A War Of Decibels
Tip! *2025 stock* The fourth release on Flatlines is ‘A War Of Decibels’, a 43 minute audio essay by Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak. Nowak is most well-known for his large-scale sound installations, especially Panzer (2011) and the Mantis (2019), dramatic and beautifully constructed sound systems installed on tracked vehicles which have hosted a range of DJs over the years such as Dj Rashad & DJ Spinn, Scratcha DVA, Ikonika and Kode9.The audio essay builds on the themes of his 2020 interdisciplin…
Ninulla
Edition of 100 copies. Lullabies wrote and sang for, with, and by their son Arion. Composed and recorded by Jonida Prifti and Stefano Di Trapani. Produced by Antonio Giannatonio and Acchiappashpirt. Edited by Antonio Giannatonio. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover artwork by Re Delle Aringhe. Jonida Prifti: vocals, toy keyboards. Stefano Di Trapani: gears, field recordings, Casiotone, piano, vocals. Special vocals: Arion. Includes "Ai miei figli e ai miei nipoti", a poem by Dania De Vincenzi.
Gelb
Limited anniversary edition. Embossed, reverse board, hand numbered on limited-edition yellow vinyl. 500 copies available. Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joach…
Sounds Like Work
*150 copies limited release* Sounds Like Work, a long-lost soundscape composition by South Australian composer and scholar, Chester Schultz, is made available by De la Catessen Records, for the first time since its private cassette release in 1978. Drawing from material recorded in late 1976 in the workplaces of members of the Maylands Church of Christ congregation, subsequently edited at the electronic music studio of Adelaide University in early 1978, Sounds Like Work has an oddly contemporary…
Tapes (3CD Box)
Angus MacLise, the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, was a poet, composer, and a member of The Theatre of Eternal Music alongside La Monte Young. The "Tapes" 3CD Box is the first-ever reissue of a 3-cassette compilation that Pleasure Editions originally released in 2015, limited to only 100 copies. The 3CD box set comes with a miniature poster and track lists, and each CD has a paper sleeve that reproduces the original cassette card artwork.
This comprehensive 3CD box set is over three …
Bio Sonic Agencies
In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? What is the materiality of sound? How does the materiality of sound affect listening? What resistances can be configured from working with biomaterials and sound? Do these bio_sonic_agencies open up other possible spaces that do not exist in the visual regime? The radio work Bio_Sonic_Agencies follows such questioning through a focus on matters of air. Air is highlighted as an elemental force that moves across human …
E' Vago Fior del Tempo
Tip! * 200 copies, 2nd edition* The four pieces on this Small Cruel Party record all date from the late 1980s and predate any officially released material : "Cords" was entirely realized in Chicago, and the others realized, or at least finished, upon arriving in Seattle in 1990. The pieces were originally privately released on cassette in micro-editions of 5 to 7 copies and given to friends.
In 2009/2010 Petri Supplies, which had a complete set of those early privately released tapes, rereleas…
El Artilugio
Building upon a standing commitment to the work of artists who worked in international obscurity under the shadow of 1960s and '70s fascist Spain, Alga Marghen returns with "El Artilugio”, a never before issued body of work by Manuel Calvo. Bridging the contexts of installation, sound art, sound poetry, and experimental music / noise, its stunning two sides - issued in a limited edition of 200 copies on vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve with an accompanying large format 8-page booklet with in-d…
The Tower (The City)
First collaborative work between Vanessa Rossetto and Lionel Marchetti. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, designed by Matthew Revert. Six-panel digipak.
Zapping (Station To Station)
Leo Okagawa is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Japan. For this album Leo Okagawa uses field recordings from various metro stations during the quarantine period & sounds by radio stations.
From the Archives Vol. 7
Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series with two readings by Judith Malina of the Living Theatre, a performance by F.A. Nettelbeck with Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb and recordings from an event at the Wichita Art Museum with Charles Plymell and Bob ranaman.
Installations
** 2021 Stock. Book (24 pages 15x15cm) + CD. Limited edition of 250 copies. Texts Français / English. ** Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and mixes used for the 4 sound installations. Surface-témoin / Show surface (2005) by Jean-Luc Guionnet & Eric La Casa. De la dilation du paysage / Enlarging the landscape (2006) by Michaële-Andréa Schatt & Eric La Casa. Double exposition / Double exposure (2010) by Seijiro Murayama & Eric La Casa. Tentative d’épuisement (sonore) d’un lieu / Attem…
Ali's Smile
This record is divided into two sections. The first part is the title track and takes up most of side one. Ali's Smile was first published in 1971 and was privately released as a one-sided LP, in an edition of 99 copies. It came in a plain sleeve with a hardback copy of the spoken text, and was sold exclusively through Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, UK. Bill Butler, the bookshop owner, was still paying off a viciously punitive fine and associated court costs imposed in 1968 after a guilty verdict…
Music is not language. Neither is it painting. Just music.
A posthumous duo LP featuring text and music by Conrad Schnitzler, music by Wolfgang Seidel, and artwork by Matt Howarth! Conrad Schnitzler and Wolfgang Seidel have been musical collaborators since the early 1970s when Seidel performed in Schnitzler's free-form group Eruption that had been founded as a successor to Kluster and featured a revolving cast of members. In the 1980s, they produced the duo albums Consequenz, Consequenz II and Con 3 where Seidel performed under his alias Wolf Sequenza.
PM016 - 2020 Remaster
* Edition of 300 * Arbitrary presents the 2020 remaster & vinyl reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson. Originally released as limited edition C30 tape on Plant Migration Records in 2014, the four pieces on Nielsen’s first solo release are based on short orchestral and percussive samples manipulated by various synthesizer modules and effects processors. Variations are created by emphasizing …
Mailbomb Vol 2
Second volume of Mailbomb artbook feat art and music from Smell & Quim, Expose Your Eyes, Alena Krivilla, Post-Materialists, Dee Dee Darkfolk, Paulie Shankwank, Ratward, Sam Gas Can and more. Book came with free 5" lathe cut vinyl and a tape. Also came with bonus newsletter and stickers, prints, etc. Only ten packs to go.
Matters of Listening
A sound composition based on a workshop focusing on questions of sound, listening, collaboration, and community. Matters of Listening took place as a workshop and public event held at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, on June 30, 2019. Focusing on questions of sound, listening, collaboration, and community, the workshop developed as an explorative gathering for sharing, discussing, and making together: to pull from the closets and backrooms various materials and ob…
Mail Bomb
Limited edition of 150 copies An art zine containing over 40 pages of riso-printed, silk-screened and lino-cut works by various artists, coming with a compilation cassette. Artwork – Evil Moisture, Lee Ranaldo, Ludo Mich
Ghostly Agents - Special signed edition
**Special edition of 50 copies on blue vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. Comes with a signed and numbered print.** John Driscoll is a composer who is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE) and collaborated on David Tudor’s Rainforest V starting in 1973. He has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe with CIE, David Tudor, Phil Edelstein, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Maida Withers & the Dance Construction Co. and as a solo performer. His work has focused on robotic instruments, music for …
Das Typische Ding - Reenactment I
** 18x18cm box-set, 300 copies. ** Suezan presents the CD version of the latest recordings by Die Tödliche Doris after a silent period of decades. Die Tödliche Doris are back, no kiddin': in the sound spectrum of 31 contemporary dildos and vibrators, we are residing in 2019 with a resurrection of The Deadly Doris. She now appears to us as a performer, musician and instrument in one. Doris has never been that close to us. Tabea Blumenschein, a band member of the first hour, made illustrations of …