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Tip! In September 2023, at the Hiventy laboratories in Joinville-le-pont - formerly Pathé - we recorded the film restoration (image and sound) and development processes. Following the mechanical and digital processes, we listened to and interviewed the technicians to understand what goes into restoring a film. How do you restore a film to its original state? To do this, we need to get close to what viewers of the film could perceive in the cinema. The way we look at and listen to a film has evol…
Totale Libertà (Book)
Hardcover, 506 pages. Totale libertà is an extensive monograph dedicated to Sylvano Bussotti, one of Italy’s most original and influential composers, visual artists, and performers. Published by Fondazione Mudima in 2016 as part of the Fluid XXXIII series, the volume is curated by Daniele Lombardi and features contributions from leading critics and artists including Gino Di Maggio, Ivanka Stoianova, Luigi Esposito, Marcello Panni, Francesco Di Marco, Franco Brambilla, Gianluca Ranzi, and Bussott…
Nuova Enciclopedia del Futurismo Musicale (Book)
Hardcover, 364 pages. Mostly in Italian language. Nuova Enciclopedia del Futurismo musicale is a pivotal reference work dedicated to the history, theory, and protagonists of Futurist music, curated by Daniele Lombardi. Published by Mudima Edizioni as part of the Fluid XIII series (edited by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi), the volume gathers critical essays and research by leading scholars and artists, including Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lomba…
Gli Anni Settanta (Book)
Hardcover, 364 pages. English/Italian. Gli anni Settanta is a richly illustrated monograph dedicated to Fabrizio Plessi, one of Italy’s most innovative multimedia artists, focusing on his pivotal creative output during the 1970s. Edited by Marco Meneguzzo and part of the Fluid XXVII series (curated by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi), the volume is published by Fondazione Mudima and features texts in both Italian and English.
Within Gli anni Settanta, the collaboration…
La Musica Futurista (Book)
Hardcover, 206 pages. Luigi Russolo e la musica futurista is a key volume dedicated to Luigi Russolo, the visionary Italian artist, composer, and theorist who revolutionized 20th-century music with his concept of “the art of noises.” Curated by Giovanni Lista, the book is part of the Fluid XV series, overseen by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi.
This 189-page Italian-language publication brings together critical essays and original writings by Giovanni Lista and Luigi R…
Fra Zero e Infinito (Book)
Hardcover, 364 pages. Photographic/Artist book, with little text contribution (mostly written in Italian). Fra zero e infinito is a comprehensive monograph published by Fondazione Mudima in 2018, dedicated to Giuseppe Chiari, one of Italy’s most influential conceptual artists, avant-garde composers, and a central figure in the Fluxus movement. Edited by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi, the volume gathers critical essays, archival documents, and photographs that trace C…
How Buildings Learn
"Last year, a consultant from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors took stock of my home in Bristol. He told me the survey would be sent as a pdf via email; I asked him for the audio recording of his spoken notes. The visiting field recordist graciously gifted it to me.Around the same time, we had a security camera fitted. My daughters commented that the audio sounded like “Daddy’s music.” I can now travel anywhere in the world while producing field recordings of my home. ‘How Buildings Le…
Paris: Public Spaces
*2025 stock* Seijiro Murayama is a drummer/percussionist/voice performer currently working in Japan again after living for a number of years in France. Éric La Casa is a French sound artist well known for site-specific field recordings with a strong improvisational element. The two have been working together on numerous projects for nearly a decade. For six months starting in January 2012, La Casa and Murayama took portable tape recorders out to parks, subway stations, streets and other public s…
Zones Portuaires 2
Between 2017 and 2023, while assisting Tarek Atoui with his Waters’ Witness project, I accumulated a series of recordings in maritime ports, which I have used to create this thematic suite. Rooted in documentary reflection, it presents the unembellished sounds of commercial ports and their coastlines.
