Raining
I met Rolf Julius only once in September of 2009. Knowing I had studied his works for over a decade, he graciously invited me to meet him for his solo exhibition and performance in Montreal that year. By strange coincidence, not only did we end up staying in the same hotel in this city foreign to both of us, but our rooms were directly next to each other! He greeted me with such humility Ð and like roommates, for 4 days we shared every meal and nearly every conversation. It was there tha…
Vandalia
2010 release. With Vandalia Walter Marchetti focuses his concrete and radical themes. Also including is an homage to John Cage. Action Music! Vandalia includes "Perpetuum mobile" (1981), "Song for John Cage" (1985) and "Le secche del delirio" (1989). The 8-page booklet presents the photo of the "Perpetuum mobile" performance at Musicalia in 1981, the score of "Song for John Cage," the photos of two "Musica Da Camera" installations, as well as the reproduction of the original Vandalia CD layo…
Natura Morta
LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dell'orecchio 5LP box (ALGA 083LP). It’s abundance is a foil to the hauntingly minimal musical piece. A very simple sequence of piano accidents, according to Robert Ashley one of the most beautiful piano pieces ever recorded. Natura Morta includes the piece with the same title from 1980. "The LP sleeve reproduces a photo of the performance at Milanopoesia in 1988, as well as the text In My Music. The full color inner sleeve reproduces a photo of t…
La Caccia
LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dell'orecchio 5LP box (ALGA 083LP). "Includes the same materials as the original 1974 Cramps LP titled La Caccia (1965). The LP sleeve reproduces the original scores, photos of both the 1965 ZAJ performances and of Walter Marchetti recording La Caccia. The full-color inner sleeve reproduces the original La Caccia LP layout.
Coyote III With Pianovariation 1984
Long deleted, last copies around: This is a simultaneous performance of "Coyote III" and "Pianovariation 1984". Recording of a performance at Seibu Museum of Art (Sôgetsu Hall), Tokyo, June 2nd 1984. Paste-on front cover with rubber stamped back cover. Includes double sided b&w insert. Blank white labels
Because Tomorrow Comes #3
Volume 3 of this forum and magazine for sound-art in the form of an audio CD. It compiles contributions from artists who have chosen for the acoustics as working field, starting from the visual aspect and going to the musical one, then trying to promote the teachings of their sound art. The final purpose is to present it as a 'listenable exhibition'. So, a magazine to listen to, with, most of the time sound contributions, but also f.e. spoken words from the artists and varying texts abou…
Because Tomorrow Comes #4
Comes in digipak with 12-page booklet. Volume 3 of this forum and magazine for sound-art in the form of an audio CD. It compiles contributions from artists who have chosen for the acoustics as working field, starting from the visual aspect and going to the musical one, then trying to promote the teachings of their sound art. The final purpose is to present it as a 'listenable exhibition'. So, a magazine to listen to. Featuring Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Gal, Maria De Alvear, Miki Yui, Alvin Lu…
Coldwater Basin No.2
Re-emerging from deep Fluxus celebrations in this 2012 summer, alga marghen realized that Philip Corner “Coldwater Basin” LP was instantly sold out. Could there be a better decision than issuing an alternative version of this masterpieces from the glorious 60s, by master of ecstatic music Philip Corner? If you fluctuated over sonic landscapes with the first version, then “Coldwater Basin No.2” will knock your socks off! More intense that Whitehouse, more liquid than your wildest dreams. “Rememb…
The Poet's Tongue
Ulises Carrión's audio works clearly reflect his passion for language, its structures, sounds and meanings. He greatly enjoyed grammatically dissecting languages and trying to understand and explore their structures. His many initiatives and projects bear witness to his boundless obsessions with communication and circulation of works and ideas as a cultural strategy. This LP includes “Hamlet for Two Voices” (1977) in which two voices read out the names of the characters in the Shakespearean play…
Musiques Des Ailes / Wingéd Music
Ricerca Sonora proudly presents, as its second release (RS2), a fantastic collaboration / improvisation between Philip Corner, Michel Vogel and Phoebe Neville.Phœbe Neville is musician, singer, and dancer. Philip Corner composer, musician, and former professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Michel Vogel, a musician and maker of instruments, principally percussion (gongs and bells). He has for this occasion installed a double frame for eight steel bells inspired by a Burmese model. In the …
17.09.2009 Orgelkonzert, Pauluskerk, Tilburg
Hermann Nitsch outstanding performance on the organ, his favorite instrument, in Pauluskerk, Tilburg... 4 heavy organ drones recorded in a church during the Incubate Festival where Nitsch also did a performance. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with pictures of the performance. Limited to 300 copies
Vice Anglais
Written in response to: robert m. cooper's lost on both sides, dante; gabriel rossetti: critic and poet. written by mike kelley. produced by mike kelley and scott benzel. music by scott benzel.
