Sound arts

An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.

Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.

LP debut of the Dutch vocalist Janneke van der Putten. Her voice emerges from deeper grounds, shaping the acoustic aura of architectural and natural spaces, exploring the limits of vocal techniques through site-specific performances.

Félicia Atkinson's new artist's book, bringing together photographs, drawings and poems.

A split on 4 sides gathering 10 musicians, poets and poetesses around texts written and read by Gilles Furtwängler.

An artistic research project led between 2019 and 2022, investigating how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of our outdoor sound environment.

Victoria Shen; contemporary Arabic poetry: Rasha Omran; Anthony Pateras by Delphine Dora; Christina Kubisch in conversation with Carole Rieussec and Elena Biserna; Alexandre Chanoine; Sister Iodine; Léo Dupleix; Jeanne Lee; 80 album reviews...

The recording of a literary interpretation of a performance by the artist Pablo Pijnappel.

An imaginary dictionary that navigates between language and landscape, notation and noise.

Les Cahiers du son invite to discover the stimulating inventiveness which, today, animates sound creation in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

The debut of the duo Damāvand (Gianluca Ceccarini and Alessandro Ciccarelli), a tribute to the 18th Century Armenian poet and musician Sayat Nova, weaves a sprawling sense of rhythmic abstraction from ancient poetic touchstone, offering further proof that the future of ambient music is now.

A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.

Never released before recordings by the improvising quartet Alterations (active from 1977 to 1986, and reforming in 2015) from Logos Foundation live sessions at Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium on January 3, 1981.

The new album of the French duo Puce Moment—a climatic music, often inhabited by a strong emotional power.

Laszlo Umbreit's album Pas de regrets combines electronic sounds with recorded memories and various materials to create a unique listening experience.

The Parc la Villette, Paris, as told by a series of mobile barriers.

The first collaboration recorded on CD between the two American artists and musicians, based on a process of reciprocal sending of electronic and acoustic sound sources, reworked successively by each and then together, gives rise to a series of delicately crafted and wonderfully evocative atmospheric pieces.

By now a regular and esteemed presence among the Discrepant sprawling household via releases with projects such as Alförjs, Banha da Cobra or Jibóia, Mestre André "resurrects" his O Morto alias (bad pun somewhat intended) after 2016 "The Forest, The People And The Spirits".

First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".

First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".

Swedish drone alchemist Mats Erlandsson is sitting in a fictional room on "Gyttjans Topografi", imagining a virtual chamber orchestra using zithers, tapes, double bass, harmonium, organ, and various synthesisers to draft a treatise on alternative tuning and non-normative harmonic structures. Transcendent material.

First compilation on LP of the sound works of the two Dutch visual artists, demonstrating that sound produced by the Bosch & Simons music machines can also be listened to as autonomous "music".

Bill Noir; contemporary Arabic poetry: Mouna Ouafik; Bani Khoshnoudi by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; Sister Iodine by Michel Henritzi; interview with Emmanuel Lalande; Stefan Fraunberger by Delphine Dora; Willem Breuker by Gérard Rouy; book and record reviews...

A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.

The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.

The posthumous album of naturalist field recordings from The London Sound Survey: a sound-journey through the dark in East Anglia, roaming across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to places whose sounds have a precarious existence outside the crowded realities of modern everyday life.

Recordings from two installations/performances by the Berlin-based sound artist that explore the physical presence of sound phenomena, by producing the impact of electronic music but with purely acoustic means.

The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.

An autobiographical artist-talk as a performance delivered from the artist's bed over Zoom.

A sound and music experience along the Dordogne river, with Le Chant du Moineau and the Ensemble UN orchestra (Pascal Battus, Benjamin Bondonneau, Michel Doneda, Jérôme Noetinger, Mathieu Werchowski...), and a group of invited researchers (with a composition by Lionel Marchetti on CD and a film by Camille Auburtin on DVD).

Curva Cieca Oblio was born out of the collaboration between two artists whose paths have intertwined many times over the course of twenty years. The work of Muna Mussie, who investigates the languages of the visual and performing arts, for this creation on record extends and enters into a fusional dialogue with the rigorous and prismatic sound vision of Massimo Carozzi, also an explorer of the relationships between different languages.

Vernascacadabra is a series of compositions for ocarina as a part of an artistic journey through the history of music routes that Invernomuto has been carrying out for years, starting from the sound and the imagery it generates.

A semi-digital audio publication by performance artist and musician from Northwestern Quebec Emilie Roby.

An exhibitions book including 2 CDs with new pieces by Phill Niblock performed By Stephen O'Malley, Deborah Walker, Kasper Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux, David Maranha and many others.

An album of lost Derek Bailey sessions recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Morrow, that testifies to his art of collective experimentation.

A two-part musique concrète piece by Canedicoda (Ottaven) and Renato Grieco (kNN).

Interviews with Valérie Vivancos, Alexis Degrenier, Lao Dan and Li Jianhong; what modes of travel for experimental music? by Heddy Boubaker; the French collective Muzzix, by Gérard Rouy; Antoine Freychet by Grégoire Bressac; focus on Fou Records; about sixty reviews of records and books...

Listening as a creative and critical force, relational capacity, philosophical, political and ecological proposition, and research method.

A sketch history of the 1980s American home-taping and electronic music scene through the career of sound artist, field recordist, percussionist, and visual artist Jeph Jerman.

Recording of the evaporation of 785 grammes of water, namely the average quantity of water that a body loses during an office working day, according to Carrier thermal balance statistics.

Live performance of the artists Jacopo Benassi (voice, guitar, dildo and japanese axe), Michele Lombardelli and Luca Scarabelli (guitar and analog devices) at the RetroStudio, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, 11 July 2022. Including a 16-page booklet of photos by Jacopo Benassi.

A sonic time capsule translating the web-based project joyfully-waiting.ch into a tactile medium.

This project is a musical composition that employs the technique of deriving and expanding upon the fragmentary. It is an investigation that is, in advance, lost in the midst of stories that come back again and again, told in disorder, illuminated from other angles or revealed by new links.

An exploration of the shifting acoustic ecology of the Western Isles.

An anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking (new edition).

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.