Sound arts

Monograph based on the research of the London-Lisbon based audiovisual artist around the use of ergot in female history.

An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.

Souffle Continu Records; interviews with François Bonnet / Kassel Jaeger, Yann Gourdon, Satoko Fujii, Hans Reichel, Christophe Guérin; Lelio Giannetto; books and records reviews; contemporary Arabic poetry: Carol Sansour by Henri-Jules Julien...

First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

Two improvised concerts where are woven between the piano and the saxophone subtle games of harmonic textures, appearances of differential sounds, resonances and sometimes some more noisy sequences.

An exploration of the synesthetic phenomenon, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.

Four artist's posters.

This publication brings together the source material that has informed Marclay's visual practice over the past few years. It gathers nearly 600 black & white Xeroxes of found image collages compiled with the help of graphic designer Laurent Benner.

Two previously unreleased recordings from Philip Corner's "Gong/Ear" series of works. Side A was recorded on a South German night train ride in 1990, side B in the Alps in 1994.

A split LP featuring two complementary experimental sound performances.

Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.

Black Sifichi, Radio renversé by Elena Biserna & Carole Rieussec, Asmaa Azaizeh, Diamanda Galás, De l'utilisation de la musique sur les ondes by Jérôme Noetinger & Alphonsine Houëves, Cornelius Cardewby Matthieu Saladin, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Akira Sakata, Le conservatisme musical (et la musique à venir ?) by Kasper T. Toeplitz...

Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond compiles a selection of the visual and research materials accumulated during the development of the film and project Cemetery (2009–2019).

A piece made with materials from four artists (Arne Deforce and Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon), recorded in Marcus Schmickler's studio in Koln, with a Brauner microphone.

Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.

Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.

Formed in 2016 as the collaborative platform of composer Justin Hicks and artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos mines the history of Black music. This ongoing project has manifested in many forms: workshop, study session, concert, listening session, book, prompt, score. “Another time, this time, one time,” the first Mikrokosmos LP, uses Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Stefan Römer performs quotations from cultural or musical theoreticians commenting on performances by two iconic musicians, Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler.

Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and mixes used for the 4 sound installations, made in-situ between 2005 and 2016 (with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Arnau Horta, Seijiro Murayama and Michaële-Andréa Schatt).

C.C. Hennix realizes Karlheinz Stockhausen's famous “intuitive music” masterwork from the late Sixties.

Monograph / artist's book.

Jean-Baptiste Farkas; Nathalie Leleu; RYBN; Laura Kopf; Marianne Derrien; Dorothée Deyries-Henry; Guillaume Aubry; Étienne Charry par Hervé Zénouda; Maxime Ansiau; Carole Douillard, Amelia Jones, Suzanne Lacy & Barbara T. Smith; Éric Degoutte; Jérôme Grivel; Vaughan Oliver; Alain Bergala; Gwendoline Samidoust; Yann Ricordel; Emma Briant; Olivier Mosset...

Book / sonic sculpture.

Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.

Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition.

Karbe Dinel creates a complex work of sound that shifts through diverse moods and seamlessly dovetailed sections, using synthesizer and effects to create deep resonating tones and high pitched complements, mysterious grainy ambience, haunting chambers of drifting electronics; a mysterious and compelling journey in the electronic realm.

A piece composed by Phill Niblock, performed live by Ensemble IRE trio: Kasper T. Toeplitz (ebass), Franck Vigroux (eguitar), Hélène Breschand (e harp) on side A / a piece composed and performed by Kasper T.Toeplitz (ebass) and Franck Vigroux (guitar, electronics) on side B.

A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives.

Cornelius Cardew by Matthieu Saladin, interviews with Katsura Mouri, Franck Lilin and Evan Parker, Frédéric Tabet, contemporary Arabic poetry: Abdel Wahab Mohamed Youssef...

Dirty Ear Report #3 documents a collective workshop by sound artists and researchers working in the fields of experimental dramaturgy, sonic social engagement, and voice studies.

A village, its people, nine characters, some children, a forest. Three seasons : winter, lockdown an spring. Bruissons is the tale of a motionless journey, slightly disrupted. An exhibition – pictures, sounds. And a book.

Release of conceptual and perfomative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realised between 1974 and 1984, during Kubisch's years in Italy.

Unlike previous Gerhard Rühm editions on Tochnit Aleph which portrayed his phonetic poetry and longform radio-plays, the pieces on this edition are more conceptual, actionistic and (mostly) sound-based works recorded between 1962 and 1987.

A work Andrea Tippel started in 1993 and finished in 2009, consisting entirely of three-letter-words (two CDs in fullcolour six-panel DVD-sized digipak, with a biographical text, a chronology of the work and a text by Dorothy Iannone).

Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.

First monograph.

"Alter-" is Automatisme's reaction to altermodernism in sound art.

An extended drone work performed on organ, building from a peaceful single note to a harmonically rich and subtile combination of tones.

The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956.

Sean Baxter, Alessandro Bosetti and Hong-kai Wang, Mark Vernon, Kate Carr, Homei Yanagawa, Malaka Badr...

Thomas Köner's new album, marking the relaunch of the lengendary Mille Plateaux label.

Bruce McClure / Contemporary Arabic-language poetry: Soukaina Habiballah / Isabelle Duthoit / Jacques Brodier / Kazuo Imai / Evan Parker...

Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.

Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.

A piece of industrial musique concrète composed in the studios of GRM, created from field recordings of a vinyl record pressing plant: a mise en abyme of the record as an object.

In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.

Roven #15 is entirely devoted to the links between drawing and sound.