Siberia / Sirens
Two incredible sonic artworks by Susanne Skog’s work within sound art and composition has its roots in narrative art forms, experimental radio, radio drama and documentaries. Her artwork evolves from her own recordings from around the world, sonic material which she turns into new shapes and expressions, frictions and correlations, often considering movements and spatialisation as a vital element. Siberia is based on recordings from a 205 hour / 9288 kilometer trip by train from Moscow to Vladiv…
Am Grabe (At the Grave)
Am Grabe (At the Grave) is an ongoing audio ritual executed by Stefan Fricke and Alper Maral. Since 2015, they have been visiting the graves and burial grounds of composers from various eras in order to record the sounds and noises present. Each sequence is a pure field recording, serving as a memento of a bit more than 4 minutes in length. After having been compiled for a series of radio programmes, selections from Am Grabe here appear on audio media for the first time. This edition commemorate…
Church Waves
**200 copies** Waves is an ongoing research project by Dutch artists Petra Dubach and Mario van Horrik that involves so-called shakers, a kind of loudspeakers that reproduce sound frequencies as vibrations, attached to long strings. Started in 2010, the project has so far produced a number of installations and concerts, some recordings have been published previously on Edition Telemark as a double 12" in 2016 (cat. no. 628.01).For a few weeks in 2016 and 2017, Dubach and van Horrik had the chanc…
Duos Auf Präparierten Instrumenten
**300 copies** Edition Telemark proudly presents the first vinyl LP since 1989 by Munich's long-running ensemble for experimental music, Phren, formed in 1968 by Michael Kopfermann.Informed by the musical avant-garde at the time and especially the problems discussed by other improvisational groups, Kopfermann developed his own approach to improvisation and tone production and sought to find instruments and playing techniques that allowed him to realize what he had in mind. His thinking centered …
Live at White Cube
In 2015 White Cube presented a major solo exhibition by Christian Marclay, including a range of new work and a lively programme of performances. Continuing Marclay’s long-standing interest in the relationship between image and sound, the exhibition was comprised of featured The Vinyl Factory Press, a unique hydraulic vinyl pressing machine created by The Vinyl Factory, and screen printing equipment operated by the London printmakers Coriander Studio. Audiences were able to witness on site the un…
The Women’s March, 1789
Edition of 300 copies. Throughout the installation, designed with Hala Wardé, Nan Goldin and Soundwalk Collective work with underground waterworks, walls and sculptures to highlight the historical moment. The power of the women marching, their memory frozen in the surroundings are evoked in the sound installation using the voices of well-known women (Isabelle Adjani, Élodie Bouchez, Laetitia Casta, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nan Goldin, Isabelle Huppert, Isild Le Besco, Anna Mougl…
Sense Sound / Sound Sense
** Expanded and revised edition, published on the occasion of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 ** "Keeping the rebellious nature of its wicked subject intact, Sense Sound Sound Sense nevertheless provides an impeccably researched, crystal-clear narrative of Fluxus's true revolutionary spirit." The Wire)Truly necessary catalogue accompanying an extensive exhibition dedicated to art works and musical scores and their relationship with Fluxus, an interdisciplinary movement of internatio…
Outlaws in Language and Destiny
**2019 stock** Recordings by Joana Escoval of insects singing in the Costa Rica rainforest and a 180º orthodontic X-Ray in Lisbon, 2013-14. Pressed Mono at 45rpm on clear acetate and encased in a double-sided poster with two found photos: each presenting a child and a bird, both in Amazonia and in Sweden.Joana Escoval examines
how everything is entangled and connected. This is the reason why
Escoval’s sculptures can not only be perceived as appearances in their
raw, authentic state but as dis…
Realejo
Black Truffle is pleased to present Realejo, the first vinyl release from Brazilian sound artist and composer Manuel Pessôa de Lima. Having composed works for diverse contexts including cinema, contemporary dance, theatre and television, Lima’s live appearances often take the form of self-reflexive lecture performances that combine electro-acoustic sound, red light, video and spoken text, moving unpredictably from the hilarious to the distressing.Realejo consists of two side-long pieces of highl…
Conversations With the Anthony Burgess Cassette Archives
Double CD version. Includes color insert. Double LP/CD curated by Alan Dunn in collaboration with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Sub Rosa. Anthony Burgess's second wife Liana carried a cassette recorder with her at all times to capture her life with the author and their son Andrew. This extraordinarily intimate audio archive of over 1,000 cassettes now sits with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and artist Alan Dunn has been granted access to select excerpts from it …
