Klein Eiland
Klein Eiland comes as a suprise: the past decade, the ROT-members have been playing less shows, and their record output had come to a halt. Not sure why: there has been the occasional gathering and recording session. (this one happened to be the last one feat. Floris Vanhoof as a band member) But: R.O.T. proves that they still manage to capture a specific time and place like no one else does. This session was recorded in a now demolished building in the south of Brussels, and is now replaced by …
Vespers
Alvin Lucier ranks among the most important, influential, and radical avant-garde composers of his generation. "Vespers" (1969) and "Chambers" (1968), the two works featured on this LP, witness Lucier rethinking the material and conceptual possibilities of music at every turn.
Siberian Field Recordings
Channeling a visionary approach to the specter of humanity through a singular sense of sonic artistry, Carlos Casas’ "Siberian Field Recordings" - issued as a beautiful cassette by Second Sleep - draws on the material of field recordings and captured short-wave / radio frequencies to blur the lines between ethnography and experimental sound, rending surprisingly imagistic, abstract narratives of elastic meaning over its hour-long length.
Marfa Sounding
A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.
Arbo X
Tibor Szemző is not only a skillful and experienced Hungarian musician but also a media artist with a vast imagination. His last LP, Arbo X – Csoma Grooves, refers to his full-length film A Guest of Life released in 2006, for which he not only directed but also composed all the music. The film is inspired by the life of Alexander Csoma de Körös, a remarkable polyglot from the 19th century who set out from his native Transylvania to central Asia on foot to look for the roots of the Hungarian l…
Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020
The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene.
Selected Writings and Interviews
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.
Faculty Canon
** Edition of 75 with with insert. Translucent Voices Piled Into Strata--accordion Folded On Polyester Film ** Faculty Canon is artist Tim Simonds' first audio publication: a group reading of his book ╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲, including reading exercises, rehearsals, and canons. ╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲ is a book composed of text and images taken from hesitations, misspellings, auto-corrections, and concealed errors in a teacher's marginalia, comments, and endnotes. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition I sai…
Theodor Adorno: Piano Works
* Limited edition of 250. In process of stocking * Cop Tears recorded selections from Theodor Adorno's piano works in an apartment in New York during the winter of 2018. Cop Tears is John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal (double bass), Derek Baron (flute), Cameron Kapoor (guitar), and John Welsh (guitar). This is Cop Tears second album, following their recording of John Cage's Thirteen Harmonies (2016), re-issued by Recital in 2018. Andrew flew in from Norway and stayed at the apartment in New York whe…
A Slow Boat to China
** Bilingual Edition (English / French) ** This publication brings together photographs taken by Marion Scemama during a trip through the American desert with David Wojnarowicz, shortly before his death. It features documents from Scemama's personal archives and notes from Wojnarowicz's diary, along with texts by Thibault Boulvain and Elisabeth Lebovici.
