Brainwave Music No. III
On October 30, 2021, Brainwave Music No. III was recorded live as part of a series of ten groundbreaking Brain Wave sound installation performances by Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresselhaus (die Angel). The event took place in the evocative setting of the Life on a Leaf House in Turku, Finland.
At the core of this performance was an interactive system driven by brainwave interfaces. Harnessing the performers’ neural activity, the system enabled Väisänen and Dresselhaus to directly process and shap…
In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern
"Ken Jacobs, an essential figure of avant-garde cinema, and I had over-a-decade-long collaboration. We first performed fo his Nervous Magic Lantern project at the Argos Festival in Brussels in 2007. Before flying to Europe, Ken invited me to the top-floor loft on Chambers Street in TriBeCa, where Ken and his wife, Flo, have lived and worked since 1965, to experience a private screening. He turned on the apparatus and the image flashed onto the screen: geometric patterns — something of a Rorschac…
All Across the Universe
Renowned sound artist, composer, and performer Jason Kahn announces the release of his new album All Across the Universe, a work that bridges places, time, and the profound resonance of lived experience. The foundations of this project were laid during Kahn’s artist residency at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan, where the initial recordings were made between September 8–26, 2023. Immersed in the vibrant sonic and cultural landscape of the city, Kahn drew from encounters with the environment…
Terrarum Murmur
In the summer of 2023, Japanese artist and composer Hideki Umezawa and Italian sound artist Giuseppe Cordaro came together on the small island of Stromboli that sits in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily. The island is home to Mount Stromboli, an active volcano that has been in almost continuous eruption for the past 2,000+ years. Supported by Marosi Festival and Liminaria /Interferenze, the two engaged in a deep listening to the muttering, grunting and whispering of this energeti…
Vaccine
Recorded live at Arts Isozaki, Mito, Japan, on 21st September 2021, the final day of Kikuchi's solo exhibition Vaccine. Kikuchi Yoshihiro played the following instruments that partially compose his installation work 153 Years shown at the exhibition:Electronic device that converts analog video signal into audio analog signal and vice versa, VHS video tape, video cassette recorder, cathode-ray tube television, effects pedals, and mixer.
Non Mountain
*2025 stock. 50 sopies limited edition* The source material was created by Angus Carlyle for two films with Chiara Caterina, ‘Il Vertice’ (2013) and ‘Into The Outside’ (2015), part of his larger project ‘In The Shadows of Silent Mountains’. The soundtracks have been reworked and responded to for this collaborative project ‘Non Mountain’.
L'Makina
Gilles Aubry’s musical work focuses on the intersection of traditional music and Artificial Intelligence.
Unusual Suggestions
Tip! *150 copies limited edition* L'eau des fleurs is happy to release this impressive homemade Gesamtskuntwerk by Finnish artist Jani Hirvonen. For these "Unusual suggestions", Jani, who did also this marvelous artwork, played himself all the instruments : percussions, kalimba, violin, radio, balalaïka, flute, kantele, electronic effects... These uncommon suggestions seemed endless. You can listen here and there some remains of avant-folk shapes but actually this LP is totally idiosyncratic in…
Water
Coherent States is excited to announce the release of "Water", a new cassette by the media artist Anna Schimkat. Drawing upon her background in sculpture and music, Schimkat's practice investigates the intersection of sound and spatial perception through immersive installations and performances. Highlighting themes of fluidity and interconnectedness, her work examines natural, social, and cultural phenomena, often within site-specific contexts. "Water", conceived during her residency at Salzamt …
Incredible Familiar Music / Absolute Relative Music
A double LP retrospective + 60-page book, Incredible Familiar Music / Absolute Relative Music surveys the solo experiments of Arnulf Meifert (Faust), fusing percussion, poetry, and tape collage in the tradition of Pierre Bastien and Hans Reichel.
New Zealand Sonic Art III
2002 release (RARE) ** Third volume in a series of three scarcely distributed CD's released by the University of Waikato presenting electronic and electro-acoustic music by New Zealand composers. In this volume: Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunns, John Elmsly, Kit Powell, Phil Dadson, Ian Whalley, Norm Skipp, Chris Cree Brown, Chris Knox, William Harsono, Michael Norris.
New Zealand Sonic Art Vol, II
2001 release (RARE) ** Second volume in a series of three scarcely distributed CD's released by the University of Waikato presenting electronic and electro-acoustic music by New Zealand composers. In this volume: Lissa Meridan, John Rimmer, Daniel Beban, Kit Powell, Craig Sengelow, Chris Cree Brown.
New Zealand Sonic Art 2000
2000 release (RARE) ** First volume in a series of three scarcely distributed CD's released by the University of Waikato presenting electronic and electro-acoustic music by New Zealand composers. In this volume: John Young, John Elmsly, Michael Norris, Miriama Young, Chris Cree Brown, John Rimmer, Matthew Suttor, Lisa Meridian-Skipp, Dugal McKinnon.
Seven Hats For John Cage
2012 release ** Featuring Bernard Clarke, Stella Luncke & Josef Maria Schäfers, Chris Mann, Goran Vejvoda, Armeno Alberts, Laurent Estoppey & Anne Gillot, Peter Graham.
Moral Grey
*2025 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Sleepwalker was a one-off quintet assembled August 2023 to perform at the regional premiere of a Pauline Oliveros documentary film. Inspired by Oliveros' teachings, these recordings were made in a former tank garage (a space that was once used to store military tanks). Galassini spread contact mics throughout the resonate flooring of the space in order to amplify movement and other frictions alongside our more traditional instrumentation - creating the bas…
Agora
Born in Athens, raised in Yokohama, and currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Spends daily life at Ipanema Beach, enduring a heat index over 60°C, cracking coconuts with a pinky, eating the flesh inside, and diving into the ocean—on repeat. Always accompanied by a loyal German Shepherd (definitely four years old).The soundtrack to his bicycle ride near the beach is Baden Powell. Connected with Tetsuya Maruyama, curator of the upcoming tape release, through this very dog. (Both Maruyama and t…
Dislocation: A Sonic Evocation Of Psychic Displacement
2009 release ** "Bob Rutman was born in Berlin in 1931. His mother was Jewish and had to escape from Germany with her son when the Nazis rose to power. Rutman attended refugee schools in England during the Second World War and settled in the USA after having completed his education in 1950. He worked as a salesman in Texas before enroilling in art school in Mexico City, where he married and fathered a child. Together with his wife and son Rutman returned to the US in 1962 and started an art gall…
Detwelvulate!
1994 release (VERY RARE) ** "This important and rare CD was produced by Jonathan and Elizabeth Glasier, Gary Morrison, and Brian McLaren. This is the only extant permanent document of Darreg's work. Includes original booklet with reproductions of tuning charts. Ivor Darreg (1917-1994) was interested in both just intonations (tuning systems based on the ratios between the frequencies of the pitches) and equal temperaments (tunings with pitches equally spaced through the octave, which require a d…