Zone
2024 (lucky) stock. Sold out at source. White vinyl, 10“, limited edition of 500. This record was pressed by Carsten Nicolai through his Raster Noton imprint, specifically for Maurizio Nannucci's label Recorthings & Zona Archives and the Base art gallery where Nicolai's installation had been presented. As such, it has no mention of being a Raster Noton release, except for the Raster Noton website (that was selling half of the vinyl copies, and is still selling the download files), where it appea…
In Là
Timed in celebration of his 80th birthday, the venerable imprint, Alga Marghen, releases “In Là”, a stunning LP comprising a brand-new work by the groundbreaking English composer Gavin Bryars
Singing Machine
The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience. From the middle of the 19th century, thousands of people from various parts of Europe moved to the Ruhr region and found employment in heavy industry, for example, at the Hanover mine. The workforce at that time consisted largely of Polish, Belgian, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, and Portuguese wor…
Trampelpfadnomainroad (Book + CD)
*Limited Edition of 50 copies signed by the Artist!* Catalog for the exhibition about Limpe Fuchs as part of ARTS accents. 48 pages with numerous mostly colored pictures and enclosed CD compilation "Limpe & Ensembles: Aufnahmen 1981 - 2017".
Kopioitu (Book)
*2024 stock* A double exhibition, a mirroring situation or a splitting divergent show between Helsinki and Brussels. Cut/copy as a secession from site-specificity.A literary approach to the dichotomy of an original and its copy is needed here. Site-specificity is questioned, as well as the increasing demand of tailored art practices providing institutions and administrations. No precise orders will be given regarding the site-specificity question, so the epicentrum of this experiment is a consi…
Split Friction (Book)
*300 copies edition**Texts in English and German* Split Friction is an interdisciplinary project by Birgit Ulher that moves in the field of tension between exhibition, video, performance, concert and sound installation. The videoworks "How to Get Away I & II", "How to Get Away by Car", "Wanderlust", "Flotsam & Jetsam" contain moving object sounds in indoor and outdoor spaces, which were recorded in places with special acoustic properties. The sound and concert installations "Public Transport" a…
Tuney Tunes (Book + DVD)
*Dutch Edition* Tuney Tunes shows the work of two sound artists: Nico Parlevliet and Paul Panhuysen. The visual aspect in their work is equally important. The book contains an extensive interview with the two artists plus a large selection of photographs.
Full Color, 60 pages + DVD 90 minutes.
Long String Installations 1982-1985 (Book)
40 pages booklet in English with artwork and photos, by Paul Panhuysen and Johan Goedhart which compiles several performances and installations by this two artists around Europe. Born 1934, Panhuysen was heavenly involved with the fluxus-related "De Bende Van De Blauwe Hand" before founding the Maciunas quartet. Increasingly concentrated in sound-art, he went on to produce the remarcable sound installations known as "Long String Installations"·
Since 1982 Panhuysen has created over 200 such …
Cordiox (Book)
** 2024 Stock ** This catalogue book gathers for the first time the work of artist/inventor Ariel Guzik, focusing on the sound experiment he carried out for his project Cordiox: a monumental stringed instrument animated by invisible magnetic forces. The project, chosen to represent Mexico at the 55th Venice Biennial, is examined in this bilingual (Spanish/English) edition in an introductory essay by curator Itala Schmelz and texts by Osvaldo Sanchez, Karla Jasso, Maria Paz Amaro, and Ariel Guzik…
Opera - Graphics And Typography (Book)
Very beautiful book about the work of Ton Homburg. Ton Homburg took care of the layout of all the publications released by Het Apollohuis: invitations, posters, books, leaflets, LPs,CDs.
Drum Listens To Heart (Book)
Accompanying the 2022 exhibition at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Drum Listens to Heart reflects on the many ways that percussion reaches far beyond the drum. It relates to music and rhythm, but it also speaks to a wide range of aesthetic, expressive, and political forms more broadly. The exhibition weaves different forms of percussion together—physical and socio-political, literal and metaphorical. It juxtaposes instances of impact and vibration with forms of cont…
Les Chercheurs De Sons (Book)
*2024 Stock* "Les chercheurs de sons" have left the certainties of traditional lutherie behind them to explore the "terra incognita" of music. Invented instruments, musical machines, sculptures and sound installations: a long subtitle to reflect the diversity of approaches to this musical field as diverse as it is inventive. Thirty contemporary French-speaking musicians specializing in sound invention present a selection of acoustic sound objects they have imagined and designed. By offering an …
Sounds Heard (Book + CD)
*2024 Stock* Sounds Heard is not only a collection of writings intended for people who are interested or involved in contemporary music, especially those performers - including children - who lack a formal musical training. It also charts a wide cross-section of the activities of an intriguing musical personality. At different times in Hugh Davies' nearly 40-year career he has been variously described as "the world's leading electromusicologist", "the most informed person around on the general …
Hasla (Book + DVD)
"I was in this land called Hasla. A far-off land in which everything seemed familiar and yet oddly alien; a place you have never traveled to and yet which in a strange way is similar to every city you've ever visited, which – no sooner did you arrive – you already left again. At least that's how I remember it. But how can I tell of a land that doesn't exist?"
Hasla consists of electroacoustic compositions that are inspired by a poetry of localization and spatialization of sound. Calmly and tran…
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon – Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-Run Community Art Spaces in Southern California (Book)
*2024 stock* Before the onset of the social and cultural backlash that was brought on by the Reagan administration in the early eighties, Southern California was ripe territory for the genesis and development of emancipation movements for and by African Americans, Chicanos, pacifists, Marxists, feminists and homosexuals. Starting in the late sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance art, video, installation and collaboration, which led to the const…
Grau Schweigt (Book)
*2024 stock* Pushing the envelope between visual arts and music, Rolf Julius began in the 1970s to develop his own concept that can be classified as belonging to the young genre of sound art in Germany. "I create a musical space with my images. And with my music I create a pictorial space. Images and music are on equal footing. They meet in the mind of the viewer/listener and give rise to something new." In this publication, Julius shows series of prints that serve as a score for piano and other…
Les Sculptures Sonores - The Sound Sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet (Book+CD)
* 2024 stock * The Baschet Brothers are two French brothers named François Baschet (born 30 March 1920, in Paris; died 11 February 2014) and Bernard Baschet (born 24 August 1917, Paris) who collaborate on creating sound sculptures and inventing musical instruments, such as the cristal Baschet. Francois Baschet's first book in english "Les Sculptures Sonores". 325 pages plus over 160 pages of rare photographs with a free cd of music featuring the baschets creations, documenting recordings by comp…
Sound of Matter
»Sound of Matter« is the debut album by Romanian sound artist and composer Simina Oprescu. The two pieces draw on research conducted with 15 historical church bells at the Märkisches Museum and the Stadtmuseum Berlin. After the artist had presented the results of her studies of the connection between matter and harmony in the form of a multi-channel installation, she has translated the underlying approach of this site-specific work into an album that unfolds slowly, consistently setting in motio…
Black (Red) Book
German/English. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 16 through December 15, 2000. Essay by director Regina Coppola. Includes numerous color illustrations, biographical information, list of previous exhibitions, and a checklist.
Mag Magazin 6
Super rare one. An audio-cassette magazin published by Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, between 1979 and 1982. The cassette-edition contains a wide range of sound-works by Austrian and international artists. Contains approximately 8″ x 5.75″ double-sided insert with photos and notes in German