Work n. 117
First released on cassette in 1995. Now available as a 7″ vinyl via VF and Martin Creed’s own label, Telephone Records. The single release coincides with the artist’s hugely popular show, TOAST, at Hauser & Wirth (London) which runs until 09/02/2019 and Artist Rooms at the Tate Britain until 10/03/2019“It’s got everything in it” – Martin CreedSide A All the sounds on a drum machine played one after the other, in their given order, at a speed which makes the piece last …
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
The score to the turner prize winning installation, newly re-issued on clear vinyl
. Edition of 500. The video installation Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) is one of the best-known and -loved works by Turner Prize-winning, London-based artist and Northern English emigre Mark Leckey. It's a hugely influential piece, and the soundtrack itself has been sampled endlessly, most notably by Jamie xx on "All Under One Roof Raving" (2014). A phantasmic and transcendent collage of meticulously sour…
Integrationer
**Edition of 100. As both an object and as body of sound, this one is a stunner** Anders Vestergaard and Niklas Adam have been staples in the Danish experimental music scene for years - Ventergaard working as a drummer, both solo and in a range of projects, while Adam, in an equally diverse series of efforts, works with electronics, objects, sculpture, programming, performance, installation and music. Their debut collaborative release, Integrationer, is a stunner and arguably BIN's most ambitiou…
The Acoustic Appraiser
Edition of 300. Based in Copenhagen, Sandra Boss is a member of the young generation of European avant-garde / experimental composers who are pushing the form forward into new and exciting realms, splicing rigorous musical ideas with those of sound art. Often based at the juncture between performance and installation - musical objects becoming sculptures of sound, her work incorporates a series of diverse sound sources - antique tone generators, hearing test machines, bird flutes, children choir…
Symphonic Songs
Double LP on black vinyl. Recorded between the release of Sand (1977) and Lost Secrets (1981), Symphonic Songs is a formerly unreleased work that chronicles the dynamic shift and development in experimental Swedish composer Ragnar Grippe’s canon. Following his seminal release Sand in 1977, Swedish experimental composer Ragnar Grippe worked on various art and performance commissions, often returning to Stockholm during the summer months to focus his efforts on his compositional practice. It was t…
Free Soap
Original 1979 LP, few copies available and of course long out of print. This is the original Music Gallery Edition release from 1979. Free Soap is CCMC’s (the improvisational music ensemble led by Michael Snow) masterpiece, especially the incredible real-time tone poem ‘a.k.a. February 13th’ that takes up the first side of the LP. The piece begins with sparse strokes of marimba, trumpet, synthesizer, bowed bass and piano moving into the brilliant middle section which uses long silences in a way …
Suffering For The Promised
Edition of 316 copies on black vinyl, incl. full-colour inner sleeve w/ text by the artist. Being in the making – or un-making – for the past 14 years, Stefan Roigk's Suffering For The Promised has gone through many stages, from being finished, revoked, left untouched, reworked, discussed to finally getting banned onto vinyl in its ultimate and irrevocable form. An atmospherically intense but yet utterly fragile piece, combining concrete sounds, field recordings and devotional vocal fragments to…
Subjectivation
Subjectivation is the new solo album from Swiss artist Antoine Chessex. Produced by Rekem Records (GR/UK) and Fragment Factory (DE), it features some of his most direct and developed work to date. Using material from solo live performances in San Francisco, Berlin, Zürich and London between 2010 and 2015, the sides of this record distill the touchstones of Antoine's sonic language into two sharp and forceful statements. The first side opens with a formidable tour-de-force, a developing field of …
Spinhouse
Edition of 50 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Anna Schimkat (b 1974) is a Darmstadt born media artist and trained sculptress, living and working in Leipzig, Saxony since 2006. The first side of this release documents one of Schimkat's site specific sound installations, one of her main fields of work during the past years. »Spinhouse« is based on a 4-channel live installation, which took place in Dresden in 2014. The piece was created from and with the inherent sounds of the office build…
Les Éphémères
First ever release. The record is accompanied by a 24-page booklet illustrated with Knud Viktor’s photos, as well as an extensive essay. Only a few weeks ago, with their incredible 10", rescueing long lost works by the artists, Lene Adler Petersen, we were singing the praises of the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology, one of our favorite imprints in the contemporary landscape of sound. Over the last couple of years, with an array of releases by Knud Viktor, Henning Christiansen, Per Norgard,…
