Music

The first monograph devoted to the entire multidisciplinary and unclassifiable body of work of French poet, writer, musician, and director F.J. Ossang, spanning more than half a century.

A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing (new edition).

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

Bill Evans / Scott LaFaro / Paul Motian (1959-1961): the story of one of the most original, dazzling and influential trios in jazz history, and of the recording of three legendary albums (new edition).

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume traces the life and career of the Lebanese composer, musician, director, and actor Ziad Rahbani (1956–2025).

For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.

Testing the Waters is a long-form electroacoustic composition unfolding through episodic movements that together trace a sonic dérive.

Considered among the most important field recordings of traditional Ethiopian music ever made, the recordings made in Addis Ababa by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrison in 1971 capture the full richness and diversity of the country’s folk music.

An audio anthology of the composer and choreographer Ernest Berk (1909–1993), a little-known pioneer of electronic and concrete music, creator of a prolific and visionary body of work, yet died in obscurity.

An audio anthology of the composer and choreographer Ernest Berk (1909–1993), a little-known pioneer of electronic and concrete music, creator of a prolific and visionary body of work, yet died in obscurity.

For its second album on the Sub Rosa label, released as a 3-CD box set, the Brussels-based string quintet BOW presents its most extensive document to date—an immersion into the heart of their practice, unfiltered and unhurried.

First reissue of Coil's seminal 1984 EP, originally released in 1984 on L.A.Y.L.A.H.

First reissue of Coil's seminal 1984 EP, originally released in 1984 on L.A.Y.L.A.H.

The Zenne Quartet performs the quartets of contemporary Belgian composer Walter Hus.

This book brings together a series of previously unpublished essays on the work of Terry Riley, accompanied by numerous never-before-seen archives. It is the first major work to offer such an in-depth exploration of his body of work and his artistic career.

This book brings together a series of previously unpublished essays on the work of Terry Riley, accompanied by numerous never-before-seen archives. It is the first major work to offer such an in-depth exploration of his body of work and his artistic career.

Silent speeches is a book on the non-compliant force of sound in contemporary art and a career-spanning catalog focusing on the employment of music, songs, and silence in the work of the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz.

The second volume of the journal investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education, edited by the international sound art and popular education collective Ultra-red, is dedicated to the "Learning Circles for Palestine."

Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.

Música para Plátanos takes its name—and much of its inspiration—from the group's recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music: improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.

Moondog's poetic autobiography.

Rabasta, the versatile project by Swiss composer and musician Benoît Moreau, draws inspiration—in this quartet configuration—from Pascal Quignard's The Hatred of Music.

Originally developed as the sonic counterpart to an exhibition by visual artist Anastasia Bay, Mæstra Lacrymæ is an opera conceived and directed by Bay and written and composed by multidisciplinary artist Joseph Schiano di Lombo.

A chronicle of the punk wave in France in the late 1970s, as seen and experienced from the inside, weaving together the memories of Miss OD, the muse of the emerging Parisian punk scene, and FanXoa, at the dawn of the formation of Béruriers / Bérurier Noir, like flashes of a remarkable, dangerous, and out-of-control era that undoubtedly still has something to say about our present day.

Interviews with Tokio Hasegawa (Taj Mahal Travellers), Ami Yoshida, and Mélodie Blaison; "writing about sound: attempts at solutions for a particularly tough algorithm" by Kasper T. Toeplitz; Jérôme Bouve by Delphine Dora; book and album reviews...

Led By Donkeys, Kenneth Goldsmith, Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff, Silvio Lorusso, Jasia Reichardt ephemeral's archive, Active and emancipatory publishing in France: the cases of Déborder Bolloré and WHOISBN, In the Aspyxiating Culture of the Total Library, Transmediale 2026 + Echoes of Tumult exhibition, Screentime/s; The Lure of the Image...

For our Autumn 2026 issue, Spike looks at the growing obsession with sound—from algorithmic earworms to immersive exhibitions and music made by machines—and asks: Why is something so elusive becoming our favorite way to set the mood?

Considered among the most important field recordings of traditional Ethiopian music ever made, the recordings made in Addis Ababa by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrison in 1971 capture the full richness and diversity of the country’s folk music.

This recording (2002) captures the two instruments central to Conrad's practice at the time: his self-built Long String Instrument and his amplified violin. He performed hidden behind a large sheet, and the nature of what unfolded behind it was never disclosed to the audience.

One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023, based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

Jacques Ponzio recounts in text and images Thelonious Monk's 10-day stay in Paris in the spring of 1954.

This publication presents the full orchestral score of Naked Blue, composed by Devonté Hynes, alongside stills from the eponymous short film by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie.

A collective reflection on the key role that creative uses (and appropriations) of new technological tools play in the evolution of musical and sound practices and cultures.

The first volume in a series dedicated to the photographic work of Peter Christopherson, co-founder of the highly influential band Coil, documents his work in the working-class neighborhoods of Glasgow in the 1970s.

A meeting of Hervé Zénouda's musical world and Anne Van Der Linden's visual one (set includes a vinyl record, a CD, 10 numbered risograph prints, an 8-page booklet, and a postcard).

A journey through the musical avant-garde movements of the 20th century, covering 200 seminal albums.

Kate Carr's new album explores a vertical trajectory through the UK capital, re-imagined from top to bottom in a suite of elegant and mysterious field recordings.

Brunhild Ferrari's new work L'oreille voleuse (The Thieving Ear) and an extraordinary live reinterpretation by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, recorded in October 2025 in Paris.

Brunhild Ferrari's new work L'oreille voleuse (The Thieving Ear) and an extraordinary live reinterpretation by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, recorded in October 2025 in Paris.

The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations.

Women in the shadows: a few Iranian female musicians; interviews with Floy Krouchi, Marianne Schuppe, Yumiko Tanaka, and Riuichi Daijo; Kamilya Jubran by Valérie Vivancos; Prune Bécheau by Adrien Bardi Bienenstock; Journey to Korea: Loïc Gendry, Sunki Kim, Jin Sangtae, by Grégoire Bressac; book and album reviews...

A series of interviews with 20 international artists, primarily electronic musicians and producers (from Laraaji to Plastikman, including Moby, Tricky, Morton Subotnick, Max Richter, Pole, and William Basinski), about the album that changed the course of their career.