New Arrivals
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 material was both distributed and disorganised. With the help of Anthony Iles this material has been revised, edited, and is presented here alongside newly commissioned materials. This book contains texts, interviews and responses to performance…
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 kept from when i was 9 years old.i completely forgot about these, obsessed by skateboarding i aparantly didn't draw anything else but skateboard gear, ramps, tricks and a lot of punk looking dudes..also the commercials of skateboard brands such as "…
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 and phenomena is addressed in 35 dictionary entries, and in-depth essays treat overarching aesthetic issues, while individual works--including projects by John Cage and Chicks on Speed--are represented in audiovisual documentation and scientific …
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 happy and colourful issue, it's also made in conjunction with the "rond de put" exhibition, currated by Johan Pas, Christine Clinckx and Kris Van Dessel in Ekeren, a village near the turd where i grew up. therefor i also published flyers for punkshows …
Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
One of the most important, and clearly the most culturally and theoretically informed, of any of the major studies on minimalism. No other book comes remotely close to establishing the historical links between early postmodernist Euro-American social changes. Fink's scholarship is as impeccable as his readings of minimalist compositions are stunningly insightful. Not least, the book is beautifully written."--Richard Leppert, editor of "T. W. Adorno, Essays On Music" "A model of interdisciplinary…
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 All Monsters, Julien Discrit & Thomas Dupouy, Rashid Johnson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Claude Lévêque, Haroon Mirza, Kristin Oppenheim, Katie Paterson, Ugo Rondinone, Cauleen Smith, artistic contributions by Meris Angioletti, Isabelle Giovacchini and Joachim …
El Camino del Hardcore
In 2009 we started working with the Gæoudjiparl on a publication featuring some of his graphic notation work. Almost three years in the making, this epic work has become a 192 page long book which includes tons of challenging theory, brutally detailed illustration, mind-bending scores, obscure links, a long conversation between the Goodiepal and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, and loads of Scandinavian fun to further expand the Goodiepal's never-ending descent into the abyss of Radical Computer Music. …
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 Vincent Snoop, Spencer Clark, Tazartez Ghedalia, Vaast Colson, Guy Rombouts, Jah Matthé, Chris Corsano, Hendrik Hegray, LVMM or Peter Fengler within this blurryness.this issue was silkscreened by Gerard Herman, lay out by Jef Cuypers, limited and numbered …
Sound
ound is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art. The ‘sonic turn’ in recent art reflects a wider cultural awareness that sight no longer dominates our perception or understanding of contemporary reality. The background buzz of myriad mechanically reproduced sounds increasingly mediates our lives. Tuning in to this incessant auditory stimulus some of our most influential artists have investigated the corporeal, cultural and political resonance. In tandem with r…
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 a critical eye over certain mechanisms at work in our societies. So-called 'popular' forms of music represent an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, whether they are raising the issue of their fetishization and their museification, or e…
Issue 9. December 2012
The 9th issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general. There's no reason to look so surprised, really there isn't! and yet, the december issue of Mss Meesterd is filled with found images of lady's that seem so surprised it can't be good for their own health. it might be because of the presence of the bald schobbejak on the cover. the back cover is a dedication to Ulrike Lindmayr, to thank her for opening her living room to 6 weeks of weekly shows at l…
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 drawing sessions.This issue of mss meesterd collects over 200 colab drawings by dennis tyfus and sigtryggur Berg sigmarsson, which were done in 2 days! this issue is way thicker than the other issues of mss meesterd, it's printed on newspaper paper …
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 made by Mima Schwahn and the inside cover is tripple stamped and hand numbered!lay out by jef cuypers, offset printed and limited to 200 copies
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine \'79-\'83
Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late 70s, TV and DS set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on all they arbitrarily loved or hated in the music communities in the US and abroad. In laughably minuscule press runs by today s standards, T & G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in oth…
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 Cisneros manifest music, vibration and camaraderie. Ben can truly call him Al.; Not All Humans Are Bad: I.F. 'Ian' Svenonius files a field report on Baltimore psychedelic soul rock n' roll band Celebration; The Sodfather: Daniel Chamberlain talks s…
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 dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces acquire symbolic meaning. Social relation…
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 la punta dell’iceberg di un movimento ramificato all’inverosimile, tra discografie in cdr, festival, fumetti, performance, concerti negli scantinati e inattese canonizzazioni mainstream. In queste pagine si raccontano le storie, i protagonisti, i lu…
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 in the mountains, or at least on top of one mountain, covered in snow and in snot. it possesses a rather frozen feel over all, printed mostly in deep blue on jan matthé's risograph machine! 20 pages, limited to 120 copies" (label info)
Issue 12. March 2013
the twelve issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general, this issue is enetirely made of photobooth portrait photos
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, including Lester Bangs original reviews of Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby, interviews and articles from such diverse sources as Rolling Stone magazine, ZigZag, Hot Wacks, and New York Rocker, and transcripts of interviews from Late Night W…