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Stockhausen es Funcional al Imperialismo
Spanishedition. Perfect bound. 190 pages. Cornelius Cardew's Stockhausen serves imperailism, originally published in 1974 is translated to spanish for the fist time. Seminal text for those who are interested in the intersection between experimental music and politics during the 70's.
An Anthology of Chance Operations (Book + Poster)
English edition ** 63 pages, B&W, soft cover, square format. Includes complimentary A3 poster ** An Anthology of chance operations, concept art, anti art, indeterminacy, plans of action, diagrams, music, dance constructions, improvization, meaningless work, natural disasters, compositions, mathematics, essays, poetry. LaMonte Young and Jackson Mac Low.Edited by La Monte Young in 1961, designed by George Maciunas and originally published in 1963, An Anthology.... contains productions by more than…
Interviews by Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Clara Rockmore, Beatriz Ferryra
Spanish/English edition. Perfect bound. 110 pages, edition of 50 copies This publication gathers interviews with four artists who are pioneers in the in the field of electronic experimental music, Clara Rockmore interviewed by Robert Moog, Pauline Oliveros interviewed by Miya Masaoka, Beatriz Ferreyra interviewed by Jason Gross and Laurie Spiegel interviewed by Dena Yago.
R. Schumann, Balilla Pratella, Luigi Russolo, Edgard Varese
Spanish/English edition. 85 pages, edition of 50 copies. A compilation of seminal texts for the young electronic musician. Perfect bound / ByW /
R. Schumann - Consejos para Jóvenes Músicos
Balilla Pratella - Manifesto para Músicos Futuristas
Luigi Russolo - El Arte del Ruido
Edgard Varese - La Liberación del Sonido
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The First Years
A photographic essay depicting the everyday work of the members of the mythical workshop responsable for most of BBC´s sound effects between the 50s and 80s. All images are believed to be in the public domain and of BBC origin. Edited captions by Ray White.
Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 40 pp / 1st ed - 2014 / 50 copies
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S. Talks #1
S. Talks # is a series of uncut interviews with electronic contemporary musicians. Each interview is individually published in a zine and distributed for free. Originally from Houston, Texas, James Daniel Emmanuel is a pioneer of electronic minimal music with a career that started in the late 70s and more than fifteen albums released...
Zine 10 x 15 cm / Stapled / B-W / 6 pp / 1st ed - 2013 / 100 copies
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The Liberation of Sound
"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution to a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm."
About the author in Earle Brown words: "There could have not been a Ligeti, a Xenakis or a Penderecki without a Varèse."
Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 6 pp / 1st ed - 2014 / 50 copies
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Clara Rockmore by Robert Moog
Theremin´s virtuoso interviewed by synthesizser´s maverick Robert Moog in 1977. "I am a violinist and a musician. I wanted to see if it were possible to use the theremin to make real music. Bach couldn't write for the theremin when he was alive, but there is no reason why I can't play Bach on the theremin today. "Clara Rockmore
Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 8 pp / 1st ed - 2014 / 50 copies
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Fluxus Music
"Where does music fit into George Maciunas´s definition? Where does music fit into Fluxus praxis? Music fit where all the other individual arts fit into Fluxus - into a process of de-definition that robs music and the other arts of media that is itself not easily distinguished from the rest of life."
Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 6 pp / 1st ed - 2015 / 50 copies
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Who Cares if you Listen
"Towards this condition of musical and societal "isolation," a variety of attitudes has been expressed, usually with the purpose of assigning blame, often to the music itself, occasionally to critics or performers, and very occasionally to the public. "
Music as Gradual Process
Minimalism´s father Steve Reich explains his composition method in this short essay which was first published in his book " Writings about music 1965-2002" ."I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music."
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The Art of Noises
Luigi Russolo´s 1914 futurist manifesto on the inclusion of ambient sounds in music.
“Let us invite young musicians go genius and audacity to listen attentively to all noises. Our increased perceptivity, which has already acquired futurist eye, will then have futurist ears. Thus the motors and machines of industrial cities someday be intelligently pitched, so as to make of every factory and intoxicating orchestra of noises.”
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
“I appeal to the young. Only they should listen, and only they can understand what I have to say. Some people are born old, slobbering spectres of the past, cryptograms swollen with poison. To them no words or ideas, but a single injunction: the end..”