Sound arts

 
 
Justin Hicks - Mikrokosmos - Another time, this time, one time (vinyl LP)
2020
various
Formed in 2016 as the collaborative platform of composer Justin Hicks and artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos mines the history of Black music. This ongoing project has manifested in many forms: workshop, study session, concert, listening session, book, prompt, score. “Another time, this time, one time,” the first Mikrokosmos LP, uses Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting.
Stefan Römer - Decon Sound - Deconceptualize 1 (vinyl LP)
2020
Corvo Records
Stefan Römer performs quotations from cultural or musical theoreticians commenting on performances by two iconic musicians, Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler.
Éric La Casa - Installations (book / CD)
2020
Swarming
Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and mixes used for the 4 sound installations, made in-situ between 2005 and 2016 (with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Arnau Horta, Seijiro Murayama and Michaële-Andréa Schatt).
Catherine Christer Hennix - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Unbegrenzt – Aus den sieben Tagen / Unlimited – From the Seven Days (vinyl LP)
2020
Blank Forms - Records
C.C. Hennix realizes Karlheinz Stockhausen's famous “intuitive music” masterwork from the late Sixties.
Riccardo Benassi - Morestalgia
2020
English edition
Nero
Monograph / artist's book.
OpticalSound
2020
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
Jean-Baptiste Farkas; Nathalie Leleu; RYBN; Laura Kopf; Marianne Derrien; Dorothée Deyries-Henry; Guillaume Aubry; Étienne Charry par Hervé Zénouda; Maxime Ansiau; Carole Douillard, Amelia Jones, Suzanne Lacy & Barbara T. Smith; Éric Degoutte; Jérôme Grivel; Vaughan Oliver; Alain Bergala; Gwendoline Samidoust; Yann Ricordel; Emma Briant; Olivier Mosset...
Alexandre St-Onge - Jet du bas dit AA l\'eau guet avec l\'invisible
2020
French edition
Squint.press
Book / sonic sculpture.
Alexandre St-Onge - Entonnoir de Nous
2020
French edition
Squint.press
Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.
Sébastien Roux - Succession of Timbres With one Partial in Common (vinyl LP)
2020
Artkillart
Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition.
Karbé Dinel - MMXX-09 - Ouroboros (vinyl EP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
Karbe Dinel creates a complex work of sound that shifts through diverse moods and seamlessly dovetailed sections, using synthesizer and effects to create deep resonating tones and high pitched complements, mysterious grainy ambience, haunting chambers of drifting electronics; a mysterious and compelling journey in the electronic realm.
Franck Vigroux - BestiaIRE (vinyl LP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
A piece composed by Phill Niblock, performed live by Ensemble IRE trio: Kasper T. Toeplitz (ebass), Franck Vigroux (eguitar), Hélène Breschand (e harp) on side A / a piece composed and performed by Kasper T.Toeplitz (ebass) and Franck Vigroux (guitar, electronics) on side B.
Revue & Corrigée
2020
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Cornelius Cardew by Matthieu Saladin, interviews with Katsura Mouri, Franck Lilin and Evan Parker, Frédéric Tabet, contemporary Arabic poetry: Abdel Wahab Mohamed Youssef...
Dirty Ear Report
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
Dirty Ear Report #3 documents a collective workshop by sound artists and researchers working in the fields of experimental dramaturgy, sonic social engagement, and voice studies.
Jean-Guy Coulange - Bruissons
2020
French edition
various
A village, its people, nine characters, some children, a forest. Three seasons : winter, lockdown an spring. Bruissons is the tale of a motionless journey, slightly disrupted. An exhibition – pictures, sounds. And a book.
Christina Kubisch - Italienische Stücke (CD)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
Release of conceptual and perfomative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realised between 1974 and 1984, during Kubisch's years in Italy.
Gerhard Rühm - Ausgewählte Kurze Hörstücke (1961-1987) (vinyl LP)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
21.00 16.00 €
Unlike previous Gerhard Rühm editions on Tochnit Aleph which portrayed his phonetic poetry and longform radio-plays, the pieces on this edition are more conceptual, actionistic and (mostly) sound-based works recorded between 1962 and 1987.
Andrea Tippel - Ich und Sie - Ein Roman aus Dreibuchstabigen Wörtern (2 CD)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
A work Andrea Tippel started in 1993 and finished in 2009, consisting entirely of three-letter-words (two CDs in fullcolour six-panel DVD-sized digipak, with a biographical text, a chronology of the work and a text by Dorothy Iannone).
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - The Nomadic Listener
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
currently out of stock
Based on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including Copenhagen, Berlin, Kolkata, Vienna, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and New York, among others.
Brandon LaBelle - The Other Citizen
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.
Patrice Carré - Loin hop
2020
French edition
Tombolo Presses
First monograph.
