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A historicist approach of music genres. Recent journalistic discourses have announced "the end of music genres", while common sense tends to perceive the latter as imposed categories, restricting the freedom of both artists and audiences In contrast …
People perceive audio events in very different ways. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the physics, biology, signifiers, and unconscious processes on the basis of which auditory experiences are constructed. The book applies the methods…
* 2024 Stock * Documentario dedicato all'opera di Stefano Scodanibbio, con materiali inediti, riprese on site e interviste a Terry Riley, Irvine Arditti, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Gianni Dessì, Dario Calderone, Wolfgang Korb…
In the current state of geopolitical instability, migration, climate change, and housing crisis, professionals in different disciplines question once again the integrity of the actions they take. It is against this background that the comprehensive p…
Forty years ago, armed with tape, scissors and a hefty dose of wit, Yello—aka Boris Blank, Dieter Meier and, initially, Carlos Perón—, set out to write their very own chapter of music history. In no time at all they found themselves playing The Roxy …
Marclay’s compilation of hundreds of high-contrast black-and-white Xeroxes are like scribblings in a notebook, the first stages of experimentation towards more finished works, a glimpse into the artist’s creative process. This book brings together th…
The White Label Promo Preservation Society returns with another collection of essays celebrating albums that fell short of cracking Billboard’s top 100, but belong in the libraries of discerning music-obsessives. Among the artists who turn up in thes…
The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a ‘no future’ generation refusing to be the next artwor…
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file. Through their individual practices, Taku Unami …
*Text in English and French* A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book. More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather,…
*Italian Language Edition* Era un pomeriggio assolato del maggio 1974 quando Roberto si ritrovò in un mercatino di ferri vecchi a Milano e… fu amore a prima vista. Non sapeva a cosa gli sarebbe servito quel vecchio e rugginoso tavolino, ma si fece gu…
*300 copies. Texts in English and German* Split Friction is an interdisciplinary project by Birgit Ulher that moves in the field of tension between exhibition, video, performance, concert and sound installation. The videoworks "How to Get Away I & I…
* Italian Language Edition * 2023 Stock* Descrizione Immaginare la musica. Per un'estetica fenomenologica della composizione contemporanea. Dopo aver affrontato il ruolo dell'improvvisazione nella musica moderna in "E non chiamatelo jazz" e aver cele…
Very nice artists' book from Stefan Roigk. The musique concrète composition "Sketches Of Love And Delay" continues the multilayered black and white illustrations of the book "Sketches Of Laugh And Decay". It reveals the relationship between exclusive…
In reading this text, we rediscover the subtle pleasure we feel when listening to Michel Doneda's solo concerts. Beneath an apparent disorder in which intuition alone seems to guide the unfolding of a pointillist discourse, a highly structured though…
Sanna Charles has been documenting tribes of Slayer fans around Europe for over a decade. She was drawn to their escapism, and the contradiction between this extreme music and the innocence of their often youthful fans.God Listens to Slayer is a snap…
The book contains Ecopolitik, an introduction as an epilogue by José Luis Espejo, a letter to the Huaorani people, two research texts and one bertso, descriptive texts and photos of recordings, a possible chronology, a glossary, a compilation of sev…
*2024 Stock* "Disco Beats has created a disc guide zine in paper format. The theme is domestic disco 7-inch B-sides. Please get a copy of this zine and go on a treasure hunt at record stores. Most of the records in the zine can be obtained for a few…
2024 Stock*. A French-only book about Jacques Lejeune with texts by Pierre-Albert Castanet, Michel Rigoni, Jean-Christophe Thomas, Yves Krier, Gilles Racot.