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A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

A series of short sound interventions, in pairs, in public spaces in Paris, both outdoors (passages, squares, esplanades, parks) and indoors (bridges, tunnels), from the Bois de Vincennes to La Défense, between May and October 2025.

For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2025 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).

Created for instrumental ensemble, electronics and film, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon is a spacious and quietly enigmatic work by composer and writer Zeynep Toraman, bringing together clarinet, cello, violin, electric guitar and electronic textures with a subtly unfolding visual layer.

The meeting between Fred Frith's guitar strings and percussionist Karen Stackpole's gongs.

An album entirely dedicated to the sound composition created by Éric La Casa for Luke Fowler's film A Grammar for Listening, based on recordings (images and sounds) made in Paris and Glasgow. A new stereo version from 2023 interacts with the original mono soundtrack from 2009.

Mémoire Magnétique, vol.3 allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Bernard Parmegiani's personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the screen or the performing arts.

This compilation allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Jean Schwarz's personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the dance, screen or the performing arts.

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

Listening as a means of building community and knowledge.

Off The Record by French collagist Roméo Poirier is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public.

A poetic wander through the city of Kyoto, between observation and listening.

Comprised of two expansive, sidelong pieces composed entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer, The Dip signals a subtle yet significant shift in the Berlin-based artist and composer Thomas Ankersmit's trajectory, imbuing the hyper-physical, psychoacoustic intensities of his live performances with introspective, atmospheric, and even melodic elements.

Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.

Second Black Truffle release from French composer Léo Dupleix featuring the quartet Asterales comprising of Dupleix alongside Jon Heilbron, Rebeccas Lane and Fredrik Rasten. Austere, elegant and seductive pieces for flute, guitar, double bass, synth, harpsichord, spinet and voice.

The first collaborative release from Giuseppe Ielasi and Jack Sheen: 14 pieces presenting a delicate balancing between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance, imbued with a distinctive lightness of touch and a subtly psychedelic approach to the stereo field.

Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".

A book of drawings by artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna that mirrors various sound compositions with an economy of gesture at its core. playful in form,

Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.

An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.

Mike Majkowski makes his debut on Hands in the Dark Records with Invisible, a selection of six moody and mysterious pieces produced between 2019 and 2025—a deep dive into loop-based, gritty ambient dub electronica.

Pierre Bastien deepens his exploration of “elsewhere,” as well as the materiality of sound, through the machinery of his vast Mecanium.

Joke Lanz; female duo (Ana da Silva & Phew, Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, etc.); Magali Dougoud; François Bayle; Céleste Gatier; Banetoriko; Ed Williams; Madelyn Byrd & Ashlynn White; Nicolas Field & Thomas Florin; book and record reviews...

A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.

The Zenne Quartet performs the quartets of contemporary Belgian composer Walter Hus.

A 2-CD collaborative album between Californian guitarist Henry Kaiser and Czech musician and composer P.ST.

Rhythmic, exotic, deep & primitive sounds for post modern ears: the first album by the acoustic ensemble founded by Daniel Denis (Univers Zéro) and Alain Neffe (Pseudocode).

Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to the master of minimalism Alvin Lucier.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.

A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

A meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architectural spaces.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

A sensitive work with which radio art and field recording composition pioneer Brunhild Ferrari revisits and recomposes her impressions of the past and her sensory reminiscences.

This rich collection spans much of Annette Vande Gorne's long career, and gives a great sense of the stylistic variety of her work.

Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.

L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.

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.

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..

Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...

The first two albums of the fictional and conceptual girl band comprising Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner.

Andrzej Karałow's piano metamorphoses in the cogs of Jérôme Noetinger's tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror: a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.

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...).