Sound Art / Music & Sound Studies

Drawing from notions of "bad poetry" as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger. Central to Hamburger's practice and engagement with poetry is a focus on writing as the e…

* French Edition * A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives. Alessandro Bosetti …

111 cyclists reach famed opera house Teatro Colón to welcome Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), one of the great composers of the 20th Century, who was born in Argentina, but left the country and settled in Germany in 1957. However, his adventurous music re…

Based on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including Copenhagen,…

* English Edition * Dirty Ear Report #3 documents a collective workshop by sound artists and researchers working in the fields of experimental dramaturgy, sonic social engagement, and voice studies. Representing the sixth in the series of the Dirty E…

**Edition of 100 copies, signed & stamped by Wolfgang Müller** "Music lessons from the Walther-von-Goethe-Foundation: with nightingale and frog songs, calls from the crane, a fantasy song by Ahmad Hamad, a song by Tabea Blumenschein, a music box and …

Over the years, it has become clear that the “thing” that continues to captivate us is in flux, as are its possible definitions. Various contributions to the current issue of this magazine attest to this permanent development, too. And whatever our “…

**2020 stock. 560 pages!** The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.  Utopia belongs to those concepts that haunt both the history of ideas and the history of artistic practice. In this fourth issue,Tac…

Hardback cover. Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the…

First monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound arts (audio CD included).

Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, and what in turn dre…

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier. Sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier (born 1977 in Ottawa, Canada, lives and works in Montreal, Québec) creates audiovisual perform…

A proposal for a radio project on the diffusion of world music in the digital age, focusing on the concept of “seismographic sound”. The publication Music as Seismographic Sound / Tracking Down the Idea of Cultural Translation is a written radio pitc…

Listening Patterns is dedicated to facing the great diversity of discourses on listening in today's literature and to proposing a possible key of interpretation. The book develops the analysis of listening, in its most general sense, in three parts w…

**Hard-cover edition** A meditation on what was lost—and on what is worth preserving—in the movement away from analog music and culture.  Although digital media have created new possibilities for music making and sharing, they have also given rise to…

Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades.  Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works …

Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Ta…

Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building…

Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. I…

Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has alwa…

The second revised edition of the book profiles over 130 vinyl collectors, featuring a foreword by the RZA and interviews with Questlove, Gilles Peterson, Four-Tet, the Gaslamp Killer, and more. (This edition has 20 more pages than the first edit…

This bilingual book, part of the project Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil, brings together a curated selection of archival documentation alongside newly commissioned texts and artistic contributions. Through historical research, essays, and visual…

The complete, definitive and never-before-published catalogue of Hipgnosis, Vinyl • Album • Cover • Art finally does justice to the work of the most important design collective in music history, which, according to Roddy Bogawa, director of the docum…

For a group founded on refusal, The New Blockaders have collaborated a great deal. It is less a contradiction than it looks. Where most collaborations in music amount to two recognisable personalities meeting and reinforcing each other, TNB's have al…

French Language Edition This volume examines the protean and intermedial work of Pierre Alferi (1963-2023), in order to account for its singularity, and to situate it within contemporary poetic and artistic practices.

This book surveys the final six years of Het Apollohuis, the alternative art space founded by artists Paul and Hélène Panhuysen in 1980 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The rarest volume in the series - printed in only 500 copies, compared to the 1000-1500…

1990-1995 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications Het Apollohuis. 152 page A4 size book with photos and comprehensive documentation of all exhibitions, concerts, performances, installations and lectures that took place b…

BIlingual Edition (French and English)  Paolo Gioli (1942-2022), a central figure in the Italian experimental cinema of the 70s, developed, from his initial training as a painter, a body of work of over thirty films between 1969 and 2017, that parall…

First 1974 edition of Steve Reich's important book. A must for anyone in new music.

Rare fully illustrated catalogue of installations and performances by the great Alvin Lucier published in 1991 by daadgalerie.

Fun hard-bound and beautifully printed 1983 artist book on How to Make Pies and Cakes, a collaboration between John Cage and Lois Long.

Signed copy by John Cage of first issue of American art/music magazine from 1978 completely devoted the composer.

Rare 1969 first hard-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, M…

Rare 1969 first soft-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, M…

Scarce first issue of American art/music magazine from 1979 completely devoted to Joan Jonas.

Massive 2003 fully illustrated book on the Living Theatre including pages on Young and Zazeela's Well-tune Piano performance in Italy.

They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing. As co-founder member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreak…

* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock * “Il concetto di musica sul quale mi baso non è certamente quello convenzionale, stretto, dove la musica resta circoscritta ai fenomeni sonori, ma il «concetto allargato di musica» come si trova nella teoria m…

40 pages book in English with artwork and photos, by Paul Panhuysen and Johan Goedhart which compiles several performances and installations by this two artists around Europe. Born 1934, Panhuysen was heavenly involved with the fluxus-related "De Ben…

*2023 stock* Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the …