Rare Originals
Inventionen: Zytoplasma / Maa'ts / Fractal
Last copies of this 1985 release. Edition RZ, the legendary German contemporary/electronic music label founded by Robert Zank, which has presented numerous experimental works by John Cage, David Tudor, and Iannis Xenakis, released the first of the Invention series album in 1985. The LP comprises three compositions by the following artists: Takehito Shimazu, a Japanese composer who taught alongside Korean contemporary musician Isang Yun at the Berlin Art School; Boguslav Schaeffer, a Polish compo…
Wie Das Wispern Des Windes ... / Like The Whispering Of The Wind...
*2023 stock* If we can agree on 1969 as the year of Cluster's inception, then Roedelius needed a good 17 years to discover the aural qualities and musical beauty of the grand piano for his own compositions. Rarely has the title of a Roedelius album so poetically and yet so accurately described its content. On "Like The Whispering Of The Wind" from 1986 Roedelius expands his Études towards amorphousness, then suddenly a disarmingly familiar melody appears, from a completely different source perha…
Paesaggi Intravisti
**Original 1986 copies of this obscure classic. Few copies available, still sealed **The sole solo release by Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza and post-MEV ensemble "Elettronica Viva" member Walter Branchi, "composizione elettronica realizzata in occasione della mostra "Il Luogo Del Lavoro" XVII Triennale di Milano." with Mauro Bortolotti - a student & assistant of Pietro Grossi at the latter's Florence studio. Branchi jointly founded the Studio R7 in 1967 w/ Franco Evangelisti, Gin…
Dimensions
"Sealed, original copies of this wonderful 1986 private-press home-studio Electronic Music outing, direct from the artist. While reissues and contemporary efforts unquestionably dominate the the current landscape of recorded music, among its more fascinating and rarely mentioned objects, are warehouse finds. These records, due to lack of demand upon their initial release, have lingered for decades on shelves and pallets, in closets and under beds, waiting for a new generation of sonic explorers…
Six Ateliers - Concerts Jacques Lejeune
Late 80's original copies of the Ateliers de Musique Êlectroacoustique (Studios for Electroacoustic Music) program, designed by Jacques Lejeune himself, and ealized in conjunction with Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). 24-page book, large size, with original texts in French, many pictures, list of works and so on
Variations on a Natural Theme for Orchestra (Book)
* Rare original artist' book - Music scores and instructions for performance * Variations on a Natural Theme (1982), as in Dick Higgins words, is a large orchestral work, in some ways a companion to the Ten Ways, since this time it uses gamuts (in this case selected by the individual musicians) and photo derivations made from a female model; she was insistent that she not be recognizable, since she was a teacher and was afraid that it would be damaging to her professionally if it were known that…
Sonata for Prepared Piano (Book)
*Rare original arist' book - Music scores and instruction for performance* Sonata for Prepared Piano (1982) is a short work which, again, uses photoderivations as parts of the notation—this time nature with incomplete figure photographs, mostly obscured by the natural objects around them. (Dick Higgins, "The Strategy of Each of My Books" from Horizons, 1984)
"Four movements make up this thirteen minute work. Each uses a very different method of interpreting its materials, a set of four phot…
Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird for Violin and Harpsichord (Book)
Rare original artist' book - Music scores and instructions for performance Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird (1981)...is a playful variation on the name of a poem by Wallace Stevens whose work I have always admired, though, goodness knows, there is no modern poet more different from myself. This is a piece for violin and harpsichord; the harpsichord part is developed in “live time” (that is, during the performance) from what the violinist is doing, according to a set of rules. The violinist uses mu…
Twenty-Six Mountains for viewing the Sunset from (Book)
Rare original artist' book - Music scores and instructions for performance ** Twenty-Six Mountains for Viewing the Sunset From (1981) is for a small ensemble, including three dancers. It is a different kind of notation, not using photographs but using an indication of what kinds of tex- tures and patterns are desired. The title comes from a trip I took late one night with a teenager from Vermont, who brought me to some of his favorite places to view the sunset from; it was magical evening…
Song for Any Voice(s) and Instrument(s) (Book)
* Rare original artist' book - Music scores and instructions for performance * This score by Dick Higgins consists of letters and arrows arrayed across one sheet of musical notation paper. A cover sheet provides the instructions for the four-minute, fifty-two second performance, stating that any number of people may interpret the score simultaneously if they do so independently of one another. Guidelines for interpretation are fairly specific, but the piece is different every time it is perform…
Hybrid Vigor
This one is a bit unique - we have sourced ~700 original sealed copies of a rare 1984 release by Myles Davis and Ray Herrmann, entitled Hybrid Vigor. It's an amazing LP - dubby, groove centered, and sometimes ambient tracks recorded in a basement studio in Connecticut between 1981 and 1984. Highly tipped for fans of Talking Heads, Savant, Sly & Robbie, Laurie Anderson, Bill Laswell / Material, or King Sunny Adé.' - RVNG
Black (Red) Book
German/English. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 16 through December 15, 2000. Essay by director Regina Coppola. Includes numerous color illustrations, biographical information, list of previous exhibitions, and a checklist.