Recordings 2017 - 2023Editings + Mixings June – December 2024
These ports were constructed across diverse biotopes and climates: in the Gulf of Oman in Abu Dhabi, the harbour of Singapore, the Medi…
しずくたち / Shizukutachi
Big tip! From the 1950s, Masaaki Takano (1927-2007) worked as a freelance "sound planner," mainly creating sound effects for stage productions. In the mid-1980s he began performances called "Sound Play" where he would perform on his own self-created sound instruments and his collection of ethnic instruments. Growing out of his work with sound effects, he became obsessed with the recording of natural sounds from the 1970s onwards, and this album "Shizukutachi" is a record of a high-quality record…
Euforia ( Book)
Bilingual edition (English / Italian) 24 x 30 cm (softcover) 304 pages (ill.) Euforia is a comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work and artistic activities of Tomaso Binga (pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, Salerno, 1931), a central figure in Italian visual and sound poetry, performance, and feminist art. Since 1971, Binga has adopted a male pseudonym as a critical gesture to expose and parody the privileges of men within the art world, using irony and paradox to question inherited str…
A Comparative Dialogue Act
2024, English, vinyl and book bundle, 48 pages, 30 x 30 cm. The 48-page illustrated booklet serves as a prequel to the exhibition and includes contributions from Bettina Steinbrügge (Director of Mudam Luxembourg), writer and musician Dan Fox, and curator Joel Valabrega, alongside visual material by the artist. A Comparative Dialogue Act is a publication and vinyl record set accompanying the Luxembourg Pavilion’s project at the 60th Venice Biennale, realized by artist Andrea Mancini and the colle…
The New York Years – 1971 to 1994 (Book)
Hardcover, 484 pages! The New York Years: 1971 to 1994 presents a comprehensive photographic chronicle by Eric Kroll, offering an in-depth look at New York City during a period of intense cultural transformation. Known for his influential work in both documentary and fetish photography, Kroll here reveals a lesser-known facet of his practice, with hundreds of mostly unpublished black-and-white and color images.
Taken over more than two decades, these photographs document the city’s vibrant art, …
Domestic (Book)
English edition, hardcover, 292 pages. A relentless and unflinching collection, Domestic assembles the lyrics and texts of Kevin Tomkins-founding member of Sutcliffe Jugend and a key figure in the UK power electronics scene. Raw, brutal, and unapologetically intimate, this book lays bare the psychological terrain of control, submission, and the darkest corners of human desire and detachment.
Divided into six visceral sections, Domestic shatters societal norms, piercing through the polite veneers…
Everybody's Head is Open to Sound – Writings on Tom Wilson
Everybody's Head is Open to Sound is the first publication dedicated to the influential yet often overlooked record producer Tom Wilson (1931–1978). Through newly commissioned essays by music historians Wolfram Knauer and Richie Unterberger, journalist Ignacio Juliá, and essayist Pacôme Thiellement, this volume explores Wilson’s pivotal role in shaping avant-garde jazz, producing key folk-rock recordings of the 1960s, and fostering daring collaborations with major US rock bands.
The book traces …
Afrosonica – Soundscapes
Based on a collective research initiative and exhibition, the book Afrosonica offers a reflection on African and Afro-diasporic sound, published in collaboration with the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.By bringing together artists, scholars, and musicians, the book deconstructs Western-centric discourses and approaches to museology and ethnomusicology, while exploring inclusive and renegotiated ways to intersect heritage, technology, and futurism.Through in-depth conversations, essays, photogra…
OM Entering. And Once Entered
2025 stock "The latest LP from veteran fluxus composer Philip Corner. OM Entering. and Once Enterd comprises four previously unreleased recordings with the Barton Workshop, taken from performances in the Netherlands, and South Korea, between 2000-2007. 'Om Entrance which one does....because the performance is a real "passage from the material to the spiritual" unless the "real" world is just as spiritual already which i like to think it is. As perhaps an everyday awareness is already to be entra…
Crying glacier
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* 2025 was declared the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation by the United Nations, accompanied by the proclamation of March 21st of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting this year. As they put it, “this is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere…
Switch Off That Machine
A warning for the present and the future, from the past… The time is apartheid South Africa. The resonance is now.
You will hear, in order of appearance:
Soweto's Imilonji KaNtu Choral Society singing at the enthronement of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, St George's Cathedral, Cape Town;
Archbishop Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner;
An announcer on state-controlled radio;
Beyers Naudé, once a leading pro-apartheid Afrikaner cleric whose radical epiphany after the Sharpeville massacre of March 1960, when …
Contre-montagne
*170 copies limited edition* "The city where I live was created by digging holes : removing stones from the ground, then making buildings with them. The only hill on the island was quarried. Elsewhere, they just dug giant square pits. Over time, many of these holes became dumps of some kind; the Francon quarry became a snow dump. Half the snow plowed from the streets of Montreal after each storm is loaded onto trucks and dumped in the 70 metres deep hole. Every winter, snow piles up there. Some …