On Guard
** Previously unreleased material from 1983-1988. Edition of 260 copies on black vinyl with printed inner sleeve. Mastered by Graham Lambkin ** (The) Mudguards were a shadowy political art outfit active throughout the decade that saw the Thatcher/Reagan alignment lead us to the advent of the neoliberal nightmare we now all inhabit. This period in Britain was ripe with riots, strikes, social disorder and a general turbulence that ensured the gap between the wealthy and poor was an agenda at the f…
Stone-song
**300 copies on black vinyl** A one-hour performance presented in 1990 at the 8th Biennale of Sydney (The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art) where time is being scanned and animated by matter and where the genius of Henning Christiansen - with fellow artist Bjørn Nørgaard and Ken Unsworth, to whom this performance is dedicated - establish a deep dialogue with the nature (of sound) watching the time, stone on stone, being at the same time actors and audience of its epheme…
Poetry & Music
Essential anthology culling sonic experiments made between late '60s and early 70s by the legendary composer, performer, and poet Jackson MacLow. The work of Jackson MacLow, was concerned with the primacy of words, their structures and especially their sounds, and the ways that they could combine with each other beyond the strictures of linguistic framework. His alternative frameworks often depended on chance, discovering ways randomly to combine words or pieces of works to create new forms and …
Levende Opjekten Sjooo
Black vinyl, edition of 400. Once more the Netherlands proves to be fertile ground for adventurous sonic explorations defiantly untainted from outside influences. The Levende Opjekten Sjooo (L.O.S.) was developed by Artist Hans Frisch, who had made a name for himself as a painter by dripping black car paint on white formica panels, calling this: Clean Art. His next project involved a set with moving statues and music. The statues were actually naked dancers hidden between layers of linnen and pl…
Originale
**very last copies** Private edition, limited to 100 copies "A documentation of a music happening recorded at Judson Hall, NYC. Sept 8-9, 11-13, 1964 with a stellar line-up that includes James Tenney on piano, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier, Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Allen Gingsberg and Jackson Mac Low. The idea, Allan Kaprow director explained, is “a collage of music and action”. The music was electronic, but the action was clearly electrifying as Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Originale …
Audioworks
Temporary reduced-price offer. Over the last couple of years, Song Cycle has emerged as a definitive champion of historic sound art, issuing long out of print recordings by a diverse range of figures like Christina Kubisch, Michael Snow, and Marcel Duchamp, as well as the legendary Poesia Sonora, Revolutions Per Minute, and Fluxus Anthology compilations. Their efforts have done immeasurable good, bringing this creative territory into wider view. Now, with a releases especially close to our heart…
Number of Sheep Who Jumped over the Fence
Restocked, reduced price Signed and numbered box, limited to 80 copies. Comes with inserts and and a photo of exhibition in 1974. “Number of Sheep Who Jumped over the Fence” by Fumio Takamizawa was originally presented in 1974. Throughout the history of Japanese art, there has been artists that filled museums, galleries, studios and other public spaces with all sorts of sounds. In most cases, however, once the sound faded, it couldn't be heard again. Within Japanese art history, which has been …
Al Di La
Saltern presents Al Di Là, the first full-length collection of recordings by renowned dancer/choreographer, artist, and writer Simone Forti. Forti (born 1935, Florence, Italy) has influenced generations of artists through her innovative approaches to dance and movement. Forti is noted for her extensive work with musicians, including Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Jon Gibson, Peter Van Riper, and Z'EV, among others. With Al Di Là, we hear Forti musically in her own right through a diverse…
Hippie Gospel Songs 1969-70
Postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer Simone Forti originally wrote the Hippie Gospel Songs in 1969/70, around the time of the Woodstock Festival. She explains: "before coming to California where I started working and performing with Charlemagne Palestine and studying Tai Chi at the California Institute of the Arts, I had spent a year in Woodstock, New York, stoned in the woods. Now with Charlemagne at the piano I ran in circles and figure eights." The seven songs on the record we…
Long String Installations
**Special edition of 50 in a tote bag including the 3 LPs, the book "Long Strings 1982–2011" (originally published by Het Apollohuis), and 6 postcards. Few copies available** After two LPs in 2014 and 2017, Edition Telemark now turns to the group of works that is probably the most well-known within the vast oeuvre of Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen (1934-2015), his long string installations. Using this term, he referred to all of his works involving strings and sounds. They were rea…
The First See + Hear, Oh See Can You Say
