Sound arts

 
 
C.W. Winter - The Works and Days - The Black Sections (vinyl LP)
2021
various
An absorbing sound collage album that emerged out of the production material of the film, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, with musical excerpts from Tim Berne & Bill Frisell, Tony Conrad, Graham Lambkin, Mary Jane Leach, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Folke Rabe, Éliane Radigue, and Akio Suzuki.
Michel Redolfi - Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987 (CD)
2021
Sub Rosa
A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
Éric La Casa - Everyday Unknown 4 & 5 (CD)
2021
Swarming
Two compositions conceived mainly from researches on the inaudible and the unspeakable, as part of a series devoted to the representation of infraliminary sound phenomenons of the reality, of everyday life.
Sébastien Roux - Musiques d\'ordinateur (CD)
2021
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Algorithm as material and writing.
Marja Ahti - Still Lives (vinyl LP)
2021
Students Of Decay
A sensual and abstract album by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, one of the most interesting electroacoustic musicians our time.
 Maciunas Ensemble - YoplaBoum + Permanent Wave (2 vinyl LP + CD)
2021
Edition Telemark
Five rare pieces from the minimalist "rhythmic drone" period of the early 1980s of the ensemble founded by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet, reissued for the first time.
Christopher A. Williams - On Perpetual (Musical) Peace? (vinyl LP)
2021
Edition Telemark
A project by contrabassist, composer and theorist of experimental and improvised music Christopher A. Williams, inspired by Kantian proposals for perpetual peace, applied to collective musical composition and performance.
Thomas Köner - Aubrite (vinyl LP)
2021
Mille Plateaux
New edition of Thomas Köner's fourth album, recorded in 1994-1995.
Thomas Köner - Aubrite (CD)
2021
Mille Plateaux
currently out of stock
New edition of Thomas Köner's fourth album, recorded in 1994-1995.
Grégory Granados - Cahier du Cirva
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cirva
French designer Gregory Granados imagines the ideal shape of a vase/flower pot for a dancing plant. His discreet and subtle research questions the connection between the shaping of a given material and the sound it emits, investigating the acoustic properties of glass.
Inter - Pratiques du silence, du son et de l’oralité
2021
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Practices of silence, sound, and orality, between concrete poetry, performance and sound art.
Thomas Ankersmit - Perceptual Geography (CD)
2021
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
An album created as a loosely structured piece for live performance in 2018-2019, commissioned by CTM in Berlin and Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, and premiered there on the GRM Acousmonium. The music is inspired by—and dedicated to—the pioneering research of American composer and installation artist Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009), and created entirely on the Serge Modular analog synthesizer.
Mahalla - The Survey (box set)
2021
English edition
Humboldt Books
Mahalla – The Survey offers a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims at a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating Uzbek cultural heritage: the mahalla (luxury box set including numerous documents, a 7" vinyl record by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen).
Alan Licht - Common Tones - Selected interviews with artists and musicians 2000-2020
2021
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene (Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Milford Graves, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Suicide, Michael Snow, Tom Verlaine, Yo La Tengo...).
Thomas Köner - Nuuk (vinyl LP)
2021
Mille Plateaux
A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.
Thomas Köner - Nuuk (CD)
2021
Mille Plateaux
A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.
Athanasios Argianas - Species Counterpoint
2021
English edition
Lenz Press
Retrospective monograph.
Maria Chávez - De la technique - Processus aléatoires sur platine
2021
French edition
ARTDERIEN
This book is a documented and illustrated manual of the turntablism practices developed by Maria Chávez over many years. It encourages experimentation and personal research through numerous examples and detailed instructions.
Vincent Epplay - Unholy Movie (book + K7)
2021
French edition
ARTDERIEN
Unholy Movie is an edition inspired by the films of Vincent Epplay, associated with an original fiction of Daniel Foucard. An audio K7 is included.
Revue & Corrigée
2021
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Contemporary poetry in Arabic: Maya Abu-Alhayyat; "Jean-Michel Jarre or the time of the jesters", by Jérôme Noetinger; Takayuki Hashimoto; Louis Moholo-Moholo; Simon H. Fell; Titania Tapes; 60 album reviews...
Dirk Specht - The April Sessions (vinyl LP)
2021
Sub Rosa
This journey, this slowly drifting sonic meditation, is an "inner soundscape", a dialogue between the senses, the conscience and the world, inside / outside, interconnected. Like waking up from a long dream, and being stuck into its echo. The April Sessions immerges the listener into a drone-ish universe, full of random acousmatic events, inner monologues and a vast and unwritten subjective map to be drawn.
Laurent Montaron -
2021
quadrilingual edition (English / Arabic / French / Hebrew)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
105.00 50.00 €
Bundle (special offer for the purchase of six issues of the contemporary art journal about sound).
