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John Perreault
Long unavailable only documentation of the tape work by conceptual artist John Perreault on Slowscan's collectable artist's records series, limited to 300 copies.
Symphony Natura
Reissue on black vinyl, strictly limited to 90 copies, hand numbered, contains the original cover from the first edition plus the score, also numbered. Limited quantities available! "Symphony Natura op.170" (1985) is a long collage of electronic drones and animal sounds, recorded at the Zoo in Rome in 1985. "First of all, I think of Bruckner's great symphonies modelled after nature, from the days of flourishing orchestral culture, great feelings and gazing into the soundscape. Which was always t…
People's Opera aka Aerosol/or The Computer That Couldn't Hear
Liam O'Gallagher's audio work, People's Opera aka Aerosol/or the Computer That Couldn’t Hear: An Inter-Media Opera, features nine transistor radios (four tuned to FM stations and five to AM stations), a telephone system, and soloists on tambourine, flute, oboe, and French horn. Here are the notes on the presentation, by O'Gallagher's himself: “The ‘conductor’ signals the operators of the radios to approach the microphones or recede from them. Soloists play according to any predetermined plan. Tw…
Klangundkrach
Super limited edition by the legendary ClausBöhmler. Since the late 60s he has remained faithful to radical experiments with visuals and sound material from the cultural everyday; generating drawings, texts, radio-based sound works, artist’s books and video clips in tumblr. mode. He has become the champion of a low-tech, but high-end analysis of language, technology, and entertainment.Claus Böhmler (1939-2017) was a Fluxus artist from Hamburg. In the mid-1960s Böhmler was one of Joseph Beuys’s s…
Sound-Proof No. 0
Published and sold on an audiocassette by Ulises Carrìon (recently rediscovered thanks to an important Alga Marghen retrospective LP) , who in 1975 "created" the legendary Amsterdam bookshop-gallery "Other Books & So," the first space dedicated exclusively to artists' publications such as artists' records, books, magazines, postcards, etc.. only 12 cassettes were actually sold. Reissue of a cassette from 1978, a collection of sound poems and concrete poetry by G.J. de Rook, Michael
Gibbs, Greta…
Fluxus Anthology 30th Anniversary 1962-1992 Sound Events
Rare and long out of print, this is the legendary Fluxus anthology that comes in screen printed wooden box with sliding cover including 204 page A4 book largely being a scrapbook of things relating to the artists on the cassettes (as well as Guiseppe Chiari and Ray Johnson) and details about the pieces including many pictures, plus a large discography of Fluxus recordings, plus 7 scores (all A4 format) by Joe Jones, Dick Higgins, Robert Filliou, Henning Christiansen, Wolf Vostell, Ken Friedman, …
Old Souls Wearing New Cloths
Restocked, last copies: limited edition of 323 copies, this LP is a live recording for piano, voice and electronics. Issued in a beautiful red vinyl pressing, it's a terrific minimal droning piano in La Mount Young vein
Meditations 18.2
RESTOCKED, last copies rare edition of 150 Copies only in white vinyl, with biographical insert and full color cover. Highly recommended document of fluxus member Joe Jones.
Fluxus Anthology Volume 1
2004 release; essential overview of the various fluxus artists’ dabblings w/ sound, covering work recorded between 1961 and 1995. Highlights include: Dick Higgins’ 1961 “in memorian” (”the piece was made by assembling loops of a dub of a phonograph record of 16th century dance music. the dance is heard, simultaneously, up the 16 times as slow as the original, backwards as well as forwards, giving a sort of cinematic effect”). Robert Watts’s 1969 “string record composition” (simply astounding ear…
Piano Work
Another outstanding slab of 'Lo-Fi What The Fuck Is Going On?' from one of my heros... I know alot of you noise heads will be turned off by the 'piano' in the title...but man... no one has ever made more CRUDE sounds on a piano than corner... seriously... have no clue WHAT The fuck is going on... think he is just banging on the outside of the piano and throwing stuff at it... people are talkin...coughing...hangin out...at one point someone even fucking SITS on the microphone...Edition of 300 cop…
Greetings From 'L', We Are All Green
LAST COPIES, price reduced....Awesome and rare album by the french Fluxus artist, filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and Happenings maestro Robert Filliou, in a limited, numbered edition of 150 copies. Performed in 1977 at Judson Church November 18, 1977.Includes insert with biographical information.
Robert Filliou (born 1926 in Sauve, South of France) took 1943 part in the Re'sistance. After the end of World War II he moved to the U.S., worked there for the Coca-Cola company and studied econo…
Auftauchen
John Duncan: Mayday (1983) / Le Donne-Bhennet: Might Find Land 1980) / Tom Marioni: Drum Crushing (on Sand Paper) ( 1978). Edition of 99 copies.
Joseph Beuys Stuka Dive Bomber Piece & other stories
Last copies, price reduced. LP limited to 300 copies pressed on blue vinyl. Al Hansen is hte grandfather of Beck, yes, that Beck. Including "Balloni Brothers Balloon Work" (1987), a Fluxus piece for ballons' whistles; the fantastic sound poetry title track "Joseph Beuys Stuka Dive Bomber Piece" (1987); "Car Bibbe" (1959) for concrete car sounds and "The Futuristic Chattanooga Choo Choo in the Mongolian Desert" (1989).