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Sound Art /

Hate People Like Us
Remixes of PLU music by Coil, Negativland, Farmers Manual, Bruce Gilbert, Boyd Rice, Dummy run, Rehberg & Bauer, Stock Hausen & Walkman, Death in June, Christoph Heemann, Sons of Silence, Barbed and Mika Vainio. "Radio shows and kitsch 60's Easy List…
Brand new fossil
On this beautifully presented little 7", Japanese artist Sawako Kato uses a variety of found sounds to create an audio representation of what are or will become fossils, either literally or conceptually.  With one side sourced from handmade crystal r…
The Heavenly Ladder
Awesome hardcover book containing an in-depth analysis (plus an actual performance on the accompanying cd) of Adof Wölfli’s music by Baudouin de Jaer. Subtitled: Analysis Of The Musical Cryptograms. Belgian composer Baudouin de Jaer was completely mo…
Die Geheimnisträge
A lovely audio book edition comprising more than six and a half hours of exceptional audio entertainment, read by Wolfram Berger and accompanied by music from the col legno catalogue. The legendary aktionist artist Günter Brus’ selection of music inc…
Aero Invisible Giants
A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda, one side Lp released for the exhibition Aero Invisible Giants, Canedicoda at Le Dictateur, february 2011. Edition of 200, spectacular packaging with …
Through Glass Panes
Ellen Fullman's first proper full length for Important Records follows her collaborative work with Barn Owl (imprec327) and a split LP with Eleh (imprec318). She was also featured on The Harmonic Series: A Collection Of Work In Just Intonation (impre…
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Fully restored director's cut DVD of Ira Cohen's legendary 1968 film, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda ina limited edition of 500 copies only."I must say this is the most chemically abused piece of cinema I’ve ever seen – I actually feel under the…
Dreamweapon: The Art & Life Of Angus MacLise
This is the "Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise exhibit catalog with texts by Lou Reed, La Monte Young, Ira Cohen, plus exhibit curators Johan Kugelberg and Will Swofford Cameron. This edition includes a laid in memorial letterpress bro…
Suite For Five - Summerspace - Interscape
n 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician John Cage, created some of the most iconocl…
Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D.
K11 is the nom de plume of the Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. On his last release as K11, 2009’s “Voices From Thelema” (Aurora Borealis Records) Riparbelli visited the ruins of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily, where he ent…
Klavierwellen
Amazing release by the video & sound-artist from Brazil Marcellvs L., a four-channel sound piece titled "Klavierwellen" or Piano Waves (2011). The piano waves we hear are literally just that: while on a residency, the artist upturned a piano on a boa…
Max Ernst Hanging
"In this revealing documentary, patron, collector, and curator Dominique de Menil hangs the 1973 exhibition Inside the Sight, in conversation with Max Ernst, the 20th-century Surrealist artist. From installation to opening party, the events that tr…
Spaces Speak, are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architectur
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater. We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dar…
The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design
This book introduces a subject that will be new to many: sonic arts. The application of sound to other media (such as film or video) is well known and the idea of sound as a medium in its own right (such as radio) is also widely accepted. However,…
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UNEXPLORED CHINESE MUSIC: 'all tracks: live recording during 2010 May Ð July. recorded from desk. mastered by Taku Unami.' (label info)
Sound body
2006 release, first time in stock: David Toop populates the five strung-out and diffuse compositions on Sound Body with sonic events captured all over the world. The Japanese sound artist Haco plucks rubber bands in Kobe; guitarist Rafael Toral captu…
Music for a distance
Music for a Distance is the second release in the small music series. The title of the work in relation to the cover images (abstract photographs of Julius’ wife resembling landscapes merging into a distant horizon) suggests a work of uncommon poetic…
Oude wijn in nieuwe zakken
Awesome 52 pages, a collection of found/hardly changed photo's, drawings, exhausting text, and garbage from the archive of Dennis Tiefhuys, the jewish visual artist, residing in the middle of the diamant area in Antwerp/Belgium.all of these pages wer…
Isomopolis. ICC
Lovely and obscure album of Bertoia/Rutman-lineage metal sound-sculptures from which G. T. Smits coaxes a bizarre array of squawks & resonant thumps...."for a while i thought i was completely lost in the maze that is the recorded archive of George "…
At The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine
LONG OUT OF PRINT, FEW COPIES AVAILABLE: originally planned as a release for the now legendary Aspen magazine these six meditations in "spontaneous sound" have finally made their way into mass consciousness. Recorded live at the Cathedral of St. John…