Thomas Tilly - Codex Amphibia (Phonotaxis) (CD)
2021
Aposiopèse
A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Blues Alif Lam Mim - Live in New York (2 vinyl LP)
2021
Blank Forms - Records
The first-time vinyl edition of CC Hennix's 2014 piece "Blues Alif Lam Mim in the Mode of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis," intended to reveal the blues' origins in the eastern musical traditions of raga and makam.
Jean-Philippe Gross - Nos cadavres (CD)
2021
Eich
An exquisite corpse (four pieces resulting from a process of musical exchange between Jean-Philippe Gross and Jérôme Noetinger).
Carlos Casas - MMXX-19 - 1883 (Sound Model I) (vinyl EP)
2021
Matière Mémoire
An uncanny electroacoustic composition that incorporates field recordings, synthesis, and acoustic sources, among Carlos Casas's most ambitious and accomplished musical endeavors to date.
Joachim Nordwall - MMXX-17 - Before it gets better, it will get worse (vinyl EP)
2021
Matière Mémoire
Joachim Nordwall proposes for his contribution to the MMXX series a singular gesture built around captured vocalizations: the work's title, spoken by a number of voices, stands as doubling mantra and raw material, increasingly repeated layered, processed, and fed with further tonal and textural interventions over its duration, allowing Nordwall to push the boundaries of his own practice, between musique concrète, sound-art, and experimental electroacoustic music.
Jean-Luc Guionnet - MUNE - Airs trouvés (2 vinyl LP)
2021
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Jean-Luc Guionnet and Claire Bergerault have been working as an organ and voice duo in various churches since 2007. The challenge is, each time, to adapt to the configuration of the building and the organ, and then to stretch their music on the breach of this singularity.
Olga Nosova - Shampanskoye (CD)
2021
ReQords
An off-track, frenetic and exciting improvisation session bringing together musicians who have known each other for many years and are playing together for the first time.
Marfa Sounding
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.
Diana Policarpo - Nets of Hyphae
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph based on the research of the London-Lisbon based audiovisual artist around the use of ergot in female history.
Maryanne Amacher - Selected Writings and Interviews
2021
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. Situated at the very onset of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (new softcover edition).
Andrew Pekler - Tristes Tropiques (vinyl LP)
2021
Faitiche
An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.
Florian Hecker - Statistique Synthétique / Teum (the Silvery Slit) (vinyl LP)
2021
Editions Mego - Portraits GRM
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).
Revue & Corrigée
2021
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Souffle Continu Records; interviews with François Bonnet / Kassel Jaeger, Yann Gourdon, Satoko Fujii, Hans Reichel, Christophe Guérin; Lelio Giannetto; books and records reviews; contemporary Arabic poetry: Carol Sansour by Henri-Jules Julien...
Ekkehard Ehlers - Heroin (2 vinyl LP)
2021
Keplar
First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Bertrand Gauguet - Contre-Courbes (2 CD)
2021
Akousis Records
Two improvised concerts where are woven between the piano and the saxophone subtle games of harmonic textures, appearances of differential sounds, resonances and sometimes some more noisy sequences.
Annette Le Fort - Synästhetische Bilder (DVD)
2021
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
An exploration of the synesthetic phenomenon, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.
Christian Marclay - Index
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication brings together the source material that has informed Marclay's visual practice over the past few years. It gathers nearly 600 black & white Xeroxes of found image collages compiled with the help of graphic designer Laurent Benner.
Philip Corner - Deutsche Bundesbahn (vinyl LP)
2021
Edition Telemark
Two previously unreleased recordings from Philip Corner's "Gong/Ear" series of works. Side A was recorded on a South German night train ride in 1990, side B in the Alps in 1994.
Seiji Morimoto - Ring + balance / Solo with background (vinyl LP)
2021
Edition Telemark
A split LP featuring two complementary experimental sound performances.
Stefan Römer - Six Gun Shots - Deconceptualize 2 (vinyl LP)
2021
Corvo Records
Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.
Revue & Corrigée
2021
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Black Sifichi, Radio renversé by Elena Biserna & Carole Rieussec, Asmaa Azaizeh, Diamanda Galás, De l'utilisation de la musique sur les ondes by Jérôme Noetinger & Alphonsine Houëves, Cornelius Cardewby Matthieu Saladin, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Akira Sakata, Le conservatisme musical (et la musique à venir ?) by Kasper T. Toeplitz...
Carlos Casas - Cemetery - Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond
2021
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond compiles a selection of the visual and research materials accumulated during the development of the film and project Cemetery (2009–2019).
Phill Niblock - MMXX-12 - Browner (vinyl LP)
2021
Matière Mémoire
A piece made with materials from four artists (Arne Deforce and Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon), recorded in Marcus Schmickler's studio in Koln, with a Brauner microphone.
Steve Roden - The Radio – Airria (Hanging Garden) – Vein Stem Is Calm (vinyl LP)
2021
Sonoris
Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.
Steve Roden - The Radio – Airria (Hanging Garden) – Vein Stem Is Calm (CD)
2021
Sonoris
Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.
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