Vague #18/19
Original press, nice conditions.
Issue 18/19 of Vague magazine, a British cyberpunk bible edited by Tom Vague. Control Data Manual issue,23rd anniversary of JFK assassination, contains articles on plagiarism, neoism, Illuminati, Videodrome. 98 pages.
Vague #20
Original press, nice conditions.
Issue 20 of Vague magazine, a British cyberpunk bible edited by Tom Vague. This issue has articles on televisionaries, the abolition of work (Bob Black), Euroterrorism, alternatives to terrorism, animal rights vs. human rights, and Vagrunts (a comic), the history of Rote Armee Fraktion. Packed with art, photos, collages, and more. 98 pages.
Vague #16/17
Original press, nice conditions.
The 16/17 issue of Tom Vague's situationist magazine Vague. This issue contributed heavily by Genesis P-Orridge and his Psychic TV (over 30 pages). Elsewhere, William Burroughs & Brion Gysin, Lou Reed, Jamie Reid, Nick Cave amongst so many others.
Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2 (Book)
FIRST PRESSThis book launched the current Lounge Music Revival and has single-handedly caused the re-release of hundreds of neglected recordings (virtually every LP pictured has been brought back into print). Featured album cover art is now the hipster style imitated by rock bands. Incredibly Strange Music surveys "easy listening, " "exotica, " and "celebrity" (massive categories in themselves) as well as recordings by (singing) cops and (polka-playing) priest, undertakers, religious ventriloqui…
Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1 (Book)
FIRST PRESSThis book launched the current Lounge Music Revival and has single-handedly caused the re-release of hundreds of neglected recordings (virtually every LP pictured has been brought back into print). Featured album cover art is now the hipster style imitated by rock bands. Incredibly Strange Music surveys "easy listening, " "exotica, " and "celebrity" (massive categories in themselves) as well as recordings by (singing) cops and (polka-playing) priest, undertakers, religious ventriloqui…
Totale Libertà (Book)
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 series, the volume is curated by Daniele Lombardi and features contributions from leading critics and artists including Gino Di Maggio, Ivanka Stoianova, Luigi Esposito, Marcello Panni, Francesco Di Marco, Franco Brambilla, Gianluca Ranzi, and Bussott…
Nuova Enciclopedia del Futurismo Musicale (Book)
Hardcover, 364 pages. Mostly in Italian language. Nuova Enciclopedia del Futurismo musicale is a pivotal reference work dedicated to the history, theory, and protagonists of Futurist music, curated by Daniele Lombardi. Published by Mudima Edizioni as part of the Fluid XIII series (edited by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi), the volume gathers critical essays and research by leading scholars and artists, including Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lomba…
Gli Anni Settanta (Book)
Hardcover, 364 pages. English/Italian. Gli anni Settanta is a richly illustrated monograph dedicated to Fabrizio Plessi, one of Italy’s most innovative multimedia artists, focusing on his pivotal creative output during the 1970s. Edited by Marco Meneguzzo and part of the Fluid XXVII series (curated by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi), the volume is published by Fondazione Mudima and features texts in both Italian and English.
Within Gli anni Settanta, the collaboration…
La Musica Futurista (Book)
Hardcover, 206 pages. Luigi Russolo e la musica futurista is a key volume dedicated to Luigi Russolo, the visionary Italian artist, composer, and theorist who revolutionized 20th-century music with his concept of “the art of noises.” Curated by Giovanni Lista, the book is part of the Fluid XV series, overseen by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi.
This 189-page Italian-language publication brings together critical essays and original writings by Giovanni Lista and Luigi R…
Fra Zero e Infinito (Book)
Hardcover, 364 pages. Photographic/Artist book, with little text contribution (mostly written in Italian). Fra zero e infinito is a comprehensive monograph published by Fondazione Mudima in 2018, dedicated to Giuseppe Chiari, one of Italy’s most influential conceptual artists, avant-garde composers, and a central figure in the Fluxus movement. Edited by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi, the volume gathers critical essays, archival documents, and photographs that trace C…
How Buildings Learn
"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 graciously gifted it to me.Around the same time, we had a security camera fitted. My daughters commented that the audio sounded like “Daddy’s music.” I can now travel anywhere in the world while producing field recordings of my home. ‘How Buildings Le…
The New York Years – 1971 to 1994 (Book)
Hardcover, 484 pages! The New York Years: 1971 to 1994 presents a comprehensive photographic chronicle by Eric Kroll, offering an in-depth look at New York City during a period of intense cultural transformation. Known for his influential work in both documentary and fetish photography, Kroll here reveals a lesser-known facet of his practice, with hundreds of mostly unpublished black-and-white and color images.
Taken over more than two decades, these photographs document the city’s vibrant art, …
Domestic (Book)
English edition, hardcover, 292 pages. A relentless and unflinching collection, Domestic assembles the lyrics and texts of Kevin Tomkins-founding member of Sutcliffe Jugend and a key figure in the UK power electronics scene. Raw, brutal, and unapologetically intimate, this book lays bare the psychological terrain of control, submission, and the darkest corners of human desire and detachment.
Divided into six visceral sections, Domestic shatters societal norms, piercing through the polite veneers…
Everybody's Head is Open to Sound – Writings on Tom Wilson
Everybody's Head is Open to Sound is the first publication dedicated to the influential yet often overlooked record producer Tom Wilson (1931–1978). Through newly commissioned essays by music historians Wolfram Knauer and Richie Unterberger, journalist Ignacio Juliá, and essayist Pacôme Thiellement, this volume explores Wilson’s pivotal role in shaping avant-garde jazz, producing key folk-rock recordings of the 1960s, and fostering daring collaborations with major US rock bands.
The book traces …
Afrosonica – Soundscapes
Based on a collective research initiative and exhibition, the book Afrosonica offers a reflection on African and Afro-diasporic sound, published in collaboration with the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.By bringing together artists, scholars, and musicians, the book deconstructs Western-centric discourses and approaches to museology and ethnomusicology, while exploring inclusive and renegotiated ways to intersect heritage, technology, and futurism.Through in-depth conversations, essays, photogra…
Acusmatica (Book)
*OBS!!! book in Italian language* In questo approfondito lavoro, l’Autore, da lungo tempo attivo sulla scena della ricerca musicale, ripercorre gli sviluppi delle sperimentazioni fonografiche e l’esperienza dei “padri fondatori” della Musica Concreta e della Musica Elettronica – da Pierre Schaeffer e Pierre Henry a Karlheinz Stockhausen e Iannis Xenakis – fino alle tendenze attuali, per la definizione di una nuova arte sonora: l’Acusmatica.
Resonance: Cultural Practice and Performative Analysis of Contemporary (Art) Music
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 artistic research with a cultural studies orientation. Texts from the last 15 years are divided into two main chapters: Cultural Practice – including analyses of major festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Festival d’Automne à Paris and Wien Modern, the impor…
Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism
How architects and designers helped define America’s ecological movement in the 1960s―featuring Ant Farm, Buckminster Fuller, John C. Lilly and many more
During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion and ecological limits, attitudes toward the environment became social, political and ideological. Published to accompany the first expansive survey of the history of environmental thinking in architecture, Emerg…
Black Fire! New Spirits!: Images of a Revolution: Radical Jazz in the USA 1960-75
At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment.
John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others developed a new cosmology of sound that was as revolutionary as the social and political changes that took place in America throughout the decade. From the musical explorat…