Für den Blick Nach Unten (Book)
German/English. First edition. Softcover. 36 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 11 through April 22, 2007. From the exhibition press release Rolf Julius is one of the most important representatives of contemporary sound art. His nuanced, mostly small-format sound installations explore the visibility of sounds, the audibility of images and the aesthetic and ontological potential of silence in the most subtle way. Since the 1960s, Julius, a constant border crosser between music a…
Mag Magazin 6
Super rare one. An audio-cassette magazin published by Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, between 1979 and 1982. The cassette-edition contains a wide range of sound-works by Austrian and international artists. Contains approximately 8″ x 5.75″ double-sided insert with photos and notes in German
Iter Magneticum
Iter Magneticum is a selection of possible soundwalks which Christina Kubisch has made for this tape. The music was created both electronically and acoustically, using recordings of natural sounds as well as computer technology. Her basic idea is to create sound landscapes, where the concepts of electronic nature and natural electronics are no more opposite, but form a synthesis.
On Air
Original tape, documenting an installation taking up the medieval town of Gargonza in Tuscany, On Air was a part of Christina Kubisch's series of sound art pieces concerned with electromagnetic induction, as conducted through specially modified headphones worn by the listener. Participants would then walk around Kubisch's environment picking up on the various signals hanging in the air
Night Flights
Brand new, original copy of this mid 80s LP, recorded during a residency in Milan, Italy. Utilizing all manner of compositional strategies, experimental recording techniques, and homemade electronics, Christina Kubisch's music is an effusive blend of rigorous compositional logic and inspired improvisation--at times recalling the multi-disciplinary theatrics of composer Robert Ashley
Two And Two
Sealed Copy. Legendary debut from sound artists Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi mixing sound and visual elements, a seminal LP record originally published on the hugely influential Multhipla, run by Gianni Sassi (also founder of Cramps Records) in conjunction with Fluxus collector and editor Gino Di Maggio. Two And Two was a live performance for two performers (Kubisch and Plessi), two video cameramen, a wall of monitors and uncommon objects and instruments. Throughout the performances, pe…
Sakrale Räume Sacred Spaces 1985-1997 (postcards book)
*2024 Stock * Edition of 50 copies, containing an original drawing by the artist, numbered and signed. Christina Kubisch Sakrale Räume Sacred Spaces 1985-1997. Booklet and set of 15 postcards with images from installations. Text is in German and English
Lautlos (Book)
Hardcover, 126 pages. English/German. This publication is an encounter between the works of two artists from different generations, who never met personally although both spent time in Berlin. Rolf Julius, who was born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven and died in 2011 in Berlin, worked in the tradition of a "music for eyes and ears." Nina Canell, born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, belongs to a younger generation of artists whose three-dimensional work has an emphatically non-monumental quality. With an acut…