Vampir-Cuadecuc
**130 copies. Art Edition** Carles Santos was a multi-disciplinary artist, perhaps best known outside of Spain as a composer of scores for his lifelong collaborator, radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella. Made in 1970 during the final years of Franco’s dictatorship, Vampir-Cuadecuc is an astonishingly creative assault on the regime and, arguably, Portabella’s most influential work. Filmed behind the scenes during the production of Jesús Franco’s Count Dracula (1970), Vampir-Cuadecuc is a hig…
Works 1958-1979
2019 repress. "This is a wide panorama of Nam June Paik work as musician -- 'Hommage à John Cage' (1958-1959), 'Étude for Pianoforte' (1959-1960) and 'Simple' (1961) are good exemple of neodada music and de-structuration in the late 50's, this is basically irreverent audio-collages. 'Prepared Piano for Merce Cunningham' (1977) captures an improvised performance by Paik on a de-tuned piano. While 'Prepared for Merce Cunningham' was later mixed and edited for use by Merce Cunningham, this raw, str…
Blue Veil
**350 copies** The world of Mireille Capelle is one of music and theatre. She has performed as a singer in numerous European opera houses, under the artistic direction of the foremost stage directors and conductors. She is member of the artistic board of HERMESensemble. Mireille Capelle has a particular affinity with contemporary music and art, characterized by many encounters with the most important contemporary composers. Blue Veil is a sonic architecture composed for the exhibition I Fortuny.…
Aral Sea Stories
**Edition of 200 copies** Peter Cusack made three trips to the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and one to the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan to make field recordings, take photographs, talk to people and try and gain insights into the impacts of water use and abuse on the environment and people of the region. The audio tracks, photographs and notes on this album are the result of these visits. Aral Sea Stories explores the question, “What can we learn of water uses and abuses by listening to their sounds?” It…
For Bunita Marcus
2019 Repress. In the 1980's, Morton Feldman composed two large-sized pieces for his favourite instrument, the piano. Both pieces, Triadic Memories (1981) and For Bunita Marcus (1985), clock in at about 90 minutes. Both compositions are excellent examples of the group of works that they belong to: Triadic Memories demonstrates the complexity and tonal opulence of Feldman’s pattern compositions from 1977 through 1983, whereas For Bunita Marcus shows the stripped-down, almost dismissive structures …
The Great Animal Orchestra
** Edition of 300. Two x 180-gram heavyweight records * Housed in a bespoke gatefold sleeve featuring installation imagery and graphics * Inner sleeves and inserts showcase information about the unique bio-acoustic recordings and the environments they were captured in** Bioacoustician, musician and field recording maestro Bernie Krause has been traversing the planet for over 50 years, collecting sounds from diverse locales both on land and sea. Beginning his career as an engineer in a Los Angel…
Indtil Døden Udfrier Mig
Ung Dansk Kunst’s Tapeserie [Young Danish Art’s Tape Series] from 1969 is a series of 10 tape works, created by a central group of visual artists of the 1960es' experimental Danish art scene. The tape series is one of the earliest Danish examples of visual artists creating works of art in sound. Sound works that were conceptually, self-consciously and explicitly something other than music. The tapes could be purchased by mail order, and were initially limited to 20-30 copies each. Nørgaard’s wor…
10 X Rum
Ung Dansk Kunst’s Tapeserie [Young Danish Art’s Tape Series] from 1969 is a series of 10 tape works, created by a central group of visual artists of the 1960es' experimental Danish art scene. The tape series is one of the earliest Danish examples of visual artists creating works of art in sound. Sound works that were conceptually, self-consciously and explicitly something other than music. The tapes could be purchased by mail order, and were initially limited to 20-30 copies each. Here is Stig B…
Opus Mors
Exclusive deluxe release of 4 LP set in 180g black vinyl. Packaged in archival handmade box, bound in linen and embossed, including five unique prints on Tyvek paper. Signed and numbered limited edition of 250. Jacob Kirkegaard's Opus Mors is four listening spaces for one of the existential and natural aspects of being alive, which is death. The project portrays four sound environments that the human body commonly will be surrounded by or exposed to in the immediate post mortem: a morgue, an aut…
Beelzebub
**Edition of 100 copies** A text and sound work released on 12” vinyl based on near-field recordings of febrile flies combined with texts by both Tobias R. Kirstein and Kasper Opstrup who researches on the occult, magic and radical countercultural movements. Originally a Philistine god, Beelzebub became a major demon in the Abrahamic religions. In Christianity, he is often portrayed as one of the seven princes of Hell, commonly representing Gluttony. Literally, the name translates according to t…