John Zorn
In Italian Una ricca monografia dedicata da Maurizio Principato a uno dei maggiori protagonisti della nuova musica, tra jazz, colta e sperimentazione. John Zorn è uno dei musicisti di punta della scena newyorkese e questo libro esplora per la prima volta l'intero universo del'artista americano, rivelandone la storia, la formazione e l'esemplare filosofia di vita. Una guida alla labirintica discografia, alle numerose collaborazioni, alle molteplici ispirazioni.
Writings
** 2023 Repress ** Writings is the first collection to widely survey the singular Tony Conrad polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, …
Anthony Braxton. Creative Music (Book)
*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 kompromisslos seinen Visionen und Überzeugungen folgend, hat er sich in die Annalen der neueren Musikgeschichte mit unverwechselbarer Handschrift eingeschrieben: als bahnbrechender Komponist, mitreißender Performer, aufsehenerregender Improvisationsmusiker, übe…
KiSS Kinetics in Sound & Space (Book)
KiSS – Kinetics in Sound & Space: This acronym stands for the research project established in 2019 by the partner universities HfMT Hamburg and HAW Hamburg.
Exhibiting SoundArt (Book)
Museum directors, scholars, journalists and editors explore the variety of relations between sound as an object of investigation. Issues of sound as a medium of art and culture and possibilities and conditions of exhibiting sound art will be discussed. Sound art has become an integral part of art and music festivals for several decades, and is shown in museums, experimental venues and public spaces. Sound art requires a special approach in the way it is curated, conceived, produced and reenacted…
Sounding Fragilities An Anthology (Book)
Sounding Fragilities enacts a polyphony of writing on contemporary composition, music and performing arts in relation to music theatre. Co-edited by a theatre and performance scholar and by a composer and artistic researcher, this anthology considers its field of investigation through the lens of positionalities. Irene Lehmann and Pia Palme invite readers into intimate encounters with an artist’s practice, feminist and queer perspectives, and personal explorations into aspects of musicology, the…
Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader (Book)
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, musicology, aesthetics, sound art, sound design, and media production. It evolved from the program Sound Studies – Akustische Kommunikation which was established in 2005.While the Master’s program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts pairs theoretical discussio…
Cage & Consequences (Book)
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 following generations of artists, as well as his significance for musicology, art theory, and media studies. The contributions are presented in their original language, English or German. The editors Julia H. Schröder and Volker Straebel are on the facult…
Wobbly Sounds, A Collection of British Flexi Discs (Book)
*2022 stock* Cheap, disposable, often with poor audio quality but with great visuals, flexi discs were vinyl’s poorer cousin in the pre-digital age. Given away with magazines or sent out by advertisers, they were a splashy way of getting your message heard. Pressed onto laminated card or thin, wobbly plastic, these discs extolled the virtues of washing powders, beers, and banks. Specially commissioned tunes took as their unlikely subjects shoe shops, bakers, and even dentists. This book brings t…
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Birome (Zone): Cube [frame] (Book)
* Original 1st edition. 350 copies, in English * 28 pages booklet published by the Middelburg Bureau of Culture and het Apollohuis to accompany an exhibition of Jerry Hunt's installation works exhibition. Birome (ZONE): Cube is devised as a reflex memory cabinet with transactional core: the mechanism used is item-element invariant and system transparent; the cube zone is a body-memory exerciser and operates as a continuous "other": a sexual surface trance derivative emulator. The interior surfac…
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…
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 —…
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…
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
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…
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
2025 Stock. 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 …
VOCAL Adventures Free Improvisation in Sound, Space, Spirit and Song (Book)
“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 has taken the author across oceans and continents, with diverse musical encounters providing invaluable sources of inspiration and a wealth of learning and teaching opportunities while enriching her own ideas and approaches along the way. This book as…