Music > contemporary / electronic / experimental / improvised music
2014
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
RadioDordogne#1 is a vast montage of sound recordings made by the sound cartographers in 2014 for the web radio RadioDordogne. Sound heritage, readings, landscapes, archives, musical creations are intertwined to propose six radio pieces for listening.
2014
Arbitrary
Framework is a series of graphic scores and recordings by Copenhagen-based musician Mads Emil Nielsen. Framework 1 consists of 14 hand-drawn graphic scores, printed in risograph, with simple instructions and a recording for each score.
2014
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
First meeting recorded live at Swissnex, San-Francisco, in February 2009 (Fred Frith: electric guitar; Michel Doneda: soprano and sopranino saxes).
2013
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Christine Baudillon, Robin Fox, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 4)...
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
15.00 10.00 €
Interviews Special Issue.
2013
French edition
various
currently out of stock
A collection of original poems Leif Elggren wrote between 1970 and 2013 and translated for the first time into French. With illustrations by the author.
2013
Sub Rosa
All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.
2013
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Jonas Kocher, Guy Girard, Tetsuo Furudate, Festival Densités, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 3)...
2013
French edition
Lenka lente
(last copies available!)
Guillaume Belhomme's first fictional narrative (limited edition with a musical piece by Michael Esposito on a mini CD).
2013
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
The first poetry book wrote by the visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.
2013
Tochnit Aleph
The long overdue first proper collection of sound-poetry / musique concrete pieces by German installation & conceptual artist Michael Barthel.
2013
Tochnit Aleph
A collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84 by Dominik Steiger. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ.
2013
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
The experimental scene in Cairo, radio studios in Warsaw, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 2),
Sandra Remski's writings during live shows, the retro-krautrock-mania...
2013
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Konrad Smoleński, an active participant in both the independent music scene and the visual art scene, combines punk rock aesthetics with the precision and elegance typical for minimalism.
This book reflects on the artist's practice in the context of his most challenging and conceptually complete effort to date.
2013
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
An initiatory sound journey in the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
18.00 10.00 €
Volume #6 explores the production spaces and other
soundscapes, through the works of Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Martin Kersels,
Raymond Gervais, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller or Dan Peterman,
Marcel Broodthaers' performance at Speakers' Corner, and Audio
Arts magazine. With special interventions by Arnaud Maguet and
Cocktail Designers.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
A series of interviews with 27 international artists/musicians, centered on the relation of sound to space.
2013
Corvo Records
21.00 16.00 €
Special one-sided recording with a visible spiral loop on Side B by turntable-music performer Dieb 13.
2013
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Esther Ferrer, PaaLabRes, Eric Cordier, Le 102 in Grenoble, Lionel Marchetti, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
22.00 11.00 €
The project initiated by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder, based on the eponymous score written by Cornelius Cardew in 1967.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tacet
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.
2013
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
First monograph.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.
2013
Sub Rosa
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
2013
Sub Rosa
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
2013
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).
2013
Edition Telemark
20.00 15.00 €
First-ever release for Darmstadt-based composer Hans Essel who has been active in improvised music and “Grundlagenmusik” (foundational music) for more than 20 years.
2013
Kalerne
currently out of stock
Singing insects of the Causses, vultures feeding, passerine songs, underground streams, barking stags, rumbling storms, amphibian choruses, sheep bells... a reference in the audio-naturalist field.
2013
Corvo Records
19.00 15.00 €
Waterkil is a singular sound creation starring Axel Dörner on trumpet & Jassem Hindi on electronics. The recordings for this album were made during a three week residency at EMS in Stockholm and during a live show at Able gallery in Berlin.
2013
Corvo Records
21.00 16.00 €
The album Living Theory Without Anecdotes conflates Nicolas Wiese's acousmatic compositions from the years 2009-2011. All four tracks are constructed out of samples from acoustic instrument and object recordings, and are characterized by floating structures allowing slow crescendos and little disruptions.
2013
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
The series of "Papiers Ouverts" by Jean Degottex (1918-1978) created in 1974 and poems by Maurice Benhamou fed the improvisations of the two musicians. Ghosts, ruins, stars, rubble ... punctuate this work recorded in Belgium, Monos gallery.
2013
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
An improvised and radical meeting between Natacha Muslera's voice and Jean-Sébastien Mariage's electric guitar.
2013
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
The lyrical and earthy flight of Isabelle Duthoit, the furious growls of Johannes Bauer's dandy trombone, the electrifying stripes of Luc Ex, the legendary founder of Dutch group The Ex, produce a passionate musical mix.
2013
English edition
Mount Analogue
Tris Vonna-Michell's latest artist's record/book is constructed around two works, Capitol Complex (2012-2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012-2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages.
2012
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
In 1984, John Cage gave a concert at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Thomas Wulffen seized the opportunity to talk to him about his work, about Berlin, and about Germany. The hitherto unpublished interview shows this major avant-garde artist in a relaxed mood, perfectly at his ease, though not without a light touch of irony. An historical document.
2012
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Apo33 – Julien Ottavi, Zak Cammoun, Yan Jun, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Joris Guibert, François Bayle, Kasper Toeplitz...
2012
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
The collaboration between artist and poet Charles Pennequin, the band Gun-Gi and Laurie Franck.
2012
English edition
Errant Bodies - Doormats
Brandon LaBelle's revolutionary diary during the Arab Spring.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.
2012
bilingual (English / French)
Tochnit Aleph
2CD-Box collecting 11 pieces from Jean Dubuffet's “'Expériences musicales” (recorded in 1961) for the first time on CD.