(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…
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