Verbal Brainwash And Other Works
At Last! The new edition of this milestone release, the collected text-sound compositions of Åke Hodell, in what would have been his 100th birthday year. Åke Hodell (April 30, 1919 - July 29, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist. Hodell was trained as a fighter pilot, but after a crash during practice July 17, 1941, he had to spend the next few years in hospital. This became a turning point and he became a dedicated antimilitarist. I…
Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks
**Facsimile edition of the definitive (and legendary) guide to records by artists. Comes with flexi 7"** Broken Music’ is a holy grail avant-garde music publication, a compendium of recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations created by thousands of visual artists between WWII and 1989. Unavailable since the original, sought-after 1989 edition, it features essays by its compilers Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier, as well as Theodor W. Adorno, Milan Knížák and Lasz…
All Things Pass & Timescape
Published in February 2018, following Darren Almond's exhibition “Timescape” at Mudam, Luxembourg, from February 11 to May 14, 2017. English edition. Art edition with 56 pages Book (color ill., inserts) + clear vinyl LP + booklet. This catalogue is a visual journey through the artist's show at Mudam Luxembourg. It centers on Almond's series of cosmos-inspired abstract paintings Timescape. Produced in conjunction with the publication, the record All Things Pass highlights the musical dimension of…
Jumping and Standing 1984
Limited edition pressing of 300 copies * Includes text insert by Akio Suzuki. Originally recorded in 1984, “Jumping and Standing” consists of a live performance at Musashino Art University by pioneering Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki, accompanied by five toy rabbits. This long-awaited release epitomizes Suzuki’s approach to performance, imbued with a characteristic sense of humor and an organic interplay with his audiences, as evinced by uproarious laughter heard on the opening track. Now som…
The Book Of Sounds
Last Copies. Edition of 500 copies. "This work, a masterpiece of restraint, reflects the musical imagination of someone who has spent long periods in the quiet recesses of the mind." (Terry Riley) Beacon Sound present a reissue of Hans Otte's The Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klänge) originally released in 1984. Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a multifaceted artist, poet, pianist, composer, and promoter who synthesized the strands of minimalism, Eastern spirituality, and radical art into his own unique…
"Se mor". Nansensgade 1971 / Sangen Om Kaffekoppen
**Edition of 300. White vinyl edition, including leporello-folded booklet** Over the last couple of years, the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology has been blowing minds, issuing a startling array of releases which singlehandedly reform the broad understanding of Denmark’s historic movements in sound. Not only were there revelatory reissues of works by Knud Viktor, Alison Knowles, Henning Christiansen, and Per Norgard, but there was that incredible Danish Tape Amateurs 1959 -1976 compilation,…
The Visitors
The soundtrack to the globally acclaimed video installation ‘The Visitors’. Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl. Vinyl housed in a stunning handmade five-panel 1200 micron duplexed sleeve showcasing the photographic stills of the band in situ at Rokeby Mansion and including multi-fold silk art liner notes by Canadian poet Anne Carson. "As with most of Ragnar Kjartansson’s performances and artworks, music and creative collaboration with his friends also play a crucial role in ‘The Visitor…
The Judson Years
It’s hard to overstate the importance of Philip Corner. For more than half a century he has been a cornerstone of the American musical avant-garde. A once student of Otto Leuning, Henry Cowell, Olivier Messiaen, and Dorothy Taubman, who went on to inherit John Cage’s legendary Modern Music class at the New School for Social Research. A founding member of Fluxus, Corner made waves fast, creating a body of singular work, both on his own and within ensembles like Gamelan Son of Lion and Tone Roads,…
Silo 004
This records is composed by Vahan Soghomonian, Tomi Yard, La Houle, Seabuckthorn, Mtua, Vincent Gallo, Tucuxi, FABRIK, Guillaume Fournier, Ben Merlin, Jonas Bernath...at Residence SILO in 2017, in Cannes Et Clairan - France
Silo 003
Founded in September 2015, Silo is a collective of young artists. The Silo project concentrates both a label of contextual and experimental music as well as a publishing house practicing both lead and digital. Its fields of research, experimentation and dissemination are therefore inherently multiple, local and dispersed, poetic and political. The collective Silo organizes each year, during a month, time of meeting and residence within the place of which it bears the name.