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Mechanical Fantasy Box
"Patrick Cowley (1950–82) was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid '70s, his synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester, including hits such as "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." Cowley created his own brand of peak-time party music known as Hi-NRG, dubbed "the San Francisco Sound." Hi…
Sound Stories
"In Sound Stories, American artist and composer Christian Marclay (born 1955) fuses art and technology, using Snapchat videos as raw material. Featuring texts by Max Maxwell, this book documents the collaboration between the artist and Snapchat in an innovative project mixing the sounds and images of everyday life found on the multimedia messaging app, aggregating unattributed stories. Using algorithms created by a team of engineers at Snap Inc., Marclay experiments with millions of publicly pos…
Perfect Lives
Rare 1st edition hard cover. The definitive text of Perfect Lives is accompanied here by Robert Ashley's plot synopsis and his own candid account of the making of the opera. This is the first publication of the complete narrative of this major work of twentieth century arts and letters. Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan. 8 1/2 x 7 inches, 224 pages, clothbound, smythe-sewn. Published by Burning Books with Archer Fields Press, 1991.
"Ashley calls the libretto part of a great oral tradition, and, …
Atalanta (Acts of God) (Book)
Rare 1st edition hard cover. The definitive text of Atalanta (Acts of God) is followed by an Afterword by Robert Ashley. An excerpt from the Afterword: "I had already decided who the three characters of Atalanta (Acts of God) would be: Max Ernst, a long-time artistic hero for me; Willard Reynolds, my uncle, a storyteller to whom I had listened for most of my life; and Bud Powell, a legendary jazz pianist. The "successful suitor" in the Atalanta myth now has three forms (reminding us of his succe…
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 A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.
Sounding Things Out: A Journey through Music and Sound Art
2024 stock. Sound is ephemeral. It does not belong to anyone. It cannot be captured in words. Writing on sound art usually focuses on the same familiar figures, but this treatment will broaden the field to explore artistic practitioners like the godfather of movie sound, Walter Murch, the king of the jungle Chris Watson, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, pioneer wildlife recordist Ludwig Karl Koch, American pioneer composer and master teacher James Fulkerson, uncompromising compose…
Trumpetronics
2001 release ** "Kozo Ikeno is a trumpet and electronics player from Japan. He creates experimental jazz, abstract break beats and field recordings. He is out now with this new album produced in Italy by Braxtone Records. It is a real must for experimental music connoisseurs!!! All compositions by Kozo Ikeno, composed and recorded in 2001"
Knar
2008 release ** "Legendary album in remastered version,including two rare tracks, edition in new layout. 'Knar' is one of the most important releases in history of Different State. Many polish musician journalists announced 'Knar' as the album of the Year 1996. We recommend this release to elder fans of this group and to all of you who love unconventional type of sounds. For fans of Godflesh, Head of David, Coil, Scorn."
Euterpe Sequence
1998 release ** "Second release by Wales based duo. 17th century inspired ambient sound that varies from droning transcendental stillness to guitar and effects noisescapes bordering on the works of Merzbow and Total."
Sum Sum
2009 release ** "Matija Schellander is an Austrian composer and improvising musician currently based in Vienna, mostly using double bass, modular synthesizer, and speakers: processing input, moving air output. In 2012 his solo CD sum šum with 7 electroacoustic composition will be released by the small publishing office The Manual (Seoul).jump rope / data mining / dystopia / science fiction / electroacoustic / stalker / rust / ping-pong / air-raid shelter / industry / toxic wastelands / totalitar…
Cicatrici
2004 release ** OvO is a project of music and life. OvO are Stefania Pedretti (also singer and guitar player of Allun) and Bruno Dorella (ex Wolfango, Bugo, Lava, now involved in many bands and boss of Bar La Muerte records), often joined by friends that belong to many different musical scenes. Bruno and Stefania basically started this project to stay together: they were used to follow their partner's different bands on tour, but they were also sick of the problems that every band has connected …
The Rapture Of Metals
1993 release ** "The title of this CD might erroneously suggest something heavy, abrasive and industrial, but The Rapture of Metals is in part an elegant homage to the metallic gongs of the Indonesian gamelan orchestra. The title track is the most overtly Indonesian, with electronic drones and effects enhancing a traditional gamelan gong pattern. But on several other tracks, Paul Schütze (Laughing Hands) further personalizes his use of gongs, capturing the dreamy, otherworldly quality of Indones…
The Deep
2011 release ** "Kasper T. Toeplitz, known as one half of Le Depeupleur (with Zbigniew Karkowski), is successful with his computer trio on the young Icelandic label Zoar. I think Toeplitz can do whatever he wants, it will always retain his special touch of grey sound. Here we imagine how a channelless TV screen with a crackled image is transformed into music. This scene always appears in my mind's eye when I hear music by Toeplitz. And so it is on The Deep - a fearless escapade of hissing, nasty…
Tenebrae
2011 release ** "A collaboration album by two prominent Russian post-industrial projects Majdanek Waltz and Sal Solaris. The conceptual core of the record is the poetry of Paul Celan, one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His cryptic fractured lyrics spoken in a specific estranged way by Pavel Blumkin is enchased by a weird fusion of avant-garde neoclassic and dark ambient music. This record will seem unusual even for those who are already familiar with the works o…
Whiskey Mute-Down
2005 release ** "The Nether Dawn is the ambient noise project of Anthony Milton. Whiskey Mute-Down first came out as a private CD-R on Milton's own Pseudo Arcana imprint, and here it is given its first official pressing (Last Visible Dog had already reissued two albums of Milton's avant folk songs as a single-CD two-fer a few months before). The music of the Nether Dawn relies mostly on noisy guitar soundscapes, with occasional bits of percussion and other instruments, plus vocals in "If We Left…
The Absence Of Milk In The Mouths Of The Lost
Score to the Case Esparros film "The Absence Of Milk In The Mouths Of The Lost" starring Gary Wilson and Hannah Weir. Contains 3 bonus tracks not featured in the movie. No track listing on the tape.
Door With No Handle
Tip! *2024 stock* Originally released on CDr in August 2009 by Chocolate Monk. Also released on cassette by Hanson Records in October 2009. Recorded in a hotel in Brighton, UK 2008.
Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London
Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London was originally released in 1979 by Audio Arts. The cassette features two tracks, one documenting Dan Graham’s performance of Performer/Audience/Mirror and the other documenting a live set by The Static. Both tracks were recorded live in London on February 24, 1979. Primary Information’s facsimile edition of the cassette also contains a printed interview between William Furlong and Dan Graham.
Dan Graham’s Performer/Audience/Mirror (first perfor…
Saint Of The Pit
The Saint of the Pit, Diamanda Galás’ fifth studio album and the second in her trilogy, The Masque of the Red Death, is an urgent record. Its theme is essentially passion, in the sense of suffering, although here, and unlike the passion of Christianity, there is little to offer solace. Re-released on Galás’ own Intravenal Sound Operations (ISO) after its initial release on Mute in November 1986, The Saint and the Pit is a masterpiece of witnessing, forged from grief and fury during the HIV-AIDS …