Water
Coherent States is excited to announce the release of "Water", a new cassette by the media artist Anna Schimkat. Drawing upon her background in sculpture and music, Schimkat's practice investigates the intersection of sound and spatial perception through immersive installations and performances. Highlighting themes of fluidity and interconnectedness, her work examines natural, social, and cultural phenomena, often within site-specific contexts. "Water", conceived during her residency at Salzamt …
Seven Hats For John Cage
2012 release ** Featuring Bernard Clarke, Stella Luncke & Josef Maria Schäfers, Chris Mann, Goran Vejvoda, Armeno Alberts, Laurent Estoppey & Anne Gillot, Peter Graham.
Dislocation: A Sonic Evocation Of Psychic Displacement
2009 release ** "Bob Rutman was born in Berlin in 1931. His mother was Jewish and had to escape from Germany with her son when the Nazis rose to power. Rutman attended refugee schools in England during the Second World War and settled in the USA after having completed his education in 1950. He worked as a salesman in Texas before enroilling in art school in Mexico City, where he married and fathered a child. Together with his wife and son Rutman returned to the US in 1962 and started an art gall…
Oh! Pebbles / 아 ! 조약돌
Tom Jacques and Eunsil Noh met recently on Tom’s first trip to South Korea. Their meeting was marked by instant musical chemistry and camaraderie. Their duo project, Oh ! Pebbles, consists of their complimentary singular practices in musical improvisation. Their sound centers on fusing minimalistic noise coming from mundane objects triggered by vibrating mini-motors and the re-actualisation of the storied history of voice art in the Pansori tradition. This combination, often supported by harmoni…
Ake
Tip! *180 copies limited edition* Sub jam is proud to announce the release of the first full-length album of the one and only Ake. Ake is a typical self empowered avand-garde artist of today's china. she start to play music with her totally unskilled violin and a desire of being exist and a planty of still time, as the only valuable propoty of many people, in around 2016. she is part of the new/no wave of performance art and the newly reflourishing fluxus spirit. this album is mostly a collectio…
Circles Of Song
For two hours, the public and passersby are invited to freely join the singing improvisations directed by three choir leaders: Liévine Hubert, Tom Mannaerts and Baptiste Vaes.In this moment of collective singing, people who do not know each other will share the same tune, creating spontaneous complicity through rehearsals. Circles of Songs is a performance by Raffaella Crispino, commissioned by BOZAR Center for Fine Arts Brussels, performed on the 21st of December 2022, as part of Rebirth/Third …
RING!
*Limited Edition 150 copies* Ring! is an artist album by Francesco Cavaliere and Dick El Demasiado created during A Week From Monday 2023, an artistic residency organized in Umbria by Viaindustriae Publishing and Holydays Festival. The residency involves a week-long research and production phase, in which the artists divide their time between Foligno's industrial zone and the mountain village of Scopoli with the intent of exploring possible points of contact between visual and sonic artistic lan…
Manifesto Rumoratorio
Hailing from Sicily is the duo of Pietro La Rocca & Patrycja Stefanek. We last heard from Pietro via the OPER'azinoe Nafta lp, Cavuru from a decade ago. But this is in stark contrast to that. Utilizing delays, toys, voice, guitars, tapes & objects, TR conjures up a rabble as singular as Cromagnon, ONO, or any other of the One Percenters you wanna rat out. I released this lp knowing it would speak to practically no one at the time, but it is a grower, I promise you that. IT HAD TO EXIST. Fans of …
The Sounds of Sound Sculpture
Tip! In 1973, the Sound Sculpture Show took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery. An LP audio catalogue (with a booklet) of the exhibition, entitled “The Sounds of Sound Sculpture”, was released in 1975 under the supervision of the Canadian sound sculptor John Grayson and US composer David Rosenboom. Grayson had edited an important early book on the field, “Sound Sculpture”. The LP included rare takes of Rosenboom and Grayson, amongst others, playing famous pieces by pioneering sound sculptors inc…