Amazingly well-timed compendium of See/Hear 1 & 2, both released exactly 49 years ago this month (well, going on 50 actually, in September 1968; this one's been in the works for a few months, mainly due to the insanely effort-oriented reproduction of all of the printed ephemera present in the inner pocket of "The First See + Hear" - all recreated here in perfect 5/12 scale in the form of ten separate inserts grouped into four "folios") &, other than Bill Bissett & Th Mandan Massacre's canonic "A…
Staying/Walking
Limited 80 copies, signed and numbered. Legendary 1972 recordings by the conceptual artist Kenichiro Ina. The work uses sound as a medium to record human’s simplest and most primitive acts, “walking” and “staying,” through a definite period of time. Sounds captured by cassette recorder themselves only refer back to what they originally indicate. However, to put recording between self and the world (things except one’s self) would enable the contemplation of phenomena between a subject and its ex…
Live In Hong Kong
**LP-sized sleeve stuck with washi and yarn. Limited to 50 copies** This live show was organized by The Empty Gallery in Hong Kong. The owner and director listened a CD Music for Piano by cello improviser Yasumune Morishige and musician Atsushi Reizen released by Omega Point, and they decided to hold a live show on retrospective exhibition of experimental filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto. On this live show, two grand pianos provided through the good offices of the owner. This is the best situation for…
Great White Light 1971
**Great White Light is a spellbinding archival discovery documenting a 1971 performance by one of the missing links in experimental electronic and sound art figure: Seiji Onishi. Onishi was one of the background players in the formative Japanese electronic music scene of the early 1970's, and this LP documents a section of recording which captured the performance held at the Kishi Memorial Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, on February 13, 1971 with Taj Mahal Travellers members as guest performers. It's t…
Music With Memory
** Small repress available. An essential entry, offering crucial insight into one of America’s most important composers. Beautiful, challenging, and visionary, this what music should always be - the heights of creativity bound to the specificity of time** Since they emerged just over twenty years ago, the Milan based imprint Alga Marghen has shown an unparalleled dedication to Post-War sonic avant-garde, assembling a catalog of reissues and archival releases which traverses a remarkable breath o…
Action-Interview At WBAI Radio Station-N.Y.
Primary Informatio is happy to announce the reissue of the LP by The Guerrilla Art Action Group titled Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y, orginally released by the legendary Radiotaxi imprint, and now impossible to obtain. The recording documents a live action/interview by the group on January 5, 1970 on the progressive radio station WBAI. The LP consists of a series of spoken statements describing the problematic relationship between art and business, art and the military, art and clas…
Den dynamiske violin
Cassette tape by Danish avantgarde/mail art/fluxus artist Mogens Otto Nielsen. Comes with eight riso-printed inserts, as in the original. Originally released by Danish independent publisher Edition After Hand in 1977. Re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology in collaboration with After Hand Archive by Antipyrine, in 2017.
The California Sandals
Flexi disc with recording of a performance from 1985 by Alison Knowles. The flexi disc The California Sandals was originally released as part of a black cardboard box published by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark in 1989, thus predating the official foundation of the museum in 1991. The box was part of a fundraising strategy to meet the requirements for the museum to gain state recognition. Museum shares were issued and sold for 1,000 DKK. Each share was accompanied by one of …
Suttle Sculpture
Never before released recordings from Logos Foundation live sessions with David Toop and Paul Burwell in Brussels, on May 7, 1977. David Toop on the recordings: "When Paul Burwell and I started playing together just after Christmas, 1969, we found ourselves wrestling with a new language of sound, listening, actions, objects and space. At first it was music. We studied in the improvisation classes given by John Stevens at Ealing College in 1971-2, and also took classes in African music at London'…
Poesia Sonora
Sound Poetry is discipline which developed over the course of the 20th century. Firmly located between the worlds of fine-art and music, it places its emphasis on the sound and structure of words - the phonetic aspects of human speech, over explicit meaning. Of all the avant-garde and experimental creatives practices, it is unquestionably the most neglected. Its efforts remain almost entirely unknown beyond circles of devoted fans. Despite this, its has been remarkably influential. The Beat poet…