Array / Polar Force (LP + CD with Book bundle)
This special bundle includes the two collaborative releases by Philip Samartzis and Eugene Ughetti recently released on Room40:"Array" (LP)Array expresses the experience of a remote Antarctic research station through the convergence of sound, site and performance. The result is an immersive and affective experience of the spaces, protocols and conditions comprising the bracing polar environment. Array is a companion piece to Polar Force, a performance-installation work by Philip Samartzis and Eu…
Femme Descendant L'escalier
* Rare private press CD * By a beautiful day of end of summer, September 20, 2004, my hosts Maria Bella and Miguel, involved me in a hazardous route in the streets of Madrid. The finality was to record sound elements which could be useful to me in the project “Itinerario del Sonido” to which they had invited me to take part. We thus went on, walking by bus by subway and some times, I recognized the singular places which I had already met several years, perhaps 10 years before and it was like vi…
Gapassipi
Stunning 40-page hardback book & CD entitled Gapassipi, a 1995 sound installation by Magnús Pálsson (b. 1929) edition of 200, each signed and numbered by Pálsson himself Gapassipi. With an oeuvre constituted by book art, sculpture, sound poetry, and performance, Magnús Pálsson is considered one of the most influential proponents of interdisciplinary, Fluxus-adjacent practices in Iceland during the late 20th century. With connections to non-Icelandic artists such as Dieter Roth, Philip Corner, a…
Array
Array expresses the experience of a remote Antarctic research station through the convergence of sound, site and performance. The result is an immersive and affective experience of the spaces, protocols and conditions comprising the bracing polar environment. Array is a companion piece to Polar Force, a performance-installation work by Philip Samartzis and Eugene Ughetti, presented by Speak Percussion. Array features recordings of radar and scientific instrumentation used for upper atmospheric r…
21-9-18
** Black vinyl 180gr, gatefold cover Mastered at Dubplates, Berlin, in an edition of 300 copies.** The first LP to be released by Villa Lontana Records is ‘21-9-18’ by Andrés Saenz de Sicilia. Saenz De Sicilia is a founding member of London-based trio Pataphysical who released their debut LP ‘Periphera’ with Glasgow based record label 12th Isle earlier this year. This record is a documentation of the artist’s performance in the car garage of Villa Lontana on 21 September 2018. A Roman necropolis…
A Letter from Souls of The Dead (Book + 7" flexi)
Last copies The soundtrack for Aki Onda's the first major solo exhibition "A Letter from Souls of The Dead" at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) from July 10 – September 4, 2021. Commissioned by PICA and curated by Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art, this exhibition will feature collections of found objects such as bells, surplus electronics, photographs, and old-fashioned slide projections.
The soundtrack for this exhibition was composed by Onda in collab…
Beyond Enclosures
On his captivating new solo album, is an Ireland-based, Australian-born Robert Curgenven - highly regarded for his majestic, coruscating pipe organ through to feedback, immersive resonances via turntables and custom-made vinyl, as well as carefully detailed field recordings, experimental turntable techniques inter-woven with piano and extended pipe organ techniques with an enveloping, often ecstatic and mystic effect recalling resonances and sound intended as a physical field of perception.The 3…
South Pacific Migration Party
* Edition of 200 copies. 140g clear vinyl with printed inner sleeve + extensive booklet * Peter Zinovieff (b. 1933, d. 2021) founded the revolutionary Electronic Music Studios in 1969, and devoted much of his earlier life to the art of sound. The studio developed many synthesisers including the famed VCS3, AKS and the Synthi100, and financed the world's first computer controlled electronic music studio in Putney, London. It is difficult to overstate the effect that Zinovieff's work has had on co…
In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility
Artist and musician Rosa Barba paired up with drummer Chad Taylor for their first duo record, In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility. Documenting a September 2019 performance and installation at New York's Park Avenue Armory, part of an invitation by pianist Jason Moran, the CD's two mesmerizing tracks clock in at over 30-minutes each. Patiently built as collaborative soundscapes, they feature Barba's unorthodox conjoining of cello and film projector in which she uses the celluloid as an…
Night Run: Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995
** Edition of 300. Sold out at the label ** INFO is pleased to announce Night Run, the first collection of early sound works of Kristin Oppenheim. This 2LP release features eight pieces recorded between 1992 and 1995 in her Brooklyn studio. In each recording, Oppenheim’s voice is the sole medium, forming repetitious phrases half-sung and half-spoken to compose disciplined but haunting environments that drift back and forth, panning across the stereo field. Over the last three decades, Kristin Op…
Peculiar Songs
** Edition of 200 ** Andrea Tippel was born in 1945 in Hirsau in the Black Forest and grew up as the middle of three sisters in Bremen. Her parents were the architects Maria Alexandra Mahlberg and Klaus Tippel. In 1971, Tippel moved to Berlin and began creating drawings, objects, composites, texts and books, as well as a few oil paintings. Tippel was appointed as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 1997 and co-founded the Dieter Roth Academy (DRA) in 2000. She passed a…
On Perpetual (Musical) Peace?
