Sound Art / Music & Sound Studies

*2023 stock* As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually …

*2023 stock* Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hirosh…

With clear references to navigation, Written On The Wind presents the work of Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942), one of the most significant artists of the past fifty years through his drawings, which are probably the least known aspect of his oeuvre.…

In Italian Una ricca antologia definitiva curata da Claudio Chianura, rivolta a studiosi e appassionati, con alcuni testi inediti e diverse immagini, dedicata alla voce di Demetrio Stratos e alla sua originale ricerca musicale e antropologica. Testi …

An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.

*2022 stock* This 74 minute album offers four spoken word extracts by Marcel Duchamp (in the English language), including The Creative Act, a fascinating lecture delivered in Houston in 1957, as well as a lengthy interview recorded in 1959. The remai…

*2022 stock* An account of the production of Dutch composer and visual/sound artist Paul Panhuysens long string installations, which crossed a range of spaces in various ways and were, in fact, sound sculptures that could be played. Over a period of …

Featuring new archival research and/or interviews with significant figures of the period in each chapter, Sound Commitments will appeal to researchers and advanced students in the fields of post-war music, cultures of the 1960s, and the avant-garde, …

Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary c…

* 236 pp., thread-sewn softcover * The third issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of artificial intelligence. Contri…

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 contempora…

A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950), Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s. Recounting sixty years in the l…

** 2022 Stock ** The sound of a gunshot doesn’t usually lead to quietude, while the tragedy associated with the sound seems to demand this. The bang excludes all surrounding factors and attracts all the attention. In a social way the bang is more of …

* German Edition. 2020 Stock * Radio, which developed over the course of the 20th century into a crucial form of communication, is currently undergoing processes of fundamental reorganization under the general heading »digitalization.« When considere…

Full size drawing of a mandolin made by Luigi Embergher - mod. 5bis - 1921 (2 sheets, 70x100 cm). It is a Drawing/Poster of a Luigi Embergher 5bis mandolin dated 1921. It's a very carefully made mapping with detailed informations on the instrument.Ap…

Brion Gysin (1916–86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and rev…

Photo book by Jan Jedlička: one black-and-white film shot on a train from Basel to The Hague on 5-8 February 1995, printed in sequence without selection. 56 pages, ECM New Series Book Edition/1, 1996.

Book of photographs by Jan Jedlička, taken at a Halloween party for hospital staff in a London pub that gave the series its name. 52 pages, stitch-bound, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.

Book of 39 video stills from Jan Jedlička's 1999 film Le Cuoche, a 36-minute portrait of the women who run the Ristorante Macchiascandona near Grosseto, Maremma. 80 pages, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.

Book of 26 black-and-white landscape photographs by Werner Hannappel, taken in the Netherlands, Iceland, Scotland, France, Denmark, Ireland, Hungary and Norway, with a text by Tim Robinson in English and French. 64 pages.

Five Years 1985-1990 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications Het Apollohuis 148-page A4 book documenting 102 exhibitions and 163 concerts. In a former nineteenth-century cigar factory in Eindhoven, something remarkable h…

Printed score of Giya Kancheli's 18 Miniatures for Viola and Piano, based on themes from his incidental music for films and plays. Two A4 books, score (48 pages) and viola part (20 pages), sold by ECM.

Spanish translation by Richard Gross of Wolfgang Sandner's biography of Keith Jarrett, first published in German in 2015, covering his early years, his work with Blakey, Lloyd and Davis, and his ECM recordings. Libros del Kultrum, 2019, softcover, 31…

Printed score of Giya Kancheli's 12 Miniatures for Voice and Piano, songs based on themes from his film and theatre music with Georgian lyrics by Ia Sakandelidze. Published 2016, A4, 40 pages, texts in Georgian and English.

Printed edition of Giya Kancheli's 18 Miniatures for Violin and Piano, based on themes from his incidental music for films and plays. Two A4 books: a 48-page score and a 20-page violin part.