Sound Art / Music & Sound Studies

Jazz legend Sonny Rollins will celebrate his 80th birthday this fall, and Saxophone Colossus will be published to mark this occasion and honor his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation combines the images of John Abbott, who as Rolli…

Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had ever…

The first major work dedicated entirely to the discography of the maestro Ennio Morricone. Unique in its genre, Ennio Morricone: Master of the Soundtrack originates from the idea of the collector, author, and cinema expert Maurizio Baroni. Baroni dra…

The authorized biography of Robert Pollard, indie rock icon and founder of the music group Guided By Voices. Robert Pollard has been a staple of the indie rock scene since the early ’80s, along with his band Guided By Voices. Pollard was a longtime g…

2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music’s eponymous debut album, which the band are celebrating with a North America and UK tour, their first in over a decade. To coincide with this milestone, we are proud to present a one-of-a-kind historical …

*Japanese Language*  Japanese Ambient and Environmental Music featuring Haruomi Hosono / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Hiroshi Yoshimura / Susumu Yokota / Hiji Hatakeyama / Mei Tei / SUGAI KEN. Interview David Toop / Spencer Dolan / ZAK.

YaHoWa! The 70s commune, The Source Family, were at the very center of the Age of Aquarius, and devoted their ways to music, love, magic, and harmony. Seven chakras open, astral bodies take flight, and Father Yod ushered in a new wave of mysticism. F…

Tip, tip, tip! Book + LP bundle. "Two-Headed Doctor" is David Toop's forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris has accumulate…

Throughout his life as an artist of increasing renown, William Parker has always made it a point to shine light on those who do not as often receive recognition for their work, and from whose work Parker has found resonance with & received inspiratio…

*BIlingual Edition Italian/English*  Everything is sound. It is according to this principle that the sound of things becomes. “vocation"-literally an emission of voice-that must be accepted: sound is the matrix, while voice is the way in which it is …

The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science. Whale Song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligen…

Improvisation. Instruments. Anecdotes. Photographs. Humour. Ecology. Experience. Absurdity. Democracy. Sound. The police. London. Scavenging. Street markets. Metal. Art. Musicians. Parents. Plastic. Aluminium. The floor. Knees. Fats Waller. Sydney. B…

An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West. Overtone Singing is the most comprehensive book ever written on the hidden harmonies of the human voice. Ethnomusicolo…

Secrets of master musicians, revealed in conversation. Guitar Talk offers interviews with many of the most creative guitarists of our time. This new book presents these conversations, between Joel Harrison and Nels Cline, Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Bil…

A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. For over five decades, Elliott Sharp has been engaged in a quest at once quixotic and down to earth: to…

The music of Sylvano Bussotti seems to achieve the squaring of the circle: in many ways radical, avant-garde, and innovative, it manifests, at the same time, an idea of beauty, with a strong sensual as well as personal side, not easily reconciled wit…

*2024 stock* Ambient music according to Brian Eno, the non-musician who made it a genre of its own, before and better than so many boring epigones. As many as 15 tracks are on the CD, with some rarities and collaborations by Daniel Lanois, Jah Wobble…

This book looks at the work of Austrian avant-garde artist Hermann Nitsch, particularly his ritualistic and existential “public aktionen” under the Orgies Mysterien Theater. Presented through the documentation of these events as they were recorded (s…

Throughout the heady years of New York's 1960s and 70s music scenes, James Hamilton was on hand to observe and photograph some of the most significant bands, musicians and performances of the twentieth century. Serving as staff photographer for the V…

*2025 stock**Bilingual Edition English and German* In the films of this DVD, Peider A Defilla provides an insight into the oeuvre of Iannis Xenakis. The films show musica-viva performances of the works ’Syrmos’, ’Synaphai’, ’Theraps’, and ’Nekula’, a…

Massive! English-German Edition in two volumes 906 pages. These lectures, discussions were within the last years of Feldman's life, he died in September 1987, these were 1985 to 1987, for the "Nieuwe Muziek" in Middleburg, and the topics, subject mat…

English-German edition, 576 pages (!) collection of writings about ideas concerning music by American composer Frederic Rzewski (April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. Rzewsk…

‘…music can conduct autopsies on received historical narratives and current ideologies of power and exploitation; it can tell things as they were, as they are, and perhaps, as they could be.’ (Benjamin Dwyer) In this book, the direction of readers’ a…

Composing While Black presents unique new perspectives on Afrodiasporic contemporary composers active between 1960 and the present, a period that academic inquiry, concert programming, and journalistic accounts have largely ignored up to now, particu…

Huggy Bear was a UK riot grrrl band that existed from 1991-1994. Outcast and outraged, they made a howling, squalling mess of punk, all the menace and freedom of flocking birds. The handful of records, zines, and memories that document this brief, bo…

An experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation (the publication accompanying Marco Fusinato's immersive project for the Australia Pavilion at the 59th International…

Huge Tip! 392 pp! 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 record labe…

Projectile is an artist’s book by Reto Geiser, David Grubbs, and John Sparagana that spirals outward from a single source image: a news photograph of chair-throwing at the conclusion of a cancelled rock concert in the early 1980s. Visual artist John …

Robert Pollard's  (Guided By Voices) amazing collages in a full-color 238-page book.

San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books is thrilled to present the first-ever collection of his photo…

Jerry Hunt (1943–93) was among the most eccentric figures in the world of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early ’90s made use of readymade sculptures, medical technology, arcane…

This two-volume set, Poësy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poësy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing pieces of co…

*Bilingual Edition Italian/English* Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist’s poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narr…

Two events in music history had revolutionary consequences: the creation of notation and the invention of electronic sound. The initial stages of electronic music brought about new musical instruments like the theremin, the electric guitar and the sy…

Making audible what is usually inaudible, rendering sound visible in an unusual way, and facilitating a spatial experience of sound­—this is what constitutes the pioneering work that makes Alvin Lucier one of the most important representatives of Ame…

*Only in German language* Der in der South Side Chicagos aufgewachsene Anthony Braxton (*1945) gehört seit über einen halben Jahrhundert zu den innovativsten, produktivsten und prägendsten Protagonisten der creative music. Unangepasst und kompromissl…

Cage & Consequences brings together analytical essays by scholars of different disciplines, artists“ contributions, and conversations with composers and associates of John Cage. They represent the diversity of Cage“s spheres of influence on the follo…

Encyclopedia of French progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc. by Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman - Following on the tradition of our other country focused music books: "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" exploring "Krautrock" and the wider sc…

English-German Edition, 655 pages (!) collection of writings about ideas concerning music by American composer Robert Ashley. For nearly forty-five years, composer robert Ashley has pursued his vision of opera in the face of near complete indifferenc…

A 470-page hardcover book featuring highly detailed photos and comprehensive research on 222 portable vinyl record players. Once considered little more than a children’s plaything or a grade school accessory, the portable record player has gained new…