Music

In 2015, the web radio RadioDordogne offers five carte blanche to sound artists and composers. They each deliver a piece, born from what the territory evokes to them.

A literary and sound dive into a fantastic and whimsical bestiary (with Benjamin Bondonneau, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Géraldine Keller and Michel Mathieu).

A suite of musique concrète composed in the personnal studios of the composers from 2013 to 2015.

A studio album of songs by Frédéric Le Junter (voice, texts and home-made instruments) and Dominique Répécaud (electric guitar), where the music is truly at the service of texts with a pataphysical and surrealist edge but still in the realm of popular music.

Michel Doneda and Lê Quan Ninh started working together in 1986 but "Aplomb" is their very first recording as a duo. An art of breath and of beating, a supple gesture for a subtle yet penetrating sound object.

An embracive and well-documented overview of three works by Stan Douglas covering the emergence of political and multicultural emancipation projects during the Seventies, from Portugal's 1974 revolution and the end of colonialism, to the emergence of multicultural music such as jazz-rock, funk, disco, and afrobeat.

Rashad Becker, Catherine Lamb, video in performing Arts, Festival Sonorités, what is normal music?, Cie Ouïe/Dire, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...

This LP edition is an attempt at collecting various elements of Hans Rudolf Zeller's work. All recordings have been made within the last 10 years, yet many of the underlying concepts date back to the 1960s or 1970s.

This vinyl LP stems from a series of performances by sound artists Mattin and Hong-Kai Wang. The recording consists of a superimposition of four layers of conversations between the two artists.

First vinyl LP edition by Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen since 1986 (sound installation).

That Summer's very first vinyl, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its first album, “Drowsiness of Ancient Gardens”, consists of reworks (covers and remixes) of a number of That Summer's songs by some of the industrious musicians who have been part of the “band” over the years, in some way or other.

This composition by Alessandra Eramo shows for the first time a vocal interpretation of eight onomatopoetic words from the Manifesto of Futurist Music The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo, between sound poetry and noise.

Entitled “Studies for Player Piano,” the first issue of the contemporary art journal premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere, is dedicated to the life and work of experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). With Mario Garcia Torres, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carlos Sandoval, Céline Condorelli...

First monograph.

Lasse Marhaug, Les Instants Chavirés, William Basinski, Uzeste Musical / Cie Lubat de Gasconha, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (on John Cage)...

Minimalist progressive lofi techno tracks by MACON (Nicolas Murer) for a series of exhibitions by visual artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

The second issue of the magazine published by Optical Sound, between experimental music and contemporary art.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

First release by Yvan Etienne (Serge Modular, field recordings, hurdy gurdy).

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).

“Marigold and Cable” marks an indelible new phase in the trajectory of Alex Cobb's solo recordings and prior missives as Taiga Remains.

An Anthology of Stravinsky's “The Rite of Spring”, between dance and the visual arts (with Eleanor Antin, Marc Bauer, Karen Kilimnik, Xavier Le Roy, Vaslav Nijinsky, Silke Otto-Knapp, Yvonne Rainer, Lucy Stein...).

Ambient art (artist's book).

Monograph / artist's book dedicated to Davide Balula's "Burnt Paintings".

Radu Malfatti, Dror Feiler, Greg Ångström, Halim El-Dabh, Thierry Balasse, Unconscious Archives / James Holcombe & Sally Golding...

Ben Vida's new LP, based on a concrete poetry score / text piece.

First publication in French dedicated to Jackie McLean (1931-2006).

This artist's book / CD includes an innovative work made of sound and pictures related to an installation made by the artist in Japan in 2012.

Works, authors and rights: music and dance in globalization.

A suite of powerful prepared piano music, inspired by the saga of the Percht, a female pagan godess, which appears on midwinter and whose origins reach back to the Stone Age, still present in the very remote mountain areas of the Austrian Alps. This composition speaks a unique sonic language, distinctively and complex, a multilayered piece of art without any electronic treatments or overdubs.

3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.

The chronicles of a troubled suburb of Paris.

Sound (and aural perception) in contemporary art.

The first release in the “Mind Travels” Series, Je vous dis is a melancholic and sometimes terrifying record. Resembling the soundtrack of a situationist film, it is a true work of the mind, complex, poetic, and elegant, even in its darkest moments.

The first release in the “Mind Travels” Series, Je vous dis is a melancholic and sometimes terrifying record. Resembling the soundtrack of a situationist film, it is a true work of the mind, complex, poetic, and elegant, even in its darkest moments.

Large format album showcasing the autobiographical and reflective poetry of Sylvain Courtoux. These hybrid texts featuring visual collages and typographic experiments are accompanied by a recording of noise music entitled Dead By A Thousand Sources.

Luc & Brunhild Ferrari's Chantal, Eliane Radigue by Kasper Toeplitz, Yvain Von Stebut, Musique Action festival, filming music, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 5)...

The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.

The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.

Historically important pieces documenting John Cage's early electronic and tape practice.

A tribute to film director Derek Jarman (reissue of the second full-length album by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner on Sub Rosa).

The complete series of works made by David Toop for Sub Rosa, 1996-2003.

Luxurious box set including 4 catalogues and a double vinyl of the concert by Damo Suzuki and The Fume (a live performance by the ex-singer of CAN, in the continuity of the krautrock movement), prolonging one year of evolving exhibitions and performances at Centre d'Art de Neuchâtel.

A project based on a travel to the Nourages scientific research station in French Guiana, situated in the heart of a tropical rainforest. The result is a collection of compositions and phonography characteristic of the zone.