Sound arts

 
 
Marie Canet - Palestine, prénom Charlemagne - Meshugga Land
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice—spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism—together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (vinyl LP + CD)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Alexandre St-Onge - Nude de chose de même
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
This publication is the result of a sound improvisation project by audio artist Alexandre St-Onge. It gathers a collection of hermetic poetry texts and 13 tracks of experimental sounds to download.
Revue & Corrigée
2017
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Editorial tribute to Dominique Répécaud, “Reflexio” section with Yann Leguay and Franck Lebovici, interviews with Yoshi Wada, Axel Dörner and Jean-Marc Foussat, “The Instruments of happiness” by Kasper T. Toeplitz, disc reviews, and more.
Le geste radiophonique - Audiographie d\'un atelier
2017
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
A collection of texts on the various aspects of radio creation, published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the ACSR – the Belgian-based studio dedicated to radio and sound creation.
Nicolas Montgermont - Radioscapes (vinyl LP)
2017
Artkillart
Radio recordings from 3 GHz to 30 KHz: a record that invites the listener to discover the electromagnetic landscapes that surround us.
Anthony Pateras - Blood Stretched Out (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
21st century piano music (the first solo piano album by Anthony Pateras in 10 years, marking the mid-point of the Immediata series).
Anthony Pateras - Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
An hour-long percussion sextet featuring the instrumentation from Xenakis' Pleïades.
Anthony Pateras - The Slow Creep Of Convenience  (CD)
2017
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
A single extended work presenting the pipe organ and electric violin as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes.
CRU (Curated Renegade Unidentified)
2016
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The second issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine includes documents on Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione, Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by Frédéric Acquaviva on the late Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on Henri Chopin and the magazine OU, a set of posters and postcards…
Frédéric Acquaviva - Kiss Music (vinyl EP)
2016
AcquAvivA
First QR-Code EP, edition of 100 copies, recorded at EMS, Stockholm, December 2015, with the voices of Frédéric Acquaviva and Loré Lixenberg.
Jean-Guy Coulange - Je descends la rue de Siam - Carnets sonores et photographiques
2016
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
These notebooks gather texts and photographs documenting the creation process at the heart of Jean-Guy Coulange's radiophonic practice.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Behavioral Objects I - A Case Study
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An introduction to the notion of behavioral object based upon a case study on three emblematic works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.
Francisco López - Anima Ardens (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.
Michel Redolfi - Desert Tracks (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
(last copies available!)
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.
Michel Redolfi - Desert Tracks (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
(last copies available!)
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.
Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
17.00 12.50 €
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.
Architecture without walls
2016
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
This publication presents five architectural environments that have been conceived through auditory and literary practices.
Revue & Corrigée
2016
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
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…
Dirty Ear Report
2016
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
Dirty Ear Report reviews the activities of the Dirty Ear Forum—a research platform focusing on contemporary sound studies and sound art, and the diversity of approaches surrounding its practice and thinking. Drawing on from the researches carried out during the first edition held at Errant Bodies Project Space in Berlin, this first issue gathers contributions investigating sound as a social material.
Dirty Ear Report
2016
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
This issue surveys the second edition of the Dirty Ear Forum at Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway, centered around the sound as the basis for a new discursive paradigm.
OpticalSound
2016
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
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…
 Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik - Waves (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Edition Telemark
29.00 22.00 €
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.
 Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot - The Diluted Hours
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Inupiak)
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
Transcript of incantations poems recorded on vinyl and produced in the framework of a multimedia work on sound and geology. The poem is translated into Inupiaq, the official Inuit language of the State of Alaska, where this project was developed.
Florian Hecker -
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
Brandon LaBelle - Overhearing and Interrupting (+ CD)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Errant Bodies
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.
Revue & Corrigée
2016
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
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…
Annette Le Fort - Phonetic Skin - A Library of Voices (CD)
2016
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
An acoustic-phonetic approach of book's corporeality in 38 tracks.
Alexandre St-Onge - Vueien (CD)
2016
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Alexandre St-Onge pragmatically captures the ungraspable and hermetic sounds that emerge through the creative process.
 Minimetal (Nik Emch & Laurent Goei) - 11 mantras
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Streichquartett 558171 (Romenthalquartett) (2 CD)
2016
Tochnit Aleph
Part four in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series, with a recording by Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth, and Gerhard Rühm originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975. Apart from the group session this edition also includes a duo piano session by Dieter Roth and Hermann Nitsch recorded in Stuttgart in November 1975.
Revue & Corrigée
2016
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
A tribute to Canadian pianist Paul Bley, a portrait of Polish musician Zenial, Parisian reference record store Souffle Continu, interviews with Art Kill Art, Sarah Hennies, Daniel Buess, carte blanche to multidisciplinary artist Noémie Sauve...
Yannick Dauby - Echoes as Messengers (CD)
2016
Kalerne
A composition by Yannick Dauby built upon the eletroacoustic modulation of Japanese bats' ultrasonic voices.
Marc Namblard - Nuits de Guyane (CD)
2016
Kalerne
currently out of stock
A sound collage of night time ambiances from Guiana (France), focusing on the calls of amphibians.
Fouad Bouchoucha -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Designed by the artist in collaboration with the graphic studio S-y-n-d-i-c-a-t, Fouad Bouchoucha's first monograph gathers a selection of his works along with four essays and an interview.
Éric La Casa - Reflected Waves (book / DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
20.00 12.00 €
This publication documents the making of a sound mapping project of the city of Melbourne by artists Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa.
Revue & Corrigée
2016
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Jean-Marie Massou, thelast chapter of the history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin, Le Splendide Isolement De L'électronique by Kasper T. Toeplitz...
Alessandro Bosetti - Autumnal Sisters - 7 Mask Mirror improvisations (DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
various
currently out of stock
Autumnal Sisters recollects seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo. It is the first extensive document of Bosetti's work with MaskMirror, a musical instrument which takes language rather than sound as it's main material.
Tacet - The sounds of Utopia
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tacet
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.
Anthony Pateras - The Long Exhale (CD)
2016
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
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).
Frédéric Le Junter - Bateau feu (CD)
2016
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
A dive into the world of Frederic Le Junter's machines and DIY instruments.
Brandon LaBelle - Room Tone
2015
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
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.
Tony Conrad - Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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.
Francisco López - La Selva - Sound Environments from a Neotropical Rain Forest (vinyl LP + USB HD)
2015
Sub Rosa
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).
Riccardo Benassi - Sicilia Bambaataa
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
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.
OpticalSound
2015
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
The artist's magazine's rich and diverse third issue welcomes fiction for the first time.
Jason Kahn - In Place
2015
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
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.
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