New Arrivals
Rock/music writings
The first collection in English of Dan Graham’s influential body of writing on Rock and Roll music. Stretching from the late 60s to the late 80s, Rock/Music Writings contains the following 13 essays, most of which are currently out-of-print or see…
Noisers
Tracce, percorsi e geografie del nuovo rumore USA: All’alba dei 2000, l’universo delle musiche indipendenti americane è stato invaso da un’inattesa, temibile generazione di estremisti sonici. Nomi come Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, sono solo…
Spaces Speak, are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architectur
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater. We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dar…
Sound
ound is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art. The ‘sonic turn’ in recent art reflects a wider cultural awareness that sight no longer dominates our perception or understanding of contemporary reality. The backgroun…
See this Sound. Audiovisuology
A totally essential real sound art bible, 452 pages! A companion volume to 2009's See This Sound, this all-embracing compendium brings together texts on the various art forms that have combined sound and image. The full spectrum of audiovisual art …
The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design
This book introduces a subject that will be new to many: sonic arts. The application of sound to other media (such as film or video) is well known and the idea of sound as a medium in its own right (such as radio) is also widely accepted. However,…
The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts: John Cage, Morton
an amazing book that xplores the influences on the four musicians in the early 50s who, because of their deep interest in art, associated closely with the New York School of painters: Varese, Wolpe, Feldman and Cage. Musicians and artists have always…
Issue 3. June 2012
"the third issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general.this third issue collects 20 full colour silkscreens of photographs and photo collages, of recent and/or good times, some may recognize the likes of Vincen…
Surface Tension Supplement No. 1
Edited by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle. Essays by Jennifer Gabrys, Robin Wilson, Michael Rakowitz, Claudine Isé, Octavio Camargo, Kathy Battista, Brandon Lattu, Simparch, e-Xplo, James O'Leary, Kristin Kreider, et al. 'Following the success of …
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine \'79-\'83
Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late 70s, TV and DS set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on…
Endless
"endless is an early catalogue covering carsten nicolai`s art works. the book is one of the first collaborations between rastermusic and noton. 18 p. german/english." (label info)
Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
One of the most important, and clearly the most culturally and theoretically informed, of any of the major studies on minimalism. No other book comes remotely close to establishing the historical links between early postmodernist Euro-American social…
Industrial Musics - v. 1
Huge book (656 pages) on early industrial scene, in french only. Le concept de musique industrielle forgé par le groupe Throbbing Gristle au milieu des années soixante-dix a par la suite connu de singulières évolutions avec le nombre pléthorique de f…
Issue 5. August 2012
the fifth issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general.This issue was made in vienna in the beginning of august, made in between, after, and before swimming, train rides, visits to exhibtions by Burroughs, danie…
Exposition of Music
In 1963, Nam June Paik created a new genre of exhibition with his first solo show, The Exposition of Electronic Music-Electronic Television at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, West Germany. Fresh from his studies with John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen…
N°5
5th issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...): Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Erik Bünger, Destroy A…
The Wraiths Of Flying A
A three-way collaboration by Chicago based sound artist and renowned researcher in the field of Electronic Voice Phenomena Michael Esposito, Hamburg based operator of the Fragment Factory label Michael Muennich and long-time conceptual/performance ar…
Brahms’ Deutsche Volkslieder
"Only one face": Following their price-winnig recording Schubertlieder, the Tyrolean Musicbanda Franui have now taken up Johannes Brahms' German Folk Songs.
Quattro illustrazioni / Suite N° 8 \"Bot-Ba\" / Cinque incantesi
Crazy about the sound: the composer as a medium fHis bizarre way of composing earned Giacinto Scelsi not only fame and respect; he was also mockingly accused of dilettantism. Scelsi regarded himself not as a composer in the traditional sense, i.e. on…
Dream Loops
This CD was created to raise funds for my mother, Jeanine, to assist in her fight against stomach cancer diagnosed in June 2009. Edward Ka-Spel has generously donated "Dream Loops" to this cause and all proceeds will be donated to her to assist i…