Blank Forms

Blank Forms is a nonprofit organization supporting emerging and historically significant artists who produce work across disciplines, often rooted in traditions of experimental and creative music. Blank Forms aims to establish new frameworks to preserve, nurture, and present these artists' work and to build platforms for practices underrepresented in art's commercial, institutional, and historical fields. Blank Forms collaborates with artists on commissions, exhibitions, publications as well as archival and estate projects within contemporary cultural ecosystems and in perpetuity. In presenting and documenting this work, Blank Forms seeks to foster an artistic community founded upon engaged and equitable conversations across continents, media, and generations
Blank Forms has among its board of directors and curatorial advisory board: David Grubbs, Robbie Lee, Moriah Evans, Nadia Berenstein, Arani Bose, Joe Grimm, Hannah Hoffman, Lawrence Kumpf, Ciarán Finlayson, Alexander Lau, Josiah McElheny, Louise Neri, Marina Rosenfeld, Kim Schnaubert, Jacques Louis Vidal, Andros Zins-Browne, Charles Curtis, Neneh Cherry, Thulani Davis, Kim Gordon, Shelley Hirsch, Sanya Kantarovsky, Arto Lindsay, Branden W. Joseph, Tommy McCutchon, Ikue Mori, Joe McPhee, Aki Onda, Tony Oursler, Benjamin Piekut, and Mónica de la Torre.
 
