Music

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.

A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.

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.

The musical education of the dancer (an educational booklet).

Élodie Lesourd's first retrospective monograph provides a complete overview of her work since 1993, highlighting her inclination toward Rock culture and hyperrealism.

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.

A novel on the life and times of Janis Joplin.

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…

First reissue ever of one of the holy grail LP from the vault of the amazing Italian library music label Octopus. Originally released in 1973, Climax is a killer studio session by Amedeo Minghi, Piero Montanari and Roberto Conrado. An incredible collection of psych jazz funk tunes with crazy moog sounds, violent drums and deep bass. Ultra rare, hard to find item finally available again.

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.

3 tales of childhood and disappearance by William Wordsworth, accompanied by the primitive and free metal music of French duo Talweg.

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…

Ten texts on the architecture of displacement set to music and sung by Albanian iso-polyphonic singers—commissioned for the Albanian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (songs based on texts by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, and Finn Williams).

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.

A kaleidoscopic collection of excerpts on music and instruments.

Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.

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

Inspired by The Residents, Marc Bolan, Mark Frechette & Zabriskie Point, Swans, Autechre, David Bowie, Eva Ionesco, and Polanski's movie The Tenant, Ultraphallus defines their sound with some accents from different styles including Western Music, Death metal, Doom-Rock, Avant-garde Psychedelia and Electronic Soundtracks, as a tribute to Rock Culture.

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.

Théo Mercier, Malika Djardi, Markus Öhrn, the online art market, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, French post-punk, being an artist in Central Asia, nudity on stage, the footballer as a modern artist, “Iran” special feature with Barbad Golshiri and Amir Reza Koohestani…

Ultimo Cielo documents a musical project forming part of the New Patrons program: a piece for an amateur orchestra inspired by the works and practice of Italian Situationist painter Pinot Gallizio.

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.

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.

Inspired by The Residents, Marc Bolan, Mark Frechette & Zabriskie Point, Swans, Autechre, David Bowie, Eva Ionesco, and Polanski's movie The Tenant, Ultraphallus defines their sound with some accents from different styles including Western Music, Death metal, Doom-Rock, Avant-garde Psychedelia and Electronic Soundtracks, as a tribute to Rock Culture.

The first album in eight years for the Angelenos duo starring former Axolotl drummer William Sabiston and guitarist Jon Almaraz.

Borromean Rings is a graphic score for double bass and microtonal F tuba, composed for the duo Reidemeister Move by Robin Hayward.

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, artists performing at the Café Bad Bonn in Fribourg were asked to put their songs on paper. The results proved as diverse as their musical styles and personalities, including everything from sheet music and lyrics with guitar tabs to photos and drawings (with Arto Lindsay, Will Oldham, Wire, Maja Ratkje, Timber Timbre, Thurston Moore, Herman Dune, Panda Bear, Flaming Lips, Suzanne Vega...).

Five immersive audiovisual works that combine digitally generated visuals by Kurokawa and sound explorations by Thanasis Kaproulias (working under the moniker Novi_sad). An impressive body of work which explores the aesthetics of data and the visual representation of economic crisis.