Nur Mar Mus
It is no exaggeration to say that Limpe Fuchs' musical creations really have a life of their own, whether the sounds are produced by conventional instruments, vocal chords, or even from objects she found or constructed specifically for that purpose. Her music is characterized, especially when she is playing the ballastring instruments, by the reverberating humming of the strings, rich in overtones, and by the mysterious echoes emanating from stones. For Limpe Fuchs, music means setting out on a …
Think Space
Group improvisations intended to accompany a film on the Viking space probe in 1975. Includes the original Doo-Dooettes lineup; Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Harold Schroeder. The 7" includes a Doo-Dooette version of Faust's 'Picnic On A Frozen River' recorded in 1978. Packaged in 7" gatefold jacket. Limited edition. First time available. The release includes: The Doo-Dooettes performing Faust's 'Picnic On A Frozen River' 7", CD of Think Space. Hand numbered edition of 7…
Boris The Spider/Priceless
This edit of Le-Forte Four is wedged between their former incarnation as The Patients and their debut LP that was put together in the electronic music studio at Cal Arts in 1974. Edited by Rick Potts in 1973. All the references made in their debut Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, from Speed Racer to Zappa to Looneytoons to the Moog, is very clearly foretold in the 'Boris The Spider/Priceless' edit. Includes Extended Grunge and Arguments From The Patients reworking of The Who's 'Boris The Spider' that was…
Verzameld werk 4LP set
Awesome edition of 4 LP's in 2 gatefold silkscreened jackets in silkscreened slipcase. Year of release: 2008. Numbered 100 copies. The 4 musicpieces included in this set were originally released as separate LP's by muziekuitgeverij Le Souffleur between 2005 and 2007. Together they form a closed series. This series includes: Affen-theater (2005), Der Triumph (2006), Die sonne (2007), Die wille (2007). About my work : I like to go to the the sea: The sea is always the same. Still, the sea is never…
Private Pleasures
Gerwald Rockenschaub is one of the most wellknown visual artists, currently living in Berlin. Apart from making art he has been deeply involved with music from the start, playing in bands, DJ-ing, organising parties in his former hometown Vienna and occasionally composing music which got released mostly through his own Definitely Something label. Private Pleasures is his first album in more then 5 years, a perfect showcase of his weird and very personal hybrid of half-defunct techno rhythms with…
Capital
The first release on Semishigure is the soundtrack CD for the film Capital by painter and video artist Sarah Morris. Released and shown in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and the Guggenheim in New York amongst other places, it gives a fast-paced and gorgeously filmed look into the (political) life of Washington DC. The 18-minute soundtrack score has been made by artist Liam Gillick and has been rerecorded especially for this CD release.
Une anthologie poétique
An awesome edition by the well-known artist and 'Une anthologie poétique' with 'RH l'optophonétiste' by Isabelle Maunet+ CD with 'RLQS poème en trois cascades' (1947), 'Interview avec les lettristes' (1946), 'Sound-rel' (1919). These works rotate around the notion of synaesthesia, both in the sense of a harmony between the senses, and also, so to speak, in preparation for new sensory environments, of which there were more to come during the twentieth century. In contrast to the alleged revelatio…
a sounding of sources
Malcolm Goldstein has been labeled an “improviser” and a “composer-violinist” (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, “At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation,” and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of t…
Five Sound Installations
Five Sound Installations is a DVD-ROM (for MAC and PC) that contains 5 sound compositions generated in real time by a computer algorithm. The works are: 'Room Piece Twenty-Four'; 'Noema'; 'Steiner Suite'; 'Unintending'; 'Scene'. 'Sound Art, algorithmic composition, chance operations, multi-channel sound systems, immersive installations, computer music; these terms all intersect at a point defined by the new XI release 5SI by MJS. Schumacher is a composer, curator (he runs Diapason, NY's only 'so…
Hollywood
The birth of Akira Rabelais' Hollywood has its roots in the composer's lifelong interest in field recordings and in the desire to create a piece of work dedicated to Los Angeles: Texas-born Rabelais has used a Tascam recorder to capture almost four hours worth of sounds on Hollywood Boulevard, between Betty Grable's and of Rod Serling's stars
