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Director's Inspiration (Book)
French filmmaker Agnès Varda was a trailblazer who broke new artistic and cinematic ground for nearly seven decades. Although closely associated with the French New Wave, Varda established her groundbreaking visual style in her 1955 debut film La Pointe Courte, well before other milestones such as François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Varda impacted cinema from her first feature film through her final works, with an expansive oeuvre that includes Cleo from 5 to 7 (1…
Ligeti-Labyrinth (Book)
Documents for the works of György Ligeti's, 1941–2001
Schleim des Nichtwissens (Book)
A new art book covering similar themes and ideas as Black To Comm's At Zeenath Parallel Heavens album. Plus a free to download new Black To Comm track collaging various elements from the last album into a 13-minute aural trip.
• Open thread binding with fold-out 4-page cardboard cover• Thick tip-on cardboard backcover• Green thread• Size: 13 x 17 cm, 88 full-colour pages + 4 cover pages• 1st edition: 100 copies
This is a lovely handmade edition made by a quality printhouse - thus the slightly h…
My Easy Piano Pieces (A Ridiculous Legacy)
*250 copies limited edition* Marco Bertoni, musician, composer and producer from Bologna, protagonist of the Italian new wave of '77, after "Live in Trentville" (2022) publishes this "My Easy Piano Pieces (A Ridiculous Legacy)" for Silentes. A collection of pieces of music that he has written since he was 15 years old. Over time they have been kept locked in a drawer but never forgotten. Some of them have been used for songs by the Confusional Quartet, or published on his first solo album "18/8/…
In A Qu*a*re Time And Place: Post-slavery Temporalities, Blaxploitation, And Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism Between Intersectionality And Heterogeneity
In this book Tim Stüttgen considers the paradigm of (post-)slavery as an important epistemological break within predominantely white Gender and Queer Studies, as well as within critical Film and Cultural Studies. Departing from what E. Patrick Johnson has proposed as a specifically intersectional »quAre«, instead of an »unmarked white queer perspective«, this book contrasts Deleuze’s cinema theory with Frantz Fanon, queer theories of color, the history of the African diaspora and utopian quAre f…
Lost in Room: Mark Perry, Alternative TV and Related, 1977 - 1981 (Book)
"That’s my argument against the way punk’s become so cabaret. It’s almost patronising [when bands play all their hits]. Oh, we’d better play ‘How Much Longer’ because people want that. To me, that’s just patronising to the audience. I’d like to feel, and I always have done, that an Alternative TV audience wants us to experiment or to try new things out through that sense of exploration, or that childlike sense of wonder about making music. That’s why I’ve always wanted to retain that. I haven’t …
Book 3: 1990-1993 (Book)
The third and final book in the trilogy of volumes dedicated to Grim Humour fanzine, which ran between 1983 and 1993 and lasted a total of eighteen editions. Following on from the first two, published respectively in 2020 and 2022, this book continues the same approach through its mixing reprinted original pages with rewritten features, some insightful reflections on many of them and additional material by both editor/publisher Richard Johnson and various other contributors. Writers involved wit…
Ruinous Spirituality (Book)
Back in mid-2021, the publisher, João Simões, delivered the marvelous “Three Essays on Spirituality and Art” by Henry Flynt, offering swirling insights into one of experimental music’s most philosophically visionary minds. The first publication of writings by Flynt to have appeared in years, it left us wanting for more. Now, thankfully, just a short way down the road, João Simões has attended to that need, bringing out a stunning second volume, “Ruinous Spirituality”, that Flynt describes as a s…
Clairvoyant Journal 1974 (Book)
*2022 stock* Wrappers. Cover photograph by Tom Ahern. Hannah Weiner is "the only person on record—or so she believes as a result of her extensive investigations into both medical & parapsychic literature—to have experienced the particular phenomenon this journal represents, that of being 'spoken to' by several persons, most of them seemingly external to herself, by means of printed words in various colors & sizes that appear both on other persons & objects & on her own forehead (in such a way th…
La Mandragore (Book+CD)
"When it became known that the Queen had given birth to a frog, there was consternation at court; the ladies of the palace remained mute, and only sewn mouths and heartbroken looks were exchanged in the high halls... If the tale does not give much for our frog, the queen will not be able to mourn him, which will lead her to imagine and then live terrible experiences.
The only disciple of Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote Rémy de Gourmont by Jean Lorrain (1855-1906). A decadent dandy, an ardent erotomania…
Design Slipcase (for CD) / V.I.R.U.S series
Limited Edition CD slipcase celebrating Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto's VIRUS series. The slipcase can accommodate the 5 CDs Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_, and Summvs (reMASTER) and comes in an eco-friendly, cream shaded Muken paper.Design by Carsten Nicolai.
Design Slipcase (for Vinyl) / V.I.R.U.S series
Limited Edition Vinyl slipcase celebrating Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto's VIRUS series. The slipcase can accommodate the 5 LPs Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_, and Summvs (reMASTER) and comes in an eco-friendly, cream shaded Muken paper.Design by Carsten Nicolai.
Melting Mind
Limited edition of 112 copies. Finally N.1 Melting Mind zine is out. A frappè of contents collected between 2019 and 2022. Reviews, interviews, essays, stories, drawings, oppressive collages, and more. On this first issue, contributions by Bill Nace, Virginia Genta, Michele Mazzani, Dj Fammi Vedere, Cristiano Carosi, Iridio Ventura, Andrea Simoniello, Taneli Vitahuta, Laura Nomisake, Annalisa Trapani, Ernesto Gonzalez, Enrico Banzola, Raila Mar, Jeremie Sauvage, Gabriele Gotini, Luca Leonetti. 4…
Prelude To Obscurity
An underground brutal death metal demo grail finally unearthed after 25 years rotting, we present ‘Prelude To Obscurity’! Hailing from Wisconsin in the shadow of the Milwaukee Metal Fest, Embalm formed in 1995 while in high school in the era of Ablated Records, Frozen Dawn CD compilations and IllNoiz Death Fest to name a few. Embalm created truly memorable grooves of mid-paced, catchy, and brutal as hell Midwest Death Metal, also including the customary influence of Swedish Death Metal and even …
Ignota Diary 2023
The Ignota Diary is a tool for discovery in the practice of everyday life. Among all rituals includes, it features a series of Sonic Meditations by legendary composer Pauline Oliveros.
Discographisme Maison / Homemade Record Sleeves (Book)
Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.
The project features numerous and unexpected graphic design inputs : from faint or unfinished scribbles, to sloppy bla…
By Reason or By Force (Book)
*2022 stock* 'I left Chile five years ago to try my luck in a Europe which was beginning to smell disaster. Cuts to civil rights at the same time that the process of privatizations, all shielded by a smoke screen erected by the "European crisis", seemed to me a sadly familiar scenario. I felt myself not only as someone coming from the end of the world, but also as someone coming from the future. In Chile the neoliberal model made its first roots over 25 years ago, leaving deep scars in a society…
Worms
From 2008 until 2017 Danai Simou has been working on the project WORMS. WORMS is a study on how inflictive memories can affect the present time. A research on sexuality, the human body, fears and desires, either through the use of her own body or over her close surroundings. Shot from the time she was seventeen years old until now. She has used DSLR, mirrorless, compact cameras and smartphones. A hand crafted xerox-printed photo zine with screen printed cover including the same titled project. A…