Sound Art / Fluxus

2004 release; essential overview of the various fluxus artists’ dabblings w/ sound, covering work recorded between 1961 and 1995. Highlights include: Dick Higgins’ 1961 “in memorian” (”the piece was made by assembling loops of a dub of a phonograph record of 16th century dance music. the dance is heard, simultaneously, up the 16 times as slow as the original, backwards as well as forwards, giving a sort of cinematic effect”). Robert Watts’s 1969 “string record composition” (simply astounding ear…

The most enigmatic and rare of Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen’s albums Satie i høj sø is now re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archeology and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The album collects five central works from Christiansen’s neo-romantic period in the 1970s. This completely overlooked and virtually unheard period in Henning Christiansen’s oevre contains perhaps his most fascinating and beautiful works.For 10 years from 1969-79 Christiansen turne…

Philip Corner is one of the greatest American avant garde composers, an American outsider, a unique philosopher redefining what we call music and art, bringing together different cultures in a new kind of harmony, inviting all of us to experience music as a whole and be a crucial part of it. MoreMars Team can proudly announce the release of this amazing LP with 4 unpublished works spanning 30 years of pure creation. The beauty of these recordings lies on their lo-fi, hissy, raw quality.''Gong (c…

Cassette tape by Danish avantgarde/mail art/fluxus artist Mogens Otto Nielsen. Comes with eight riso-printed inserts, as in the original. Originally released by Danish independent publisher Edition After Hand in 1977. Re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology in collaboration with After Hand Archive by Antipyrine, in 2017.

Recital present a reissue of Dick Higgins's Poems And Metapoems, originally released on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics in 1982. Label head Sean McCann on the reissue: "Since the beginning of Recital, I have been trying to publish the work of Dick Higgins. He is a chief figure in my artistic world, a hero of mine. And now, with the assistance of Charlie Morrow, it has finally happened. The first vinyl album ever published of Higgins! Many know Dick Higgins as the father of intermedi…

Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particul…

With Viking Eggeling : Symphonie diagonale (1921-24), Hans Richter : Rythmus 21 (1921-24), Hans Richter : Fimstudie (1926), Man Ray : Retour à la raison (1923), Fernand Léger & Dupley Murphy : Ballet mécanique (1924), René Clair & Francis Picabia : Entr'acte (1924), Hans Richter : Vormittagsspuk (1927) et Man Ray : Emak Bakia (1926). Contains a 36-page booklet about the films and the Dada movement, with texts by Philippe-Alain Michaud and Hans Richte

One person says, sings or recites in any language. After the first minute, a second person joins the first one and they say, sing or recite in any language. After the two minutes, a third person joins the first one and the second one, and they all say, sing or recite in any language. And so on...The 'Zaj concert for 30 or 60 voices' from Esther Ferrer (member from group ZAJ since 1966) dated at the beginnng of the eighties in Spain under the aegis of Franco's system. The Concert has been…

Collected here are three radioplays from three Fluxus affiliates, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht. Each piece is built from a simple element and features a text recited by the author and sometimes others. Corner's piece is an homage to Erik Satie, built from a sparce two chord piano figure and a recitation that teeters along the stereo field. Knowles' piece, which she delivers along with Brecht, Hanna Higgins, and Jessica Higgins, is built from a long list of bean names on top o…

The definitive vinyl edition of Henning Christiansen's 1985 sound installation at the Rome Zoo, made with Lorenzo Mammi from recordings of the animals, remastered by Rashad Becker, with a 20-page booklet.

Two verions of the 1962 out-there symphonic poem for 100 metronomes, recorded in 1985 and released by the tiny label Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer in 1989. Very rare.

Alga Marghen is proud to present one of the year's most extraordinary and limited releases: the "Oeuvres sonores" box set, a numbered edition of only 29 copies documenting a series of historic events held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This monumental collection of 7 LPs gathers some of the most significant works of international sound avant-garde, originally presented during the Oeuvres sonores presentations at Centre Pompidou. The box includes works by Charlemagne Palestine, Luc Ferrari, Bru…

A seminal figure in the history of 20th century avant-garde, yet sinfully overlooked, Wolf Vostell unleashed ideas - those running wild through his debut LP Dé-coll/age Musik, which remain a slap to the face, more than half a century after they were set into play. A founding member of Fluxus, an early instigator of Happenings, an innovator of video art, Vostell was equally one of the most radical and irreverent practitioners in sound that the world has ever known. First released in 1982, …

Big two-sided invitation card to a 1983 Fluxus exhibition at daadgalerie in Berlin featuring John Cage and Nam June Paik.

Solid copy of John Cage's 1951 first album as a double LP set, it can't get more seminal than this. A piece of history in gatefold heavy cardboard embossed sleeve with stickers.

Terry Fox's first album, from 1982, made for an installation in Lucerne: long piano wires stretched across a room and drummed, pulled, bowed, beaten and scraped, with the room itself as resonator.

A stunning marvel and the first text from the wild and wonderful mind of Henry Flynt, "Three Essays on Spirituality and Art", across 196 pages - issued in a beautifully produced edition of 500 copies - takes on a rarely explored subject in contemporary context, seeded in the anti-authoritarian positions that Flynt laid down at the dawn of Fluxus and has embraced ever since. Radical, vibrant, and fascinating, before us rests an essential illumination of the inner workings of one of the most impor…

Milan Knizak 1979's masterpiece never re-released before. Presented as a gatefold with the original design. Before everyone else - Christian Marclay, Philip Jeck, eRikm, Martin Tétreault, Otomo Yoshihide - there was Milan Knizak. In 1964, Milan Knizak, a member of Fluxus from behind the Iron Curtain, sat down on a sidewalk near the Charles Bridge in Prague, laid down a paper carpet right into the street, and starts tearing pages out of books and burning them. Around the same time, he began to cr…

**One-time vinyl edition of 500 copies with the original inner notes by Daniel Charles and additional notes from Julio Pérez and Eloy Palazón.** Much needed reissue of this enigmatic work of piano minimalism, originally released by Cramps Records in 1977 and originally released by Cramps Records for the hugely influential Nova Musicha series (also including Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Cornelius Cardew, John Cage and many more) and obviously dedicated to Marcel Duchamp (under the guise of Rrose …

**Edition of 200 in gatefold PVC sleeve and booklet** LP reissue of the cassette edition "Solar Music Tent" documenting an installation and performance in Hagen, Germany, originally released by Joe Jones in 1982 in an edition of 10 copies. From the early 1980s onwards, Joe Jones released a handful of self-recorded music machine performances on tape under his own record label "Tone-Deaf Music". Most tapes came in a standard xeroxed sleeve with a handwritten title and instrument listing. A few, in…

Arthur Köpcke (1928-1977) was one of the most relevant German Fluxus artists, a self-taught visionary whose life and work embodied the movement's radical fusion of art and life. In his famous quotation ("I think every night about Addi Køpcke, Joseph"), Joseph Beuys expressed his respect for Köpcke as both person and artist, underscoring the importance of a figure who died in 1977 at the young age of 49. Was Ist Das - Piece No. 2 is a complex fusion of music, poetry, and visual art, representing …

Edition of 200 signed copies.

One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghen's VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use…