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An 8-cd box set of solo recordings by shaw produced during, and just after, the period of his involvement with the early improvisational incarnation of the proto-noise band Destroy All Monsters. there guitar assaults, tape cut-ups, and loop experiments are guaranteed to turn your mind to jelly.Jim Shaw is an atypical figure in California’s art circles, sharing with Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley the same desire to produce a visual body of work aimed at exploring the dark side of an American …

A 2-CD collection of Shaw/Kelley Duets from the early Destroy All Monsters period. Primarily featuring Shaw on guitar and Kelley on percussion, these extended improvisations also incorporate tape loops, tape collage, and primitive electronics. (Original Release Date: 2011)

Forty minutes and Eleven Seconds is a limited-edition vinyl LP created for the remaining performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company during their precedent-setting Legacy Tour. The record contains never-before-heard recordings of works by MCDC's Music Committee, Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, John King, and Christian Wolff and MCDC's Music Coordinator, Jesse Stiles. These pieces were recorded live over the course of the Legacy Tour using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments. …

Kye is proud to present in association with Penultimate Press the fully authorized reissue of Henning Christiansen's Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG Op 189. Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG Op 189 was commissioned by the Bonner Kunstverein Gallery, Kunstfond, Germany in August 1989, for inclusion in their Taking Fluxus Around for a Drive happening, (also featuring performances by Dieter Daniels, George Maciunas, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Joe Jones and others) and originally issued on cassette in …

Chris Mann says of his work, 'The Art of the Diff,' 'language is the mechanism whereby you understand what i'm thinking better than i do (where i is defined by those changes for which i is required).' Written and performed by Chris Mann. Recorded in July, 2010. Video editing by Eve Essex. Produced by Alex Waterman. Stencil printed by Knust (Holland)

Lovely Artist Record, A side: "B" (for Bartleby) is written by Alex Waterman. Recorded at The 7th Regiment Part Avenue Armory Building, New York City, 23 March, 2008, performed by Peter Evans (trumpet), Marina Rosenfeld (phonographs), Hrabba Attladottir (stroh violin), and Alex Waterman (violincello); (2) The Kitchen, New York City, 25 November 2008, solo; and (3) The ICA, London, 30 May 2009, solo. Mixed by Alex Waterman in Brooklyn.Side B is written and performed by Dan Fox. Recorded and mixed…

A Ballad of Accounting' (2009). Composition for cello and Brooklyn Queens Expressway by Alex Waterman with a 16-millimeter film by Elizabeth Wendelbo. Recorded live under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, June 2009. Recording engineer and editor: Chris Tabron

Lovely 2CD Box + Book consisting of samples of fieldrecordings of Christian Jendreiko’s actions that have been performed at Wesleyan University (2007), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2007) and Kunstverein Nürnberg/Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2009) as well as a 74page booklet with an extended artist text and a photographic essay on the art of Jendreiko's actions. “Observing myself playing the guitar from a sculptural perspective brought me to the idea to concentrate on shaping the motoric aspect…

This release documents the music Masselys made for the commisioned audio-visual piece, Jimmy Polaris, by visual artist Christopher Nielsen, animator Matt Willis-Jones and Masselys.Nielsen and Willis-Jones worked together on Norway’s most expensive animation film; Slipp Jimmy Fri from 2006. For Jimmy Polaris they used early raw animation snippets from the film’s preproduction phase. Nielsen and Willis-Jones then real-time manipulated these sketches into a psychedelic visual overload, which Massel…

restocked - Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters" is a catalog published by Boston University on the occasion of the Hungry for Death /Destroy All Monsters exhibition held at the Boston University Art Gallery November 15-December 22nd, 2011. The emphasis of the catalog is on the music of DAM. An introductory essay by Byron Coley describes his experience with the band and his role in bringing out the release of the boxed set “Destroy All Monsters 1974-1976”. Brandon W. Joseph’s essay “Th…

