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…
Tuning the Ear
** numbered art edition of 75 copies ** Tuning the Ear is a box-set that invites for an interdisciplinary and multi-sensuous study of the ear. By presenting an interactive listening situation where the listeners are to engage with the many different objects contained in the box, Tuning the Ear encourages the reader to listen to their surroundings in new ways and furthermore to listen to their own way of hearing. Tuning the Ear presents a new way of exploring the ear that take both physical, phys…
Long Strings 1982-2011 (book)
*2022 stock* An account of the production of Dutch composer and visual/sound artist Paul Panhuysens long string installations, which crossed a range of spaces in various ways and were, in fact, sound sculptures that could be played. Over a period of 30 years Panhuysen made more than 250 long string installations in many locations around the world, drawing attention to the perception of our environment and the ways in which its parameters are detected, transformed and analysed by our senses, simu…
The voice of New Music (book)
An anthology of articles on the evolution of minimal music in New York in 1972-1982, which originally appeared in the Village Voice.
A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s (Book, slipcase edition)
Tip! ** Exclusive Sleepcase Edition, in process of stocking ** Jonny Trunk and FUEL present A-Z of Record Shop Bags – a publication celebrating the humble record store bag. This exhaustive collection of the record shop bag provides a unique perspective of record shopping in the UK over the last century, bringing together over 500 incredible bags (some possibly the only surviving examples) to document the fascinating story of British high street record shopping. Bags from famous chains such as NE…
The Music Mind Experience (Book)
The Music Mind Experience is all about how we can transform our playing and listening into convincing performances and satisfying meditations every time. No neuroscience here: this book is thoroughly practical, intuitive, chock-full of simple practices and deep, common-sense insights. “A fantastic resource. Karl’s purpose is to reach beyond all intellectual concepts and feel the magic of intuitive playing and listening that we are all born with. Very easy to read and follow“ says the world-renow…
Desastres (Book)
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 Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2022).
Sound American no. 28 - The Mapping Issue (Book)
*In process of stocking* The issue presents the ideas musicians and composers whose work is vital and whose voices should be more widely known outside of their native countries. The issue begins with a conversation between curator Smith and SA's Editor-in-chief, Nate Wooley. It then turns to vocalist Eva Salina Primack, who discusses motherhood, rural living, and the influence of Serbian singer Vida Pavlović. The London-based jazz phenom Shabaka Hutchings describes his journey with the shakuhach…
Overtone Singing: Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West
In Overtone Singing, ethnomusicologist and singer Mark van Tongeren provides a fascinating insight into the timeless and universal aspects of sound and vibration. Grounded in a decade-long study of Asian music, he draws upon various fieldwork experiences, interviews with eastern and western musicians, in addition to the work of numerous scholars. He presents a multidisciplinary vision on sound that runs from World and contemporary music to the science of acoustics and perception, to music philos…