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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

First release of Gerhard Rühm's Radio-Play “Masoch”. A ritual recitation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Ignatius von Loyola for one female and one male speaker, a chorus of speakers, and tape.

Recording of Wolf Vostell's happening / Fluxus Concert “Sara-Jevo”, realised September 9th, 1994 at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Spain.

A short retrospective of the blog Au grisli clandestin, a visual annex of the musical website Le son du grisli.

An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.

Sixty years of sound and music creation on the French Riviera and beyond (with Jean Dupuy, Éliane Radigue, Arnaud Maguet, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Sun Ra, Yves Klein, Thomas Köner, Pascal Broccolichi, Lars Fredrikson, Robert Malaval, Ludovic Lignon, The Bells Angels...).

A meeting of the GOL group with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari around the piece composed in 1969 by Luc Ferrari, and an improvisation.

RadioDordogne#1 is a vast montage of sound recordings made by the sound cartographers in 2014 for the web radio RadioDordogne. Sound heritage, readings, landscapes, archives, musical creations are intertwined to propose six radio pieces for listening.

Framework is a series of graphic scores and recordings by Copenhagen-based musician Mads Emil Nielsen. Framework 1 consists of 14 hand-drawn graphic scores, printed in risograph, with simple instructions and a recording for each score.

First meeting recorded live at Swissnex, San-Francisco, in February 2009 (Fred Frith: electric guitar; Michel Doneda: soprano and sopranino saxes).