While working as a reporter photographer in the mid-1980s, Marion Scemama was sent to New York. There she met David Wojnarowicz at the Christop…
Installations
** 2021 Stock. Book (24 pages 15x15cm) + CD. Limited edition of 250 copies. Texts Français / English. ** Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and mixes used for the 4 sound installations. Surface-témoin / Show surface (2005) by Jean-Luc Guionnet & Eric La Casa. De la dilation du paysage / Enlarging the landscape (2006) by Michaële-Andréa Schatt & Eric La Casa. Double exposition / Double exposure (2010) by Seijiro Murayama & Eric La Casa. Tentative d’épuisement (sonore) d’un lieu / Attem…
Waves: Real and Imagined
* Edition of 300 LPs • Includes folded 11″ x 17″ insert with liner notes * Captain Rip Hayman (b.1951, New Mexico) has come ashore again, bearing fresh cargo. A student of John Cage, Ravi Shankar, and Philip Corner, Rip was a founding editor of the revered Ear Magazine (1975-1991), and since 1977 he has run New York's oldest bar, the Ear Inn. The focused minimalism of his new LP Waves: Real and Imagined varies from the collaged spectacle of his first Recital LP, Dreams of India & China (2019). …
Sphere Studies and Subterranean Bounce
**Limited Edition of 80 copies. 102 pages, perfect bound 6″x6″ book, hand numbered. Includes glass-mastered CD.** Nour Mobarak’s Sphere Studies and Subterranean Bounce is the catalog for her sculpture and audio installation, which adorned the steep hillside of Los Angeles’ Hakuna Matata sculpture garden in the Fall of 2020. Eli Diner’s press release reads: "Up on the hill, Mobarak presents two related bodies of work. The six Sphere Studies are part of her ongoing examination of the material and…
St. Francis
**Edition of 200 - 180gram vinyl record - 18″ x 24″ folded color poster (blueprint).** The score by Schmid, reading by Landry, and edited/produced by McCann. Emily Martin and Derek Baron on St. Francis (Feb. 2021): What does it mean to pray? To address someone, to plead for something, to welcome humiliation and failure: Please, let me forget about the China Chalet parties, please let there be no countries and no war, please let me love you. Is prayer iteration, or just repetition: My god, my go…
Once More (White LP) / Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020
Two stunning debuts from Xong - the new label launched by Bologna based cultural platform Xing - Lydia Mancinelli and Marcello Maloberti’s 'Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020' and Kinkaleri and Jacopo Benassi’s 'Once More', take deep dives into singular creative frontiers that rest at the boundaries of the theatrical, sound art, experimental music, noise, the poetic, and the generatively performative. Both are absolutely incredible - blurring the boundaries between action and the act of listeni…
Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020
Xing presents the artist record Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020. Lydia Mancinelli Legge Marcello Maloberti (Hammerings. Cool Writings 1990-2020. Lydia Mancinelli Reads Marcello Maloberti), second release of the XONG series. Italian actress Lydia Mancinelli, stage and life partner of the avant-garde author Carmelo Bene, reads the “written voices” of Martellate, a collection of impulsive written fragments by the visual artist Marcello Maloberti. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and …
Cora
Cora Emens is a sex educator and performer based in the Netherlands. This re-issued work of experimental music was compiled in the 80s by Cora's ex-partner, Willem de Ridder (one of the founders of Fluxus) in the Netherlands from the home studio recordings of Cora. Now available in double LP form (originally released on a Radio Art Foundation cassette) with an additional bonus track 'Earplay'. This is the first time it's been re-released in any format. The original tape was mixed by Willem de Ri…
Landslide
** Edition of 300 ** 13 Presents Landslide by Gianluca Favaron, Stefano Gentile, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Rod Modell. On October 9, 1963, 260 million cubic meters of rock broke off from the top of Monte Toc. It fell into the reservoir of the Vajont dam, producing an enormous wave of at least 50 million cubic meters of water. The dam, completed in 1959 and one of the biggest in the world at the time, did not suffer any serious damage. However, flooding destroyed several villages in the val…
Technicolor
* Limited Edition of 500. Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl. Mastered by Noel Summerville. Matt printed outer sleeve, gloss printed colour inner * Ryoji Ikeda releases a new, vinyl-only collection of sonic compositions exploring the frequencies and variations of noise. Speaking about the inspiration behind the album Ikeda shares: “In classical information theory, it’s said that to verify a signal we definitely need noise. It’s a very complementary relationship. That kind of concept is …
Night Run: Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995
** Edition of 300. Sold out at the label ** INFO is pleased to announce Night Run, the first collection of early sound works of Kristin Oppenheim. This 2LP release features eight pieces recorded between 1992 and 1995 in her Brooklyn studio. In each recording, Oppenheim’s voice is the sole medium, forming repetitious phrases half-sung and half-spoken to compose disciplined but haunting environments that drift back and forth, panning across the stereo field. Over the last three decades, Kristin Op…