Sound arts

This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.

The first monograph devoted to the Swiss artist's immersive installations of found objects and sound machines.

Céline Guichard; Dalia Taha; on autodidacticism in music, by Fanny Chiarello; towards intercultural listening, a conversation between Kristoff K. Roll and the Mexican collective La Lleca; interviews with Alexandra Spence and Ayami Suzuki; Noises at Pompidou: a conversation between Marion Camy-Palou, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Nicolas Ballet; creating in psychic precariousness, by Aude Romary; book and record reviews..

The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, Marja Ahti, Scott Arford, Nicolas Debade, Michael Gatt, Tim Ingold, Rolf Julius, Jules Négrier, John Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Hildegard Westerkamp, Randy Yau...).

Gilles Aubry's composition "L'Makina" is a haunting soundscape that combines AI-generated sound textures with modular synths. Structured in two parts, the piece explores the spectral possibilities of a virtual sound model developed using a machine learning algorithm, in collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou.

New Environments & Rhythm Studies is a further attempt to re-describe past tropes which laid claims to authentically represent music and sound from beyond the Western world (exotica, ethnomusicology, field recording) as undertakings of the imaginary.

A moment in bird territory: a musical piece created live in an aviary fitted out with musical instruments, in which visitors are invited to stay in the company of some sixty live Australian finches, hopping quietly (and harmoniously) on 12 tuned electric guitars that have become perches.

Robert Millis' first album with the Discrepant label explores his obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies.

People Like Us, the project of artist Vicki Bennet returns to Discrepant with a special vinyl release of "Copia". This album marks the first new musical material since 2018, delving into the profound realms of existential collage and sampling, celebrating these forms as expressions of timeless connectivity.

Eight sound pieces delicately handcrafted like a game between inside and outside.

The genealogy of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's aquatic, immersive, multisensory installation, developed in over twenty versions over thirty years.

A portfolio of 15 graphic scores (printed on different types of paper) by musician, artist, composer and sound artist. Alan Courtis

A stunningly, beautiful, multidimensional mercurial work by mysterious Berlin-based composer, music producer, instrument builder and artist Konrad Sprenger (Jörg Hiller), collaborator of Arnold Dreyblatt, Ellen Fullman, Phillip Sollmann and Oren Ambarchi.

The soundtrack to the eponymous debut feature-length animation film by Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer, composed by Anthony Pateras and released as a stand-alone album, recorded with a slew of guest musicians: 29 pieces based on "weird folk melodies ornamented with electro-acoustics," imbued with a sense of mystical surrealism, otherworldly and haunting.

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Critical insight onto creative methods and discourses central to the field of sound art.

Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices.

For their first collaboration, Marc Baron and Éric La Casa decided to examine representation from the angle of "counterfeiting", in order to think about our relationship to recording and the archive. It's a question of countering the way we fix reality, as if to get rid of all realism.

Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.

Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.

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.

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.

This monograph focuses on a multimedia installation by Samson Young that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, experiences of time, and AI. Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the research of the artist.

A new collection of pieces originating from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones, deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract, deterritorialized musical journeys.

Three pieces by Jason Kahn (voice, acoustic guitar, harmonium) recorded during an artistic residency at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan, on September 13-14, 2023.

The first publication dedicated to the practice of Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, a central figure in the Portuguese art scene, both in exploratory music, performance, and visual arts.

A solo CD based essentially on sound recordings in commercial ports.

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.

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.

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.

A vociferous attempt to Shout The Self Out by Elvin Brandhi.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

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.

Alison Flora; Violette Abu Jalad; Ear We Are 2025 by Jérôme Noetinger; Nina Garcia; Eryck Abecassis; Richard Wilson Avena; the Entrefer label & Carbon Sink; Canadian Connection by Pierre Durr...

Pastel paintings by Jean-Guy Coulange.

Consisting of a richly illustrated booklet and a record vinyl, this special release accompanies the performative sound-based project A Comparative Dialogue Act by artists Andrea Mancini and the collective Every Island, hosted in the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Six sound games to play at home or on stage, even without musical expertise! (a project by the Jeux Sonores collective, initiated in 2021 by Sébastien Roux, which brings together five people with a variety of practices and backgrounds, at the intersection of the sound arts, musical mediation and scientific research).

Five improvisational pieces in which the instruments of Bertrand Gauguet (alto and baritone saxophones) and Jean-Luc Petit (contrabass clarinet and sopranino saxophone) swap from one track to the next, with timbres and temperaments varying according to the time of day.

A collaboration between performer Silvia Costa and musician Claudio Rocchetti.

The first major catalogue on one of the most important Lettrist artists.

Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker pursue their exploration of the computer music system invented by Xenakis.

The third thematic volume on the "Aquapelagos" series, a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities.

The first album to come out of the collaboration between Jason Kahn (electronics) and Magda Mayas (piano and objects), who have been playing together regularly in concert since 2012.

The first-ever release on vinyl of the important 2001 lowercase work "Forms of Paper" by Steve Roden. Lovingly remastered by Taylor Deupree of 12K Masters in 2024 from the original recording, this limited-edition LP features Steve Roden's artwork on the cover/packaging.