Atypical Girl - Punk rock, Liverpool, and trying to be normal
It’s 1977, and punk rock has just hit Liverpool. The legendary Eric's club is home to the city's rebels, posers and misfits. It’s a place of attitude, adventure and new possibilities, and it changes lives. Some become pop stars; Penny Kiley becomes a…
Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear
‘I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind,’ wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. Bodies of Sound offers a resonant …
Sniffin' Glue... And Other Rock ‘n’ Roll Habits
Sniffin' Glue may have been the closest thing to perfection ever achieved by a magazine. Untroubled by the demands of owners, publishers, designers and production editors, it was a one-man enterprise that perfectly mirrored the spirit and manners of …
Sound Experiments - The Music of the AACM
A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago’s AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music.
The Sound of Thinking - A Listener’s Companion to Conceptual Music
A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon.
Fear of Music - Why People Get Rothko but Don't Get Stockhausen
Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums, while the millions commanded by works by Andy Warhol and Franc…
Conversation
*Text in French and English* A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare …
Magic Circle (Magazine)
Magic Circle contains photos from two rolls of Kodak Portra 200 film taken at sunrise within the inner circle of Stonehenge, six days before the winter solstice of 2018 and on the morning of the winter solstice of 2019. Some experts believe the ritua…
Expression Musicale totale (Book + 7")
This release (Book + 7") by Vincent Epplay is a free interpretation of audio and visual archives drawn from sound experiments conducted during music workshops in Freinet schools in the 1960s and 1970s. It serves as a way of reviving these diverse pr…
Something broke
*9 copies limited edition* An accepting, meditative, and devoted capturing of a broken tube microphone. With a clear nod to the stormy landscape surrounding the artist oceanside residence the album offers a calming tapestry of persistent yet unpredic…
Cromlech (Magazine)
“O Prince of Darkness,” I cried, “O Lord of strife and chaos, O master of men, come forth from out this tomb! Here, according to the folklore of this place, is the entrance to your infernal abode…”
Cromlech is a deep dive into The Devil’s Den, our f…
The Professional
Vanessa Rossetto returns to ErstSolo with The Professional, a double CD that takes the figure of the amateur as both formal occasion and conceptual question. The album grew out of Rossetto's 2025 European tour and, in particular, a performance at the…
Legends In Their Own Lunchtime : An Exploration Of The Canterbury Scene (Book, Hardcover)
Hardcover, 648 pages, Hardcover! This book looks back on the golden years of the music scene that emerged out of Canterbury, Kent, in the late 1960s, spearheaded by Soft Machine and Caravan and their various offshoots, including Gong, Kevin Ayers and…
Reliquary (Magazine)
Join the Keeper for an excavation and exploration of uncanny fiction. Reliquary is consecrated with contemporary and classic supernatural tales, ruminations upon their potency, and prompts to further enquiry...
Talisman (Magazine)
Introducing Talisman, a new zine devoted to myth, magick, and the small practices that cultivate mystery, stoke curiosity, and find beauty in the everyday. For solitary practitioners and intuitives among us, as well as the spiritually inclined.
Our d…
Stillness in their isolation
low volume listening highly encouraged.
for a while now, i've been fascinated in the sensory threshold, the moment in between sensing or not, like when doing a hearing test; at one point you hear a sound and next you don't, but you're not quite sure.…
Requiem For George Maciunas
A vital tape work returning to circulation thirty-six years after its private cassette debut. Mieko Shiomi's 1990 memorial for George Maciunas, self-released that year on a privately circulated cassette and unheard in proper edition since, now receiv…
Sédiment
*80 copies limited edition* I often went for walks in the Colonster woods; I always found the place quite mysterious, both in its light and its soundscapes. These soundscapes evolve as you walk through the woods, passing through its lights and fir fo…
Two museums
*80 copies limited edition* There is a science museum that was built when I was a child. It has an exhibition building and a planetarium. I visited it a lot at different times. Because it was built a long time ago, the atmosphere inside feels like go…
Sound Chapters. Voices of Sound Experimentation in Italy
Sound Chapters: Voices of Sound Experimentation in Italy gathers a generation of Italian sound artists, curators, and researchers into a polyphonic reader, where essays, scores, poems, and songs are treated as vocal acts on the page, tracing an embod…