Sound Art / Music & Sound Studies

A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues People, and latest selection in the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series. This collection of essays by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones includes a new introduction by the author a…

The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, on the theme of diffusion and dissemination.

*Text in French*  A short story by Xavier Forneret, set to music by Nurse With Wound. A wealthy Romantic, Xavier Forneret published his writings and theater at his own expense. Legend has it that he fell asleep every night in an ebony coffin, which A…

Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an introduction by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner, English painter and songwrit…

With a preface by Johan Kugelberg and additional interviews by Emil Karlsson. This lavish coffee table book takes an in-depth visual look back at the amazing art and graphics of the so-called Swedish Gramophone Mission. The book presents the largest …

The book, a celebration of the German production music library’s 60th birthday, is a collaborative venture between the label and Disco Pogo.

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 …

"Kindling is super excited to share our latest edition created by Arek Gulbenkoglu, who we think has produced some of the most consistently interesting sound works for fixed media in Australia over the last decade or more. Creating wilfully obtuse or…

"Last year, a consultant from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors took stock of my home in Bristol. He told me the survey would be sent as a pdf via email; I asked him for the audio recording of his spoken notes. The visiting field recordist g…

Published on the occasion of the 2025 exhibition Corps à cordes: Vibrations and Resonances at the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO in Chatou, curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorák, this book explores the resonances between Sufism and contem…

Huge Tip! *2025 repress* Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music is a non-academic essay by French poet, novelist and music enthusiast Fanny Chiarello. It’s also the first book to be published by Permanent Draft, an all-female reco…

DINTE mint their short run book publishing imprint, The End books, with this vast collection of flyers for dances, clashes and blues parties in the Caribbean soundsystem tradition from across the UK between the early 1970s and mid 1990s. Comes comple…

Actualising the concert of Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962, Free Jazz Communism contextualizes the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war acti…

*2022 stock* Christof Migone's Sound Voice Perform documents the performance, sound, and video works of the Canadian artist. Working since the mid-80s, Migone weaves together a multitude of media, from radio to telephones to digital objects, to form …

Bilingual Edition English/German This inspiring book, with texts in German and English, reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and performative dimensions of contemporary (art) music. It opens up and challenges new perspectives in musicological and arti…

The re-release of the much-sought-after art book by Coil's John Balance—the first ever extensive overview of his drawings, paintings and sketches—in a reformatted and largely redesigned edition. The artworks featured in the book are both finished ela…

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts is a postgraduate program of the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2017, the program has served to deepen the theoretical and practical skills in sound-related theory and practice, particularly in cultural studies, mus…

Spanish/English edition. 85 pages, edition of 50 copies. A compilation of seminal texts for the young electronic musician. Perfect bound / ByW /  R. Schumann - Consejos para Jóvenes Músicos Balilla Pratella - Manifesto para Músicos Futuristas Luigi R…

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…

Art & vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist's records in Switzerland. Since the beginning of its existence, the record has always been used by visual artists as a form of distribution for their sound practice. First experimented with by the early av…

*2023 stock* First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion co…

Following on from 2023’s “Ruinous Spirituality”, and its predecessor, “Three Essays on Spirituality and Art”, the publisher, João Simões, returns with “About Transformations”, the third in their series of deep dives into the wild and radical mind of …

“These Vocal Adventures chart a decades-long exploration of soundscapes – ones produced by the outside world but most prominently those created through free improvisation in music. The expedition into this realm of musical experience and expression h…

French Language Edition A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice. Gathering together newly commissioned essays by international art critics and scholars devoted to specific—and sometimes lesser-known—aspects of the artist's life and work…

Big Tip! From trailer park punks to Pulitzer Prize winners, this is the untold story of a sleepy Navy town that became the unlikely gathering point for some of the most innovative, unclassifiable American artists of their time. The late '60s arrival …

530 pages!  While music fans worldwide celebrate Germany's Krautrock revolution, the equally radical French underground scene has remained largely hidden from view. Ian Thompson's groundbreaking Synths, Sax & Situationists finally illuminates this ex…

Bilingual Edition French/English This book is a visual and geographical journey through the artist's work and exhibitions, enriched by five original samples—olive leaves, charcoal, street paper, earth and seaweed—inserted and activated by hand accord…

BIlingual Edition English/French Timeless Edition is thrilled to present ‘In Steel Grey Armour’ consisting of the complete reproduction of an infamous and mysterious collage book created by Genesis P-Orridge in 1979 and entrusted to his friend Yves A…

*BIlingual Edition Italian/English*  "There was a certain time when I felt that to make ar t that was useful,I wanted to offer an alternative template of the possibilities of the human being, and I wanted to creatework that was more of a sacred space…

Our ninth issue, also known as “Akashic Ashcan,” published August 2025. Fiddler’s Green 9 features copper titling, a cover drawn by Arik Roper, and 56 pages of art and magic, including reviews, a letters column, and the following: Cover Notes, Dendri…

*Text in French and English*  Ross Bolleter's latest collection of poems draws on his experience as a musician/composer especially in the field of ruined piano, and includes tributes to Thelonious Monk and other luminaries who have inspired him over …

*Text in French*  In a country sinking into civil war, a man wants to avenge his daughter's death. He is joined in his fight by a few desperados... A censored artist, self-produced musician, director, illustrator, writer, and provocative performer, J…

2025 stock To mark the 50th anniversary of the recording of their classic Odessey and Oracle album, The Zombies have assembled an eclectic collection of rare and unseen photos, original artwork and personal memories that offer readers an intimate sna…

Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and …

From This World, Another marks the first release for Terra Nova Editions, a new series of books not available from our usual distribution channels. This book is published along with a new album of music, recorded remotely during the pandemic, by Davi…

365 scores for listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros. A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep Listening in celebration of the legacy of groundb…

The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.

Hardcover, 506 pages. Totale libertà is an extensive monograph dedicated to Sylvano Bussotti, one of Italy’s most original and influential composers, visual artists, and performers. Published by Fondazione Mudima in 2016 as part of the Fluid XXXIII s…

*Hardcover with Embossing. English* Week-End Fest looks back in 2022 on 10 years and encounters with over 100 international artists. Since the beginning in 2011 own fanhood has been a central element of the festival’s curators - this is how the idea …