The Films of Kenneth Anger Volume One
Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritua…
Radio art
A long deleted artist record anthology by Nicola Frangione, issued in a handful of copies back in 1997 "During the last 30 years Action Art has found fertile fields of confluence between the experimentation about vision and gesture and poetic- visual sound dramaturgy. A large space of this research has been characterized by the connection of Performance Art with the arguments connected to the poetics of the “total poetry” and by the development of the performance technologies in a technologica…
Rapporti orali e trasversalità sonore
long deleted sound poetry CD by Nicola Frangione "Sound poetry in "Rapporti orali e trasversalita sonore" are good opposites to so-called "serious" art production. Sometimes his work flies out of the bound of art production as we know it, and he practices for decades, but it has no harmful effect on the project realization, but quite opposite, we find quality of understandable poetic word in it" International Multimedia
Mail Music
An amazing LP conceived and compiled by Nicola Frangione, back in 1983. In the spirit of the Mail Art movement of the 1980s comes the Mail Music project. Collecting 47 sound art samples sent in from around the world, Nicola Frangione compiles them together in a pastiche manner similar to the Distruct LP compiled by P16.D4. Each side is one continuous track and the individual sound submissions which are approximately 1 - 1.5 minutes long, overlap giving the impression of a collage work. This was …
A Magic Square Of 5 To Look At - A Magic Square Of 5 To Listen To
This Paul Panhuysen work is a composition in two parts. The same magic square is transposed in two versions. One can be experienced by the eyes, the other one by the ears. Both parts are produced from the numbers of the same magic square of 5. A magic square is a series of numbers arranged in a square grid so that the sum of each horizontal and vertical row and of the corner diagonals is always the same.Magic squares reveal harmony of number and refer to the nature of existence and a cosmic orde…
Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee
bloody expensive and very rare LP, housed in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve with integrated 12-page booklet, full page b/w photographies. First issue of this imperative soundwork-multiple by Beuys. A recording of the Fluxus concert of the title, which took place at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in 1968, and is based on a compositional idea by Henning Christiansen. One of only 500 examplarissued, numbered and stamped by the artist. One of Beuys� earliest multiples. Some wear age overall as …
Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977
A rare exhibition poster for this legendary sound installation hald at Ink gallery in Zurich, 1981, based on the same materials "Celtic Symphony", which he performed together with the Danish composer Henning Christiansen back in 1970. "Das Kapital" had already started at that time, some interesting information cna be found here "the acoustic system serves for the sound recording for example of the human tongue, for language, singing and other sounds and for the reproduction of the recorded sign…
31.10.1973
Magnificent original poster documenting an early Charlemagne Performance at Modern Art Agency gallery in Naples back in 1973. Large Format (cm105 x 80 cm), the poster is hand signed by the artist (on bottom), and is in great condition despite its age, having just a few age wear all around. 2 copies available
Holy 1+2
Double LP intended to allow the listener to recreate the environment resulting from the simultaneous playback of Holy 1 and Holy 2. Both composed in 1967, the complete 42 minutes of Holy 1 occupy the first disc, with the shorter Holy 2 fitting on side C. Side D features the music of Holy 1 and Holy 2 created in 1968 for Gus Solomon, a choreographer and student of Merce Cunningham. Edition of 380 copies. 1 only available
From Charlemagne Palestine's liner notes: "Holy1 and Holy2 were both reco…
Revolutions Per Minute, the art record
Amazing 2LP document of the Fluxus and associated art scenes from the US and elsewhere. The line-up on these records are amazing. Comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a 2-sided pull-out poster with artwork/words from all involved. gatefold sleeve with titles and text-information inside. *With inserted Introduction by Robert C. Morgan (folded sheet) and folded sheet with portraits of the participating artists: i.a. Jud Fine, Eleanor Antin, Terry Fox, Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Vincenzo Agnett…
