Broken Music Vol. 2: 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
Paperback. 248 pages. The essential continuation of Ursula Block's legendary 1989 Broken Music. Artists' Recordworks exhibition and publication. This volume traces the development of the vinyl record as an artistic medium from the post-war period to the present across seven decades. Based on the 2022-2023 exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, curated by Sven Beckstette and Ingrid Buschmann, the book presents over 700 records arranged in ten chapters, establis…
Mozart Mix (Art Multiple)
One of the first sound multiples ever created. Published by Edition Block in an edition of 36 copies, signed and numbered. Complete sound installation in wooden box (10.2 x 86 x 81 cm) containing 25 cassettes with different recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart compositions, 5 tape decks with built-in speakers, and accompanying screenprint. Created for the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, Mozart Mix is considered the first sound installation published as a numbered edition. Cage composed wor…
Künstlerschallplatten. gelbe MUSIK (Poster)
Original exhibition poster, 1987. Big Size. A rare document from the origins of the legendary Broken Music project. In 1987, a small Hamburg gallery—an artists' cooperative—invited Ursula Block of gelbe MUSIK to organize a groundbreaking exhibition of artists' records. To accompany the show, this poster was printed, featuring images of exhibited objects and short texts. The exhibition followed Block's first KÜNSTLERSCHALLPLATTEN (Artists' Records) show at gelbe MUSIK in Berlin in 1986, which inc…
An Hour for Piano
Artist book concept and design by Luigi Castiglioni. Comes with a 10-inch vinyl recording of Tom Johnson’s voice reading the Program Notes + an autographed facsimile of Tom Johnson’s composition Maloma dedicated to Morton Feldman that inspired the present work. Written in 1971, Tom Johnson's An Hour for Piano stands as a landmark of American minimalism, born from improvisatory sketches Johnson created in 1967 while accompanying a modern dance class at New York University. Johnson gradually expan…
1965/1-∞
** condition: M/NM ** Limited edition of 400. Gatefold sleeve. In 1965, while sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, French-born Polish painter Roman Opałka conceived an idea that would consume the rest of his life: to paint numbers sequentially from one to infinity, a project that would become one of the most profound meditations on time, existence, and mortality in contemporary art. Upon arriving at his studio the following day, Opałka began painting small number…
Conduite Forcée
** Edition of 300. One time pressing. No digital. ** In 1934, Swiss engineers completed the Chandoline Hydroelectric Plant, channeling Alpine water through 16 kilometers of concrete pipe. By 2023, the turbines had stopped. The plant was empty, silent - a cathedral to obsolete energy with perfect acoustics and nothing left to say. Christian Marclay saw an instrument. For the inaugural Biennale Son in 2023, the artist who made his name destroying vinyl in 1980s New York turned the entire hydroelec…
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Signed. Comes with its original record bag/shopper! When George Maciunas died in New York in 1978, aged 47, Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik did what artists do when words fail: they played. The piano duet they performed at Düsseldorf's Kunstakademie lasted precisely 74 minutes, the numbers inverted as if time itself could be bent backward in grief. An alarm clock ended the performance at 9:14 pm, another numerical echo of Maciunas's brief, incendiary life. This wasn't theater. It was something ra…
Musica Futurista (2LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeves. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances. Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifesto L'Arte dei R…
Musica Futurista (2LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeves. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances.
Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifesto…
I've Got a Right
** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** Lenny Kaye, legendary guitarist for Patti Smith Group and compiler of the influential Nuggets garage-punk compilation, steps into the spotlight with I've Got A Right, part of John Giorno's groundbreaking Giorno Poetry Systems series that merged downtown poetry with punk rock energy.
Released through Giorno's visionary label that documented the intersection of New York's literary and musical underground, this album capture…
Ja As Long As I Can
A minimalist exploration of voice, breath, and human connection across continents: this rare 2013 LP release documents an extraordinary sound art collaboration between Norwegian artist A.K. Dolven and American poet John Giorno, produced by Edition Block in Berlin. The 22-minute work represents a unique transatlantic dialogue that explores the fundamental properties of human communication through the sustained repetition of a single word: "ja," the Norwegian equivalent of "yes." A.K. Dolven (born…
Das Leben Chopins Und Andere Ton-Dichtungen
A rare double LP from 1988 presenting a comprehensive collection of "sound poems" by Gerhard Rühm (born 1930), one of Austria's most important experimental artists and a founding member of the revolutionary Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group). Released by Edition Block in Berlin, this recording documents Rühm's groundbreaking work at the intersection of literature, music, and visual art, featuring compositions created between 1978 and 1984 that exemplify his unique approach to what he terms "auditory p…
Mono Logs (3LP Set)
In an era where artistic boundaries blur and collapse, Tarek Atoui's practice stands as a radical reimagining of what music can be. His instruments don't simply make sound—they become sculptural entities that breathe, vibrate, and speak in languages that transcend traditional musical vocabulary. Now, coinciding with his major exhibitions across Europe, the Lebanese artist releases MONO LOGS, a groundbreaking three-LP set that documents these extraordinary instruments in conversation with some of…
Ratio-Konditio
Original copies of this super rare single, comes in standard white cover. A fascinating glimpse into one of contemporary art's most intensive collaborations has emerged in the form of Arnulf Rainer & Dieter Roth's 'Ratio-Konditio gespräch', a rare 7" single that captures the raw creative dialogue between two titans of European avant-garde art.
From 1973 to 1980, Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998) and Austrian abstract expressionist Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929) forged what would become one of…
L’altro Hotel
** Collector's edition of 20 copies with a set of pseudo-exotic photo-postcards taken by the artist, with original notes and memos ** Xing presents the LP L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano, nineteenth release of XONG collection–artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 with a set of pseudo-exotic photo-postcards taken by the artist, with original notes and memos.
L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano bri…
Ouvres Sonores
Alga Marghen is proud to present one of the year's most extraordinary and limited releases: the "Oeuvres sonores" box set, a numbered edition of only 29 copies documenting a series of historic events held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This monumental collection of 7 LPs gathers some of the most significant works of international sound avant-garde, originally presented during the Oeuvres sonores presentations at Centre Pompidou. The box includes works by Charlemagne Palestine, Luc Ferrari, Bru…
Mégapneumes + Wolman Et Son Double (2LP Bundle)
Gil J. Wolman's Alga Marghen collection documents the radical origins of sound poetry. Mégapneumes and Wolman Et Son Double reveal the Lettrist pioneer's organic infra-language and doubled consciousness explorations - essential documentation of the 20th century's most undervalued sonic revolutionary, finally receiving rightful recognition.
Dé-Coll/Age Musik
A seminal figure in the history of 20th century avant-garde, yet sinfully overlooked, Wolf Vostell unleashed ideas - those running wild through his debut LP Dé-coll/age Musik, which remain a slap to the face, more than half a century after they were set into play. A founding member of Fluxus, an early instigator of Happenings, an innovator of video art, Vostell was equally one of the most radical and irreverent practitioners in sound that the world has ever known. First released in 1982, …
Music for Today
Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.
Prolific and multidisciplinary, Michael Snow (1929-2023) was a major figure in the fieldsof painting, sculpture, photo, cinema, and video, as well as in sound and music. H…
Amazoom
Collector's edition of 30 copies, each accompanied by an artist's multiple: a sculpture inspired by the seeds of Parartocarpus venenosa from the Amazon jungle, used by monkeys as combs and now objects to be mounted on the turntable while listening. The edition contains a text/score by Luca Trevisani. Xing presents the first LP by Luca Trevisani, AMAZOOM, sixteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, includin…