Musik Hessayistik
Henning Christiansen (Copenhagen, 1932 – Isle of Møn, 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus movement. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen and at the more liberal Ex-School (Eks-Skolen) embracing soon its radical approach in study and creation of art and developing his own musical thinking. In 1962 he attended the George Maciunas’s International Festspiele Neuster Musik in Wiesbaden, where he probably experienced an epiphany that caused a si…
Stevige nacht
Unusual Christmas single just arrived from Belgium, by Dennis Tyfus (voice, tapes) and Kris Maes (guitar, editing, recording).
Dennis Tyfus, based in Antwerp, is one of the most active players on the European underground scene of the last decade. Tyfus draws, paints, takes photographs, makes films, plays noise music, sings, makes CDs, cassettes or LPs, does parodies, writes and publishes zines and books, hosts a radio show on Radio Centraal in Antwerp, is a performer and manages the cult label U…
Complete Song Books
... to consider the Song Books as a work of art is nearly impossible. Who would dare? It resembles a brothel, doesn't it?" --John Cage. Complete Song Books, volume three in the Perihel series on Karlrecords, along with La Legende d'Eer and Douze Inventions en Six Modes De Jeu is dedicated to one of the most iconic composers of 20th century, John Cage. All 92 pieces of Song Books are presented here, with stunning interpretations by Reinhold Friedl, recorded at Rashad Becker's Clunk Studio who a…
Xhos De Villemahu
Recorded between 2009 to 2016, this is the Jacques Brodier masterwork, a truly unique hybridization of musique concrète practices, sounds from nature, shortwave signals and a dystopic / mystical realization of minimalism. "Penultimate Press is proud to present the second full length release by the acclaimed French inventor, instrument builder, musician, visual artist, researcher and writer Jacques Brodier. Following up the 2012 release Filtre De Réalité, Xhos De Villemahu expands Brodier’s visi…
Experimental music since 1970
What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event, but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that reveals much about present-day experience. An experimental work is not identifiable by its sound alone, but by the nature of the questions it poses and its openness to the sounding event.Experi…
Text-sound compositions 8
During the years from 1968-70, Fylkingen Records released series of 7 LPs in collaboration with the Swedish Radio, all of which contained material that was presented during the yearly festivals for Text-Sound Composition that Fylkingen arranged during those three years. The yearly festivals continued from 1971-71. A series of records that documented these festivals was planned but, due to economic reasons at that time, they were never made. Fylkingen Records has now, over 40 years later, found t…
Far East And Out
Albrecht/D. (Dietrich Albrecht) was born in Thüringen in 1944. Influenced by Raoul Hausmann, Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters he became an artist in 1966 and founded Reflection Press in 1968 to published a wide variety of magazines and cassettes. Albrecht was associated with the Fluxus movement and an active member of the mail-art community. He worked and performed with leading artists such as Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell and Coum Transmission. His first album, Endless Music, came out i…
LAFMS Box Box
Bringing together over seven hours of absurd, elusive and often disturbing music, The Box label finally unveil this epic, years-in-the-making 13x LP Box Set from Lafms, a must for those of you familiar with their work or, indeed, the colourful dreamscapes so often associated with.LAFMS BOX BOX documents every performance from the exhibition Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music - The Los Angeles Free Music Society 1972-2012 at The Box, Los Angeles in 2012. The Los Angeles Free Music So…
Rebel Dabble Babble: Four Audio Works
Rebel Dabble Babble: Four Audio Works is a four LP collection featuring audio from Rebel Dabble Babble (2012), a multi-part video work and installation by artists Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy. Paul McCarthy has been involved with the Los Angeles Free Music Society for the past 40 years, notably being a member of Extended Organ, one of the "core" LAFMS groups. The project is an abstracted, layered piece, using the rumors of sexual relationships between the cast and crew during the making o…
Soundtrack From First Violin Film
Die Schachtel, in collaboration with Tanglewood Press, is proud to announce a very special edition, which we are not afraid to call the jewel in the crown of our celebrated DS Art Series, devoted to the most uncompromising expressions of sound and contemporary art: the repressing on vinyl LP of the 1969 lost record “Soundtrack from first violin film” by celrated conceptual artist Bruce Nauman, as a limited (100 copies) art multiple, individually numbered and signed by Bruce Nauman and hosted in …
Cordiox
Outstanding visionary stuff from Mexican artist Ariel Guzik – the kind of record that's a great introduction to his practice – and a sound relic from his mindbending Cordiox, a monumental stringed instrument animated by invisible magnetic forces. Cordiox is a four-meter acoustical tower, a hyper sophisticated musical instrument created by Ariel Guzik. In its depths resides a quartz cylinder, which constitutes its central acoustical axis and took up almost half of the budget of this work. Expl…
Piano Sublimation
Piano Sublimation combines sound, graphics, video and sculpture in multidisciplinary installations. A grand piano by Ehrbar built around 1860, functions as the common starting object, which was then cut into 5 pieces. The piano represents the initial point of departure for a constructive exchange of progressive translations in contemporary graphics, objects and sound. Blank cover edition of 120 copies.
