Spare Ass Annie And Other Tales
A collaboration between Burroughs, producer Hal Willner, and politico-rappers Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. It features Burroughs reading excerpts from seven of his books set to music by the Heroes, mostly a slow, lazy funk that sounds like it was lifted from a '70s blaxploitation soundtrack. Highlights include the 16-minute, decidedly Burroughsian holiday treat "A Junky's Christmas" and "Words of Advice for Young People," which first appeared on the Smack My Crack collection, minus the music…
Disband
Long-lost recordings culled from performances between 1979 and 1982 from the loose group of feminist performers known as Disband. Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson screamed, shouted, sang, and stomped through the heyday of New York City's new- and no-wave scenes, blurring the line between performance art and live music. Mirroring the chaos and temporarity of that time, the band split up in 1982 having never produced a record. This is the firs…
Fluxorum Organum
in 1967 henning christiansen proposed to joseph beuys that he composes a major work for organ titled "fluxorum organum" for beuys's planned aktion "eurasienstab". henning christiansen composed a piece with five movements. the organist franz meiswinkel played the composition on the organ in düsseldorf's liebfrauenkirche. the first "eurasienstab" aktion took place in 1967 in vienna at the galerie nächst st. stephan. in 1968 there was a repeat performance at the wide white space gallery in antwerp.…
Partitions de réactions
A complete overview of Peter Vogel's work, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD with musical installations recordings. Peter Vogel is a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic and musical sculpture. he was formally trained in physics, and has explored technology's intersection with dance, musical composition, and visual art since the late 1960s. + one cd with different installations.
Milarepa Gatha
One his best work, this is the rare 33rpr EP released in 1976 for the italian Pari e Dispari art gallery "The word "hymn" roughly translates the traditional meaning of the Sanskrit term "Gatha," and the spiritual nature of the work is toward de-emphasization of the individual egos of the author and the performers, to open them up to what is going on around them. In the Buddhist sense this could ultimately lead to union with all things. Mac Low does not try for anything that ambitious -- such an …
Instrumentation Verbale, Septembre 1963
one of the earlier sound poetry recordings ever released, a gem by the lettrist sound-poet Jean-Louis Brau. 1 copy available
Music Overheard
Music Overheard is an audio response to the Super Vision exhibition, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubiweb) back in 2006. As visual artists respond to the enormous changes—scientific and cultural—caused by new vision technologies, music overheard poses an analogous question to musicians and sound artists: what are we hearing now that we didn’t hear before? With Henri Chopin, Taku Unami, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, John Duncan, Christof Migone and many more
Broken Guitars
BROKEN GUITARS is the first recording by Italian visual artist Michele Lombardelli: acoustic guitar improvisations between Loren Connors, Derek Bailey and Robbie Basho, with a tinge of sadness that permeates every moment and creates a sense of longing and nostalgia that seems destined for a nameless past. Hused in a spectacuar multifold cover, limited LP edition of 150 copies
Petit livre des riches heures signistes et sonores d\'Henri Chop
Amazing artist book with a 7" enclosed, packaged in 16-page booklet which includes an introduction by Paul Zumthor (in French) and 8 typewriter poems by Chopin.
Abstract Energy
awesome NWW related LP: there is not too much information on albrecht/d. to be found on the net. when you google for him: you will mostly find albrecht dürer: and of course there is a connection: as an instant performance and as a contribution to the albrecht dürer jubilee in 1971 dietrich albrecht changed his real name officially to albrecht/d.a/d. was born in 1944,lives in stuttgart/germany since 1958and acts like an artist since 1966.he worked and performed with beuys, throbbing gristle, vost…
Berliner Dichterworkshop 13 - 7 - 73
a rare NWW-list related items. Unique sound poetry mixed with manipulated voice experiments, improv piano and a few other odd bits. Part of Viennese Actionism, Fluxus related early (1973) LP. 1 copy available
Triptyque
An incredible long out of print 'cult' release either on musical and artistic profile: this project, the second release for the New International (N.I.R.) label, was a suitably absurd, logistically complex and expensive project: A limited edition of 1000 3 X 12″ Lp Box sets were divided up to form a series of 10 X 10 ‘canvas’ made of record covers. Ten painters were commissioned to paint a painting on each of the ten ‘canvasses’ which were photographed and made into ten postcards. the canvases w…
Une Petite Musique de Nuit
** Edition limited to 300 copies, with full colour space cover and innersleeve.** PLANAM proudly presents the first LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogel artistic activities start in 1960 when, as a painter under the materic influences of Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His researches develop with new sculptures …
Poeme-Partition X
Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of "Poème-Partition X", extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 pages hardbound book, limited to 350 numbered copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a visual wonder and a major experimental printed work. Bernard Heidsieck memories of an historic lecture at the Jean Tinguely atelier is included as an introduction, as well as his testimony on Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysin's "Dream Machine". Also on th…
Work n. 117
Rare original tape, by the conceptual artist Martin Creed, Work n. 117 is a sound piece that rattles through every percussion sound on Creed's synthesiser: all the sounds of a drum machine played one after another, in their given order, at a speed which makes the piece last one minute." on side A and the same in reverse on side B.
Minenhund
Music created through the use of old, modified, Lenco turntables, modified and manipulated in countless ways. But it has more in common with the anti-electronica of Pan Sonic or the early minimalism of Steve Reich, than to other experimental turntablists.
Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture
Of all the recent influx of stock we've received from NY's Olde English Spelling Bee records, this compellingly innovative set from Bruce McClure must surely be one of the most challenging - and in turn - rewarding. 'Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture' contains four excerpts of mind-bendingly dense and skewed improvisations from the renowned film maker, using an array of guitar pedals and the optical sound signals from multiple film projectors to create dizzying sonic patterns which hark back to the…
Scultori di suono
"Scultori di suono: percorsi nella sperimentazione musicale contemporanea" raccoglie una serie di percorsi attraverso i grandi cambiamenti avvenuti nella sperimentazione non ortodossa e nel modo di fare e di pensare il suono negli anni Novanta: la glitch music e la rivoluzione ‘riduzionista’, i primi segnali di ‘dissenso’, il ritorno della melodia, il rapporto tra suono e spazio, le poetiche della frammentazione, della decadenza, della memoria."Scultori di suono" comprises a number of paths thro…
Fluxus
Collected here are three radioplays from three Fluxus affiliates, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht. Each piece is built from a simple element and features a text recited by the author and sometimes others. Corner's piece is an homage to Erik Satie, built from a sparce two chord piano figure and a recitation that teeters along the stereo field. Knowles' piece, which she delivers along with Brecht, Hanna Higgins, and Jessica Higgins, is built from a long list of bean names on top o…
Parkanlage
Very nice catalogue with many colour-pictures of installation-works and texts in german & english, released on the occasion of the PARKPLATZ-exhibition (Wolfsburg, Juli-September 2006) from this german soundart-artist. On the CD 63 minutes of material with highly abstract and nice droning musique concrete