Music > experimental / contemporary / electronic / electroacoustic / improvised music
2025
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
forthcoming
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms offers a detailed look at the elusive work of the French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Éliane Radigue.
2025
Persistence of Sound
forthcoming
A new collection of pieces originating from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones, deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract, deterritorialized musical journeys.
2025
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
Breathtaking a cappella interpretations of the Octonaires de la Vanité du Monde by Paschal de L'Estocart (1582) and pieces from the Geneva Psalter (1562) meet the reworkings of Sylvain Chauveau.
2025
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
An album based on a cruel text by Moldavian writer Nicola Esinencu, somewhere in between a hybrid electronic – modern classical oratorio and a concept album.
2025
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
An album based on a cruel text by Moldavian writer Nicola Esinencu, somewhere in between a hybrid electronic – modern classical oratorio and a concept album.
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The very personal New Year's greetings published by the Swiss artist in the form of zines over the last twenty years.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
forthcoming
Ross Bolleter's latest collection of poems draws on his experience as a musician/composer especially in the field of ruined piano, and includes tributes to Thelonious Monk and other luminaries who have inspired him over a lifetime of musical and poetic creation. This new book explores the themes of childhood, eros, love, death—and football.
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
Two short stories by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
2025
Faitiche
forthcoming
A remastered 20th-anniversary reissue of the album released on the ~scape label in 2005 and long out of print on vinyl, with which Jan Jelinek turned away from his earlier jazz-glitch experiments and dance-floor incursions to venture into the organic sounds of early krautrock bands.
2025
Room40
forthcoming
A series of electric guitar duet meditations.
2025
Editions Mego
forthcoming
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker pursue their exploration of the computer music system invented by Xenakis.
2025
Editions Mego
forthcoming
A previously unreleased theatre soundtrack made for Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, whom Peter Rehberg had a decade long collaboration with until his untimely passing in 2021. A psychological journey through the mental effects of sound on space and subsequently the mind.
2025
Black Truffle
forthcoming
A rare solo release from Konrad Sprenger, alias of elusive Berlin composer-producer-instrument builder Jörg Hiller.
2025
Discrepant
forthcoming
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.
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
The original score composed by Paolo Spaccamonti for the eponymous theatrical production directed by Valerio Binasco and produced by Teatro Stabile di Torino. The music, both haunting and subtle, mirrors the play's minimalist and intense staging, immersing listeners in an evocative soundscape that blends ambient textures with guitar-driven melodies.
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
"I hate all the words" by Luca Scarabelli and Michele Lombardelli's Untitled Noise, the eight instalments in the celebrated Die Schachtel's "Decay music" series, is a concept album composed of three tracks designed to explore the remote and hidden depths of psyche.
2025
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
forthcoming
The sophomore effort by the German band Schatterau, as its title implies, delves into the cyclical nature of time, through 17 vignettes that reflect on the seasons, capturing their unique light and sounds, the passage of time, and the interplay of movement and stillness, as well as the perpetual transformation that leads to new beginnings.
2025
Xing
forthcoming
A collaboration between performer Silvia Costa and musician Claudio Rocchetti.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vroum - Editions
forthcoming
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).
2025
Timeless
forthcoming
The re-release of the much-sought-after art book by Coil's John Balance—the first ever extensive overview of his drawings, paintings and sketches—in a reformatted and largely redesigned edition.
2025
English edition
MER. Books
A stark and contemplative tribute to composer and intellectual Alain Pierre (1948-2024) by Belgian artist Tim Onderbeke.
2025
Editions (Jason Kahn)
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.
2025
Editedby
currently out of stock
Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Farida Amadou & Martina Berther; Cécile Babiole; LUFF 2024; Fuji|||||||||||ta; Emmanuelle Tornero; Clément Vercelletto; Donald Miller (1958-2024); Sophie Agnel; Annick Nozati & Daunik Lazro...
2025
Xing
Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.
2024
Sub Rosa
30 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments, with new essays and articles, original photos and other documentation.
2024
Sub Rosa
30 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments, with new essays and articles, original photos and other documentation.
2024
Sub Rosa
Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
All the destructive mood of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories shows: from "Classical" music to intense destructuration, a new form of Avant-garde.
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Clara Levy perofms Giacinto Scelsi, Kaija Saariaho, Erika Vega and Eva-Maria Houben.
2024
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
2024
Xing
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances.
2024
Corvo Records
A rereading of Kurt Schwitters' Dada sound poetry by vocalist, singer and composer Anna Clementi and sound researcher, producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Stern (Mona Mur / Einstürzende Neubauten).
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ARTDERIEN
The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation.
2024
Important Records
Christina Kubisch's Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results. Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
currently out of stock
The first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media", from 1977, arguably the most important feminist statement in the history of experimental music, illuminating the work of Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Robert, Ruth Anderson, and Laurie Anderson.
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
currently out of stock
The first ever vinyl release to attend to James Tenney's legendary "Postal Pieces", marking the first ever appearance of five of the suite's works on vinyl, drawing upon recordings made in 2003, by the Amsterdam based ensemble, The Barton Workshop, under the direction of James Fulkerson.
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
currently out of stock
Creatively visionary and groundbreaking on numerous terms, as well as being intoxicatingly beautiful and remarkably listenable, Ben Vida's "Vocal Trio" represents a striking step forward for one of the most ambitious and outstanding sonic artists working in the United States today.
2024
English edition
Contingent Sounds
A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.