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Kino Variants 1967-1986
Continuing their longstanding explorations of unexpected and adventurous territories of sound, Von - the imprint run by filmmaker and sound artist Carlos Casas - is pleased to present Kino Variants 1967-1986, the first-ever collection to illuminate the vast body of work created by the Uzbek composer Rumil Vildanov during the second half of the 20th Century. Offering a rare glimpse of liberated creative spirit operating behind the Iron Curtain, this engrossing double LP - complete with printed in…
The Haunted
The Italian imprint, Von, returns with "The Haunted", two stunning sides that delve into the rich sonorous world of Camille Norment. Comprising stunning recordings for glass harmonica and other sound sources - pressed on crystal clear vinyl in a highly limited edition available exclusively through SoundOhm - recalling everything from mid-century electroacoustic music, the sounds of the koto, gamelan, and Tibetan singing bowls, it's one of the most immersive and mesmerizing releases we’ve heard a…
Obitorio Veneto
Conceived by artist Nico Vascellari as contribution to the Diedrich Diedrichsen-curated exhibition Rock Scissors Paper at Kunsthaus Graz. Lago Morto is “about things that casting calls usually exclude -- targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics.” The band performed for fifteen days in Vittorio Veneto in nonmusical venues such as bars, hotels, pizzeriaa, laundrettes, video stores etc. All fourteen of the band’s songs are on the CD. The DVD contains a video from each of…
Cordiox
Outstanding visionary stuff from Mexican artist Ariel Guzik – the kind of record that's a great introduction to his practice – and a sound relic from his mindbending Cordiox, a monumental stringed instrument animated by invisible magnetic forces. Cordiox is a four-meter acoustical tower, a hyper sophisticated musical instrument created by Ariel Guzik. In its depths resides a quartz cylinder, which constitutes its central acoustical axis and took up almost half of the budget of this work. Expl…
The Futurist Manifesto
A colossal audivisual adaption of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, by Thomas Koner, one of the uncontested master isolationists of the ethereal static sounds, a sonic symphony of the unconsciouss and a defiant decceleration critique of today society through the ultimate modern text. The Futurist Manifesto is the ultimate 4 bpm masterpiece.100 years ago, in 1909, the italian poet and artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the ‘Futurist Manifesto’ which became the foundation of the futurist mov…
T H I R (1972)
A milestone. T H I R - Ten Hundred Inch Radii - is among the most historically significant works in Phill Niblock's output, and one of the genuinely undiscovered jewels of American experimental film. Completed in 1972 as the fourth and final chapter of his Environments cycle - begun in 1968 - it is presented here for the first time on DVD, with two alternate soundtracks, by the Italian imprint Von.
Niblock occupies a peculiar and underacknowledged position in the history of American Minimalism. …
40 Days of Silence
* Lucky restock, few available! * The threshold between field recording and composed music, between documentary and pure abstraction - 40 Days Of Silence occupies that narrow and precise territory which only the most rigorous practitioners of sound art dare to inhabit.
Jacob Kirkegaard belongs to a generation of Scandinavian artists - alongside figures like CM von Hauswolff, Thomas Köner, and Helge Sten - for whom sound is neither decoration nor effect, but a means of confronting otherwise unrea…
1812
Edition of 500. 1812 is an immersive audiovisual work entirely created and reworked from the classic Russian film 'War and Peace' by Sergey Bondarchuk, from 1967, the work uses only and exclusively found footage and material from the film, and implodes it to create a new audiovisual work, a new visual sound experience. The result is an experimental vision that pretends to expand the way we perceive films and tries to push our notion of audiovisual sensations. Narration and plot lines are annihil…
Jesus
Two confrontative icons. Two artists willing to go where those icons point. Jesus is one of the most extreme and conceptually charged releases in the Von catalogue - a double LP that documents and extends a collaboration between Prurient and Nico Vascellari built around the figures of GG Allin and Klaus Kinski: two men who treated the stage as a site of absolute exposure, who understood performance as a form of self-destruction, and who attached to the name of Jesus a weight that had nothing to …
Coda Lunga - Rushes of India
A double journey into Kerala in India. Ghedalia Tazartes dips himself into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and music to field recordings on location. A fantastic journey beyong India, through countries of the imagination. Another genre and cross cultural experience by the French master. (Von Archives)."This record feels like the sound of the world flashing by so fast you can only pick up snatches, playing tricks on your imagination and your memory, hyperreal …
Carregon del Diol
The second series of compilations that presents the best artits that have sprung out of Italy's Northeast scene, rotating around Vittorio Veneto, Codalunga and the Three days of struggle festival, this scene is one of the most interesting and growing scenes of Europe. An intricate of labels, distribution and concert programmers. Featuring exclusive material from Be invisibile now, Bus de la Lum, Der Weze, Excellent Italian, Fantamatres, Kam Hassah, Lettera 22, Magic Towers, Nihil is me, Ottaven,…
Nico and the Vascellaris
The already classic performance by artist Nico Vascellari and of one of the most unconventional bands ever. In a special edition release with the original studio recordings, and an Artist special vinyl engraving. By public demand. The second on a series of Artist editions. Edition of 100 copies. Order fast!!!
Stomach Pump
Another extreme release by one of the most harsh musicians around, Aaron Dilloway provides us with a drilling experience, or as some has described it "...like having a stomach pump, connected to a drill brain wired to your balls and plugged to your PA."
Cathodic works 1966-1976
Before video art had a name, Aldo Tambellini was making it. Cathodic Works 1966-1976, presented here for the first time on double DVD by Von, is an essential document of one of the most underacknowledged pioneers in the history of experimental media - a body of work that predates the canonical account of video art and, in several respects, exceeds it.
Born in Syracuse, New York in 1930, raised in Lucca during the Second World War - a childhood spent in a city that was bombed, twenty-one of his n…
EyEar
A singular document. EyEar presents, for the first time, the visual dimension of Z'EV's practice - a body of work that had, until this release, remained inseparable from the live event, resistant to any fixed form.
Born Stefan Joel Weisser in Los Angeles in 1951, Z'EV stands as one of the most uncompromising figures in the history of experimental and industrial music. From his first solo percussion performances in San Francisco in the late 1970s - deploying self-constructed instruments assembled…
The Tailing
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'…
Cemetery Archive works
The elephant graveyard is a myth. No confirmed site exists, no documented mass of bones gathered in a hidden clearing. And yet the image persists - in literature, in cinema, in the collective imagination of what wild and remote nature might conceal. It is precisely this space between myth and evidence, between the archive and the unknown, that Carlos Casas moves into with Cemetery [Archive Works]. Since 2001, the Barcelona-born filmmaker and visual artist has built one of the most rigorous and e…
Vezdekhod
Somewhere in the Chukotka tundra, at the coordinates N 66°37' W 172°40', September 2006. A Vezdekhod tank - the all-terrain vehicle that remains, across much of Siberia, the only viable means of transport - moves through a landscape that resists every other form of passage. Carlos Casas is inside, recording. The noise is overwhelming: the resonance of the engine inside the cabin so intense, so physically present, that the only music capable of cutting through it, the only sound that could exist …
Siberian Field Recordings/ Interview with a whale hunter
ultralimited to 100 copies only, a series of field recordings from Siberia, Chukotka, from Radio frequency scans to ambiental landscapes, a sonic journey into one of most desolate and extreme environments in the planet.
Blind Jesus
A journey in free improv noise ambient performed by a duo comprised of Stefano Pilia (3/4havebeeneliminated) on guitar, audio collages and effects, and media artist Andrew Hooker on electronics. Higly Recommended