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A collection of texts on the various aspects of radio creation, published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the ACSR – the Belgian-based studio dedicated to radio and sound creation.

Surrounded by European electronic music ensemble Quatuor Tana, 4 new pieces by the unpredictable Baudouin De Jaer, pushing further the boundaries of contemporary composition.

In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.

Selected unreleased works from 1980 to 2000 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.

A collection of works dating from 2012 to 2016, documenting one of the key figures of today american avant-garde at his peak of creativity, nicely remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

Radio recordings from 3 GHz to 30 KHz: a record that invites the listener to discover the electromagnetic landscapes that surround us.

An hour-long percussion sextet featuring the instrumentation from Xenakis' Pleïades.

21st century piano music (the first solo piano album by Anthony Pateras in 10 years, marking the mid-point of the Immediata series).

A single extended work presenting the pipe organ and electric violin as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes.

A concrete symphony (a journey between a public sphere—passing trains, passers-by in the street, a construction site— and the intimate relations that a composer can have with an electronic machine or software).

This duo started in 2014 with the idea to transform the acoustic instrument into a real electroacoustic one. Transducers, springs and microphones are attached to the cello which is then processed through electronic and tape. This CD comes from several hours of improvisations recorded in studio and reorganised to build six pieces of abstract electroacoustic music.

Influential musician Andrew Liles releases a dark and fantastic literary work relating to childhood and sufferings, illustrated with six images and a sound piece.

The second issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine includes documents on Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione, Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by Frédéric Acquaviva on the late Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on Henri Chopin and the magazine OU, a set of posters and postcards…

A collection of recordings from 1987 to 2013 by German experimental band Argo. The double vinyl LP features mostly live performances overviewing the work of the trio (violin, viola, clarinet) around the notion of transient music.

First QR-Code EP, edition of 100 copies, recorded at EMS, Stockholm, December 2015, with the voices of Frédéric Acquaviva and Loré Lixenberg.

The history of the emergence and appropriation of the score in extra-musical domains (theater, dance, performance).

A richly documented publication (written contributions by artists and a thousand illustrations) celebrating a decade of art performance at French independent art-space Le Generateur.

The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.

In 1987, Michel Redolfi hit the California Desert road during the Fall, to catch those hypothetical poly-sensorial desert tones. He visited the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon and came back with an extraordinary album of early electronic music, sparse and bright to express the crude light and the divine silences.

In 1987, Michel Redolfi hit the California Desert road during the Fall, to catch those hypothetical poly-sensorial desert tones. He visited the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon and came back with an extraordinary album of early electronic music, sparse and bright to express the crude light and the divine silences.

Ben Vida's new LP represents the conclusion of one body of work, Damaged Particulates, and the beginnings of a new long form project titled Reducing the Tempo to Zero, in which the american artist return to the durational drone based forms that he first experimented with in his early days.

This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.

Noémie Sauve, interviews with Ellen Fullman and Anne Dreyfus, “Reflexio” Section with Philip Best and Jedediah Sklower, record labels from Quebec: Ambiances Magnétiques, Collection QB and Kohlenstoff Records, Lionel Malric's new project Jiéqì, an essay by Kasper Toeplitz, music reviews…

A musical essay exploring complex variety of digital rhythms patterns.

A musical essay exploring complex variety of digital rhythms patterns.

A re-reading of Walter Benjamin by François Coadou, suicidal tendencies in Rock'n'roll history, Chris Marker's La Jetée, Genesis P-Orridge & Timothy Leary, Salvage Art Institute, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Crammed Discs Records, interviews with Jean-Luc Verna, Jill Gasparina, Ange Leccia, Carole Douillard & Dora García…

A stunning collection of quiet and soft piano pieces by the legendary German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius co-founder of seminal krautrock bands as Cluster and Harmonia. Inspired by the monumental work of Erik Satie, the album was originally released in 1991, and is recommended for fans of Max Richter, Goldmund and Sylvain Chauveau. This first vinyl complete reissue contains the bonus track In Der Dämmerung.

Featuring: Medialabmx, The 3D Additivist Manifesto, Digital Technology and Stone Sculpture, interviews with Garnet Hertz, Darsha Hewitt, :vtol: (Dmitry Morozov), Dennis de Bel, Quayola, reports from Transmediale 2016 and Meta.Morf 2016, records and books reviews…

Second in the Book of Air series, this recording is performed by vvolk, a group of 18 improvisers who explore the relation between time and motion: How is the perception of sound influenced by time? How do we relate to time in music as improvising performing musicians?

Second in the Book of Air series, this recording is performed by vvolk, a group of 18 improvisers who explore the relation between time and motion: How is the perception of sound influenced by time? How do we relate to time in music as improvising performing musicians?

Pauline Oliveros surrounded by Belgian Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, performing 2 long pieces for orchestra.

An overview of the fruitful long-standing collaboration between Amelia Cuni, specialist of Indian dhrupad singing, and minimalist experimental musician Werner Durand.

Investigating the relationship between movement and sound, the duo has been developping installations to translate sound frequencies into vibrations. This double vinyl LP includes four recordings produced as part of this research project.

An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.

A record of experimental electronic music that explores possible relationships between voice and modular synthesis.

Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.

Interviews with Steve Lacy, Guillaume Belhomme, Zëro and Jérôme Poret, a new section dedicated to sound arts studies, the practice of phonography, Henry Flynt, Steve Dalachinsky: a portrait…

An acoustic-phonetic approach of book's corporeality in 38 tracks.

Alexandre St-Onge pragmatically captures the ungraspable and hermetic sounds that emerge through the creative process.

This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.

Cristian Vogel's best techno tracks from the '90s, entirely remastered and cut from original tapes in 2015.

Cristian Vogel's best techno tracks from the '90s, entirely remastered and cut from original tapes in 2015.

An overview of experimental and electronic music in Turkey featuring 29 Turkish artists—from the electronic music of the 1960s to all forms of experimental music of the 2010s.