Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal
**Limited edition of 300 including two inserts** The first release on Ricerca Sonora is a new album by the important American Avant-Garde figure Philip Corner. A contemporary of John Cage, Corner studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messaiaen. He was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, founder (with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the Tone Roads Ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the Judson dance theatre, and co-founde…
15:24-15:46
Old Apparatus are a four-piece audio/visual collective transmitting from East London that have been releasing bass-oriented electronic dance music on Mala's underground label Deep Medi Musik. This edition for The Tapeworm is an improvised instrumental piece using guitar, piano, violin and found sound ambiences recorded entirely in the front room of the house they share together. Given that most forms of electronic music are bound by linearity and grid-based digital audio workstations, Old Appara…
Piano work'd
Philip Corner (b. 1933) is an American composer, musician and visual artist. His teachers include Henry Cowell and Olivier Messiaen. While on military duty in Korea in 1960-1961, he studied calligraphy with Ki-sung Kim and many of his works have calligraphic scores. A founding member of Fluxus, Corner has performed with George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. From 1967 to 1970 he taught the course in Experimental Composition at the New School for Social Research, which John Ca…
Collected Works Of
LP edition: Psychedelic drone sounds, experimental electro-acoustics, minimal music and deep listening from the years 2000 - 2007 by Ilya Monosov, who is a member of the Frogpeak artist collective and one-half of the psychedelic noise group The Shining Path and the improv duo Monosov/Swirnoff. Ilya Monosov has collaborated with Bob Cobbing, Charles Curtis, Duane Pitre, Marc Schulz (in Ben Patterson's installation at the 40th Anniversary of Fluxus), Larry Polansky, Andrew Deutsch (with Paul…
A color photo of the horse
Alessandro Bosetti provides voice and electronics on words & text from a variety of writers, as performed in a trio with drummer Ches Smith and fretless guitarist Kenta Nagai; fascinating and perplexing expression. Alessandro Bosetti: voice, electronics. Kenta Nagai: fretless guitar. Ches Smith: drums. Music and texts by Alessandro Bosetti. Dead Bird text by Alessandro Bosetti on words by Alasdair Campbell. Istruzioni text by Alessandro Bosetti on words by Jerry Mandel, George Dippel, Howard…
The art of the diff
Chris Mann says of his work, 'The Art of the Diff,' 'language is the mechanism whereby you understand what i'm thinking better than i do (where i is defined by those changes for which i is required).' Written and performed by Chris Mann. Recorded in July, 2010. Video editing by Eve Essex. Produced by Alex Waterman. Stencil printed by Knust (Holland)
True Mirror Microfiche
Lovely Artist Record, A side: "B" (for Bartleby) is written by Alex Waterman. Recorded at The 7th Regiment Part Avenue Armory Building, New York City, 23 March, 2008, performed by Peter Evans (trumpet), Marina Rosenfeld (phonographs), Hrabba Attladottir (stroh violin), and Alex Waterman (violincello); (2) The Kitchen, New York City, 25 November 2008, solo; and (3) The ICA, London, 30 May 2009, solo. Mixed by Alex Waterman in Brooklyn.Side B is written and performed by Dan Fox. Recorded and mixed…
A Ballad of Accounting
A Ballad of Accounting' (2009). Composition for cello and Brooklyn Queens Expressway by Alex Waterman with a 16-millimeter film by Elizabeth Wendelbo. Recorded live under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, June 2009. Recording engineer and editor: Chris Tabron
Cathodic works 1966-1976
This double DVD release presents for the first time a selection of the cathodic experimental works from the seminal Italo-american artist Aldo Tambellini, a selection of classic documents of one of the first pioneers of video art and audiovisual experimentation from New York east side scene of the 60s and 70s. Unreleased and classic works available for the first time. Curated by Pia Bolognesi e Giulio Bursi. This is the first release of the Classic series by Von Archives.
