From the Archives Vol. 13 (Tape)
From the archives vol. 13, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, gathers rare recordings from key figures such as Lawrence Weiner, Ulises Carrión, Michael Gibbs, and others. This collection traces the porous boundaries between conceptual art and sound, where language, gesture, and environment intersect in works both fleeting and resonant.
Dick Higgins
This tape by Dick Higgins, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a 1977 interview conducted by Michael Gibbs in Barton, Vermont. A crucial Fluxus figure, Higgins reflects on intermedia, publishing, and experimentation, creating a vivid self-portrait where personal recollection and artistic theory flow into one another.
Afrikan Klavierkonzert
The tape Afrikan Klavierkonzert by Rolf Julius, recorded in 1980 and now reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, reveals the German artist’s delicate approach to sound: sparse piano textures, environmental resonance, and a restrained poetics of listening that dissolve boundaries between music, silence, and space itself.
Cello Anthology
The cellist who became a living sculpture. Four decades of performances with Paik, Cage, Chiari — from WBAI broadcasts to the TV Cello. Now: 4CDs, 154-page book, 16 festival posters, plus a previously unreleased LP featuring answering machine messages and rare performances. Edition of 80.
Ulises Carrion
The self-titled tape by Ulises Carrión, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, revisits his elusive Trios & Boleros, a work once privately circulated. Here, Carrión reimagines popular form through a deconstructed lens, where fragments of music and voice are refracted into conceptual gestures that linger between intimacy, satire, and radical sonic experimentation.
Morgen II
Morgen II by Pier van Dijk and Robert Joseph revives the radical Dutch sound poetry of the 1980s. This tape, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a sprawling word-piece where language fractures, collides, and reforms, blurring the divide between voice and noise, gesture and rhythm, memory and rupture.
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Signed. Comes with its original record bag/shopper! When George Maciunas died in New York in 1978, aged 47, Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik did what artists do when words fail: they played. The piano duet they performed at Düsseldorf's Kunstakademie lasted precisely 74 minutes, the numbers inverted as if time itself could be bent backward in grief. An alarm clock ended the performance at 9:14 pm, another numerical echo of Maciunas's brief, incendiary life. This wasn't theater. It was something ra…
Kartoffel-Opera
Edition of 150. This ultra-limited 7" presents the first audio documentation of Henning Christiansen's Potato Opera, a conceptual masterwork that stands among the most radical gestures in Fluxus history. Originally performed in 1969 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, this piece embodies the radical questioning of musical convention that defined the post-1968 avant-garde. The inaugural performance in 1969 brought together Henning Christiansen with artist Lene Adler Petersen and painter Ursula Reute…
K7 Box
*2025 stock* "K7 Box" encompasses performances and soundscapes recorded at unique venues, including specially commissioned announcement sounds for the Yokosuka Museum of Art. Each track brings forth Suzuki’s lifelong dedication to the art of listening, his fascination with natural and manmade acoustics, and his innovative approach to instrument building. Enriched by a booklet with texts by Suzuki himself and renowned music writer David Toop, the release provides insights into Suzuki’s creative p…
I've Got a Right
** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** Lenny Kaye, legendary guitarist for Patti Smith Group and compiler of the influential Nuggets garage-punk compilation, steps into the spotlight with I've Got A Right, part of John Giorno's groundbreaking Giorno Poetry Systems series that merged downtown poetry with punk rock energy.
Released through Giorno's visionary label that documented the intersection of New York's literary and musical underground, this album capture…
Musik LP
** Edition of 200. Comes with a 2-sided insert, and has hand-stamped label (color varies) by the artist. ** In honour of the recent 80th birthday of Finnish conceptual art pioneer and counterculture icon J.O. Mallander, private recordings from the artist’s personal archive have now been made available for the first time. Known primarily as a visual artist, art critic and gallerist, Mallander has also made forays into poetry and sound art, and his recorded output enjoys cult-classic status among …
WhiteOut
"Even without visiting a place, we often think we know it. It’s a syndrome of the modern age. The world is right before us, on screen, summarised and sensorially curated into a particular vision that casts light across ‘just so much’ of an impression of a place and a time. In some ways, I realised this phenomenon most strongly when I visited Antarctica in the summer of 2010. In my mind’s ear (and eye) certain features of that place were front and centre – imagined, as to be real. The stark colou…
Flitting Splits Reverb Adage (Book)
An assignment: find the titles of Rob Mazurek’s records and the names of his bands. Put them in a line. Now tell me he’s not a poet. Mazurek is a bona fide polymath. He thinks in multiple media. One modality bleeds into another, the musical into the visual into the verbal. And they are cumulative, as seen and heard and read in these beautiful poems. Colors explode, repetitions draw musicality out of words, text refers to the shape of a sound. Conjuring a cosmic sonosphere, the sound-crust on the…
Ja As Long As I Can
A minimalist exploration of voice, breath, and human connection across continents: this rare 2013 LP release documents an extraordinary sound art collaboration between Norwegian artist A.K. Dolven and American poet John Giorno, produced by Edition Block in Berlin. The 22-minute work represents a unique transatlantic dialogue that explores the fundamental properties of human communication through the sustained repetition of a single word: "ja," the Norwegian equivalent of "yes." A.K. Dolven (born…
Das Leben Chopins Und Andere Ton-Dichtungen
A rare double LP from 1988 presenting a comprehensive collection of "sound poems" by Gerhard Rühm (born 1930), one of Austria's most important experimental artists and a founding member of the revolutionary Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group). Released by Edition Block in Berlin, this recording documents Rühm's groundbreaking work at the intersection of literature, music, and visual art, featuring compositions created between 1978 and 1984 that exemplify his unique approach to what he terms "auditory p…
The Golden Violin
Original 1981 copy in perfect condition of this rare document from Poland's underground conceptual art movement
Habitat Dislocata
2015 release (RARE) ** 8-page catalogue and CD in 150 copies, hand-numbered and signed by the artist. Habitat Dislocata is an installation in which the sound elements that compose it are diffused throughout the space through different speakers, the number and characteristics of which are chosen according to the location. Habitat Dislocata is a sonic dimension in which a portion can be activated by the audience, who, in addition to listening while seated, is invited to explore the environment. T…
NAAU / Trunk Space
2009 release ** Oversize card sleeve. "Jeph Jerman, in another time Hands To, City Of Worms, Blowhole and part of the Animist Orchestra and already for a lifetime of his own, working under his own name. Here we have two performances from 2007, and ones that show what he does best: working with natural objects (pictured on the cover: stones, shells, feathers, wood, cacti etc), he produces music that is entirely stripped from electricity, computers, plug ins etc, but only needs a microphone and a …
America's Greatest Noise (Book)
The next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, not on glossy paper and is not expensive. It’s… ‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, th…
Written Systems
*50 copies limited edition* "Written Systems" contains four new sonic poems by Alfredo Costa Monteiro based on speech synthesis, inspired by structural ideas in grammatology and linguistics. "Real Objects" is based on a sentence that is never heard in its entirety. Its fragments are revealed little by little over repetitions, offering a conceptual deconstruction. The absence of natural language’s continuity leads to an isolation of words from speech, converting them into real sonic objects. "Ins…