This LP features the results of "On Perpetual (Musical) Peace?" realized in Mexico City in 2019 with Liminar, a Mexican ensemble that works at the boundaries between composed and improvised music, performance and sound installation, and regularly performs in Mexico City's main chamber music halls as well as in museums, galleries and alternative venues. An extensive PMP concert took place at Bucareli 69, an art and concert space in a late-19th-century villa near the city's historical centre. The …
The Long String Instrument
**Very rare original 1985 LP drone masterpiece, few copies available. Minor wear is possible due to long storage** Ellen Fullman (b. Memphis, Tennessee, 1957) is a composer. Known principally for music she has written for an instrument she invented, the long string instrument, Fullman studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has performed with the Deep Listening Band and Paul Panhuysen. “The Long String Instrument (LSI) produces a unique almost orchestral sound, based on the overt…
Gradual Small Fires and a Bowl of Resonant Milk
Gradual Small Fires (and a Bowl of Resonant Milk), was commissioned by the university of Hong Kong’s new media school, and more specifically, the work was created initially for Daniel Libeskind’s building for the university’s CMC (Creative Media Center). For the grand opening of the building, several sound and new media artists were invited to create works on site. The work consisted of 5 different pieces – each object constructed of plexiglass, and each sound work anchored by a recording of a f…
Long String Installations 1982-1985
**Rare original, few copies available** 3LP boxset with 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 Installatio…
Soundsphere
**Rare original** Soundsphere, Akio Suzuki‘s acclaimed masterpiece, was meant by Paul Panhuysen, director of Het Apollohuis, as an introduction to his sound work, with a book detailing various instruments Suzuki created, as well as diagrams and documentation on previous performances from the 1970s and 1980s. It was conceived during an artist-in-residence time Suzuki spent at Het Apollohuis. The 36-pages booklet edition came in an oversized cardboard box and was limited to 1,000 copies. The disc …
Radio Revolten - 30 Days of Radio Art
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Leading art institutions such as Tate Modern, the São Paulo Biennial, and Documenta have now recognized that an ongoing artistic use of the airwaves has generated an autonomous genre called radio art. Over the last few decades independent radio stations in North America and Europe have provided crucial support for this art form to develop and flourish. In October 2016 the International Radio Art Festival Radio Revolten, organized by community radio station Corax…
Hearing
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * Robert Morris’ sculptural installation »Hearing« includes an audio recording of a fictitious hearing that is focussed on the aesthetic, political, historical and moral views of a »witness«. The work is taken as a point of departure. Investigations relating to the various issues involved will take works of other artists into consideration. »Hearing« appears today as a piece of literature. Gregor Stemmrich edited and commented »Hearing« by Robert Morris in english…
30 Meters Stretch
30 Meters Stretch is an extension of a series of works, correspondingly titled 500 Meters Stretch, 480 Meters Stretch and so on, by Seiji Morimoto, a Japanese sound artist based in Berlin. It consists of a spool of 30 meters long, 5 cm wide, lightweight fabric, to be stretched out between trees or poles in any open space. As these long lines wave, rattle and flutter according to the wind, they make air both visible and audible.
The object’s aim is to bring the listening experience outside the a…
PM016 - 2020 Remaster
* Edition of 300 * Arbitrary presents the 2020 remaster & vinyl reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson. Originally released as limited edition C30 tape on Plant Migration Records in 2014, the four pieces on Nielsen’s first solo release are based on short orchestral and percussive samples manipulated by various synthesizer modules and effects processors. Variations are created by emphasizing …