 Automatisme - Alter- (2 vinyl LP)
2020
Mille Plateaux
"Alter-" is Automatisme's reaction to altermodernism in sound art.
Charlemagne Palestine - MMXX-06 - VVVOOOODDDOOOO DDDDOOOOODDDDDOOOOO (vinyl EP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
An extended drone work performed on organ, building from a peaceful single note to a harmonically rich and subtile combination of tones.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Radio Music Extended (based on John Cage\'s Radio Music) (CD)
2020
Sub Rosa
The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956.
Revue & Corrigée
2020
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Sean Baxter, Alessandro Bosetti and Hong-kai Wang, Mark Vernon, Kate Carr, Homei Yanagawa, Malaka Badr...
Thomas Köner - Motus (vinyl LP)
2020
Mille Plateaux
Thomas Köner's new album, marking the relaunch of the lengendary Mille Plateaux label.
Thomas Köner - Motus (CD)
2020
Mille Plateaux
currently out of stock
Thomas Köner's new album, marking the relaunch of the lengendary Mille Plateaux label.
Max Eilbacher - Forma / Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly) (vinyl LP)
2020
Editions Mego - Portraits GRM
Two pieces that evolve with grace and inspiration in the vast domain of the sound world, each with their own agenda.
Revue & Corrigée
2020
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Bruce McClure / Contemporary Arabic-language poetry: Soukaina Habiballah / Isabelle Duthoit / Jacques Brodier / Kazuo Imai / Evan Parker...
Konstantin Raudive - The Voices of the Dead - Featuring David Toop, 
DJ Spooky, 
Lee Ranaldo, 
Calla & 
CM von Hausswolff (vinyl LP)
2020
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.
Éric La Casa - Intérieurs (book / CD)
2020
Swarming
Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.
Pali Meursault - { PRESS } (vinyl LP)
2020
Artkillart
A piece of industrial musique concrète composed in the studios of GRM, created from field recordings of a vinyl record pressing plant: a mise en abyme of the record as an object.
Charlemagne Palestine - P V T (vinyl LP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.
Roven - Special Drawing & Sound issue
2020
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
Roven #15 is entirely devoted to the links between drawing and sound.
Spectres - Resonances
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The second issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, is dedicated is devoted to the concept of resonances, with contributions by Maryanne Amacher, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, Christina Kubisch, Okkyung Lee, Pali Meursault, Jean-Luc Nancy, David Rosenboom, Tomoko Sauvage, The Caretaker, David Toop, and Christian Zanési.
A-sides - A cosmology of audio editions by artists around the Arc Lémanique region
2020
English edition
Clinamen
Art & vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist's records in Switzerland.
Bertrand Gauguet - Spectre (CD)
2020
Akousis Records
Six pieces exploring multi-phonic spaces on the clarinet and alto saxophone, spaces linked to breath and the sonic landscapes developed by the amplification.
L\'expérience de l\'expérimentation
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).
Ultrablack of Music
2020
English edition
Mille Plateaux
The ultra-blackness manifesto: a Deleuzian reading of the philosophical and socio-political stakes of the current electronic music scene (publication marking the reactivation of the influential label Mille Plateaux, with texts by an ensemble of international musicians, artists and theorists: Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Gerriet K. Sharma, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner...).
Stéphane Thidet - Tant que les Îles (book / vinyl LP)
2020
La Maréchalerie
Vinyl record unique for each edition, accompanied with a 36 page booklet with 16 drawings by Stéphane Thidet.
Crys Cole - Beside Myself (vinyl LP)
2020
Students Of Decay
The Canadian artist's second album features two immersive pieces that explore ideas of compositional drift: The Nonsuch is inspired by nocturnal hallucinations while In Praise of Blandness builds on sinologist François Jullien's concept of “blandness”.
Revue & Corrigée
2020
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
currently out of stock
Emma Souharce, contemporary Arabic-language poetry, Michèle Bokanowski, Olivia Block, Barre Philips, Jojo Hiroshige, Lin Chi-Wei...
Frédéric Acquaviva - Antipodes
2020
AcquAvivA
Frédéric Acquaviva's new record—A QR code record without record limited to 100 copies: a 69 minutes opera for voices (with Joël Hubaut, who also wrote the text, Dorothy Iannone and Loré Lixenberg), dead electronics and video.
Phill Niblock - Music for Organ (CD)
2020
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).
 LAb[au] - If Then Else (2 volumes)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
Exhibition catalogue.
Lars Fredrikson -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound arts (audio CD included).
Peter Szendy - Bendings - Four Variations on Anri Sala
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Four essays by philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy on Anri Sala's recent practice. Szendy emphasises the key role played by music and sound in Sala's sensorial installations.
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