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Lettre aux grands de ce monde
For the 10th anniversary of Isou’s death (on July 28, 2007), the Editions AcquAvivA publishes the up-to-now unpublished “Letter to the Great Ones of the World”, which tells a lot about Isou’s strategies at a time when nearly no one was interested i…
Zaj Concert for Voices
edition of 100 copies. Beautiful publication by performance artist Esther Ferrer and composer Tom Johnson.Esther Ferrer, born in San Sebastián, Spain, has been noted for her work in performance art as a solo artist and as a member of the seminal ZAJ …
The Book of Ephemerodes
edition of 100 copies. heretic composer, performer and conductor Mathius Shadow-Sky, pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez and explorer of music. MSS reinvents musical systems, creates music instruments, electronic dispositives and new technics o…
Autumn's Sun
A small chapbook (50 pages) of writing by guitarist MazzaCane Connors. Autumn's Sunfeatures diary excerpts written in New Haven, CT in 1987. Presumably typeset to resemble his original typewritten document, with hand-written aisle comments left in…
Carrousel
In the spring of 2008, Stockholm-based artist Carsten Höller presented four major works at Austria's Kunsthaus Bregenz--some for the first time. Together, they created a "labyrinth of seduction and doubt," according to the museum--a sort of carousel …
The Collected Fanzines
Reproduces all the original pages, mostly hand-written or featuring primitive xerox art, that were published in small editions, 1992 thru 1999. You're excused if you've never seen or heard of these "fanzines". Influential line: "Janet Jackson thinks …
Infinity Suite
In common parlance the term Infinity Suite refers to a luxury hotel apartment comprised of several adjoining rooms. But my usage of the term here invokes the notion of infinite realities as resonating through dream and memory. An interconnected suite…
Stolen Symphony (Volume 1)
*Comes with a 72 page booklet including texts and pictures* All in all, there are more than 50 pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical an…
Nahma : A Gulf Polyphony
**31,3 x 31,3 cm 240 pages ** Flee's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music. The pearls of the Gulf have stoked the imagination and desire …
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be e…
Antibarbarus
A reissue of Antibarbarus, issued as a compact disc in 1998, was the first edition Walter Marchetti released on Alga Marghen. The Antibarbarus cycle of five pieces makes use of original tapes coming from the same recording sessions that originated so…
Extensions Out, Plus: Four Poetry Books 1957-1972 (4x Books)
Corbett vs. Dempsey announce the release of four books of poetry by Sun Ra. Two of these were pamphlets that accompanied early Sun Ra albums issued in the late 1950s; the other two were published more than a decade later by Infinity Inc./Saturn Resea…
Yeo-Neun
** Small repress, absolutely astounding! ** Anyone encountering the efforts of the cellist, Okkyung Lee, faces an unavoidable truth. She’s an unreckonable force. Few players in the contemporary landscape relinquish themselves so completely to the pra…
Ceramics
Following last year's presentation of Tori Kudo's ceramics at our Brooklyn gallery space, Blank Forms publishes the exhibition's accompanying limited-edition catalog. With images captured on film by musician and photographer Lary 7, Tori Kudo: Cerami…
Try Saying You're Alive!
A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950), Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s. Recounting sixty years in the l…
Selected Writings and Interviews
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.
The Music Finds a Way
In the post World War II era, dozens of young African Americans in South Central Los Angeles found their way to careers in music. In a community facing challenging social conditions and with little to no outside support, they would become artists, su…
Poeme-Partition X
Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of "Poème-Partition X", extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 pages hardbound book, limited to 350 numbered copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a vis…
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
For decades, library music has been a world of shadowy, mysterious depths - a place where only the most serious record heads dared to dive. It has no one genre, in fact it has them all and is one all its own. Often its artists come without a name. It…
Soft Need 23
**Edition of 431 copies** Alga Marghen in collaboration with Expanded Media Editions is proud to present the final issue of “Soft Need”, a publication centered on the work of William Burroughs and expanding its deep influences into contemporary cons…