Musique Inconcrète
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 300 ** After the quickly sold out »Ggràn« cassette, released on Fragment Factory in 2016, we are very happy to welcome back the Italian sound artist Mauro Diciocia aka Torba for his 2nd contribution to the FF label catalogue. »Musique Inconcrète« is the follow-up to »Musica Conventionale«, released earlier this year on his own Edizioni Aaltra imprint, and marks the second installment in a trilogy of related recordings, informally named »Le Musiche«. While being active i…
Lingua Corrente
**Edition of 60 including a 36 pages book with artworks by Matteo Castro and a 12 pages book with writing by Renato Grieco** One more treasure for your decks! Starting from a defined concept and using more or less the same compositional techniques and instruments, Matteo Castro and Renato Grieco mix the fruits of two of the hottest areas of contemporary Italian experimental music - Naples and Veneto - giving all modern concrete / tape musique fans a radiant and multifaceted slice of heaven. Next…
The Art of Speech (For Ana)
**Edition of 200 copies** Pentiments is honored to present the first vinyl-format offering of the work of long-time film, theater and sound art figure Arsenije Jovanović, born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1932, has been working in experimental media since the 1960s, beginning his career as a producer and director of theater and TV and eventually going on to produce several award-winning radio dramas in the 1970s whose approach to the use of sound as experiential narrative material has since become a …
Save the Nature - Use Fluxus
In November 17, 2019 a six hour performance was undertaken in the car park of The Box gallery in Los Angeles as a part of the Henning Christiansen / Ursula Reuter Christiansen exhibition They Won’t Survive Without The Bird Songs
. Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, son of Ursula and Henning, developed a timeline for the performance which was essentially designed to encompass a contemporary community of like minded artists that spans generations and continents harnessing and continuing the work insti…
Record: The Space Between
A rare classic of sound art from Brazilian avant-gardist and provocateur Antonio Dias, available in a limited edition
Electric Landlady
**Edition of 150 copies** Malcolm Green (b. 1952) is a British artist, dancer, and publisher. His eccentric, liquid ideas seem to come with a smile. Or is it a wry grin? His colorful paintings, usually adorned with phrases, are little riddled plaques. Luckily, Malcolm is of the ilk of visual artists who also records audio works (this multiplicity is always interesting). Green's own label Seedy CDs/Sieh Dies issued a number of CDrs between 2000 and 2005, including many of his own works, along tho…
Un|sounding the Self — A Portrait
**Includes 120-page booklet** "Silent quest for sound, constant listening in the streets of Brooklyn, the Swiss Alps, the forests of Pennsylvania and the landscape of New Mexico. What if, after hours of walking, the mind finally clears, the ears open? Keep on walking, listening, giving space to resonances. Christopher Shultis, drummer and Professor Emeritus of the University of New Mexico and Craig Shepard, trombonist and member of the Wandelweiser collective, take Henry David Thoreau at his wor…
Next City Sounds: Interfaces
**in process of stocking** "As part of the 20th Kamuna (Karlsruhe Museum Night), so-called ›in-situ performances‹ took place at three locations in Karlsruhe on August 4, 2018: The project room ßpace, the artist-run space Halo ARS and the pedestrian zone Kaiserstraße were connected to the ZKM via an outgoing audio data stream. At ßpace, sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek condensed naturalistic field recordings, noise and soundscape recordings into a sonic live collage. The live electronic duo Lintu + R…
Stone Memorial
**Limited edition of 50 copies. Comes in a silkscreened box with a booklet and a plastic bag containing 3 pieces of broken glass, a piece of wire and a signed card.** Born in Montréal, Marie Goyette studied the piano in Montréal and London. After residing in Europe, she moved to Berlin in 1989. Inspired by the city's lively and unorthodox art scene, she started a second career and expanded her activities from traditional concerts to the fields of performance and radio art. In the early '90s Jan …
Desert Plants
**Essential reading!** Walter Zimmermann interviews Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jim Burton, Phil Glass, Steve Reich, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Pauline Oliveros, David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum, Larry Austin, James Tenney, J. B. Floyd (about Conlon Nancarrow), La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Charles Morrow, Garrett List, John Mc Guire and Ben Johnston (about Harry Partch).