New York
 
78 titles
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Sonny Simmons - Better Do It Now before You Die Later - Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin
2025
English edition
forthcoming
The raucous autobiography of the famed New York free jazz pioneer.
Éliane Radigue - Blank Forms - Alien Roots
2025
English edition
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms offers an exceptional insight into the work, working methods and thinking of the French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Éliane Radigue, through key texts, a wealth of archival documents, in-depth interviews and commissioned essays.
 7038634357 - Waterfall Horizon (vinyl LP)
2025
7038634357's second album with Blank Forms Editions, written for live performance and workshopped over successive shows during a 2022 tour: hallmarks of the artist's prior, studio-crafted recordings—slow-burning ambience and obfuscating digital distortion—are pared back, revealing borderline pop inflections.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (CD)
2025
Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.
Hanne Lippard - How do I know if my cat likes me? (vinyl LP)
2025
currently out of stock
An existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday—corporatized minimalism tinged with cool formalism, structured by the deft deployment of sonic and lyrical repetition.
Hanne Lippard - How do I know if my cat likes me? (CD)
2025
currently out of stock
An existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday—corporatized minimalism tinged with cool formalism, structured by the deft deployment of sonic and lyrical repetition.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (vinyl LP)
2025
Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.
Stefan Tcherepnin - Return of the SAD 1024, Vol. I (vinyl LP)
2025
Contemporary artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin Stefan Tcherepnin—nephew of the inventor behind the Serge Modular system—meets electronic musician Anders Enge, on a suite of playfully haywire demonstrations of the vintage modular synth at EMS Stockholm.
Stefan Tcherepnin - Return of the SAD 1024, Vol. II (vinyl LP)
2025
Contemporary artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin Stefan Tcherepnin—nephew of the inventor behind the Serge Modular system—meets electronic musician Anders Enge, on a suite of playfully haywire demonstrations of the vintage modular synth at EMS Stockholm.
 Gray/Smith - Heels in the Aisle (vinyl LP)
2025
The sophomore effort from Gray/Smith refines their petroleum-based, hard-lullaby sound with a decidedly dusty precision. To call this pair's brand of country-rock détournement "cosmic" would be too breezy: L. Gray and Rob Smith prefer to stare into sunken depths, channeling their recondite affections for lay-by mauve zones and red-dirt guitar wanderings.
Florian Hecker - Resynthese FAVN (10 CD + 3 booklet box set)
2025
Resynthese FAVN is a ten-CD box set and publication presenting a new realization of Florian Hecker's 2017 thirteen-channel installation of the same name.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord (vinyl LP)
2025
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord (CD)
2025
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
2024
English edition
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
 The Shadow Ring - The Shadow Ring (1992-2002) (11 CD + DVD + book box set)
2024
English edition
A comprehensive overview of the work produced by British musicians Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, and later Tim Goss over the course of a decade, across eleven CDs and a DVD, accompanied by an nearly five-hundred-page book.
 Atrás del Cosmos - Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (vinyl LP)
2024
Issued on LP for the first time, Atrás del Cosmos's Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams,, originally issued on cassette in 1980, is a heady and lush live set by who many consider to be the first free jazz ensemble in Mexico.
James Rushford - Turzets (vinyl LP)
2024
Turzets collects a pair of new works primarily created and recorded in 2023 while the Australian composer-performer was in residence at La Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland: somewhat a departure for Rushford, working in traces of Klaus Schulze, concrete poetry, and ars subtilior into a precise and ever-unfolding tapestry.
Steve Cannon - Groove, Bang and Jive Around
2024
English edition
New edition of Steve Cannon's riotous 1969/71 erotic novel Groove, Bang and Jive Around, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth," with a foreword from Darius James and an afterword by poet Tracie Morris.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (2 vinyl LP)
2024
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (CD)
2024
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Charlemagne Palestine - DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz ferrrr SSSOFTTT DIVINI TIESSSSS!!!!!!!!! (vinyl LP)
2024
currently out of stock
Two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century.
Wesley Brown - Blue in Green (paperback edition)
2023
English edition
Wesley Brown narrates the day when trumpeter Miles Davis was assaulted by the New York Police Department. A dramatic and humorous story, told from multiple perspectives including that of Frances Taylor, Davis's wife, and the musicians in Davis's bands: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis.
Tori Kudo - Ceramics
2023
English edition
Tori Kudo's ceramics.
 7038634357 - Neo Seven (vinyl LP)
2023
7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.
Dean Roberts - May 99 (vinyl LP)
2023
29.00 26.90 €
The experiments of three musicians with different backgrounds who improvise together around continuous sinusoidal waves, between minimal and rock sensibilities.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 CD)
2023
currently out of stock
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Graham Lambkin - The Cat & Bells Club (vinyl LP)
2023
The very first completely handmade and almost unreleased recordings of Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris under the name of Cat & Bells Club, prefiguring The Shadow Ring.
 Lary 7 - Larynx (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Recorded in Lary 7's legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon's hybrid music and engineering practice.
Louis Reyes Rivera - A Strange Celestial Road - My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
2023
English edition
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Curtis Cuffie -
2023
English edition
The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.
Jerry Hunt - Irida Records - Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979–1986  (7LP Box + Book)
2022
The astounding reedition of seven albums exploring the electro-acoustic experiments of Texan composer-performer Jerry Hunt and others affiliated with his Irida label.
Akio Suzuki - New Sense of Hearing (vinyl LP)
2022
Available for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus.
Akio Suzuki - New Sense of Hearing (CD)
2022
Available for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus.
Wesley Brown - Blue in Green
2022
English edition
Wesley Brown narrates the day when trumpeter Miles Davis was assaulted by the New York Police Department. A dramatic and humorous story, told from multiple perspectives including that of Frances Taylor, Davis's wife, and the musicians in Davis's bands: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis.
The Cricket - Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
2022
English edition
Complete facsimile of The Cricket, an important but underknown music magazine edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A. B. Spellman, and Larry Neal in 1968–69—a rare document of the Black Arts Movement.
Jerry Hunt - Blank Forms - Transmissions from the Pleroma
2022
English edition
The height entry in Blank Forms' ongoing series of anthologies is devoted to the Amercian experimental musician/composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt.
Jerry Hunt - Ground - Five Mechanic Convention Streams (vinyl LP)
2022
The final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt's compositional process.
Kazuki Tomokawa - A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth (vinyl LP)
2022
Vinyl reissue of the third album of the Japanese "screaming philosopher" (1977), the culmination of his introspective approach to the search for a "music of the self".
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