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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.

An inspiring album that dissolves the boundary that too often separates live and studio, improvisation and composition.

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.

First vinyl edition of the 3rd album by Norscq (The Grief / The Atlas Project) that combines ancient texts, oriental singing, post-industrial electronica and dark ambient.

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of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (new softcover edition).

Two pieces for cello and humming written specifically for Judith Hamann by composers Sarah Hennies and Anthony Pateras alongside Hamann's own “Humming Suite” and “Study for cello and humming.”

Five musicians and producers from Italy and Europe experiment on new sounds together, inspired by a large variety of artistic environments and soundscapes.

An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.

Italian pianist, performer and composer Giovanni Di Domenico presents 4 new pieces in collaboration with Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Joe Talia and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto.

David Shea's The Thousand Buddha Caves explores his deep and continuous interest in the nexus of eastern and western musical forms. The recording charts his life long fascination with the caves and their connection to sound, ritual and Buddhist teachings. The record transposes those interests and is an evocation to the mythologies spinning forth from the caves.

Two essentiel works of musique concrète commissioned for and and realised at the GRM by Lionel Marchetti during the mid ‘90s.

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).

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...

The latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote is an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic-synthetic, requiring active listening.

169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.

A split LP from two leading voices in electroacoustic music.

An anthology.

Vladan Joler, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Winnie Soon, Weidi Zhang, Trading Voices, Sonic Surveillance in the Age of AI, Through a Glass Darkly, Dither Studies and Straightened Trees, MNEMOSCOPIO & rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me)...

First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

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.

A subtle expanse of delicate ambiences and long tones, meticulously constructed into an immersive sonorous world.

The 2020 remaster & vinyl reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson.

The 2020 remaster & CD reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson.

Hastings of Malawi's third LP—the antithesis of Christmas albums.

An exquisite study in dreamlike abstract ambience, a kaleidoscope of sounds and tones that engage the head and the heart.

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.

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.

"Night Music" unearthes Sven-Åke Johansson's very first recordings from 1964—made with his Tandberg tape recorder in the Kronenburg Bar, a dive bar in the red-light district in Münster/Westfalen (West Germany). There he performed jazz versions of popular songs and standards with Uwe Wegner (piano) and Gerold Flasse (double bass), sometimes joined by Dutch singer Jenny Gordee. Young Udo Lindenberg was a frequent guest at the Kronenburg Bar

A split LP featuring two complementary experimental sound performances.

A collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julius Eastman.

Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.

19 poems and 23 chronicles of improvised music concerts (Albert Ayler, Sophie Agnel, Raymond Boni, Hélène Breschand, Steve Dalechinsky, Joëlle Léandre, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-François Pauvros, Barre Phillips, and many others).

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...

A publication project about listening and sound relations.

Italian composer Mauro Lanza delivers a masterful and radical work of electroacoustic artistry with his contribution to Matière Mémoire's MMXX Series, between electronic and acoustic tactics, pushing the boundaries of experimental and avant-garde music.

With touchstones in electronic dance music, and forward-thinking, synthesizer based abstraction, Hampus Lindwall’s contribution to Matière Mémoire's MMXX Series weaves a singularly striking world of pulsing, organized sound.

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.

A vast expanse of intricate ambience, texture, and tone that encounters Stephen O'Malley exploring quiet, introspective depths.

The never released before piece Un Monde Lacéré by electroacoustic music pioneer Pierre Henry, a stunning special tribute to Jacques Villeglé and his work, recorded in 2008 in studio Son/Ré.

Compositions and epistolary improvisations, in tribute to the writer François Augiéras.