Before Chris Watson became the man who put microphones where you cannot put your ears - inside glaciers, beneath elephant feet, among snapping alligators in the Everglades - he was one-third of Cabaret Voltaire, splicing tape loops in a Sheffield attic, dreaming of Pierre Schaeffer and William Burroughs and the infinite possibilities of magnetic oxide. That was 1973. By 1981 he'd left the band and joined Tyne Tees Television, beginning a journey that would take him from industrial noise to the w…

Art edition including an LP with the recordings at the Istituto  della Calcografia Nazionale in Rome of 2 world premiere compositions  by Philip Corner and Daniele Lombardi. Issued in 80 signed and numbered copies and including excerpts form the original scores.    Philip Corner “Tenebres: Lesson&Light” (Studies in Shadow and  Light), learning from the dark the grand lesson of music. The darkest sound in musici s the tone-cluster. Approximation of the even denser  aggregates existent already in …

Ghenesi is a cosmogony work that describes the birth of the Universe. Conceived as a dynamic object, moving and symbolic, this edition, 150 copies, is a collection of texts, images and music, divided into twenty-two parts. The cover is made of two hexagrams from the Book of Changes or I Ching, gives Zhuang, Great Strength, and Dun, the Retreat. Enclosed by two black pages are nineteen images with the cosmogony poem.The CD that accompanies this book contains the soundtrack of Ghenesi. Only one tr…

Tone Yasunao's lifework, "Musica Simulacra," planned and produced for 14 years, has finally been completed. ATAK releases a limited edition box set (limited to 500 in the world) including more than 2000 hours of 4516 Manyosyu poems recreated in sound using Tone's original software on CD-ROM, over 60 minutes of 12 pieces extracted from the CD-ROM and edited by Keiichiro Shibuya on audio CD, a 47 pages booklet written by Tone himself and a limited edition autograph. This is the intersection of con…

Nine pieces from the 20 recorded in 1961 by Jean Dubuffet. Acoustic instruments, voice and tape. Dubuffet worked in various media in a style now referred to as Art Brut. In the early 60s he and the Danish painter Asger Jorn began to make improvised music, using all kinds of instruments, at home, using a then new tape recorder. This CD collects some of that work, recorded in 1961, an aural equivalent in many ways of his 'naif' visual style: very abstract, formally chaotic, rather homogeneous.  Pl…

2002 release. Issued for the XLV Biennale di Venezia with support from The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, Mudima Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy. All John Cage excerpts are from John Cage's "Silence and One Year from Monday," recorded at 222 Bowery in New York City, December 1968 and March 1969, courtesy of Giorno Poetry Systems. Featuring David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, Ars Hell and Mutt, John Zorn: Naked City, Chris Stein, Amy Denio, David Weinstein…

On this beautifully presented little 7", Japanese artist Sawako Kato uses a variety of found sounds to create an audio representation of what are or will become fossils, either literally or conceptually.  With one side sourced from handmade crystal radio recordings and the other being field recordings of a then-abandoned amusement park, the sense of emptiness and decay is clear among the subtle sounds presented.The A side of the record consists of random radio recordings around Brooklyn, New Yor…

Fully restored director's cut DVD of Ira Cohen's legendary 1968 film, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda ina limited edition of 500 copies only."I must say this is the most chemically abused piece of cinema I’ve ever seen – I actually feel under the influence now, I don’t know if I’m safe to walk home. It’s so narcotic that I’m surprised it’s legal to buy over the counter… all this and it was made in 1968 – one year before Woodstock? Well I’m surprised, I was sure people were still locking u…

K11 is the nom de plume of the Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. On his last release as K11, 2009’s “Voices From Thelema” (Aurora Borealis Records) Riparbelli visited the ruins of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema Abbey in Cefalu, Sicily, where he entered and proceeded to record and document signals and sounds coming through short-wave radio receivers. An instrumental trans-communication ritual, acting as a conduit for whatever spirits remain in the Abbey.Continuing with his interest in cathedral…

