Oto - Date In Wakayama 2005
Sound Artist Akio Suzuki carried out an exhibition around Wakayama city (south of Osaka) in 2005. This catalog contains some photographs of installation, interview, drawing and text. Attended CD includes field recording on his action "Oto-date walk" (hearing the environmental sounds at points of walking area) and performance. Recording and mix by Hans Peter Kuhn. 86pp, text in Japanese, English and French.
En rouge et noire
an excellent and breathy recording with lush piano elegies awash in a radical sonic realm that is profoundly reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine but in a very hectic/spirited way, truly an excellent and underrated recording that explores new piano possibilities. Beautiful digipack edition + large booklet
Polyphonix 1 (Première Anthologie Sonore)
Using John Cage’s slogan “New Music: New Listening” as it's mantra, Polyphonix 1 is a compilation of 27 poets from both Europe and the United States, collected at poetry festivals held during 1979 to 1981. Originally released as a co-production of Cramps Records, John Giorno’s “Giorno Poetry Systems” and Association Polyphonix in 1982. Published by Multhipla Records, original and very rare nowadays, gatefold cov.+ inner
Savinio, Musicien 1914 - Récital Mi-scénique Par Luigi Rognoni
Original copy of this awesome double album by visionary futurist composer Alberto Savinio, issued in 1978 by Multhipla label. A very rare item, original and in new codition, for those into avant garde artists editions, fluxus related, broken music ecc.
belle confusion 969
long out of print, Produced in part by the Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music (CDMC), and the Spanish National Radio (RNE). Recordings made between 1990-1996 in tropical and sub-tropical forests of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Senegal, Gambia, and China. Composed during fall of 1996 at Messor Studios and Musica 2 Studio, RNE, Madrid.
Musiques Machinales
1 copy only, long out of print - for many years, Pierre BASTIEN has developed his personal music based on musical machines made with Mecano. His orchestra MECANIUM is his backing band both on album and on stage. All this creates a tender, delicate and emotive machine music that seduced Pascal DOMELADE from the beginning. A terrific mixture of J. Dubuffet and John Cage
Flash!
another beautiful 10" issued in a very limited private pressing picture-disc (330 copies), beautiful tape collage and electronic work
Pictures of Pictures from Pictures of Pictures (1975-1979)
Rare and long out of print LP...One can link Philip Corner's composition as an attempt of the Radiodays project to realize an acoustic exhibition. An exhibition is the reason for a composition, this is re-translated into the visual, the developed graphics serve again as a basis of a renewed transformation. "From sight into sound and back again; and then back again... This work is selected by Ursula Block / gelbe MUSIK, Berlin
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Original and very rare now, a double LP published by Edition Block, Germany. In 1978 George Maciunas, founder and chairman of FLUXUS, died in New York at the age of 47. In invert of these numbers the duration of the piano-duett, performed to his memory by Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik was planned for 74 minutes. The end of this memorable evening at the Kunstakademie of Dusseldorf was determined by an alarm-clock, set for 9.14 pm. New
Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
2014 repress! Finally, a CD reissue of Yoshi Wada's most important and most rare LP, Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, originally released in 1982 on the India Navigation label. Yoshi Wada is a Japanese sound installation artist and musician -- he moved to New York in the late 1960s, and became well-known as a Fluxus artist with links to La Monte Young, and has been involved in many performances and sound installations. However, he has released only two recordings,…
die Wille
another beautiful and totally spaced out super-deluxe 100 copies only box “my overall philosophy is to keep my kitchen closed. and the lid on the pot. i need to build up pressure; the only time i release pressure is when playing music. it's all about transformation. guess i need to have some distance between me/my music and the public. in fact i like to see the public as non-existent. releasing my work i only do for metaphysical reasons; to keep all psychic and physical channels open, and mainta…
die Sonne
Sculptor, painter, drawer and composer of electro-acoustic music. Active in music since 1988 both as a composer and in several different formations and projects. Releases have taken place on labels as Korm Plastics, La Scie Doree, etc. Since 2003 all his music has been published by Le Souffleur. In his solo-music the composer uses since a few years only acoustic sources, sometimes combining them with simple electronic devices to 'adjust the hard sounds of the outerworld to the soft sounds of my …
Rainforest
Two versions of David Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece, the first performed in 1968 by Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; the 2nd is an electro-acoustic environment from 1973. "'Rainforest' blends music and sculpture by placing music in space in extraordinary ways. The idea is to channel electronic output through an object rather than through the usual device, a loudspeaker. Dozens of unique and unlikely objects are suspended from the ceiling at about ear…
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Re-release of Ira Cohen's legendary 1968 film, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Celebrated internationally for more than 30 years, and recently screened as part of the 'Day for Night' program at the 2006 Whitney Biennial."I must say this is the most chemically abused piece of cinema I’ve ever seen – I actually feel under the influence now, I don’t know if I’m safe to walk home. It’s so narcotic that I’m surprised it’s legal to buy over the counter… all this and it was made in 1968 – one ye…
Machine Guns
A 7" that lives up to its title by the enigmatic man from Organum. Just the sound of machine guns. Not very much manipulation. The two tracks were produced using original archive recordings of the Imperial War Museum in London as a sound source. Second edition of 200 copies on black vinyl
Silent room
"A box with dvd (two versions, one on ntsc and one on pal), a 264 pages book, two audio cd. The dvd presents the film Silent room : "A cross-sected view of 16 people, 16 rooms, 16 private lives, Silent Room is an x-ray vision of 16 interiors. In this film-poem, the room is felt from the inside. An interior steeped in discontinuity, where unusual and poetic communications unfold wordlessly, through a contamination of the senses. Rather than a story line, there is a set of tableaux vivants, each c…
Fades
This debut album shows that Antonio Della Marina's many years of exploration and investigation have paid off. Each sound seems to have been put in the right spot. The music breaths an overall calmness, as if the external world has no influence. And this ambient music in a complete state of balance. Peaceful and sophicticated, this ist he perfect sound to let go of all stress and worries.The piece lasts one hour and is a beautiful sine wave like piece along the lines of 'Music On A Long Thin Wire…
The Bed Bug, Love Buzz
Time was intensifying to the point of becoming alarming, but primarily I was interested in seeing how far it would go. By 1901 I had found that a 10 inch disc playing for three minutes was better for most types of popular music, even popular songs, and the popular 'single' was born. As for myself: I was a lump of thinking ice. I thought of myself as a statue carved from a block of ice and this mad hallucination made me proud with an intense pleasure that is truly secret.
One Million Years
In 1993, in a decision unprecedented in his oeuvre, Kawara transformed One Million Years (Future) from a written to recorded state. The impetus for this metamorphosis was an exhibition for Dia Center for the Arts that ran from January 1, 1993, to December 31 of the same year. The exhibition was comprised of three parts, a selection of one thousand Today paintings, the ten volumes of One Million Years (Past) and the recording of One million Years (Future), in which a male and female voice contin…
K7 Box
This CD is consisting of 9 tracks mainly his self-made sound object 'Analapos' and 'De Koolmees', and 2 tracks of them are recorded for announce sound of opening and closing of Yokosuka Museum of Art. They are so clear and spacy. Booklet is written by himself, David Toop and others. Text in Japanese and English.ALM Records is well known label that has released many avant-garde LP titles in 70-80's. Especially about Akio Suzuki, two LPs has been released - obscure solo LP (limited 100 copies) and…