Sound arts

Mark Leckey, Ruth Ewan, Tom Marioni and the sonic explorations in San Francisco Bay, Robert Morris, Pierre Henry, Louie Louie, Dora García, Hannah Rickards...

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).

A piece for mezzo-soprano, voices, instrumental ensemble, electronics and videos (with a DVD, with no sound, to synchronise, or not, with the CD).

These studies confront real spaces captured in the field and others reconstructed in the studio.

The visual score of L'Étonnement sonore by Carole Rieussec, Johann Maheut, and Guillaume Robert; Faire un bruit qui me ressemble, Vomir and Francisco Meirino, by Kasper T. Toeplitz; John Cage's Williams Mix reinterpretated by Valerio Tricoli and Werner Dafeldecker; Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick's Parades and Changes; Quelques compositeurs du Royaume-Uni by Tim Parkinson; Ring Modulation 3, la pensée électronique by KTT...

CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.

Reference monograph.

Conversations between Alessandro Bosetti, Peter ablinger, Tomomi Adachi, Arturas Bumsteinas, Jennifer Walshe & Alexander Waterman, interview with Joëlle Léandre, Cornelius Cardew's Teatrise by Matthieu Saladin and by some interpreters (Oren Ambarchi, Didier Aschour, Arturas Bumsteinas, Laurent Dailleau, Jean-Marc Montera, Jim O'Rourke, Julien Ottavi, Jean-Jacques Palix, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmikler & John Tilbury), Connivence des extrêmes by Xavier Hug, Ring-Modulation#2 by Kasper Toeplitz...

For its 88th issue (special issue limited to 666 copies!), the quaterly magazine turns into a carte blanche given to more than 80 personalities related to various experimental sound practices. A tribute to the do-it-yourself way.

In the cross-over between sound and architecture.

Third issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...).

First monograph (video installations, mechanical, electronic, light and sound devices, living or naturalized animals, sculptures, performances, photographs and drawings...), with two essays and a conversation with the artist.

A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).

A collection of the audible traces of dancing bodies (audio CD with booklet).

Kasper T. Toeplitz / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe / Captain Beefheart / Rolf Julius / Jean-François Denis (Diffusion i Média / empreintes DIGITALes) / a history of metal, from Black Sabbath to Sunn O))) / chronic, readings, records, news, concerts...

A fanzine dedicated to the relationship between visual arts and music.

Retrospective monograph: a complete overview of the visual and sound works by Rainier Lericolais.

Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.

John Wynne's untitled installation for 300 speakers, pianola and vacuum cleaner, at once monumental, minimal and immersive, using sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.

Three sound compositions by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan's capital.

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin & Ray Brassier / chroniques / Jean-Claude Eloy / Thierry Madiot / Seijiro Murayama / Taku Sugimoto / L'interaction par et pour tous, Patricia Kuypers / Emmanuel Adely / disques / concerts / infos / index.

Sound and auditory experience as platforms for social meeting, urban intervention and environmental investigation.

Sixteen visual artists give their vision of Clair Obscur's album We Gave A Party For The Gods And The Gods All Came.

A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.

Sound installations by the French graphic design studio.

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin / chroniques / Mastering / Interfaces / L'interaction par et pour tous, Carole Rieussec / Cave12 / disques / notes de lectures / concerts / infos / index.

New musical practices, modes of production and reception of culture, since the emergence of electronic music in the 1990s.

Soundtrack for an exotic elevator, innocent muzak, only a priori, an orchestra with sequins and cheap junk (the soundtrack of Pierre Beloüin's eponymous installation).

The first monographic book of the Belgium interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism LAb[au].

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin / chroniques / Tenko / The Amine ß Ring / L'interaction par et pour tous, Perrine Maurin / Mazen Kerbaj / Max-Msp#1.1.1.3 / disques / concerts / infos / index.

Conceived as an homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics is a project that focuses on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. The work deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ryoji Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.”

Conceived as an homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics is a project that focuses on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. The work deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ryoji Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.”

An essay on Saâdane Afif's work.

Chroniques / « Metal Machine Theory » par Mattin / Marc Namblard / Wandelweiser / Christian Zanési / L'interaction par & pour tous – Patricia Dallio / disques / notes de lecture / infos / concerts / index.

Chroniques / « Obsolescence » – Ça sent le pâté par eRikm / Alan Vega / Antoine Chessex / Wandelweiser / L'interaction par & pour tous – Aurore Gruel / disques / lectures / chroniques bis / infos / concerts / index.

First monograph.

A “kit” resulting from the two working visual artists Pierre Beloüin and P. Nicolas Ledoux's cross work.

Julien Martin / Akio Suzuki (Resonant Spaces Festival, 2006) / Michael Pisaro / Jean-François Pauvros / underground musics in France...

Écoutes, de l'entendre au faire (trois points de vue sur le son enregistré) / Pierre Redon (Art et environnement, les artistes au service de l'écologie ?) / Hans Tammen / Chris Corsano & Mick Flower / Chroniques d'arts sonores (Samuel Mittelman, Philippe Baudouin, Gwladys Déprez & Magali Schuermans) / disques, infos, concerts... / CD audio.

David Tudor (Rainforest IV by Kasper T. Toeplitz) / Lee Patterson / MAX/MSP1.1.2 (Kasper T. Toeplitz and Fred Voisin) / Circle X / records, infos, concerts...

A collection of works from 1999 to the present, delivering an important overview of the artist/musician's pursuit of the uncanny within the everyday.

An audio work by Peter Downsbrough, in collaboration with two musicians of the Buffle collective Xavier Garcia-Bardon and Benjamin Franklin.

The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.

First publication dedicated to Christian Marclay's photographic practice.

The 15th Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RIAP) in Quebec: sound performance, poetry, action art.

A complete overview of a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic and musical sculpture's work, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD with musical installations recordings.