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Reissue of Jim O'Rourke's album recorded 1997-1999 in NY, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö, originally released on Mego in 2001, with a bonus disc featuring unreleased material from the same period, sourced from O'Rourke's vast archive, with new artwork.

First publication dedicated to Christian Marclay's photographic practice.

An open-end art book project that, like a diary, expresses the present state of Cosmic Wonder in printed form, with a fold-out poster and 2 audio CDs.

An extensive essay, Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts.

Pauline Oliveros's early and definitive contribution to the tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties.

A filmed portrait of David Toop through his records collection (from Pan Sonic to Australian frogs recordings), a conversation about hidden connections between different kinds of music, and about the fine line between music and non music.

The book reunites some of the performer, musician, visual artist and filmmaker's most important films and projections to date, with five important essays and an interview by Michael Snow.

Monograph on the berliner artist / musician (Noto / Alva Noto / Raster Noton).

The fifth volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1920-2007), including unreleased material and rarities (Charlemagne Palestine, Wolf Vostell, Pere Ubu, Dub Taylor, Henri Chopin, Raoul Hausmann, Mauricio Kagel, Dajuin Yao, Alireza Mashayekhi, Sutcliffe Jügend, Vladimir Mayakovsky...).

Monograph with selected artworks, audio, installations and performances from Duncan's different periods of work, with descriptions of his most significant events, illustrated with photos and drawings, many of which will be published for the first time. Includes many articles, and a CD of Duncan's audio work.

Two films straddling the line between documentary and audio-visual meditations on landscape.

The second volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1937-2005), including unreleased material (Maja Ratkje, Beatriz Ferreyra, Laurie Spiegel, Vibracathedral Orchestra...) and rarities (György Ligeti, François Bayle + Robert Wyatt + Kevin Ayers, Les Rallizes Dénudés...).

Reference monograph: an overview of a sound art pionner's career through documentation of seminal projects, including a CD of works ranging from early performance experiments to current digital projects.

The third volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1952-2004).

Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, exploring the relationship between sound and space.

The second volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1936-2003), including unreleased material (Laibach, Alan R. Splet, Kim Cascone, Autechre, Tod Dockstader, Scanner, Morton Subotnick) and rarities (Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, SPK, Luc Ferrari...).

159 minutes of minimal electronic music, readings, soundtracks from the archives of Angus MacLise 1963-1976.

The first volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1921-2001), with some major works (Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Henri Pousseur, Konrad Boehmer, Luigi Russolo), a few rarities (John Cage, Nam June Paik, Gordon Mumma, Walter Ruttmann) and plenty of previously unreleased material (Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, DJ Spooky, Ryoji Ikeda, Pauline Oliveros, Angus MacLise, Philip Jeck, Survival Research Laboratories...).

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

An anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, bringing together a collection of essays, interviews, meditations, visual projects, text-sound scores and audio by some of the leading individuals in the field of cultural and performance studies, experimental music and contemporary art.

The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.

The Rectange label "recycled" by Otomo Yoshihide.

An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.

A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.

Three tracks recorded in one day at the Studio des Variétés in Paris in 1994. First a kind of Aylmerian hymn in six saxophone layers (2 percussive, 2 high-pitched and 2 melodic), then a sax piece treated with a multitude of superimposed effects, then an improvisation on samples recorded previously in solo.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia...

Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features.