Ultra-Red: 10 Hypotheses on 10 Preliminary Theses on Militant Sound Investigation
2014 release ** "UltraUltra-red, 10 hypotheses on 10 preliminary theses on militant sound investigation is a CD+booklet, the final act of a workshop. The 6 month process led to the creation of a database of sound-fields and texts-recorded tracks developed to build 10 sound pieces/hypotheses by 10 young artists. The publication is the first Italian translation of the important manifesto/source text 10 preliminary theses on militant sound investigation by the american collective Ultra-red, further…
Spectral Arrows: Sidney
Spectral Arrows: Sidney presents Marco Fusinato’s durational guitar and electronics performance, channeling the intensity of Sunn O))) and the conceptual rigor of Alvin Lucier.
Oltreorme
Four beautiful pieces for acoustic objects, performed, recorded and assembled by an Italian composer whose reputation has soared in recent years after previous CD releases on Col Legno, Neos and Another Timbre . Oltreorme is Coluccion's second work for acoustic objects (no musical instruments, electronic devices or post-production treatments) and suggests a new direction in Coluccino's music, engaging with notions of silence more closely and explicitly than in his previous compositions. M…
Because Tomorrow Comes #3
2000 release ** Volume 3 of this forum and magazine for sound-art in the form of an audio CD. It compiles contributions from artists who have chosen for the acoustics as working field, starting from the visual aspect and going to the musical one, then trying to promote the teachings of their sound art. The final purpose is to present it as a 'listenable exhibition'. So, a magazine to listen to, with, most of the time sound contributions, but also f.e. spoken words from the artists and varying te…
Visitation
A rare collaboration, Visitation unites French turntablist eRikm and electroacoustic pioneer Luc Ferrari for a masterclass in musique concrète and sonic collage, echoing the legacy of Pierre Schaeffer.
At
2010 release ** Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. Yan Jun (born 1973) is a musician and poet based in Beijing. He is working on improvised music, experimental music, field recording, organizing and writing. alongside of at venues, he goes to audience's home to play with the environment and what else available in the room (Living Room Tour project). Also amplifying body movements or other performative elements in a simple manner. He is member of FEN, Tea Rockers Quintet and Impro Commi…
Oral works
2013 release ** Limited edition of 164 hand-numbered copies. Featuring: Lin Zhiying + Zhong Minjie, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Li Zenghui, Torturing Nurse, Xiao He, Zheng Shijia, Yan Jun, Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi, Lao Yang.
Supersedure
Field recordings 1995-2007 by Seijiro Murayama : snare drum + objects and Éric La Casa: microphones + field recordings (1995-2007). Drawing by Tomoya Izumi. 'What makes one a musician, a composer? It happens only when one succeeds in giving life to music, a certain presence. I don't hesitate, even though I am not a writer, a painter etc., to say the same thing about them. For this composition, 'Supersedure', I met Eric. It seems to me that we share an artistic, but maybe also a general attitud…
Une Petite Musique de Nuit
Une Petite Musique de Nuit sees Michel Vogel sculpting nocturnal soundscapes from metallic percussion, evoking the meditative minimalism of Eliane Radigue and the resonance of Pierre Favre.
Unrein bis zum Abend / Reise ins Diesseits
A surreal meeting of German avant-garde, Unrein bis zum Abend / Reise ins Diesseits brings together Arnulf Meifert (ex-Faust) and the dadaist duo Kommissar Hjuler und Frau for a journey into absurdist sound poetry and experimental collage.
Vox Ex Machina
2005 release (RARE) ** Curated by Jaap Blonk this is volume 15 in the Leonardo Music Journal CD series. Selections include ‘Kana’ by Tomomi Adachi, ‘O Som Que Circula Nas Veia’ by Americo Jorge M. Rodrigues, excerpt from ‘Mushroom Clouds’ by Christian Bok, ‘Vielleicht’ by Sprechakte X/treme, ‘OOA’ by Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre, ‘… due Giorni Dopp’ by Ricardo Dal Farra, ‘Al Amin Dada’ by Jelle Meander, ‘En Do’ by Jorg Piringer, ‘Eighteen Earrers’ by Kenneth Goldsmith, ‘Voix Imprrsonel’ b…
Territorium
2005 release ** Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies. "Territorium will not play the game of a hermetic work and will immediately reveal the topography of its ambitions: to draw an incomplete and fragmentary map of field recording and ambient music. By bringing together five artists and six compositions. A doubly geographical project, since while the album as a whole reveals a committed geography of the genre, each piece is the anomalous and reconstructed geography of a place, a type of terrain, …
Staggered Stasis
2004 release ** "Over the last two decades, Ellen Fullman has been perfecting her Long String Instrument. This unique instrument of her own design is some 80 feet in length and played by literally walking through it. The resulting sounds are beautiful gliding tones with a rich harmonic content. The CD presents two works from her time in Austin, Texas in the late 1980's which beautifully display a sound you can get inside of. These long tracks envelope you in their cascading overtones. Even thoug…
Live improvisations
1994 release ** "All live improvisations should be this much fun! This live date between turntablist and electronic weirdmeister Christian Marclay and percussionist and electronics tinkerer Günter Müller is what the art of improvisation is supposed to be: fun, continually compelling textually, and inspired. While many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art -- and it is art, make no mistake -- writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare b…