Music > contemporary / electronic / experimental / improvised music

Presenting the first perfomance of Hermann Nitsch's grand and large-scale “Traubenfleisch” symphony.

Monograph / artist's book.

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...

Book / sonic sculpture.

Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.

Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition.

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.

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.

Denis Lavant reads/says the poem Vents by Saint-John Perse (1946), accompanied by Quentin Rollet (saxophones) and Patrick Müller (electrosonic). With the participation of Romain Perrot (guitar).

A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

Cornelius Cardew by Matthieu Saladin, interviews with Katsura Mouri, Franck Lilin and Evan Parker, Frédéric Tabet, contemporary Arabic poetry: Abdel Wahab Mohamed Youssef...

Interviews with Dasha Ilina, Forensic Architecture, Screen Walks (Marco de Mutiis + Jon Uriarte), Michele Spanghero; Emergency music by Pirate Care; Masks: The Face between Bodies and Networks; reports, news and 35 books, DVDs & CD reviews...

Release of conceptual and perfomative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realised between 1974 and 1984, during Kubisch's years in Italy.

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.

Double-CD collecting five of Schmicklers key-works composed & recorded between 2006 and 2016: Richters Patterns (2016), Kemp Echoes (2013), E-UROPAS (2006), Fokker Bifurcations (2014), Ata Oto (2016).

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).

Charles Pennequin is an unconventional poet who tells us here the sidereal aggression of a Martian who has not yet cut the cord. On the CD contained in the book, he interprets his text three times: twice in the company of the guitarist Jean-François Pauvros, and another time alone, but with a megaphone.

Jim O'Rourke's masterful abstract contribution to the MMXX series.

Quentin Rollet lays his mini tape synthesizer and saxophones on drum tracks recorded by Kim Giani in 2015, that is to say in the world before confinement. A humorous and energetic project, realized in a period of global boredom.

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.

A manifesto for possible future music.

A manifesto for possible future music.

An essay on the singular universe of the director, scenographer, choreographer, puppeteer and visual artist Gisèle Vienne.

Kassel Jaeger's first solo LP with Shelter Press—a remarkably intimate and forward-thinking aural balm, bristling with complex beauty.

This project is a cooperation with The Narbonnaise regional park in south France where Enrique Ramírez developped a project related to the rising of the sea level and climate change. All tracks are made from field recordings Ramírez did under the water and in different areas of the nature reserve in the regional park.

The new project of Hervé Zenouda (Stinky Toys): a sophisticated and rustling electronic music.

"Alter-" is Automatisme's reaction to altermodernism in sound art.

Frank Bretschneider's most radical work: a self-generating composition for synthesizer modules whose sole sound source is the movement of two VU meter needles. The resulting percussive sounds coalesce into rhythmic combinations—all random, without repetition. A meditation on infinite rhythmic variation.

An extended drone work performed on organ, building from a peaceful single note to a harmonically rich and subtile combination of tones.

The latest instalment in Mads Emil Nielsen's sequence of graphic scores and recordings, including the Danish composer's own subjective translations of visual materials and sound pieces accompanied by visual notations: published as a limited edition art print folder, Framework 3 consists of risographed scores and recordings on 10" vinyl and CD—with recordings by Nielsen, along with graphic scores by Katja Gretzinger and contributions by Nicola Ratti.

Through “Experimental & Parametric Music 1976-2017,” more than 40 years of Joris de Laet's work are unveiled. We discover here for the first time the great coherence of this work: from “Signalisations” (1976) to “Mnemosyne pour une acousmaman” (2017). The twelve compositions are annotated and explained in detail by the composer, as well as a kind of wild autobiography.

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.

Silk Saw's 12th album, blending sweet and bitter in languorous and enigmatic melodies that float on intriguing pounding polyrhythms.

Reissue of a classic example of Masayuki Takayanagi's “non section music” from 1975.

Reissue of a classic example of Masayuki Takayanagi's “non section music” from 1975.

Reissue of a classic example of Masayuki Takayanagi's “non section music” from 1975.

Sean Baxter, Alessandro Bosetti and Hong-kai Wang, Mark Vernon, Kate Carr, Homei Yanagawa, Malaka Badr...

Aspirations of Madness, Blank Forms' fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, considers the work of Masayuki Takayanagi, the poet Louise Landes Levi, musician and writer Joseph Jarman, polymath Catherine Christer Hennix and her one-time student the poet Charles Stein, Russian musicologist Henry Orlov, and Maryanne Amacher—brilliant and overlooked artists whose work Blank Forms will continue to champion in a variety of contexts. Aspirations of Madness features additional contributions by Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, and Tomoyuki Chida.

Seven musicians and producers from East Africa and Europe experiment on new sounds together, inspired by a large variety of artistic environments and soundscapes.

Thomas Köner's new album, marking the relaunch of the lengendary Mille Plateaux label.

Thomas Köner's new album, marking the relaunch of the lengendary Mille Plateaux label.

This vinyl record brings together three pieces that play mischievously with the voice as a sound source, narrative source or diverted object: "Huellas Entreveradas" (2018), "La Baballe du Chien Chien à la Mé-Mère" (2001) and "Deux Dents Dehors" (2007).

Two pieces that evolve with grace and inspiration in the vast domain of the sound world, each with their own agenda.