Code Name: A To Z
**sold out at source, few copies available** A new project by Ryoji Ikeda comprising 26 sonic frequencies which form an audio conversation derived from the US military use of morse code. Pressed on transparent 12" vinyl with 13 locked grooves each side, the title of each hand etched into the grooves. Released by The Vinyl Factory on the occasion of Elevation 2017, an arts festival in Gstaad produced by LUMA Foundation, where Ryoji is presenting a site-specific installation of Test Pattern.
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Cybernetic Serendipity Music
The Vinyl Factory are excited to announce the reissue of the ICA's ground-breaking compilation Cybernetic Serendipity Music, originally released in 1968 to coincide with their exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity, which proved to be a landmark in the history of audio/visual art, and the first exhibition of its kind in the UK devoted to the relationship between music and early computers. Both unique and extraordinarily influential, Cybernetic Serendipity Music captured a nascent scene on the cusp of…
MAGRITTE, LE GROUPE SURREALISTE DE BRUXELLES, RUPTURE VOLUME 2
this second volume aural document is devoted to the Brussels Surrealist Group, 1926, following in the surrealist footsteps that Dada, Pansaers et Correspondance Volume 1 (1917-1926) established. On this compilation you can hear rare documents, including the voice of magritte explaining why it's impossible to answer the questions of journalists. As a nucleus started forming in 1924 around magritte, Nougé, Lecomte, etc., dissension arose, spawning Correspondance (1924-26). This release documents t…
Out of Page
Collection of recordings by the Italian sound and concrete poet Arrigo Lora-Totino (1928-2016). His place in the history and development of poetical intermedia is undisputed. This LP holds fourteen voice-based tape works made from the years 1968 to 2000. While there is some use of cut-up tape manipulation, the artistry truly lies in his performance of the sound plays. Multi-tracking is utilized and Arrigo’s nebulous voice paintings splat and click and glide. His bold expression is inspiring to m…
Pyramid of Skulls
Inspired by the common task and the people of Pamir in Tajikistan, filmmaker and sound artist Carlos Casas deconstructs far-away sights and sounds to create a unique field recording experiment that equally worships past, present, and future traditions. Nikolai Fedorov thought the Pamir to be the cradle of humanity, the hidden and forgotten nest, a pyramid of skulls that held the secrets of past human kinship. He believed that most of Asian myths of human origin pointed the Pamir region as their …
Kunstradio
Third in a series of seven. Includes 7-inch embossed front cover with die-cut hole back cover + grooveless opaque vinyl with an off-center hole in addition to the center hole + two 7″x7″ full colour inserts + AIFF and MP3 (320 kbps) versions of 7 tracks, 45:11 total. Edition of 77.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist. He has a Master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and has performed in Europe and Canada on many occasions. His instal…
Avatar
Second in a series of seven. Includes 7-inch embossed front cover with die-cut hole back cover + grooveless opaque vinyl with a burn mark made by a soldering iron on one side + two 7″x7″ full colour inserts + AIFF and MP3 (320 kbps) versions of 5 tracks, 31:18 total. Edition of 77.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist. He has a Master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and has performed in Europe and Canada on many occasions. His insta…
Silo City
Edition of 77 copies. includes 77 grooveless 7-inch opaque white vinyl records, plus 2 full-colour inserts, and embossed die-cut cover. First presented as part of null point 7: Decay/Reverberate, Silo City, Buffalo, New York, June 12-14, 2015. Curated by Colin Tucker. Publication (vinyl object and digital) contains 6 tracks, total running time 33:41. Tracks based on recordings done at Silo City during a site visit in summer of 2014 and during the presentations/performances onsite the foll…
Greatest Hits
Edition of 300. A release featuring the first twelve presentations of Hit Parade, where a total of 180 performers in Seoul, Montreal, Quebec City, Dundee, Winnipeg, Porto, New York, Toronto, Rotterdam, Kitchener, Milan and Melbourne, lying face down hit the ground 1000 times with a microphone.
