★Ricerca Sonora
778FS
*125 copies limited edition* The abandoned railway section Castellaneta - Gioia del Colle in Puglia represents one of those places that meet the definition of 'undecided spaces', heterogeneous and dispersed realities which, precisely because of their nature of uncontrolled spaces, constitute a refuge for diversity, a product of the rational organization of the territory. A 'subnature' that lies between the natural world and the artificiality of industrial and urbanization processes. A six-hour w…
Works 2016-2018
A work presented during the personal exhibition of Pier Alfeo (also well known for his moniker Dubit) entitled "Incisione su Silenzio" at the Doppelgaenger gallery of Bari, Italy (22 February - 22 May 2019).
Musiques Des Ailes / Wingéd Music
**Edition of 50 copies in yellow vinyl, signed**Ricerca Sonora proudly presents, as its second release (RS2), a fantastic collaboration / improvisation between Philip Corner, Michel Vogel and Phoebe Neville.Phœbe Neville is musician, singer, and dancer. Philip Corner composer, musician, and former professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Michel Vogel, a musician and maker of instruments, principally percussion (gongs and bells). He has for this occasion installed a double frame for eight s…
Changez Retravaillé
Edition of 300 copies. 3 CD set with booklet. Compilation including Nurse With Wound, Asmus Tietchens, Ralf Wehowsky, Thurston Moore, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and many more reworking of The New Blockaders's legendary LP from 1982. Changez Les Blockeurs has attained a somewhat mythical / legendary status (Record Collector magazine included it in a list of the rarest, most collectable records ever) and 2017 was the 35th anniversary of its original release. In celebration of this, TNB invited some of…
Battutosso / Bone Pulse (And Other Nature Musics)
Philip Corner's Battutosso / Bone Pulse (And Other Nature Musics) features recordings from 1989-97 of the US composer experimenting with bones, "the 100 most beautiful cows' bells", "breath, flute, and rubbing rock", and "Geoff Hendricks' xylophone sculpture". Compelling stuff, as always with Corner's work. Mastered by Silvia Kastel (Control Unit etc) and released on the Italy-based Ricerca Sonora imprint in an edition of 300 copies
Live In Edinburgh
In April 2011 the two couples formed by Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer and Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel ventured for a tour in the UK; it was the first time they played together but their shared common visions, attitude and general craziness actually gave life to an inspired team. Every show was different; in Edinburgh, they decided to perform a piece originally written by Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel, Jericho, that Papa Baer liked. So before the show, the group pre-recorded a tape in a big …
Wannsee
Limited edition of 200 copies housed in spot gloss jacket with art insert... Sound artist and field recordist Fabio Orsi presents the 3rd edition on Italian label Ricerca Sonora, complementing meditative LPs by Philip Corner with three augmented location recordings. Immersive sonics sourced from Wannsee lake outside of Berlin form the basis for a trio of dense, drifting pieces rich in microscopic and macroscopic detail. Wildlife sounds ring clear and true across muffled low end murk and subtle, …
Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal
**Limited edition of 300 including two inserts** The first release on Ricerca Sonora is a new album by the important American Avant-Garde figure Philip Corner. A contemporary of John Cage, Corner studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messaiaen. He was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, founder (with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the Tone Roads Ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the Judson dance theatre, and co-founde…