Music

Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

All the destructive mood of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories shows: from "Classical" music to intense destructuration, a new form of Avant-garde.

Clara Levy perofms Giacinto Scelsi, Kaija Saariaho, Erika Vega and Eva-Maria Houben.

The first vinyl reissue of this legendary EP, released in 1981 on the Japanese "Chaos International Series" label.

A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.

Double issue of the journal of popular music studies, with a feature on the sound factories of the global South, and a look back at the 20th anniversary of Volume!.

I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances.

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

Christian Laurella, writer and tour manager ("orchestra conductor", as Ahmad Jamal puts it), recalls his European tours with the greatest figures in American jazz—Chet Baker, Archie Shepp, Tony Williams, Jaco Pastorius, etc.

A rereading of Kurt Schwitters' Dada sound poetry by vocalist, singer and composer Anna Clementi and sound researcher, producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Stern (Mona Mur / Einstürzende Neubauten).

Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.

The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation.

Christina Kubisch's Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results. Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.

The first ever vinyl release to attend to James Tenney's legendary "Postal Pieces", marking the first ever appearance of five of the suite's works on vinyl, drawing upon recordings made in 2003, by the Amsterdam based ensemble, The Barton Workshop, under the direction of James Fulkerson.

A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.

The first album of this new digital-drone-rock-noise/ambient/electronica project created by two founding members of Tone Rec and DAT Politics (Claude Pailliot - Gaetan Collet). Inspirational collision of motorik avant rock and heavy electronics.

The second release by Stefan Prins on Sub Rosa brings together four recent, large-scale compositions in which traditional instruments—from bass woodwind trio to electric guitar and symphonic orchestra—merge seamlessly with electronics, feedback, and field recordings.

Winter Family's 4th album, beautiful and haunting, tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.

Winter Family's 4th album, beautiful and haunting, tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.

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.

Canadian experimental artist Mark Templeton revisits and revives his sound archives with Andrew Pekler.

The second album by Rubbish Music (Kate Carr and Iain Chambers), the duo upcycling waste into immersive electroacoustic music.

Klara Lewis' latest offering is undoubtedly a heartfelt tribute to her friend, mentor and former label boss, Peter Rehberg.

Crys Cole's third solo release for the Black Truffle label, Making Conversation documents a different facet of her work, presenting three rigorously conceptualised commissioned pieces, each of which extend her signature approach to highly amplified small sounds into new directions.

The second album by the duo So Sner, composed of Susanna Gartmayer (bass clarinet) and Stefan Schneider (electronics), both stylistically cohesive and daringly uncompromising.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

Kiki Jones; Fady Joudah; Mica Levi; Pascale Ciapp; Kasper T. Toeplitz; Graham Lambkin; Risaripa; Steve Albini; David Grubbs; DASDAS...

Co-editor: Zane Cerpina; interviews with Boris Eldagsen, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, Maya Man, Molly Soda; Transmediale 2024; REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art...

16 international sound artists and musicians explore the materiality, spatiality, technicality and diverse cultural, social and political forms of sound, questionning the relationship between improvisation and composition, between performance and installation, etc.

A musique concrète piece divided into five movements, based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within circuses between 1988 and 1993.

Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.

Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project invites artists and researchers to explore and unravel the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.

Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.

An album recorded in different parts of the world, in which the Canadian composer and sound artist explores how quantum mechanics profoundly influences the perception of sound.

An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).

2024 repress of KMRU's first release for Editions Mego.

The reissue of Chico Mello and Helinho Brandão's self-titled release from 1984, the first return to vinyl of this classic of Brazilian experimental music with its original cover art and complete track listing.

The first vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom's unique Future Travel, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously unheard live and studio material from the same period.

More than two years after the release of "Impressões de Outra Ilha", Discrepant's head honcho returns home under his birth name with the appropriately titled "Exotic Immensity". Conjured from the seeds of an exhibition of dioramas at Le Bon Accueil in Rennes, this double LP feels quietly epic in scope, a sprawling travelogue through imagined scenarios and what if possibilities.

Lisbon-based travellers Jibóia return to the Discrepant label with a new offering of globetrotting psychedelia.

Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ.

The long running vessel for Cameron Stallones' psychedelic excursions, Sun Araw, returns to Discrepant, using hydrophones and digital synthesis.

On "Cycle and Prayer," Indonesian experimental musician and instrument builder Wukir Suryadi expands the edges of his unique artistic world further, by digging in to meditative improvisation, art, and community building in his home workshop in the mountains of central Java.