Awesome 52 pages, a collection of found/hardly changed photo's, drawings, exhausting text, and garbage from the archive of Dennis Tiefhuys, the jewish visual artist, residing in the middle of the diamant area in Antwerp/Belgium.all of these pages were printed as "print rest", on the side of poster jobs, insert prints etc, it goes back to almost 5 years and is printed in off set, digital print, stencil print and photocopy on both glossy and mat paper. limited to 200 copies"

LONG OUT OF PRINT, FEW COPIES AVAILABLE: originally planned as a release for the now legendary Aspen magazine these six meditations in "spontaneous sound" have finally made their way into mass consciousness. Recorded live at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1970 using a truly vast array of gongs, cymbals, chimes, timpani, bass drums, woodwinds, as well as some instruments specifically designed for him by somnambulist instrument builder and musical maverick Harry Bertoia. From a faint whis…

A chamber opera for four singers, six players and electronics. Libretto by Kiki Keren-Huss. Gilad Hildesheim (violin), Yaki Reuven (mandolin), Vitali Podolsky (accordion), Dan Weinstein (cello), Danni Felsteiner (contrabass), Barbara Schmutzler (contrabassoon). Recorded and mastered by Ido Govrin. 'Mi/Me, Kiki Keren-Huss' debut release on Interval Recordings, is a chamber opera for four singers, six players and electronics. It somewhat came into being about 18 years ago through an obscure image …

Popol Gluant is the obscene creature of Hendrik Hegray, the guy with moustache behind the observatory for contemporary outsider drawings called Nazi Knife. Pretty infamous for his own intense live performances, Hendrik collected a lot of tapes during the years but he relly can't edit so he decided to send a selection of some crappy cassettes with some notes to ST at Hundebiss Records. The result is a fluorescent creeping lava, moving from schizoid collage to droney obsession for coming back in a…

Restocked - long out of print, few copies available of this three CD box set with booklet chronicling the music and sound experiments of Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Includes pieces composed for video soundtracks, dance performances, etc. Moody, twisted, soundtracks of the mind. Over 90 tracks. If you like the early noise version of Destroy All Monsters, you'll like this. Features musicians: John Miller, Bill Stobaugh, John …

Slow writhing in near-total darkness Intertwining drones from a church organ Movement and sound heavy, thick as oil Erotic and forbidden. Produced and directed by John Duncan, Music by John Duncan - A microscopical audiovisual study on pornography by the great american sound artist - "The calligraphy of the title frame has a distinctly Gothic flourish, and John Duncan taps deeper into that culturally overplayed yet still potent and potentially transgressive tradition as The TAILING unfurls. It'…

Over the last 40 years, Serbian radio-art composer and film director  Arsenije Jovanović has developed a deeply personal style of sound art for radio broadcast. His compositions are imbued with natural environments and human-centered activities. They feel rooted in place - whether real, imaginary, remembered or dreamed. Weaving voices, instruments, field recordings and manipulated sound, Jovanović creates vivid narratives without a story. He takes full advantage of sound’s capability for seamles…

the Paula Cooper Gallery, is pleased to announce the CD release of Graffiti Composition by American visual artist and composer Christian Marclay. In 1996, Marclay plastered more than 5,000 posters of blank sheet music in public places throughout Berlin during a month-long sound festival. The posters functioned as an open invitation to the public to scribble musical notes, or any other type of graffiti. Marclay photographed the graffitied sheets, selected 150 from the group, and compiled the…

Originally issued in 2000, this is the first release from this 20th century composer's label, based out of the Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC; performed by Petr Kotik's S.E.M. Ensemble, with John Cage on one piece. This CD was recorded in 1987 by S.E.M. (including Ben Neill on trumpet) and was originally released in 2000; the Ampersand version was recorded in 1976. Duchamp's often overlooked musical work was composed for the most part between 1912 and 1921. His method was based on chance and…

 In this amazing double CD set, Nitsch has premiered his Symphony IX that in his own word might be summarized as "This music is as strong as the forces of the universe - either you join or you can climb out."

