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
Soundtracks To A Color: Gold & Black
Soundtracks To A Color: Gold & Black was an installation at LA Municipal Art Gallery as part of the COLA (City of Los Angeles) Fellowship exhibition from 2004. The installation consisted of 2000 posters: 1000 Gold and 1000 Black. Two separate rooms were covered with these posters that were covered solid in their color with the name of the color printed rather large in dead center. At the bottom of each poster was listed the instrumentation for each particular soundtrack to the color. The GO…
Fluxus Anthology 30th Anniversary 1962-1992 Sound Events
Rare and long out of print, this is the legendary Fluxus anthology that comes in screen printed wooden box with sliding cover including 204 page A4 book largely being a scrapbook of things relating to the artists on the cassettes (as well as Guiseppe Chiari and Ray Johnson) and details about the pieces including many pictures, plus a large discography of Fluxus recordings, plus 7 scores (all A4 format) by Joe Jones, Dick Higgins, Robert Filliou, Henning Christiansen, Wolf Vostell, Ken Friedman, …
Labyrinthe de violence / Danse
Ultra limited release: "Danse" was part of a sound/visual installation called "Labyrinthe de violence". Previously unpublished, this radical experimental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for “Œuvres sonores 2”, a 2-day-event organised by Emanuele Carcano at Beaubourg on April 5th & 6th, 2009. "Labyrinthe de violence" was an installation for tape sounds and 2 slide projectors conceived in …
(Halb) Schwarz
(Halb) Schwarz is the first CD to collect a wide range of Rolf Julius' diverse compositions from several years. The Berlin-based sound, installation, action, and sound artist began experimenting with various forms of contemporary music in the 1970s. (Halb) Schwarz deals with the world of "small sounds," a term coined by John Cage to designate sounds so subtle that they are usually barely discernible.
Klangbogen
Vol. 2, refers to his music as "small music" utilizing collage, abstract environmental sound acoustics, and a flair for beautiful, subtle, shifting layers of sound. Klangbogen (Small Music Vol. 2) features a crinkled array of pulsing, chirping environmentally-tinged sound -- gravitating somewhere near the vortex where the Het Apollohuis artists, Selektion crew and Bill Fontana never quite meet
Tanz Fur Zwei Blaue Rechtecke
beautiful early works by Rolf Julius, who is one of the most significant artists in the border areas of music and fine art. Like John Cage, Julius works with the term of "silence." The sounds in Julius' works have spatial and physical qualities such as expanse, depth, weight and density.
Wout Wercammen
Another beautifully presented Aktionism archival document of the insane Belgian 20th century underground. Pulling Hokusai into space and time, Vercammen organised and executed the very first happenings in Belgium in the early sixties. Great collages, the only real pop artist in Belgium, latex word paintings, pneumatic forms before someone else got bigger with it. Always on the move. The way Wout Vercammen acts, performs, talks and moves is perfectly captured on this LP! When living in Antwerp, c…
Trois Biopsies
His first solo LP, focused on his late 60s compositions. Bernard Heidsieck commenced sound poetry in 1955 with his 'poem partitions' and, since 1966 on, a species he terms 'biopsies'. Both types are rooted in a direct relation to everyday life. Heidsieck sometimes refers to both the biopsies and poem-partitions as 'action' poems (not to be confused with the action poetry of either Steve McCaffery or Robert Filliou). 'Action' since the pieces incorporate the actuality of quotidian soundscapes: su…
Kontext-Sound
beautiful, essential documentation, a compilation of soundpoetry / text-sound activity published on the occasion of the 10th International Festival of Sound Poetry that took place in Stockholm, Amsterdam and London in 1977. Includes sound poetry chronology and discography, interviews with Bob Cobbing and Sten Hanson, articles by Bernard Heidsieck, Francois Dufrene, Henri Chopin, Gerhard Ruhm, as well as amazing visual scores & texts by Bengt Emil Johnson, Ake Hodell, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Chris Ch…
Fluxus Anthology
Fluxus Anthololgy is a collection of music and sound events edited by Maurizio Nannucci with full integrety towards the idiology and spirit of Fluxus, one of the most radical art movements of the second half of this century. Limited edition of 1000 and long deleted now - gatefold cover including that features George Maciunas' "Expanded Arts Diagram", clear vinyl
Arbeiten
Great (but very little known) 1970's sound/text poetry recordings. Featuring two sound poetry recordings from 1973, "Arbeiten - ein Stuck fur alle" (already released as tape on the S Press label back in 1973) and "Cudrefin (minuit) - Found Music No.1" (previously unreleased). The first 250 copies include an onesided bonus 7inch with his track "Don't you may be, the essential interview" from the famous "Futura - Poesia Sonora" boxset (Cramps Records).Nikolaus Einhorn was born at dresden in 1940. …
Für Anton Bruckner for Organ
Nitsch is notorious as the ‘action artist’ whose controversial performance artworks from the 1960s onward have included the use of blood, dismembered animals and so on. His explorations of multiple media include music, and his reverence for Bruckner as a composer whose works symbolize the expression of a multifaceted cosmic soul of some kind seems entirely genuine and sincere. His organ piece is a good deal less controversial than many of his performances; it consists of a slowly evolving succes…
Sound art: beyond music, between categories
Totally essential guide to sound art: a 304 pages book in hard cover + a CD with pieces from Bill Fontana ('Harmonic Bridge'), Steve Roden ('Rust'), Jean Dubuffet ('Terre foisonnante'), Destroy All Monsters ('Jam Smear'), Anthony Burr et Charles Curtis ('Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas' (1973-74) from Alvin Lucier) and Bernhard Gal ('57A').Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art's roots can be found…
ROT BOX Die Geburt des Dionysos Christos
This a even more special edition of this massive box. It is limited to 50 copies only, in a magnificent wine-red silkscreen containing a large-sized envelope with a signed and numbered Relict from a Orgies Mysteries Theater Performance.
Teatrino
Awesome original 1st pressing book by the well-know Fluxus artist and muscian, "Teatrino" was a work relating to the musical improvisation group, MEV, Musica Elettronica Viva founded by the pianist Rzewski, a frequent performer of his work (Teatrino, 1963, at a world premiere at the Judson Hall in New York during the Avant-Garde Festival and Strimpellare, 1965). Importante esponente italiano di "Fluxus", movimento impostato sulla scelta di comportamenti a…