A collaboration-project between the austrian composer and musician Juun and the visual arti…
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater. 25. Aktion - Wiederaufgeführt
Hermann Nitsch - Orgien Mysterien Theater - 25. Aktion. Re-performance of 25. Action, March 1982 in the gallery Pakesch, Vienna. The premiere was in New York, in 1968. Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian painter, performance-artist and composer, was a crucial founding artist of "Viennese Actionism". He has held exhibitions and performed all over the world since the '60s. The idea of the very sensual and archaic Orgien Mysterien Theater was developed in the late '50s and has been performed in variations …
De Paardenmarkt
Blaastaal started 10 years ago as a moniker under which artist Bert Lezy produced a show on Radio Centraal in Antwerp, and a label releasing CDRs and cassettes. A joint endeavour with Mik Prims until 2015, and Bert’s solo collage dessert since. The radio shows and audio output both focus on collages. Their content is extracted from the news, instruction cassettes, TV shows — the oral vomit of our beloved fellow citizens clogging up the ether any given week prior to a broadcast of Blaastaa…
Skene
Elusive Edition of 115 LPs only for the new Matthew Sulliven albu. In one way or another, Matthew Sullivan has had a hand in some of the most engaging sounds released over the past decade, be they noise, ambient, drone and everything in-between. Recording solo material most notably as Earn, Privy Seals and Vague Apology, Sullivan traverses howling transmissions of squalling noise and elegiac drifts of foreboding ambiance. Functioning as a collaborator, Sullivan also records scathing materia…
Overhearing and Interrupting
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.Compiling works and writings from the last 13 years, this comprehensive monograph on American artist, writer and theorist Bran…
Hier! (En u?) "Niemand Wacht Graag" Book + Plexy Lathe Cut 7"
Book (die-cut cover, gilded edges) and plexy lathe-cut single (pro-cut, screenprinted on the non-playing side) in a bespoke cloth-covered box. This edition was produced in conjunction with the work 'Hier rust Dennis Tyfus' — a commission for the '11 kunstenaars tegen de muur' outdoors exhibition in Antwerp that opened on 1 July of the year 2016 at 6pm! This book was presented at Ercola (Wolstraat 31, Antwerp) on the very same night, between 6 and 9 pm, accompanied by a live concert by Rem…
PoorManMusic (Art Edition)
Box set, edition limited to 30 copies. Art edition of “PoorManMusic”, a classic Fluxus work by Philip Corner from 1966 and first released by alga marghen in 2015. Edition limited to 30 copies (+ 5 A.P.) including:
A signed and numbered LP sleeve with hand-drawn calligraphy on front and hand-drawn score on the backA signed and numbered black-vinyl LP record with hand-written labelsA signed and numbered print with hand-made graphic interventionsA signed and numbered score printA signed and numbere…
Porn Art Movement
These previously unissued recordings from the Porn Art Movement (1980-1982) include five performances recorded live on Ipanema Beach in 1982, as well as a selection of previously unheard studio recordings of Eduardo Kac yell-poems. Kac fused existing coarse and curse words with parts of words, neologisms, salacious buffoonery, the antinormative scribblings of toilet-wall graffiti, commonplaces, blasphemy, expletives, agrammatisms, incorrect orthography, slangy expressions, lexical exorbitance, g…
Dear Reader. Don’t Read
A key figure in Mexican conceptual art, Ulises Carrión (1941 – 1989) was an artist, editor, curator, and theorist of the post-1960s international artistic avant-garde. This book and CD, issued in collaboration with the Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid within the context of Carrion large retrospective, is focused on Ulises Carrión’s personal and groundbreaking approach managing to illustrate all aspects of his artistic and intellectual work. This includes books, magazines, videos, films, sound pieces…