Music

A billion perspectives on the same instrumental explosion, by Anthony Pateras and Valerio Tricoli.

Seven meditations for clarinets, pianos and electronics: The Long Exhale catalogues psychoacoustic experiments and sparse acoustic excursions undertaken between 2014 and 2015 by Australian composer/performers Anthony Burr (clarinets, ARP 2600) and Anthony Pateras (piano, prepared piano).

Music for two prepared pianos (Erik Griswold & Anthony Pateras) and electronics (Robin Fox) without precedent.

Instruments that sound like instruments: the debut album from North of North, featuring Anthony Pateras (piano), Scott Tinkler (trumpet) and Erkki Veltheim (violin).

A minimalist piece of forty-four minutes in which the electroacoustic composer and experimental guitarist goes beyond the conventional modes of the instrumental approach, deploys a radically personal atypical universe and subtly explores the idea of space by generating different degrees of tension and emotion.

An audio collage based on an archive of carpentry and hardware recordings from Mads Emil Nielsen's "SoundTales" project, released on limited edition CD with three printed drawings by French, Amsterdam-based visual artist Julie Dassaud.

A dive into the world of Frederic Le Junter's machines and DIY instruments.

A 48 pages book of drawings by Costes, with all the lyrics of the 10 songs that are on the accompanying CD.

What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema? (a project by Mathieu Copeland, with Chantal Akerman, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Philippe Grandrieux, Isidore Isou, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Meredith Monk, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Stenger, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé, Lawrence Weiner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...).

The small opera created by Nicolas Murer for Lili Reynaud-Dewar's installation presented at the 2014 Venice Biennale, sung by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Nicolas Murer and the choir of HEAD, Geneva.

A collaboration between visual artist Myriam Mechita and musician Leonard de Leonard.

Nantes-based artist Mathias Delplanque combines a variety of instruments (guitar, bass, melodica, kora, synths…) with live electronic treatment to create a series of eight melancholic pieces which gives prominence to chance and accident.

Nantes-based artist Mathias Delplanque combines a variety of instruments (guitar, bass, melodica, kora, synths…) with live electronic treatment to create a series of eight melancholic pieces which gives prominence to chance and accident.

The duo's second recording in the “Mind Travels” Series: Petitgrand's sumptuous melodies meet Geins't Naït's hypnotic industrial collages to form a listening experience both immersive and singular.

The duo's second recording in the “Mind Travels” Series: Petitgrand's sumptuous melodies meet Geins't Naït's hypnotic industrial collages to form a listening experience both immersive and singular.

Four pieces based on drum/cymbal + synthesizer recordings by Mads Emil Nielsen.

The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.

This publication is the closing project of a series of recent initiatives around the works of American experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow, including a pirate radio station, an art journal, a museographical essay by Mario García Torres, and an exhibition.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

Milan Knížák 1979's masterpiece never re-released in vinyl before: classic collages of noises created during performances and happenings, widely regarded as important sound art documents on record.

Ultimate mix from original recordings done at La Selva Biological Station during the rainy seasons of 1995 and 1996. This masterpiece is released in High-res audio on a USB card and comes with a silent vinyl (numbered and signed limited edition).

New monograph.

Sicilia Bambaataa is a booklet, risograph printed, which documents the namesake installation, a “soundscape” within the Museo Civico in Castelbuono, Sicily which plays in loop, repeating the audio recording of the dawn chorus, slowly diminishing as the city awakes.

The artist's magazine's rich and diverse third issue welcomes fiction for the first time.

In the series of works In Places Jason Kahn explores a variety of places and investigate them through their sounds. Influenced by Henri Lefebvre's theories, Kahn the musician experiences the daily rythms of life and how space is formed and reflected.

The Four Seasons Forever is the catalogue of Sam Falls' one year show which presents 13 sun-printed photograms of vinyls on colored textiles exhibited in a dramatic stage-like atmosphere, with parts of Vivaldi's masterpiece playing according to the season (artist's book, the first in a series published in limited editions by Flash Art).

Sophie Agnel, Anne Montaron, Vivian Grezzini, frederic dumond, Kasper T Toeplitz on the notion of composition...

The first live recording of the duo formed by Gerome Nox (sound) and Black Sifichi (spoken words and texts).

L'art de la fuite is a selection of first recordings originally released on selftitled homemade tape in 1995. Mainly composed with turntables and prepared records (with various other sources), these recordings have laid the foundation for his future work as turntabilist / improviser / composer. 20 years later, this unique blend of musique concrète and post-industrial still sounds fresh today.

The French translation of David Grubbs's long-awaited study of the role that sound recordings play in representing experimental music of the 1960s.

Drawing relations between writers' quotes and the works of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (with a text by Benoît Viguier).

Stephen O'Malley, Julien Palomo / Improvising Beings, the Polish scene by Kasper Toeplitz, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...

Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.

Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.

This new “varia” issue of Volume! is made of six papers proposing different while often complementary perspectives on popular music (the role of the Hellfest festival in representations and uses of metal culture, discourses of loudness in rock music, recent evolutions in South American music, Damon Albarn and the English identity, La Monte Young vs The Velvet Underground). Also in the issue: Alf Björnberg and wind harmony, a musical device by Bruno Lefebvre...

New monograph.

An extensive documentation on Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's installation for the French Pavilion of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

No World is an original piece in an audio book composed from daily images, sounds and texts collected through the Internet, songs, poems, interviews and field recordings created by Winter Family between 2011 and 2014 while living between Paris and in the Caribbean neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, NYC.

A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.

Alice Dourlen' new EP stands has a condensed document of a 18 months non-stop tour, melting experimental and oriental sounds with a strong theatrical aesthetics.

A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.

A piece for voice(s) an dead electronics with Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano).

Alessandra Eramo (Ezramo) talks about growing up in Tarano, a city shaped by Catholicism and superstition, by industrial pollution and the ancient tradition of mussel farming. Includes link to the audio files of the sound installation Se Dio Vuole.

A shamanic journey in Tazartès's universe.

Special offer: the two complementary monographs États seconds and Perturbations.

Comprehensive monograph (second edition).