Printed edition of Giya Kancheli's 18 Miniatures for Violin and Piano, based on themes from his incidental music for films and plays. Two A4 books: a 48-page score and a 20-page violin part.
Experience prepared piano from the inside - with a close-up view during performance of the detuned strings, the superball mallets, the Buddhist prayer gong, the water glass, the cedar balls, and all of the other implements that create the otherworldly sounds in this 1996 work that is destined to become a classic Drawing on the prepared piano tradition of John Cage, composer Annea Lockwood has fashioned an entirely new musical terrain in which pianist Lois Svard explores a sound landscape that is…
Last copies, price reduced. LP limited to 300 copies pressed on blue vinyl. Al Hansen is hte grandfather of Beck, yes, that Beck. Including "Balloni Brothers Balloon Work" (1987), a Fluxus piece for ballons' whistles; the fantastic sound poetry title track "Joseph Beuys Stuka Dive Bomber Piece" (1987); "Car Bibbe" (1959) for concrete car sounds and "The Futuristic Chattanooga Choo Choo in the Mongolian Desert" (1989).
A catalog around the exhibition 'résonances: akio suzuki - Ossip Zadkine' in Paris at Musée Zadkine in 2004. Texts in French and English + CD with recordings of performances of akio suzuki and a sound walk recorded by Eric La Casa.
Another Fylkingen-related release; both of these feature previously unreleased material, in limited editions of 545 copies. "Åke Hodell was a fighter pilot in the 1940s and came into contact with literature after a bad accident which resulted in a long spell in a hospital. In the 1960s Hodell made a comeback with strongly experimental art -- concrete poetry, picture-poems, multi-media work -- playing a a prominent role in text-sound composition. '220 Volts Buddha, Electronic Purgatorium' was com…
** LAST COPY** special art multiple, consisting in a limited edition of 25 copies in pure nickel, with special plexiglass box, signed and numbered by the author. Fully playable on regular turntable, although due to the nature of the object (very thin nickel plate) the wow and flutter values can be substantially higher than a regular vinyl record.  ÂÂ
'Gamelan' means for Phillip Corner more than the name for Indonesian orchestras. The composer uses the word the way, apart from Europe, someone might say 'symphony'. A basis of making music, adding a few wonderful ideas from the Orient: a precise relation between the scale of time and that of musical space; a simple formal concept, expressed directly through sensual attractiveness; some freedom, or mystery, added to the precision. 'Gamelan' is the name of the first piece. In 1975 at Livingston C…
Super deluxe DVD & CD set. The Action art of Hermann Nitsch from past to present Actions, 1962-2003: 1 DVD (this DVD is in European PAL format only and not compatible with some/many DVD players in the US) plus a CD with the recordings from the 2005 Burgtheater performance. Hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies. The packaging consists of a slip lid box with banderole, containing an 80-page book with photos and text. Disputed and celebrated: Hermann Nitsch, Actionist and painter, composer and stage…
When writer William S. Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin met Anthony Balch at the Beat Hotel in Paris at the start of the '60s they knew they had the ideal person to assist them in translating the ideas they had explored in experimental art forms to film. Balch began his movie-making career collaborating with Burroughs on two shorts 'Towers Open Fire' and 'The Cut Ups.' The former is a relatively straightforward attempt to capture the essence of Burroughs writing on film, utilizing key themes and…
Jaap Blonk is a self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet. His unfinished studies in physics, mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. He took up saxophone and started to compose music, at first mainly jazz pieces and music for experimental theatre. In reciting poetry, especially the works of Antonin Artaud, Lucebert and Kurt Schwitters, he discovered the directness…
The CD Stories from Paolino's Tapes consists of taped letters (in English) which Feyerabend recorded for his last wife, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, during his stays in Switzerland, Berkeley and Rome. These recordings, interesting also because of their curious mix of Viennese and Californian idioms, reveal another side of the philosopher. Feyerabend's views on a bad translation of Brecht/Weill's Dreigroschenoper, his comments on certain nuances of Verdi's Falstaff, his own translation of Xenophane…
A very nice limited artist-record, comes in fold-out cover with a text by john miller and an introduction by Raimar Stange. Four visual artists rockin’ out. Includes the title track, “Stooges Burn Out”, “Dance Practice”, “Jesus” and the Bass intro and outro. “They are amateurs, therefore perfect”
Based on a series of 33 musical ideas written, printed, framed and 'exposed' in a recent installation in Milan, Exposé is the first of a new cycle of works as well as the result of Alessandro Bosetti's fascination with speech loops. The mesmerizing voice of Audrey Chen, endlessly repeating the same sentence over the entire duration of each piece, is full of musical nuances, and it rewards close attention. The result is a weird and fascinating experience, that takes the listener through a surreal…