Concerto For Modern, Movie, And Pop Music For Ten Instruments And Voice
Artist's book / exhibition catalogue and audio CD published in conjunction with "Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice" a concert by Stephen Prina held at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 18, 2010 and a screening of two films by Prina held March 19, 2010.. For 30 years, Stephen Prina (born 1954) has enjoyed a simultaneous career as a visual artist and as an acclaimed musician, both under his own name and with The Red Krayola. Having kept his artistic int…
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…
Wind (Artist' Book)
English/Japanese. Small naked speakers, iron plates, glass plates, and sand were some of the materials Rolf Julius used to create a sound space. The sky-like tranquil space was filled with whispering electronic sounds that somewhat resembled the songs of crickets.
Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VIII
* 2023 Stock * Exhibition catalog published by Mela Foundation presenting Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VIII. It features large-scale multimedia installations including Environmental Composition 2014, an installation version of Color (CNN), and a sound environment, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi improvising over the 77 sine wave frequencies that are imperceptibly changing. The relationship of their improvisatio…
Curtis Cuffie (Book)
Curtis Cuffie (1955–2002) was an artist who lived and worked in and around the East Village from the mid-1980s until his untimely death in the early 2000s. He moved to New York from Hartsville, South Carolina, as a teenager and lived unhoused for long stretches of his adult life. Cuffie found local notoriety for the way he adorned the streets of downtown New York, collecting what the city provided, often sifting trash to stage on-the-spot sculptures along the Bowery and Cooper Square. His arrang…
Inaudible, Invisible (Book)
An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s. This book is part of a series of monographic publications co-published with the Espace multimédia Gantner devoted to women artists in connection with technology. Christina Kubisch (born 1948 in Bremen, lives and works in Hoppegarten, Germany) studied painting, music and elect…
Seven Common Ways of Disappearing
Andrius Arutiunian’s debut album »Seven Common Ways of Disappearing« was first conceived as an installation for the Armenia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. The Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer uses hybrid forms of music, focusing on sonic vernaculars, hypnotic musical forms, and aural cosmologies. Arutiunian is known to work with installations, sound objects, and time-based collaborations with ensembles and performers. The piece on this record was written for two musicians, a ret…
Catorce Reflexiones Sobre el Fin
** Edition of 300. Comes with green inner sleeve ** Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin (Fourteen Reflections On The End) originated from an installation exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019. Fourteen magnetic bodies of tape that dialogued with the fourteen pieces of electroacoustic music now contained in this album composed from the sound anthology of Angélica Castelló. Thus, Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin is a complex piece consisting of multiple parts that, a…
Pintura Música Arquitectura
*Massive 3LP edition with Hardcover book, nearly 400 pages* Drawings, LPs and an architectural survey by Mexico City–based artist, architect and musician Lucio Muniain. This volume presents three bodies of work by Mexico City–based architect, painter and double bassist Lucio Muniain (born 1969): blue-and-black graphic drawings from 2001 to the present; three LPs from his band Another; and a selection of 30 architectural projects.
Art's 1.000.060th Birthday (Tape)
** Limited edition of 50 ** Art's 1.000.060th Birthday. HOK Gallery in The Hague, The Netherlands held a one-hour only Flux Shop event on January 17th, the noise of which was broadcasted worldwide and is contained in this cassette tape.
Liner notes: You wouldn't give it to him, seeing how alive and kicking ART still is but yessirree, according to FLUXUS's accurately tracked calender tuesday January the 17th, 2023 ART became 1.000.060 years pld. All over the world art projects burst forth, as…
Seven Sounds, Seven Circles
* 2023 stock, reduced price. Sold out at the source, last copies around * Mindblowing artist's book that houses seven CDs that were the audio accompaniment to German conceptual artist Lothar Baumgarten's 2009 exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. Each disc contains an hour of audio recorded on a remote peninsula in the Hudson River, the shrieking and croaking of native fauna broken by the occasional Amtrak train. The book opens with photographs and an essay by the artist
Waters' Witness (Book)
An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.
Exhibiting SoundArt (Book)
Museum directors, scholars, journalists and editors explore the variety of relations between sound as an object of investigation. Issues of sound as a medium of art and culture and possibilities and conditions of exhibiting sound art will be discussed. Sound art has become an integral part of art and music festivals for several decades, and is shown in museums, experimental venues and public spaces. Sound art requires a special approach in the way it is curated, conceived, produced and reenacted…
Labyrinth Of The Inner Ear
Tip! ** Full colour 6 page dvd-type embossed digipak. 300 copies. In Terry Fox's own words: "For the exhibition "Sonambiente", I will produce a new audio work for compact disc. The title of this work will be "Labyrinth of the inner ear" and it will be recorded in Berlin on the 14th and 15th of April 2006. The compact disc will be produced directly after the recording process and presented, during sonambiente, in a room of the former polish embassy. This will be a kind of "drone" work consisting …
Shadows and Reflections
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 100 copies.* Shadows and Reflections develops from an audiovisual collaboration between Monty Adkins and the painter Andy Fullalove exhibited at Bradford Cathedral in October 2016. The exhibition comprised a series of fourteen paintings and sound that responded to the newly restored altarpiece by William Morris as well as the priceless stained glass windows in the Cathedral made my Morris’s company, which include designs by Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-J…
Left / Right (Book)
Peter Brötzmann's catalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey July 27 – August 17, 2013 Includes an essay by Jim Dempsey
Ceramics
Following last year's presentation of Tori Kudo's ceramics at our Brooklyn gallery space, Blank Forms publishes the exhibition's accompanying limited-edition catalog. With images captured on film by musician and photographer Lary 7, Tori Kudo: Ceramics documents the work displayed in the artist's first exhibition in the United States. Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances and available exclusively at Blank Forms, this hardcover art book features thirty color photographs of the vessels with Kudo's comme…
Genkyo - Yokoo Tadanori Ii Works (Book)
Tadanori Yokoo held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1966 in Tokyo. His revolutionary work, which oscillates between conceptual art and pure design, rapidly gained attention in the international art world. With a signature style of colourful psychedelia and pastiche, he engages a wide spectrum of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and elsewhere. The subject matter often clashes with what seems a nonsensical collage of images. ‘Genkyo’ is an exuberant, far-reaching anthology…
Gaia (Book+LP)
A multi-format (a vinyl LP, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. We would all like to end up reconciled with the world, to know what world we live in and consequently what life is. Meteors have fascinated the human race since they were first spotted in the night sky. But without science and space exploration to aid understanding of what these amounts of rock and ice are,…
My Niece's Pierced Knees (7")
When visiting Antwerp last summer, Uncle Jim (aka Alvarius B), recorded a rant for the invitation card single that anounces Dennis Tyfus' exhibition 'My Niece's Pierced Knees', opening on October 27th at Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. This card single was send out for free to everyone in the museum's mailing list.