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Sound Art /

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…
Baroque Non Baroque #27815 (LP)
*110 copies limited edition. Includes repulsive cover photo and hand-stamped labels* ‘Nothing compares to you’ was about Peter Fengler and Sinéad was right! There’s no losers here, just the bare and brutal leftovers of a very long night or a really early morning. Is the sound your uncle Peter makes sexy or sexist? Is knocking on wood kinky or slapping the salami sufficient? Is it a Karlheinz with a Karlsquell or a Cage with a Cara? Or just tins for fears? Complex comparisons more zonked than the…
Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth / Transference
This bundle includes the following releases:Marja Ahti "Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth" LPMarja Ahti / Manja Ristić "Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth" CD Marja Ahti "Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth" LP Marja Ahti is a Swedish artist living in Turku, Finland. She works with found sounds, objects and electronics, creating auditory assemblages that reveal a profound sensitivity to sound’s tactile potential. This new record sees her palette expand to include more recognisable acoustic…
Montreal Spy Diary/Nothing/Living Room Tour Montreal
Comes with a 24 pp. booklet. In May 2014, Chinese experimental musician Yan Jun arrived in Montreal carrying little more than his voice, a few electronic devices, and a radical proposition: that the most profound music happens not in concert halls but in living rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. Montreal Spy Diary/Nothing/Living Room Tour Montreal, released by ORAL Records, documents this month-long residency that would redefine both performance and documentation in contemporary sound art. Yan Jun …
Terminal
*180 copies limited edition* "Several years ago, I walked away from a long-standing abusive relationship. The process of healing wasn’t linear, nor was it easy—but it began with something elegantly simple: walking. I spent countless hours walking through the city and in particular Point Pleasant Park, combing its rocky beaches searching for "sea brick" washed ashore. Over the course of 2 years, I collected 104 pieces of broken bricks. Each brick, a symbol of a week, a step, a moment of reclaimin…
Concerto locale
2012 release (RARE) ** Card sleeve. Concerto Locale, the first project in Italy by Hannah Weinberger (born in Germany in 1988, lives and works in Basel and Zurich), features forty non-professional performers on May 28th (at 6 pm). They were contacted through the Bureau for Art Nerds network, through word of mouth, and through a relationship, albeit temporary, that shares a common project. At the Milan branch of the Swiss Institute in Rome, Weinberger presents a performance and installation title…
Capturer le [dés]ordre
2012 release (RARE) ** Capturer le [dés]ordre is a work created during a production residency at Avatar by Montreal artist Sabin Hudon, initially as part of the Excavation sonore program. Through the manipulation of disparate objects and mechanisms generating various sound movements, Capturing the [dis]order focuses on highlighting the fine and delicate sounds that escape from this jumble. This accumulation of singularities put together, added and subtracted, all at once, gives us an almost musi…
Music from the Hearts of Space: Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music (Book)
Essential 1981 catalog of transformative music reissued for new generation of cosmic consciousness seekers
Crying Glacier
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* 2025 was declared the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation by the United Nations, accompanied by the proclamation of March 21st of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting this year. As they put it, “this is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere…
Solo Mute Pan
*2025 stock. 150 copies limited edition* A reinterpretation of the multi-channel sound installation Solo / Mute / Pan by Laurent Güdel and Olga Kokcharova, for which they had assembled sound material they had recorded on in and around the museum in a perfromative act. This sound piece between musical composition and sound art was presented on two floors of the Centre Pasquart/ in autumn 2022. (find more information here: https://www.pasquart.ch/event/solo-mute-pan/). During the exhibition in Bie…
In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern
"Ken Jacobs, an essential figure of avant-garde cinema, and I had over-a-decade-long collaboration. We first performed fo his Nervous Magic Lantern project at the Argos Festival in Brussels in 2007. Before flying to Europe, Ken invited me to the top-floor loft on Chambers Street in TriBeCa, where Ken and his wife, Flo, have lived and worked since 1965, to experience a private screening. He turned on the apparatus and the image flashed onto the screen: geometric patterns — something of a Rorschac…
Off The Record
Off The Record (faitiche 39), the new album by French collagist Roméo Poirier, is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public: we hear instructions from studio staff, scraps of talk between musicians, or just microphones being adjusted, as well as false notes, false starts: everyone stops. Start again: 1, 2, 3, 4! Poirier’s approach recalls …
Visible Sound – Nikola Tesla’s Mattergy
Special Edition* contains: five Historic Postcards featuring Nikola Tesla operating the Harmonic Telegraph, UDP-USB 4GB Chip preloaded with original posters, high-resolution PDFs, and full project notes + original Archival Audio from Canal 4 — unearthed sounds from the vault + audio CD of the complete recording. Fully Functional DIY Tesla Coil Kit — build and experience the spark of invention In 1990, CM von Hausswolff, while on a tour in the United States with Karkowski/Bilting, PHAUSS, and Th…
Shock Factory - The Visual Culture of Industrial Music (Book)
640 pages! Industrial music has long been recognized for its sonic innovations, but the radical visual culture that accompanied this underground movement has remained largely unexplored. Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music presents the first comprehensive examination of how industrial artists created a coherent aesthetic language across multiple media—from xerox art and mail art to installation and performance—fundamentally challenging modernist utopias while prophetically anti…