Resonant Spaces
Edition of 300. Comes with 16pp booklet. The work presented here for the very first time is the full documentation of Japanese sound artist and instruments builder Akio Suzuki’s solo works performed as part of ‘Resonant Spaces’, a tour with UK saxophonist John Butcher arranged in 2006 by the Arika organisation. ‘Resonant Spaces’ allowed people to experience sound in some of the remotest regions of Scotland for a series of site-specific performances in natural, prehistoric, manmade and industria…
Stillness
Edition of 200. American interdisciplinary artist and composer Yann Novak returns to 901 Editions with his 4th edition for the label following ‘Blue.Hour' (2013), ‘Undefined' (with Richard Chartier, 2013), and ‘Liminality' (with Fabio Perletta, 2014). His new venture takes the form of a book and CD documenting the history of his series of works ‘Stillness' (2010–2017) through essays, photographs, and an audio CD. Stillness takes its inspiration from the two climates Novak has inhabited: Subtropi…
Installation Sounds
The first collection of works by solo artist "Radio ensembles Aiida" by female artist A. Mizuki has been completed, performing a performance using multiple BCL radios. As recorded in the title "IIn A Room (Radio of the Day #1)", all the recordings were done in her room. An everyday ensemble called Diary, which captures everything from the morning bird cries, to the rain, to the last train, to the electromagnetic waves emitted by PCs and various appliances, etc., which surround her every day. The…
Installation Sounds
2017 Release. Installation Sounds For Voltage Controlled Broken Analog Tv comprises the first installation exhibition at Contemporary Heights, and the sound of the third exhibition from here Art & Space 2016. (The sound of the second exhibition, Ginza kitchen, has not been recorded because the sound source is lost.)Recordings at Contemporary Heights include conversations in cafe spaces and classical in-store BGM. Unintended ambient feeling exudes a mysterious balance. Although the machine has no…
Kinetic Sculptures
2015 Release. Includes an insert with liner notes by Stephen Cornford (Japanese translation by Nao Nishihara and Yoko Sato) and Minoru Hatanaka (English translation by Yoko Sato and Stéphane Shibatsuji-Perrin, and an 8-page booklet with black and white photos by Stephen Cornford. CD compiling recordings of installation works for musical instruments made between 2006 and 2010. Stephen Cornford’s practice exists at the junction between sculpture and music, using sound and noise to investigate the …
Mirages
Electronic musicians Jean-Benoît Dunckel (of Air fame) and Jonathan Fitoussi have joined forces to release Mirages, a sonic exploration of analogue synthesis, released on The Vinyl Factory. Born inside the studio which Xavier Veilhan built as part of the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, the album was finished in Dunckel’s Paris-based studio, and features synthesisers amassed over several years, including an Arp 2600, PPG Wave, Synthi A, Buchla, Yamaha CS60, Korg MS20. Moving from the minimal to the…
Oscillations
Edition of 300 copies. Soundwalk Collective was given unprecedented access to the halls of the emblematic nightclub Berghain, Berlin. A re-incarnation of the legendary Ostgut club, the focal point of Berlin’s techno subculture. The Berghain building is a former East German power plant that is remarkable for its enormous dimensions, 18m high dance floor and minimalist constitution of steel, glass and concrete. An architectural space that facilitates experiences of sacredness, collective oneness a…
What We Leave Behind: Jean-Luc Godard Archives
Invited to explore the archive of the seminal French director Jean-Luc Godard, NYC and Berlin-based group Soundwalk Collective release their new album, What We Leave Behind. Drawing on Godard’s personal collection of shot film, reel-to-reels and historical ephemera, the recordings reveal the moments before and after the camera rolls, from stage directions and on-set asides to rehearsals, false stars and outtakes.“There are boxes filled with sounds, words, chaos, and also silence. For Godard soun…
Power Plants
The soundtrack to Hito Steyerl’s new film installation Power Plants features a new collaboration between UK star Kojey Radical and one of the world’s most influential and important visual artists and thinkers, and a beatific ambient classic by late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota.Exhibited at The Serpentine from April to May 2019, Power Plants features a new film work in an immersive installation that expands throughout the building, it revolves around anticipating the future in unpredictable wa…
Gasworks
Gasworks by Gerald Fiebig collects his sound installations, radiophonic compositions, and live performances relating to the former gasworks in Augsburg-Oberhausen. They were created between 2010 and 2016, some in collaboration with colleagues EMERGE and Christian Z. Müller. Among the compositional materials of the album are processed recordings of the sounds of gas and industrial machinery, stories told by a former gasworks employee, and live improvisations in the echo chamber of the large gas t…
Carillon
This LP documents two compositions that are part of Olaf Nicolai’s work Carillon: Isabel Mundry’s Outisde In, a piece for 15 cowbells, and Carillon, the field recording of a freeform composition created by 15 grazing cows.Carillon was conceived for Museion in Bolzano on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the new museum building. The first step was the production of 15 cowbells especially for this purpose. Each cowbell is different and has its own unique sound. Nicolai had commissioned the c…
Music First
A collection of music pieces composed and performed by Enrico Serotti (of Confusional Quartet fame) for the works of Eva Marisaldi. "Museum/Art" edition including 16 page coloured inner booklet with introduction by Guido Molinari.
