300 Copies. Disallow is a landmark collaboration that bridges the worlds of conceptual art, performance, and experimental sound. The late Vito Acconci—pioneering figure of body art, performance, and radical architecture—joins forces with New Humans, the New York-based collective led by Howie Chen and Mika Tajima, known for their confrontational installations and sonic interventions. This LP captures a live performance at the Swiss Institute in New York, where Acconci’s unmistakable voice and presence are set against a backdrop of grinding electronics, feedback, and industrial rhythms.
The album unfolds as a tense dialogue between text and sound. Acconci’s words—by turns poetic, aggressive, and self-reflexive—are delivered with a physicality that recalls his early performance pieces, while New Humans generate a shifting field of noise, drones, and metallic textures. The result is a work that is both immersive and unsettling, blurring the boundaries between music, language, and space. Disallow stands in the lineage of experimental collaborations such as Laurie Anderson’s multimedia works, the sonic assaults of Glenn Branca, and the text-sound experiments of Henri Chopin. Yet, the chemistry here is wholly unique: Acconci’s presence transforms the sound, while the group’s relentless energy pushes his words into new territory. The LP is accompanied by documentation of the performance and is pressed in a limited edition for collectors of avant-garde sound and art.
For fans of conceptual art, performance, and the intersection of language and noise, Disallow is an essential document—one that captures a singular moment in the ongoing dialogue between art and sound.
