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Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms - For the Doppio Borgato (2 CD)
2008
Sub Rosa
One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.
 Quatuor Cassini - Le peuple des falaises (CD)
2008
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
A musical project recorded in in multi-track in different places of the Vézère valley (France), caves and troglodytic sites.
Daunik Lazro - Humus (CD)
2008
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
An improvised performance with Benjamin Bondonneau (clarinet), David Chiesa (double bass), Didier Lasserre (drums), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Laurent Sassi (sound).
Samuel Bianchini - Following Follow Spot (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.
Carsten Höller - The Beat (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.
Morton Feldman - Ecrits et paroles
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
New edition of the American compositor's writings, with an essay on his oeuvre and some testimonies by Steve Reich and Joan La Barbara.
Loris Gréaud - Cellar Door
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
The libretto for an opera of a new genre: the most ambitious project of French artist Loris Gréaud.
Loris Gréaud - Cellar Door
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
The libretto for an opera of a new genre: the most ambitious project of French artist Loris Gréaud (available in English edition).
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Memory (+ CD)
2008
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.
Brandon LaBelle - Live Bootleg (+ CD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.
Olivier Quintyn - Dispositifs – Dislocations
2007
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
This study takes a look back at a century of collage practice, including visual arts, photography, video art, cinema, sound art, and literature. Author Olivier Quintyn draws on a body of work that includes Picasso, Rodchenko, Jasper Johns, Max Ernst, John Heartfield, Denis Roche, Manuel Joseph, Anne-James Chaton, Oval, People Like Us…
 Wild Shores - Optophonia (CD)
2007
Optical Sound
15.00 12.00 €
An audiovisual performance that stages the texts of the writer Marc-Henri Lamande.
Joachim Montessuis - Eros3 + Cosmogon + DDF (DVD + CD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French), texts and subtitles
Optical Sound
Two films and a musical piece by Joachim Montessuis.
 Tsé - La ralentie (CD)
2007
Optical Sound
Tsé (Guillaume Ollendorff)'s second album.
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi - Six modèles d\'analyse herméneutique
2007
French edition
Mix
Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.
Radio Territories (+ CD)
2007
English edition
Errant Bodies - Anthologies
“Radio Territories” seeks to open the book on radio's historical, medial, and aesthetical status.
Alessandro Bosetti - African Feedback (+ CD)
2007
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
(last copies available!)
Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.
Stephen Vitiello - Listening to Donald Judd (CD)
2007
Sub Rosa
A work in progress evolving from the numerous recordings Stephen Vitiello made of the sculptures of American artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas.
Benjamin Bondonneau - Dordogne (2 CD)
2007
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
A sound navigation along the entire Dordogne river, from the Mont Dore to the Bec d'Ambès.
Ghédalia Tazartès - Jeanne (CD)
2007
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
The original music composed by Ghédalia Tazartès for the theater play "Jeanne la pudeur" after Nicola Genka.
Diedrich Diederichsen - Argument son - De Britney Spears à Helmut Lachenmann : critique électro-acoustique de la société et autres essais sur la musique
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about music (from Britney Spears to Helmut Lachenmann, passing through Matthew Herbert, The Melvins, Terre Thaemlitz, Stan Douglas etc.), gathered from the numerous publications of the famous art and music critic and including many previously unpublished texts.
 Norscq - 5 Streams (CD)
2006
Optical Sound
A project by Norscq (The Grief / The Atlas Project) that combines ancient texts, oriental singing, post-industrial electronica and dark ambient.
Pierre Beloüin - Awan~Siguawini~~Spemki~~~ (CD)
2006
Optical Sound
This installation juxtaposes photographs of eight “landscapes” with “soundscapess” created by French sound artists, who made a free sound interpretation based on the chosen picture and collected raw sounds.
Next To Nothing - A collection of Tuxedomoon covers (CD)
2006
Optical Sound
A record of Tuxedomoon covers.
Soundtrack for an Exhibition (+ audio DVD)
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mathieu Copeland editions
A full colour, hardback publication documenting the major time-based project that confounds traditional expectations of an exhibition, including essays and discussions with participating artists and guest contributors, the entire score of the soundtrack, film stills, installation images and an audio DVD of excerpts from the soundtrack.
Ivan Palacký - Carpets Curtains (DVD)
2006
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Live audio “micro-improvisations” combined with live video manipulations.
Pascal Comelade - Stranger in Paradigm (10\
2006
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
currently out of stock
Unreleased tracks by Pascal Comelade recorded here on a collector 10" vinyl numbered to 1 000 copies. Listeners will discover his covers of the Ramones, Chuck Berry, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club, Lords of the New Church (recorded live with the Bel Canto Orchestra in 2005 at the TGP in Frouard) as well as original pieces by Pascal Comelade. 
Camel Zekri - Rekmazladzep (CD)
2006
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
Camel Zekri (electroacoustic guitar), Thierry Madiot (bass trombone and trumpets), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Dominique Répécaud (electric guitar) reach a rare degree of balance between softness and roughness, between lightning and harmony.
Lionel Bayol-Thémines - Update (+ DVD)
2006
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A series of photos between documentary and science fiction in the vertiginous universe of plastic surgery, with a DVD of images and electroacoustic music.
One Reason To Live - Conversations about Music with Julius Nil
2006
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
Including conversations with David Toop, Scanner, Brandon LaBelle, Ken Vandermark, Kaffe Matthews, Steven Connor, John Parish, Ben Watson, Simon Critchley, Andrew Morgan, Esther Leslie, Eric Roth, Andrew McGettigan, and Seth Kim-Cohen.
 The Grief - Greatest Hits (2 CD)
2005
Optical Sound
The Grief's greatest hits, with many unpublished, rarities and remixes.
Echo Location (CD)
2005
Optical Sound
Eighteen figures of the French New Wave scene reinterpret each one of their iconic titles.
 Heller - .01..05. (CD)
2005
Optical Sound
15.00 12.00 €
The two French musicians Sébastien Roux and Eddie Ladoireextend their ambient explorations through drone guitars and digital manipulation.
Henri Pousseur - Hommage au sauvage - Un portrait d\'Henri Pousseur (DVD)
2005
French / English subtitles
Sub Rosa
A journey into Henri Pousseur's archives.
Michael Nick - Aerolithes (CD)
2005
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
A quartet of string and woodwind instruments brings together masters of free improvisation.
Akosh S. - Györ (CD)
2005
ReQords
The first duo recording of Joëlle Léandre (double bass, voice) and Akosh S. (tenor & soprano saxophones, metal clarinet, tárogató, flute): a wonderful syntonic improvisation in a Hungarian synagogue.
Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform (+ CD)
2005
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
This first monograph documents the performance, sound, and video works of the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.
Klaus Weber - Kranke Fuchs (vinyl EP)
2004
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
(last copies available!)
35.00 20.00 €
An “anti-humanist” musical piece, overlaying Klaus Weber's voice and frequency ranges defined in relation to the hearing of cricket (limited edition).
Nicolas Schöffer -
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
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