the cat inside (+ B. Gysin, W. Burroughs)
An art installment in wich the artist has imagined the room 25 at the Beat Hotel rue Git-le-Coeur, where Brion Gysin and William Burroughs lived between 1957 and 1965. The room was an improvised center of intellectual and creative avant-garde. They used there tapes and tape recorders, they discovered through their work that language manipules us and that one can enlarge his perception fields using language. The question what is the use of a tape-recorder leads to the question what is the use of …
Materialien Zur Postmoderne In Bild Und Ton
"Claus Bohmler works with the media. Since they seem to function so well, he takes them apart, examines them, and then, perhaps, assembles them anew. This process doesnt create chic elements for the living rooms of the communication-theorists, the sociologists, or the simulation-apocalyptic, but rather the same sort of rudimentary raw material as found in notebooks, drawings, miniture cameras, radios, photostats, and cassettes. Its these poor media that open eyes and ears. Not bound to a …
Quarter Tone Music - Musique Ultrachromatique
Rare and long deleted double LP focused on the microtonal work of Ivan Wyschnegradsky. The result is one of the most unique concept albums ever created, presenting complex, strange, and beautiful atonalities perhaps only hinted of in the work of Wyschnegradsky's forebears (such as Harry Partch, Alois Haba, Julian Carrillo, Lou Harrison, La Monte Young, Ben Johnston, Terry Riley, Charles Ives, John Eaton, Henk Badings, etc.). This unique release is the opus magnum of Wyschnegradsky, containing th…
Bismarckstrasse 50
original One sided 7" flexi-disc in clear green vinyl. Record was part of the invitation card for Knoebel's exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Möller in Otterlo, Netherland, in 1983 and repackaged in 1998 in a beautiful 3-fold cover for the Galerie Block exhibition, and published in 120 copies, hand signed
sounds for 4 cinema
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art., 1968, First Edition. EvaTone Soundsheet in Wrappers, Square 8vo, 4pp, 4 b&w illustrations, 2 sided EvaTone 7 inch 33 1/3 flexi-disc. This is the audio documentation of Happenings/Performance artist Robert Whitman's late sixties multi-media installations at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item (catalogued on page 54 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists") still in the unsent printed mailing envelo…
La pleine des respirs
Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri chopin (born 1922), produced and recorded november 2003 - january 2004. Mastered and cut june 2006 by Rashad Becker-D&M. Edition of 491 copies in printed glossy outer- and innersleeve, with text by Henri chopin (original french, plus english & german translations), and photography by Florence Gonot-Yterce.” “Prologue Les souffles”, “La plaine des respirs vivace comme il se doit”, “Finale Les répressions cassées”.
De Gelofte
The rawness of untreated acoustic instruments, and the raw playing of objects, without any effects, is like dopamine to me. It connects me to life and my Self on the deepest level possible. No make up, no fashion-style, just raw energy put straight onto recording." (Raymond Dijkstra)again an astonishing LP in red velours luxurous hardcover box with debossed black and debossed, gold print, Handmade boxes, Numbered / signed. With inlay and personal statement. Edition of 50 copies.
DE GEDACHTE
The most evident sound is a shrieking, frictional rubbing of strings and/or metals - like a wrecked violin or a creaking door's noise, but not quite. It's incessant, uneasy, anarchic and unclassifiable."(Massimo Ricci, Touching extremes) - an astonishing LP in red velours luxurous hardcover box with debossed black and debossed, gold print, Handmade boxes, Numbered / signed. With inlay and personal statement. Edition of 50 copies.
Klankteksten ? Konkrete Poëzie Visuele Teksten
This is one of the rarest and earlier sound poetry LP compilation, issued for the 1971 Amsterdam exhibition. 1 copy available
Operations Of Spirit Communications
Die Stadt is very pleased to announce the release of a long time project, an LP by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. C.M. von Hausswolff is a prolific sound composer for almost 20 years now who lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden. He was the founder of now defunct Swedish label Radium and still is one of the two King's of Elgaland-Vargaland (together with fellow artist Leif Elggren). His works (also under the name PHAUSS in his early years) have been released on labels such as Touch, Sub Rosa, Fire, …