Works 2016-2018
A work presented during the personal exhibition of Pier Alfeo (also well known for his moniker Dubit) entitled "Incisione su Silenzio" at the Doppelgaenger gallery of Bari, Italy (22 February - 22 May 2019).
Vertical Music Batch 01-03
A special bundle to introduce a new and quite promising label from Milan, Italy. Curated by Ludwig Berger, Vertical Music is a home for non-linear music, deep mapping, and the long now.
Peter der Große / Gudbrandsdal
Two of Henning Christiansen’s tape works from the 1980’s, Peter der Große op. 174 (1986) and Gudbrandsdal op. 178 (1987), are now released for the first time by the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology.
Montparnasse
**Small repress soon available** First reissue of this enigmatic and sought-after Japanese rarity from the 80's, originally released on the cultish Unbalance label (run by Naoto Hayashi and Jojo Hiroshige of Hijokaidan fame). Comprised of cut-up and collaged recordings from various unspecified French movies intertwined with the occasional spoken word segments ~ all seemingly recorded using a cheap-o cassette player making for quite the lo-fi work. A walk in Paris somewhere between the 30's and t…
Circular Movements
**50 copies, white marbled vinyl** Maulex (moniker of René Middelhede) tiny re-edition of his “Circular Movements” focused on alternative use of record players. "With this project, I have focused on alternative use of record players and the aesthetic errors that follow. The shape of the circle has been my compositional starting point. Musically, all the content on this record is produced by alternative use of record players, but without any use of vinyl records. In addition to the record players…
Groundsound vol. I
**200 copies only** Put together by the Italian sound poet Enzo Minarelli, Groundsound vol. I is a snapshot of 1970s and 80s voice and soundworks by a special selection of practitioners, including the French sound poet Bernard Heidsieck, sound artist Terry Fox, legend Henri Chopin, bp Nichol (of Four Horsemen/Canadada fame) Peter Finch/ Bob Cobbing, Antonio Aragão and the phonetic poetry pioneed Ilse Garnier. "I like the idea of having the female voice of Ilse Garnier, whom I was lucky enough t…
Vampir-Cuadecuc
**130 copies. Art Edition** Carles Santos was a multi-disciplinary artist, perhaps best known outside of Spain as a composer of scores for his lifelong collaborator, radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella. Made in 1970 during the final years of Franco’s dictatorship, Vampir-Cuadecuc is an astonishingly creative assault on the regime and, arguably, Portabella’s most influential work. Filmed behind the scenes during the production of Jesús Franco’s Count Dracula (1970), Vampir-Cuadecuc is a hig…
Tistre
Tistre is the first outcome of an experimentation with textile supports, made by Andrea Borghi in 2018, during a residency at Lottozero textile laboratories in Prato. Fabrics and yarns are the materials with which he creates discs the shape and size of a LP. He plays them with a prepared turntable, in order to exploit the reliefs of the weft and the warp as a surface from which to produce the sound with the use of special self-built styli and electronic treatments. Tistre follows the path taken …
Luc Ferrari: Complete Works
Across the expanse of 20th century avant-garde and experimental music, few names come close to the towering importance of Luc Ferrari - a titan of electronic and electroacoustic sound, who continuously pushed the boundaries of creative possibility for roughly a half century. As many know, in addition to sprawling body of works the composer produced over his lifetime, he also dedicated considerable effort to committing his many ideas and theories to text. Now, Ecstatic Peace Library has done the …
Gatherings
**200 copies** Anne Tardos is an American poet, visual and vocal artist. She has developed a unique performance style that allows her to move fluidly within, and between, media. This is evident in Gatherings, which was originally published on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics, and holds recordings from 1974-1981. It stands as one of Tardos’s seminal audio documents. Two forms of sound are examined here: observational and static recordings of the artist’s loft: Percussive sounds from heat …