The Entire Musical Work Of Marcel Duchamp
A legendary album, The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp realized by Petr Kotik and S.E.M Ensemble. Work planned and composed in 1913, based on chance operation. Recorded 7 May, 1976. B2 is a track for player piano, recorded in Buffalo, New York on a Steinway player piano. 1 copy available
Catch-Wave 97
First release of this 1997 performance featuring Takehisa Kosugi performing an updated version of his seminal “catch-wave” for solo violin & electronics (the original recording of which has become something of a perennial around here) ...comes as a double-wide jewel case (love these - haven’t seen one in eons !!!) containing a fat 32-page booklet of ocean-photos (not dis-similar to the closing frames of the Taj Mahal Traveller’s “on tour” film actually) & a booklet with new liners (in japanese &…
Violin solo
Original, and very hardto find nowadays, this is the amazing set of solo violin (with lot of electronics) conceptions recorded live in New York by Fluxus operative, Taj Mahal Travellers frontman and renowned minimalist Takehisa Kosugi. This one threads a dart through your heart with all of the continuous invention of Tony Conrad’s most psychoactive conceptions. ! copy available, still sealed
Music For Merce Cunningham
Rare artist's record, with an amazing versions of Tudors electronic environment masterpiece, performed by David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Numbered edition of 200 copies. Packaged in plain black jacket with insert and obi, and pressed on red vinyl. New and unplayed, one copy available
Passagenweg
After three albums on Tzadik, Sub Rosa and Orkhêstra, setting instrumental compositions - or improvisations - for small ensembles against electroacoustic treatments, the young French composer Pierre-Yves Macé now presents his first full-scale work of musique concrète. Passagenweg takes its inspiration from philosopher Walter Benjamin s (1892-1940) Arcades project, an unfinished lifelong attempt to document industrial modernity through Parisian iron-and-glass covered arcades. The Surrealists, suc…
musica senza contrappunto
original, pristine copy of his first artistist's book, an outstanding treatise on his music theory where the author expresses his ideas in the form of a concrete/visual form. An exceptional performer and a remarkable explorer of a new visual and minimalist dimension within music, Giuseppe Chiari has consistently produced work in which the techniques of art "proper". 144 pages (unnumbered), cm 24x17
La Peur And Co (1958-1979)
A collection of early text-sound compositions: "Dynamisme intégral", (1966), "Présence du Soleil" (1971), "Dentales soufflées" (1979), "Le Peur" (1958/1969). Edition of 400 copies. "The works of sound poet Henri Chopin can hardly be called spoken word, but are rather sound collages created with vocal noises, often without the use of words or even the sounds of syllables. The 37-minute title track, "La Peur" (The Fear), recorded in 1958 and 1969, is one of Chopin's more intense and formidable pie…
Back and Forth Exhibition Sound
The third Joe Jones archival CD release on this label. A single 31-minute recording of said exhibition, August 31st, 1985. Jones' mechano-constructs whirring/clanking all the while, generally refusing to sit still. Back cover shots display several motor-agitated automatons with single beaters attached to end(s), pre flail. Heard: motorik-accent hand drum, metallic ping, bells, possibly glockenspiel (?), distant melodic informations, presumably of aleatoric/wind-based selection. Joe Jones' music …
A sound map of Hudson River
An aural journey from the source of the river, in the high peak area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; Annea Lockwood traces the course of the Hudson through on-site recordings of its flow at 15 separate locations. Annea Lockwood has recorded rivers in many countries to explore the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches. The listener will find that each stret…
script lichen
Packaged in a round petri case with a sponge and a piece of lichen Limited numbered edition of 250 copies Includes 10-page accordion-fold insert with details of the release and series"There's no better way to visually represent the music of Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse than with the various bits and fragments of nature's detritus, stones, pebbles, sticks, leaves, branches, dust and dirt. This newest release from Chasse goes a step further, encapsulating the disc itself (a little 3" cd) along w…