Vision Vulkano
vision vulkano" documents two performances by the düsseldorf-based artists angela fette and christian jendreiko, made during their collaborative show at kunstverein schwerte "orakel konkret" in spring 2011. the a-side contains "orakel konkret", a live recording of an action commissioned for the opening. christian jendreiko plays a vintage vibraphone and angela fette performs as a blindfolded oracle. the b-side is a spontaneous playful dialogue between the artists, playing with the termino…
Critical Inquiry In Green
Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler reunited in 1997 to make this recording to coincide with the opening of the poetics project installation at document x. all new material; 19 tracks. dreary background music for the era of the personal computer. features musicians: art byington, dave muller, steven vitiello, etc.
Solo Works For Electric Guitar, Electronics and Audiotape 1975-7
An 8-cd box set of solo recordings by shaw produced during, and just after, the period of his involvement with the early improvisational incarnation of the proto-noise band Destroy All Monsters. there guitar assaults, tape cut-ups, and loop experiments are guaranteed to turn your mind to jelly.Jim Shaw is an atypical figure in California’s art circles, sharing with Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley the same desire to produce a visual body of work aimed at exploring the dark side of an American …
Duets: 1975-1976
A 2-CD collection of Shaw/Kelley Duets from the early Destroy All Monsters period. Primarily featuring Shaw on guitar and Kelley on percussion, these extended improvisations also incorporate tape loops, tape collage, and primitive electronics. (Original Release Date: 2011)
Studio C
This 2CD pair features performances in Tokyo in 1996. Sod and Sodie Sock documents a performance at the P-House Gallery, where the three musicians performed together and separately. The action extended beyond the gallery, into the street in front, and down the block to a local hair salon. Recordings documenting the simultaneous activities of Kelley, McCarthy, and Violent Onsen Geisha have been combined to allow the listener to experience the entire group of, spatially separated, performances at …
Suicide moi
Unbelievable but true! baudrillard recites his poetry backed up by an all star band featuring tom watson, mike kelley, george hurley, lynn johnston, dave muller and amy stoll special guest vocalist allucquère rosanne stone. recorded live as part of the chance festival at whiskey pete's casino in stateline nevada, 1996. you've never heard baudrillard like this before! music to read nietzsche to.
Early Works
Edition Omega Point presents a collection of early work from Japanese experimental composer Kazuo Uehara. "'Seoul 1982' was composed using recorded sounds as raw material to reassemble the 'historical' soundscape of Korea's capital city, Seoul, in the early 1980s. During this time, despite the political chaos and the tension in the city under the Korean military government, I felt the lively energy in people's lives. The raw material comprised a wide range of different sounds, including th…
Forty Minutes And Eleven Seconds
Forty minutes and Eleven Seconds is a limited-edition vinyl LP created for the remaining performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company during their precedent-setting Legacy Tour. The record contains never-before-heard recordings of works by MCDC's Music Committee, Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, John King, and Christian Wolff and MCDC's Music Coordinator, Jesse Stiles. These pieces were recorded live over the course of the Legacy Tour using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments. …