Exquisite Corpse
Features Kevin Pink Reason, Loy Chinese Restaurants and Billy Bao. "What makes this record an exquisite corpse? Margarida, Kevin and Loy were given the lyrics to these ten "songs" only two days before the recording, and each of them recorded separately - consecutively - without hearing or even seeing each other. They were only given one chance to record their parts for each song, so what you hear on this record consists entirely of first takes. This way, as with all improvisation, there w…
Aktionen/Actions
Lovely 2CD Box + Book consisting of samples of fieldrecordings of Christian Jendreiko’s actions that have been performed at Wesleyan University (2007), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2007) and Kunstverein Nürnberg/Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2009) as well as a 74page booklet with an extended artist text and a photographic essay on the art of Jendreiko's actions. “Observing myself playing the guitar from a sculptural perspective brought me to the idea to concentrate on shaping the motoric aspect…
Dé-Coll/Age Musik
Awesome reissue of the vinyl-lp originally released 1983 by Multhipla (Cramps) and focused on his de-collage tecnique: much of Wolf Vostell's work deals with the idea of de-collage just as it sounds, rendering the whole into parts. He put this into practice with video and with sound, with his sound contributions being of interest here. Real-life events, dialogues, and existing recorded materials are spliced apart, ragged at the ends. From liner notes: "Some years ago I asked Giuseppe Chiari 'Wha…
Jimmy Polaris – Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre
This release documents the music Masselys made for the commisioned audio-visual piece, Jimmy Polaris, by visual artist Christopher Nielsen, animator Matt Willis-Jones and Masselys.Nielsen and Willis-Jones worked together on Norway’s most expensive animation film; Slipp Jimmy Fri from 2006. For Jimmy Polaris they used early raw animation snippets from the film’s preproduction phase. Nielsen and Willis-Jones then real-time manipulated these sketches into a psychedelic visual overload, which Massel…
EyEar
EyEar presents for the first time the visual experimentations of legendary percussionist and musician Z´EV, part of live events series using percussion and rhythm to alter visual pattern waves, this DVD release is as hypnotic as it gets. An inner journey of Primitive Industrial Psychedelia.
Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters
restocked - Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters" is a catalog published by Boston University on the occasion of the Hungry for Death /Destroy All Monsters exhibition held at the Boston University Art Gallery November 15-December 22nd, 2011. The emphasis of the catalog is on the music of DAM. An introductory essay by Byron Coley describes his experience with the band and his role in bringing out the release of the boxed set “Destroy All Monsters 1974-1976”. Brandon W. Joseph’s essay “Th…
Coldwater basin
* 180 copies * Anticipating Fluxus celebrations in 2012, alga marghen proudly presents one of the masterpieces from the glorious 60s, by master of ecstatic music Philip Corner. “Remember? When you made these things at home, on the best equipment you or your other poor friends could find? And you had that Japanese tape recorder with built-in mike; indeed that was the only piece of furniture on your tatami floor on the Lower East Side that summer of 1961”.A home recording of water running from a f…
Separture / Grundordnung-Unterschrank-Scooter
When Vital Weekly was called Vital, and printed on paper (1986-1995) the name Eric Lunde appeared with some regular intervals, simply because he was quite active releasing records and tapes. His performance like approach to noise music, his elaborate packaging which always raised more questions than it would give answers made a big impact. And then he seemed gone and now he has returned. I have no idea what he did in the years in between. His music doesn't seem to have changed very much (I am st…
Mumbai Diary
This is the work of German vocal artist, composer and improviser sound artist Bettina Wenzel which consists in nine pieces created while she was attending as an artist-in-residence in Mumbai, India in 2009. She has studied vocal techniques, contemporary dance and dancetherapy in Europe and has performed her vocal works in Europe, USA and South Asia. On top of the field recordings of street sounds, found objects and religious musical ceremonies Wenzel makes guttural and breathing noises, high ton…
Noise in My Head: The Actionistic Music and Art of Joke Lanz
Joke Lanz was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1965. In 1989 he created the noise music - performance, art - installation project Sudden Infant in connection with the Schimpfluch-Gruppe art collective. For more than 20 years Lanz has been one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones between performance/body art and improvisation/noise. Noise In My Head documents Lanz's myriad activities and features: photos from installations, performances and actions; visual wor…
Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance and Music 1978-2011
This is the first comprehensive monograph exploring the unique work of sound artist Gordon Monahan. For over 30 years Gordon Monahan (1956-) has created music, sound sculpture, sound installation, and computer-controlled sound environments that range from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a pianist he has premiered and performed work by John Cage, Udo Kasemets and James Tenney. As a composer he has created a substantial body. As a sound artist he has …