Das Typische Ding - Reenactment I
** 2020 Stock. Art Edition of 99 copies on white vinyl. LP box with 31 sound recordings of dildos and vibrators - a noble, stamped and numbered binder made of bookcardboard with 31 illustrations by Tabea Blumenschein and 31 reviews by Katrin Kämpf on natural paper - Infotext by Wolfgang Müller in German and English.** Die Tödliche Doris are back, no kiddin': in the sound spectrum of thirty-one contemporary dildos and vibrators, we are residing in 2019 with a resurrection of The Deadly Doris. She…
Suffering For The Promised
Edition of 316 copies on black vinyl, incl. full-colour inner sleeve w/ text by the artist. Being in the making – or un-making – for the past 14 years, Stefan Roigk's Suffering For The Promised has gone through many stages, from being finished, revoked, left untouched, reworked, discussed to finally getting banned onto vinyl in its ultimate and irrevocable form. An atmospherically intense but yet utterly fragile piece, combining concrete sounds, field recordings and devotional vocal fragments to…
Spinhouse
Edition of 50 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Anna Schimkat (b 1974) is a Darmstadt born media artist and trained sculptress, living and working in Leipzig, Saxony since 2006. The first side of this release documents one of Schimkat's site specific sound installations, one of her main fields of work during the past years. »Spinhouse« is based on a 4-channel live installation, which took place in Dresden in 2014. The piece was created from and with the inherent sounds of the office build…
Degradation Loops
Clear vinyl, silk-screened sleeve, 100 hand-numbered copies. Jasmine Guffond follows from her memorably exquisite ‘Traced’ LP for Sonic Pieces with the multi-timbral iridescence of ‘Degradation Loops’ for Karl Records - plotting an increasingly obfuscated descent into the grain and ether of processed field recordings and electronics, documenting a 16 day process of sonic destruction created for an art exhibition.““Degradation Loops” started out as a sixteen day long composition for an exhibition…
Music from the Black Side
The Black Side by Søren Lyngsø Knudsen was a multidisiplinary performance about light and its absence in the Nordic countries.It was the result of 12 months extensive audio and video recordings in Norway, Denmark and Finland – put together into a performance that pulled it’s audience through pitch black darkness, fog, loneliness and blinding light.This record contains the soundtrack from the performance.
Strategic Structures
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Strategic Structures by Robert Rauschenberg, Kat Epple, and Bob Stohl, originally released in 1989. Available for the first time on vinyl, this is powerful instrumental music performed by the three on electronics, and a series of musical metal sculptures called "Strategic Structures". The sounds range from other-worldly, foreboding resonant tones, to angelic, celestial timbres. These spontaneous compositions were created and performed live, with no overdub…
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…
Music For Installations
** Temporary offer** 9 LP box edition with 64 pages book. Music For Installations is a collection of new, rare and previously unreleased music, all of which was recorded by Brian Eno for use in his installations covering the period from 1986 until the present (and beyond). Over this time, he has emerged as the leading exponent of “generative” music worldwide and is recognised as one of the foremost audio-visual installation artists of his time. "Eno's recordings and other collaborations are end…