I feel everything you say, I feel everything you hear (Book)
*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 came about to inform the artists about the musicians, places or encounters that have shaped them. In „I feel everything you say. I feel everything you hear“. (the title is borrowed from the song „I‘m so Green“ by Can), they tell of decisive moments a…
Spatial Jitter
**Hardcover edition. German / English Edition. Vinyl released in a book, accompanying the art installation "Spatial Jitter" ** Mouse on Mars take over the Kunstbau of Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany with a sound installation for which they developed a site-specific composition. Working with and responding to the exhibition space, the installation transforms the Kunstbau itself into a gigantic stereophonic acoustic instrument.
A rotatable horn loudspeaker pitchforks a sound like a pinball into …
Terraforma Journal – Issue #1 (Magazine)
The Terraforma Journal is a new editorial project by Terraforma. A biannual publication exploring the intersection of sound, art, ecology and culture at large. Issue #1 focuses on the expanded notion of the festival—intended as a collective, multilateral, interconnected manifestation of dynamism. The theme unfolds through a multiplicity of layers to acquire new and unexpected definitions. Terre Thaemlitz, Fabio Sargentini, Shiraz Arts Festival, Beuys 2021, Alice Bucknell, Angela Rui, 2050.plus —…
Tresor : True Stories (Book)
English Version. Softcover: 352-page softcover book: raw cardboard, granular lamination, open spine binding. 22 x 30 x 2.2cm (1.4kg). 300g/m² raw cardboard, granular lamination, open spine binding, 352 pages: Neon CMYK print on Lessebo Smooth Natural 90g/m² and Galaxi ArtSamt 115g/m². Tresor’s first archival publication, Tresor: True Stories traces the history of the legendary techno club and label featuring untold stories from the 80s and 90s. The book includes contributions from Jeff Mills, Mi…
Black Sound White Cube (Book)
German language, hard cover. 124 pages * The fact that the White Cube produces, records and celebrates primarily white sound is an aspect of its ideology that even its staunchest critics have never mentioned. The white 'audiology' of the White Cube has always been generously overlooked, or as it might be better to say, 'overheard' - and this despite the many occasions that the White Cube's regular and irregular activities would offer to a critical ear willing to listen. But the White Cube truly …
Sound Voice Perform (Book+CD)
*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 a stunning and highly dynamic practice. Combining an acute sonic sensibility with performative usages of the body, video, and the voice, his work engages corporeal presence with a subtle invasion, unsettling speech and gesture through investigative a…
An Archaeology of Listening – Coming to Know (Book)
*In process of stocking* Premodern acoustic traces as the basis for new communities of thought in the present (a project responding to the work of the self-taught acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi). Coming to Know asks how listening to the past together might transform our sense of the knowledge held in common. It sets aside the visual techniques of the archaeological site, the museum, and the larger project of colonial modernity, and instead constitutes itself as a resonant structur…
Free Jazz Communism (Book)
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 activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music.
From Scratch – Albanian Summer Picaresque (Book)
An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties. Also involving stories about the Albanian Society, William Bland, A. L. lloyd, RCPB ML, and Cornelius Cardew.
Volume ! n° 19-1 - La Scène de Canterbury (Magazine)
The analysis, history and reception of the Canterbury music scene between the late 1960s and early 1970s. From the band Soft Machine supporting Jimi Hendrix on tour in the US in 1968, to Robert Wyatt's famous Rock Bottom album later, to the bands Caravan and Hatfield and the North: the artists and music of the Canterbury scene in England gave a specific and colourful stamp to rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With their commitment to unpredictable stage behaviour and radical humour, …
Left / Right (Book)
Peter Brötzmann's catalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey July 27 – August 17, 2013 Includes an essay by Jim Dempsey
Nonsequiturs: Writings & Lectures on Improvisation, Composition and Interpretation (Book)
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. Rzewski’s anti-establishment thinking stood at the center of his music-making throughout his life. It was evident in the experimental, agitprop improvisations he created in the 1960s with the ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva; in “Coming Together,” the Mini…
A Mind-Body Deal Book (Book)
Milford Graves (born 1941) has been a revelatory force in music since the mid-1960s, liberating the drummer from the role of "timekeeper" to instrumental improviser and giving rise to the free-jazz movement, with groundbreaking performances alongside Lou Reed, Min Tanaka and John Zorn. But music cannot contain the energies of his creativity and intellect. Graves' kaleidoscopic genius led him to develop an unprecedented body of interests - from medicine to botany, stem-cell regeneration to marti…
Musical Erratum + In Conversation
*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 remainder of the album explores Duchamp's unique musical experiments. Devised in 1913, the Musical Erratum for piano forms part of the sequence of notes and projects which led to his celebrated artwork, La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (The …
Artificial Music (Book)
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * From home studios to streaming platforms, artificial intelligence is defining the sound of the future. This collection of essays explores the key developments in the field of AI and music, examining the process that enables nonhuman creativity to become a resonance chamber for new synergies.
Listen to Lists (Book)
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Lists have been used for a long time to provide orientation in the world of music. The technological triumph of streaming ser vices has turned the supply of music into a new consumer format that has come to dominate the way music is brought to market. However, the playlist does more than just format the music, it also structures the way people listen to it and sorts the data logs collected by streaming services. This revolution has spawned new organizational ca…
Looking at Music (Book)
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance has evolved into a format in which the audience stares at people staring at screens. Looking at Music examines the role that visibility plays in the experience of music. How important is the live quality to the futu…
Master of Voice (Book)
*2022 stock* The (non)human voice has always been part of modern art, notably within performance art, sound art, and conceptual art. However, Master of Voice temporary master program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, mutated from this history, examining the voice as a unique “discipline.” The graduate program’s focus was on the (non)human voice as a means to an end or an end in itself within artistic practice. A special orientation of the curriculum, co-developed with a team of artists …
Homo Audiens (Book)
Jo Kondo – one of Japan’s most celebrated living composers – sets out his conception of music as a ‘shared object of listening’, an ultimately hopeful vision of music as a purposeless – non-instrumentalised – activity that brings together composers, performers, and audiences as equal partners in the shared creativity of listening. At once an exploration and critique of the aesthetics of absolute music from German Romanticism to the present day as well as an argument for diversity in both interpr…
Now! : Writings 1982-2021 (Book)
* 320 pages with many drawings, music examples and photographs * Peter Ablinger used to say that he communicated in sound, not words. But his literary legacy is substantial, as this book demonstrates. He is a composer whose work is questioning basic assumptions about music as time-based performance-generated art form. Even though conceptually homogenous, his works are perplexing when observed through the traditional contexts of musical presentation. Most of the clues for their understanding come…