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Sound Art /

MOCA/FM: Exhibition Of One Minute Soundworks From The Museum Of
Slowscan editions  presents  a new lp  record edition  It concerns a registration of a broadcasting  from 1971 by KPFA_FM, Berkeley on March 1971. Twenty six one minute audio art pieces from a variety of performance artists  from that era were presented as an exhibition for the radio,curated by Tom Marioni, director of Museum of Conceptual art(MOCA),some artists involved in this project are Terry Fox, Charles  Amirkhanian, Robert Ashley, Werner Jepson and others. The lp record was made in a smal…
Dieter Roth and Music
**Restocked, reduced price** One time limited edition of 300 copies. Amazing art edition in a sturdy plywood box with 3 LP in gatefold-cover (Recorded live at Musik-Akademie Basel, Grosser Saal, 2. February 1977) with a fascimile poster announcing the original Quadrupelkonzert, plus one DVD and six books The oeuvre of the internationally renowned Swiss artist Dieter Roth reflects the multiplicity of his talents. He was active not just as a visual artist, writer, graphic artist, jewellery and fur…
Discography
Restocked, reduced price. Awesome catalogue raisonné of Dieter Roth’s work as musician and music publisher. There is a long list of records, CDs and cassettes that document the music of Dieter Roth. He played in many ensembles and made recordings, both in public concerts and in private spaces. One important series of audio documents is the collection of different records with the collective title Rarely heard music. These recordings were made in collaboration with friends and artist colleagues s…
Harmonica Curse
A diary in sound of 74 days, documented by Polaroid photos and Dieter Roth’s corresponding diary entries. Bilingual English/German. Essays by Peter Kraut, William Furlong, Gianni Paravicini. 312 pages.Harmonica Curse is a fascinating long-term diary that Dieter Roth kept in sound and images. In the year 1981, far away in Iceland, the artist played 74 times for an hour on his accordion. He recorded this improvised music on cassette each time. The result is a set of 74 cassettes that Roth made int…
Novembersymphonie (Doppelsymphonie)
Second part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. Two CD's in printed CD-sleeve packaged in fullcolour 12" LP gatefold sleeve (reproduction of the original) with printed 12“ innersleeve featuring rare photos and an english text on Selten gehörte Musik by Gerhard Rühm. This is the reissue of the second SGM release from 1974. Recordings of the second Berliner Musicworkshop with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 15th - 26th November 1973. Also included …
3. Berliner Dichterworkshop
First part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. CD in printed CD sleeve packaged in fullcolour 12" LP sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork) and printed 12“ innersleeve featuring rare photos and an english text on Selten gehörte Musik by Gerhard Rühm. This is the reissue of the first SGM release from 1973. Recordings of the 3rd Berliner Poetsworkshop (First Berliner Musicworkshop) with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 12th & 13th July 1973. Editio…
Hans Rudolf Zeller
Hans Rudolf Zeller (b. 1934 in Berlin) is best-known for being a music theorist, essayist and writer on contemporary music. His essays on Dieter Schnebel, Iannis Xenakis, microtonality etc., often published in the German journal "Musik-Konzepte", are deemed being among the best ever written on new music. Apart from that, he has since the 1960s maintained his own artistic work, most of which has not been published or only seen the light of day in private micro-editions. Zeller's work often involv…
Sometimes we all disappear
A restrained electronic improvisation from the duo of Jamie Drouin on suitcase modular & portable radio, and Lance Austin Olsen on amplified objects and audio cassettes, utlitizing space, isolated and connected events, and the listener's own environment.
Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting
The second revised edition of the book profiles over 130 vinyl collectors, featuring a foreword by the RZA and interviews with Questlove, Gilles Peterson, Four-Tet, the Gaslamp Killer, and more. (This edition has 20 more pages than the first edition!) Readers get an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions as well as a glimpse into the collections of world-renowned and lesser-known DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. The book is divided i…
Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2014
Founder of Staalplaat and Staalplaat Soundsystem, Geert-Jan Hobijn is 'an open-minded, enthusiastic artist with a boundless curiosity. Fascinating by sound and space and making use of pedestrian materials, Geert-Jan is constantly devising new creations to use in his experiments.' This book shows some of his work through several photos, an introduction by Douglas Kahn, an essay by Jorinde Seijdel. Plus a single 7" with locked grooves that you can play manually or with a turntable, and a sma…
Back In No Time
Reissue of a tape originally released in the Staaltape Documentatie Serie. Brion Gysin (1916-1986) dabbled with surrealism in the 1930s, lived in the Interzone of Tangier in the 1950’s, traveled the Algerian Sahara and was resident in the Beat Hotel in Paris. He introduced William Burroughs to the cut-up method and invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations. This tape is an interview conducted by Harry Hoogstraten in the early 1980s. In 195…
The Long Hot Summer/Interview Oct. 1969 /Waiting for Commercials
This CD restores three documents from the Charlotte Moorman canon. One happy example is a choral work performed on the 3rd of September 1964, during the second New York Avant Garde Festival, a performance of Jackson Mac Low's composition "The Long Hot Summer." This very relevant concert, distinguished by a marked ethico-political intonation and valence, sees in an exceptional reunion the names of Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Philip Corner, and Malcolm Goldstein, as well …
TV cello
Of the famous "TV Cello," conceived by Nam June Paik for Charlotte Moorman as a "living sculpture," this CD offers an in-situ recording released on one of the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, on the 11th, 12th and 14th of September in 1982. This version contains, respectively, the "TV Cello Duets" with Paul Garrin and the "Concerto for TV Cello and Videotapes," largely improvised, "including a tape collage by Ornette Coleman prepare…
Aachen Konzert, July 25th, 1966
This CD presents a concert from July 25th, 1966 in the Theatersaal in Aachen, Germany. In addition to the New York concert on September 12th, 1964, the recordings of this European concert well represent the kind of performances that Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik presented in Europe in the second stage of their historical "duo" exhibitions. This Aachen event, in fact, is testimony to the progressive and always more pronounced emergence of meta-musical elements deliberately turned toward the…
WBAI Concert, New York, Sept. 12th 1964
This CD highlights an exceptional document, a performance recorded by radio station WBAI in New York on September 12th, 1964. This event superbly represents the type of repertoire that Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik cultivated and proposed in the U.S., in the years following their meeting, in their memorable "duo" exhibitions. The program of the concert presented several true war-horses of their exhibitions like "26'1.1499 for a String Player" by John Cage, "Duet II" by Toshi Ichiyana…
Wind For Mind
Nanao Sakaki (1923-2008) was one of the important counterculture poets/activists in Japan from the fifties onward. He has been described as “a walking collective call of the wild man, commune cofounder, scholar of languages and aboriginal culture and tribal traditions, troubadour to hang out with, lover of 'shrooms and the herbs, movement maker, The Tribes, homeless (except for the cabin in Shizuoka), green guru guy, activist, translator of haiku, mantra sutra rapper using the 5/7/5 sylla…
you coul(d) hear the snow dripping and falling into the deers mo
Underground filmmaker, publisher and poet Piero Heliczer (1937-1993) was one of the seminal figures in the New York magical scene of the sixties which also included Angus Maclise, Ira Cohen, Jack Smith, The Velvet Underground etc. His poetry is rich with images of visionary inner landscape journeys with traces of medievalism, surrealism, British 17th century metaphysical poets, the beats etc. Most of his books were self-published on his own the dead language press which he founded in the …
Van Doesburg: Repertoire De Stijl - Bauhaus - Dada
A full-length overview of the avant-garde piano repertoire of Nelly (aka Pétro) van Doesburg, performed at various De Stijl, Dada and Bauhaus events in Europe between 1920 and 1925. Born in the Netherlands in 1899, Nelly met De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Wiemar, where Theo was an associate of the influential Bauhaus art and architecture school, and then Paris. A conservatory-trained pianist, Nelly often accompanied her husband's lectures wit…
Surrealism Reviewed
Surrealism Reviewed is a collection of spoken word recordings by Surrealist artists, writers and poets. Made between 1929 and 1963, these historic audio recordings include poetry readings, interviews, lectures and manifestos. Most are in the English language, though some are in French (marked FR below). The remarkable contributions by Robert Desnos and Herbert Read were feared lost for several decades, unheard since they were cut onto acetate discs in the 1930s. Running for 74 minutes, wit…
Festival Paris Dada
A unique anthology of piano music directly linked to the Dada avant-garde art movement in Paris between 1920 and 1923, Festival Dada Paris is based on the piano repertoire performed at two landmark Dada events in Paris, namely the Festival Dada on 26 May 1920, and the infamous Soirée du Coeur â Barbe on 6 July 1923, an event disrupted by violent confrontation between Tristan Tzara's Dada faction and the Surrealist vanguard lead by Andre Breton. Music from the 1920 event includes two pieces by Ge…