Sound arts

The first collaboration recorded on CD between the two American artists and musicians, based on a process of reciprocal sending of electronic and acoustic sound sources, reworked successively by each and then together, gives rise to a series of delicately crafted and wonderfully evocative atmospheric pieces.

By now a regular and esteemed presence among the Discrepant sprawling household via releases with projects such as Alförjs, Banha da Cobra or Jibóia, Mestre André "resurrects" his O Morto alias (bad pun somewhat intended) after 2016 "The Forest, The People And The Spirits".

First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".

First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".

Swedish drone alchemist Mats Erlandsson is sitting in a fictional room on "Gyttjans Topografi", imagining a virtual chamber orchestra using zithers, tapes, double bass, harmonium, organ, and various synthesisers to draft a treatise on alternative tuning and non-normative harmonic structures. Transcendent material.

First compilation on LP of the sound works of the two Dutch visual artists, demonstrating that sound produced by the Bosch & Simons music machines can also be listened to as autonomous "music".

Bill Noir; contemporary Arabic poetry: Mouna Ouafik; Bani Khoshnoudi by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; Sister Iodine by Michel Henritzi; interview with Emmanuel Lalande; Stefan Fraunberger by Delphine Dora; Willem Breuker by Gérard Rouy; book and record reviews...

A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.

The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.

The posthumous album of naturalist field recordings from The London Sound Survey: a sound-journey through the dark in East Anglia, roaming across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to places whose sounds have a precarious existence outside the crowded realities of modern everyday life.

Recordings from two installations/performances by the Berlin-based sound artist that explore the physical presence of sound phenomena, by producing the impact of electronic music but with purely acoustic means.

The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.

An autobiographical artist-talk as a performance delivered from the artist's bed over Zoom.

A sound and music experience along the Dordogne river, with Le Chant du Moineau and the Ensemble UN orchestra (Pascal Battus, Benjamin Bondonneau, Michel Doneda, Jérôme Noetinger, Mathieu Werchowski...), and a group of invited researchers (with a composition by Lionel Marchetti on CD and a film by Camille Auburtin on DVD).

A semi-digital audio publication by performance artist and musician from Northwestern Quebec Emilie Roby.

Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, pressed on vinyl for the first time, including a 12 minute bonus track.

Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, including a 12 minute bonus track.

An exhibitions book including 2 CDs with new pieces by Phill Niblock performed By Stephen O'Malley, Deborah Walker, Kasper Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux, David Maranha and many others.

A major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke.

An album of lost Derek Bailey sessions recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Morrow, that testifies to his art of collective experimentation.

Interviews with Valérie Vivancos, Alexis Degrenier, Lao Dan and Li Jianhong; what modes of travel for experimental music? by Heddy Boubaker; the French collective Muzzix, by Gérard Rouy; Antoine Freychet by Grégoire Bressac; focus on Fou Records; about sixty reviews of records and books...

Listening as a creative and critical force, relational capacity, philosophical, political and ecological proposition, and research method.

A sketch history of the 1980s American home-taping and electronic music scene through the career of sound artist, field recordist, percussionist, and visual artist Jeph Jerman.

Recording of the evaporation of 785 grammes of water, namely the average quantity of water that a body loses during an office working day, according to Carrier thermal balance statistics.

Live performance of the artists Jacopo Benassi (voice, guitar, dildo and japanese axe), Michele Lombardelli and Luca Scarabelli (guitar and analog devices) at the RetroStudio, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, 11 July 2022. Including a 16-page booklet of photos by Jacopo Benassi.

An exploration of the shifting acoustic ecology of the Western Isles.

An anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking (new edition).

Available for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus.

Available for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus.

An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.

A double-creation with four hands, surprising, intelligent and sensitive, between minimal experimentations, avant-garde pop and dissonance.

A wonderful sophomore collaborative work pieced together over two years of changing seasons, ideas, moods, and feelings.

An original meeting, powerful and explosive, between Charlemagne Palestine, Eric Thielemans and Oren Ambarchi.

Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.

The sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku: a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena, which can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition.

The sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku: a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena, which can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition.

A series of ghostly ink drawings and scanographs by eRikm, accompanied by a mixed sound piece, with sound texts freely inspired by fragments of stories about the universe of the Yokai, these ghosts and supernatural creatures that inhabit Japanese mythology, between hypnotizing soundscapes and bewitching instrumental devices.

A collection of 77 texts by Jason Kahn, each text written in response to a field recording made by the sound artist in Zurich in February-March 2020 (CD with the 77 sound recordings included): a poetic and sonic cartography that reflects the constitution of the place by the way it "sounds".

Vanda Spengler; contemporary Arabic poetry: Rana Al Tonsi; interview with percussionist Lê Quan Ninh by Jérôme Noetinger; interview with David Chiesa and Nina Garcia, two of the 26 figures of the UN ensemble; interview with Lebanese musician, oudist and vocalist Youmna Saba; interview with Marion Camy-Palou by Michel Henritzi; Thierry Monnier (1972-2022) by Pali Meursault; RG Rough; 66 album reviews...

Listening as the basis for social, bodily and passionate movement and transformation.

A collective improvisation as part of a creative research academy focusing on listening as a philosophical, artistic, social and somatic issue.

The third release on Corvo Records by sound researcher and conceptualist Stefan Römer, a soundtrack for one of his experimental films as well as a new addition to his meta project "Deconceptualize".

A major addition to the body of carefully hewn solo work Crys Cole has released over the last decade, offering up two side-long suites of her radically intimate approach to sound.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

A dialogue between the saxophone and the viola.