Awesome Alga Marghen re-release presenting the first ever release of “Illuminatios”, or Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti duo interactions, illuminated with dim red lights. In early 1970 Morton Subotnick asked Charlemagne Palestine to join his soon to be created Media Department at the new “Dream School of the Future” endowed by the Disneys to be called the California Institute of the Arts. Charlemagne and Simone Forti met there in 1970, when La Monte Young asked them to arrange a Californi…

Special limited to 50 copies, ART EDITION comes on white vinyl with a signed and hand-numbered inserts by the artists. "deep, long-form works by c.m. von hausswolff, each acting as the sound component to a separate collaborative  audio-visual work with juan pedro fabra and jan håfström, respectively ...“graf spee i” is a masterfully executed tone poem, involving a floating a pulsing, root-fifth sine cluster sporadically adjoined by a repeating ghostly figure ; it’s among von hausswolff’s more en…

Very thought to find, this is the 'legendary' first Christina Kubisch artist book published here in Milano in 1977 by the Flash Art magazine editor Giancarlo Politi. Christina Kubisch is one of the pioneers of sound art, with numerous sound installations, performances and compositions to her credit, and amazing artist books Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize he…

Crucible is a minute sound installation recorded at an outdoor concert in the tiny village of Topolò on the Italian-Slovenian border in July 1997. Its thunderous opening is literally the sound of a downpour which Duncan harnesses and treats to produce something elemental yet edgily unnatural. Bruce Gilbert's work springs to mind though Duncan has a less synthetic touch. The aquatic theme continues as water drains down pipes, gutters and sewers. Thereafter an eerie quiescence pervades. There is s…

An audio CD by the masterful Rodney Graham, "Never Tell a Pal a Hard Luck Story" is the third full length release by internationally acclaimed artist Rodney Graham. This bon-vivant and his band lead the listener on a rollicking, booze soaked adventure celebrating music, youth, love and the south. Classic rock songwriting suggests influences from Jimmy Webb to Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones. Gritty party tunes, such as "Let's Go Swinging" intersperse with languorous ballads, like "…

Conceived as a manifesto for the label, Choir is an audiovisual experiment, that takes the shape of an installation and live media event, as well as a limited edition video work. The image and sound is a superposition of source material selected by the artists and overlayered in order to produce a ghostly image an “hypnotic tantric metal experience” as some of the first viewers of the piece told. Choir is an hypnotic journey into the imaginary of this two artists.The sound is asynchronous and co…

The original soundtrack to Mike Kelley's Gesamtkunstwerk! Music by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel. "satanic rituals and advertising jingles mingled with allusions to Godard, German Expressionist cinema and Stockhausen . . . toxic-comic carnival . . . an amazing feat of industry and poetics — Michael Kimmelman, The New York TimesKelley’s Day is Done is like a variety show scripted by a regression therapist . . . an indisputable tour de force — Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice

This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hanson's heavy carboard luxury book titled "Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten". The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various “Text Sound Com…

Arthur Köpcke (1928-1977) was one of the most relevant German Fluxus artists, a self-taught visionary whose life and work embodied the movement's radical fusion of art and life. In his famous quotation ("I think every night about Addi Køpcke, Joseph"), Joseph Beuys expressed his respect for Köpcke as both person and artist, underscoring the importance of a figure who died in 1977 at the young age of 49. Was Ist Das - Piece No. 2 is a complex fusion of music, poetry, and visual art, representing …

"Now there are films such as La Plage and Au Bord du Lac which return in a more classical way, that is more closely linked to painting (and always to music, thanks again to Michèle Bokanowski), to the royal road of experimental film." Dominique Noguez

rare original book from the early 80s with the amazing descriptive book designed by Melissa Gould. Maritime Rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by Alvin Curran. This series features the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances by ten distinguished artists in the American new-music scene: John Cage, Joseph Celli, Clark Coolidge, Jon Gibson, Malcolm Goldstein, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Pauline Oli…