Up- And Downgrades Pt.1
For his first solo exhibition at Pinkie Bowtie, which ran between 15 April and 7 May this year, Dennis Tyfus has gone back to basics. Using the age-old tradition of the self-portrait, he draws a pathetic yet whimsical tale of daily life and the mundane annoyances that befall him. These inconsequential frustrations are offset by bright and poppy colours, resulting in a deceptively cheerful set of drawings, luring you in.This catalog ue collects all the drawings that were shown during the exhibiti…
Fullness of Harmony
*Beautiful artist record, limited edition of 120 copies, with hand-stamped labels* Whatever was that sound coming from the records it returns now back on the record. "Fullness of Harmony" presents the sound work of Panos Charalambous, collector- artist, born in 1956, Aetolia- Acarnania, Greece. This very limited edition presents a document of his performances when he takes up the task of dJing with vinyl and shellac records, in which he is intensely involved in the "exhumation" of voices and me…
Spectral Arrows: Singapore
In Singapore, the year 2015 will for evermore be remembered as “SG50” – the state-led yearlong celebrations of Singapore’s 50th year of independence, marked by scores of heritage projects, commemorative merchandise (SG50 fish cakes, anyone?), festivals and more. 2015 was also a big year for Marco Fusinato. The sound and visual artist was selected to exhibit at the prestigious Venice Biennale’s headline international art exhibition, All the World’s Futures. Right smack in the middle of his Venice…
OH Audiopoems
Totally stunning double LP record from the elusive The Balsam Flex legendary catalog is now available again thanks to Jan Van Toorn Slowscan imprint. Balsam Flex was a cassette label run by the artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and evidence of a relatively overlooked moment when a number of London-based British poets were producing work that was influenced by performance art, conceptual art, sound art, text-sound composition, Fluxus, and situationism.One of their most …
Crawling Through Tory Slime
The debut LP of this collaborator with Rhodri Davies and Chris Watson, evoking the knockabout, visionary, English humour of Jeff Keen and Bruce Lacy, spiked here with massive, steaming dollops of contemporary political outrage and disgust. "'Sounds are slurpy, runny, fizzy, spongy, hard as rock,' says the label, 'recalling long improvisational sets, floor-sucking dubwise psychedelia, plunderphonics and tight GRM-era electronic sound design.' Released to coincide with BD's summer-long exhibition…
Slowscan Vol. 5
Original copies, few in stock, long out of print. This anthology of Canadian and Swedish soundpoetry is a numbered editon of 300 copies. Packed in a paperboard case with attached 4-page booklet (side 4 is glued to the box). It features contribution by legendary artists such as Four Horsemen (sound poetry group of Canadian poets composed of bpNichol, Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton and Steve McCaffery) Susan Frykberg, Paul Dutton as well as Lars Gunnar Bodin, Arne Mellnäs and many more
Blurred Genres
Ron Kuivila is a sound artist and composer. He creates instruments of his own design for performances as well as installations. Kuivila's work challenges what one can hear simultaneously. He samples sounds from many different situations, and he is influenced by nature as well as artifice.Prior to receiving his 2008 Grants to Artists award, Kuivila had shown his sound installation work at MASS MoCA (1999-2007); V2 Organization, Holland (2000); and Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany (2000); WDR Spr…
Twenty-Three Carillon Sudokus
"Carillon Sudokus" is the sonic counterpart to "Oog & Oor" (Eye & Ear), the last work that Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen (1934–2015) realized. Oog & Oor was a design made with his daughter Sappho Panhuysen for a temporary installation in the lighted column of the Rietveld bus shelter next to the town hall of Eindhoven. It is a further development from "Eight Double Sudokus", a series of large-scale prints exhibited at Museum De Pont in Tilburg in 2012. Both designs were created us…
552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings
Bubbling below the histories of sound-art, fine-art, and avant-garde music, there are a handful of remarkable figures who bridge all three - collapsing the barriers between creative limit, context, location, and aural experience. Of these, Terry Fox long occupied a place of respect and renown for those in the know - among the best of the best, but, within the broader narratives of each discipline, he has never entirely received his due - lingering just out of view, responsible for so much…
OP. 03 Music for Balance and Motion (The Loss of)
Art edition, limited to 24 exemplars, wooden boxes containing a cricket and a cicada, an insert illustrating the project and a CD. Music for Balance and Motion (The Loss of) is based on three elements: a cricket sample, a cicada sample (both taken from field recordings sessions during 2001) and sine waves, a 22 minutes track inspired by and focused on the obsessive nature of the sounds of these insects, conceived for contemporary music festival Rai Nuova Musica.Luca Garino (Italy, 1978) aka Ps…
Dances Interdites
Slowscan vol. 38 is a expanded re-issue on vinyl of the Dances Interdites tape originally released on Balsam Flex, a London-based label run by artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Peter Finch is a poet and short story writer living in Cardiff, Wales. He works in both traditional and experimental forms and is a performer on the reading circuit. In the sixties and seventies he edited the ground-breaking literary magazine, second aeon, exhibited visual poetry internationally and…