Meelkop - Hohmann
Tip! *111 copies limited edition in special packaging* "Last year, Martijn Hohmann bumped into Roel Meelkop (Thu20, Kappotte Muziek) at a concert, and as two like-minded musicians would do, let’s work together on music. Hohmann mailed drones and field recordings to Meelkop, who did his magic (as in processing and adding sounds of his doing). Upon completion, a second round of new sounds and new reworkings resulted in four pieces of music, each around 15 minutes, so a solid hour of music. I have …
Music for Metaal 2024
*Limited edition in tin can with attached razor blade* "For reasons not of general interest, I re-discovered Vivenza’s music last year or so when I got some of the old vinyl and a CD again, and I played these with much enjoyment. I don’t know why Jean-Marc Vivenza never released any new music beyond 1994, but I am sure he has his reasons (a study in esoteric and philosophic movements may be the answer). The exciting aspect of his music was his recordings of machines, which he didn’t link to the …
Electric Totems
"Surrealistic games helped us to compose this album: the collective collage in the two longest pieces of the album, the exquisite corpse in the central short pieces, and in all, the automatic writing whose musical equivalent could well be free improvisation.
In the scorching heat of a Valencian August, we raised two electric totem poles. Dr Truna's took the form of his cosmic bull, a great roaring and improvising sculpture; mine, equipped with blowers, was made for the occasion and then dismantl…
Alluvial
*2024 stock* Crafted throughout 2004 and early 2005, Rösner’s original source material stems largely from instruments (guitar, percussion, analog electronics), and through his detailed processing and production methods he’s been able to counterpoint a desire for raw digital overtones against earthy acoustic qualities.
The results are simply a pleasure for the ears – course passages of hiss and electronic splutter give way to lilting moments of sheer melodic beauty. With strong humming bass heavy…
Jenseits Der Wand
*300 copies limited edition* "Jenseits der Wand" is the latest CD-release by Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artists Daniela Fromberg and Stefan Roigk, which results from two walk-in sound installations, which were realized in 2021 and 2022.
While one focuses on the diverse acoustic dimension of urban life with all its obscure and often indecipherable noises behind your own four walls, the other deals with the specific soundscape of a recycling center, which is created from the supposedly worthl…
Landscapes of Fear
A metal fence, about 6 metres high, in the background. A group of people sitting closely aligned on the upper edge, detained by the presence of the border police. A strip of bushy vegetation for sight protection in front of the fence, a bit farther aside some taller palm trees.An ascending hill behind the fence, dry grass, rock, soil. The well cared for, wavy green of a golf course in the front, two people dressed predominantly in white standing on the lawn, one of them is about to swing the gol…
Density
Leo Okagawa is a sound artist based in Tokyo, Japan. He makes multilayered collage works from elements of recorded sounds, analog machine’s noise, and simple electric tones.He has also been working on an improvised performance since 2017. Using some electronic devices, he explores the structural possibilities of sound through the combination of simple tones. In 2022, he started his own record label "zappak", and has been publishing music by other artists on CD.
Fragile Fragile Fragile
*Limited Edition 30 Copies* Audio-document recorded by Andrea De Franco during the making of the visual work “Fragile Fragile.” Recorded on December 15, 2023 at Southeast Exposure - Conversano (Ba).
Dog Wearing Dracula Fangs
Syed Kamran Ali (Hunter Gracchus, Harappian Night Recordings) introduces ‘Dog Wearing Dracula Fangs’; the first album from his newly minted Fish el Fish project. As if to kick the existing ideas of his Harappian Night Recordings work into all new orbits of singularity, ‘Dog Wearing Dracula Fangs’ wrenches a dense throng of voices, electronics and busted instrumentation thrashing and wailing through filters of avant-psychedelic glimmer, mock exotica and atrophied, fusion-esque sheen. A dry, myste…