The Negative Way (Book + CD)
*Bilingual Edition (English / French)* The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation. The initial fragments, written about twenty years ago, provide a valuable testimony to the connections, differences, and questions of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh. The book is accompanied by a CD, Song Lang, a solo recorded in March 2024 at the Sound (Dis)obedience Festival in Ljubljana, Sloven…
Haiku Lingo
Original 1989 LP, few copies available "Haiku Lingo" is constructed as a narrative musical labyrinth of characters, styles, orchestrations, texts and juxtapositions. The work makes use of Shelley Hirsch's vocal power and flexibility, humor and imaginative language together with David Weinstein's chameleon-powered sampling keyboards and electronics. Hirsch/Weinstein have collaborated regularly since 1985 including staged works "Occidental Dreams Of A Geisha" and "Celebration Of The Obvious", the …
鷹 = Taka (Art Book + LP)
An extremely rare Toshi Ichiyanagi art edition LP. Deluxe art edition boxset only available for gallery exhibition in Tokyo in 1982 and not available elsewhere. Housed in silver box with book, outer sleeve and many inserts with calligraphic artYuichi Inoue (1916-85) was an avant-garde calligraphy artist. This remarkable collaboration was realized by a curator Masaomi Unagami in 1982. This edition is consisted of 6 calligraphy of Yuichi's 'Taka' (hawk), Shohei O'Oka's short novel 'Taka' and fanta…
Hold The Sound (Book)
144, printed in offset. Artist Book. Can you hold a sound? This book experiments with giving tangible form to something seemingly immaterial. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thoughts on sound gathered by artists and researchers, each attempting to grasp sound’s fleeting nature through verbal and visual expressions. What are auditories? The plural of “auditory” emphasizes that there is no one way of hearing, and that hearing is not an isolated activity. For the inaugural present…
The Annual 2024 (Book)
Softcover, 228 pages, 21x21 cm Korm Plastics founder Frans de Waard teamed up with designer Alfred Boland for the (second) one and only Korm Plastics magazine cum yearbook. Lots of new authors, including Audrey Golden (about Una Baines), Elodie A. Roy (about Shimmy Disc), Michel Faber (about Extreme Death Metal), Huili Raffo (about Hotline), Robin Rimbaud (about Peter Tscherkssky), Erik Quint (on Radio Tonka), Fred de Vries (the Kalahari Surfers), Lukas Simonis (about Dull Schicksal) and Richard…
Giftnale (Book)
Hardcover, 20×29,6 cm, 480 pages. Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed br…
Even When It Makes No Sense - The Broken Flag Story (Book)
Bomb! Softcover, 17×24 cm, 144 pages. English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy’s project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.
Steve Underwood’s text appeared in a 2010 magazi…
Cause and Curiosity: Walter Zimmermann in Conversation with Richard Toop (Book)
**Essential reading!** Having issued a truly remarkable suite of publications, dedicated to radical reaches of musical practice and thought, over the last year or so - George Lewis and Harald Kisiedu's “Composing While Black”, Hans Reichel's “Daxophonie”, Guillaume Belhomme's “Eric Dolphy”, Phil Freeman’s “In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor”’ and “Radio Cologne Sound Das Studio für Elektronische Musik des WDR”, to name just a few - Wolke Verlag returns with “Cause and Curi…
Calling
The first visual book on the massively influential musician and interdisciplinary artist whose six-decade oeuvre unites music, movement and art
Twilight of the Alchemists - French Music Encyclopedia (Book)
Encyclopedia of French progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc. by Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman - Following on the tradition of our other country focused music books: "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" exploring "Krautrock" and the wider scene from Germany, and the more recently completed "A Fistful Of Spaghetti" covering the amazing Italian "Spaghetti-Rock" scene, this book had been germinating as long as the latter, with the basic structure and discographies largely completed decades…
Playback (Book + Dvd)
Hard cover Edition, large format. Long out of print. One of the pioneers of performance and multimedia work, constantly cited as key to the burgeoning postwar genres now considered standard fare in art galleries and museums, Robert Whitman's work of the 1960s and 1970s has long been inaccessible because of its ephemeral nature. This publication and the exhibition it accompanies are the first to reexamine his seminal early work, begun under the influence of Allan Kaprow in the late 1950s. Early p…
Remix Ready Mix
Huge Tip! Hand-numbered edition. Remix Ready Mix reimagines the soundtrack to artist Lucy Raven’s immersive film installation Ready Mix (2021), commissioned to inaugurate the new Dia Chelsea exhibition space in New York. Created in collaboration with the composer Deantoni Parks, Remix Ready Mix merges field recordings from a concrete and gravel plant in central Idaho with nonsynchronous sound arrangements
This record is a series of cuts: component extractions from the admixture of sounds that co…
Party/After Party
180g black vinyl 2LP boxset w/ booklet. Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (2020) lives on past the sound installation at Dia Beacon in this two-disc vinyl set. Recorded live at the museum, the album includes four tracks of studio versions from the artist’s commission and live recordings from Dia Beacon that highlight the acoustics of the space. The LPs are supplemented by a sixteen-page booklet of liner notes with an introduction to the project by commission curator Kelly Kivland, a note on the wor…
Issue 10
It probably goes without saying that here at Soundohm, we’re huge fans of all things Lasse Marhaug. Since the early 90s, he has remained one of the most radical and ambitious creative musical voices working in Norway, spanning the fields of noise, free improvisation, jazz, rock and, metal, producing a remarkable catalog of solo work as well as collaborations with Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, and a slew of oth…
United States Part II
Press release as a small poster for the 1980 performances of Laurie Anderson's United States at the Orpheum Theater in New York.
Dark Dogs American Dreams
Rare small photographic poster for Laurie Anderson's 1980 exhibition at Holly Solomon Gallery in New York.
Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Invitation card to a Steve Reich Ensemble concert at the Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1973.
Scores on Exhibition
Beautiful tri-folded illustrated invitation to a 1973 exhibition of hand-annotated scores by Steve Reich.
Writings Aabout Music
First 1974 edition of Steve Reich's important book. A must for anyone in new music.
Drumming
Beautiful invitation in the form of a small leporello to the presentation of the release of the 2LP+score edition of Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece Drumming at the Denise René / Hans Mayer Gallery in 1972.