general.This fourth issue collects 20 pages, a bunch of mat inverted purple music paper and a bunch of raw green glossy messyness!the golden cover portraits are ma…
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 …
N°3
As a cultural clue and a discipline subject to codes other than those of the visual arts, music turns out to be a medium and a bundle of eclectic references based on which it seems possible to spell out alternative conceptions of the world, and cast …
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…
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 …