Experimental / Sound Art

Sold out at the label. Sparkling or Silent finds crys cole and Oren Ambarchi pausing their restless, always‑on‑the-move discographies at a curious angle, as if turning the light slightly to see what has been glinting at the edges all along. Both artists have long carried an electroacoustic sensibility in their work - in cole’s hyper‑attentive treatment of small sounds and negative space, in Ambarchi’s use of guitar and electronics as malleable matter rather than fixed instruments - but here that…

‘Compilation one: veneration for the sacred action’ is the first compilation release by london-based independent record label ‘life is beautiful records’. Released in celebration of the 3 year anniversary (of the label & the gesamtkunstwerk that it exists within), the compilation brings together members of the life is beautiful septet collective, as well as various collaborators and special guests from previous life is beautiful events of the past 3 years. the compilation highlights a range of t…

On Amelia, Laurie Anderson turns Amelia Earhart’s final flight into a 22-part dream-report: chamber strings, electronics and spoken word trace a route from Oakland to disappearance, where navigation data, weather reports and ghostly lullabies fold into one drifting, time-bent monologue.

Tip! *Numbered + handmade in an edition of 250 copies only; 180gr vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer (sealed), containing two risograph inserts with a specially commissioned essay* Generated in part by his 2022 exhibition in London and produced to coincide with his 2023 exhibition at Argos, Brussels. Includes contributions / interventions from Gary Stewart, Aniruddha Das (AKA Dr. Das / Asian Dub Foundation) and Kate Shortt.

On Nuó Xiǎng, Camilo Ángeles and Qiujiang Levi Lu forge an electroacoustic ritual: custom DSP, live processing, extended voice and augmented flute merge into abstract yet visceral soundscapes, echoing ancient Nuó ceremony while stepping beyond any fixed genre.

Big Tip! *Limited edition of 200 copies* Geometrik Records is delighted to once again play a part in the exclusive recovery of Marcelo Expósito's previously unpublished work, which had been lost since its original creation in the 1980s. Marcelo Expósito is one of Spain's most internationally renowned contemporary artists, whose work is regularly exhibited across Europe and Latin America. But he began his career at a very young age during the era of sound experimentation that flourished in the wa…

"Halfway between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox falls the pagan Lughnasadh festival marking the beginning of the harvest season in Ireland. Pas de la Demi-Lune was originally composed and performed for this festival in a celebration event organized by Phelim Ó Laoghaire. For that occasion, Dylan performed the piece in the river crossing leading to the Brennanstown Dolmen in Co. Dublin, a megalith portal tomb estimated to have been erected sometime in 4000-2500 BC. They chose to record in…

On Kozmické louky, Magdaléna Manderlová turns a Silesian floodplain into both subject and collaborator, braiding on‑site field recordings with electroacoustic composition and invited responses to chart a living, climate‑shaken wetland as it listens back.

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.

More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition generation even further. Consisting of two movements spread over 93 tracks, XCIII presents a collage of abstract electronics, unconventional instruments, reel to reel tape manipulation, loops and effects, best experienced in unique combinations on shuffled play.The first movement, Climactic Gruesome Costumes (wh…

"Take out this tape and press ‘play’ my darlings. Remember when you were a child? Remember that deep immersive play you almost fell into? Be prepared to fall again oh sweetness. Slithering breath becomes iced molasses on “Moon bear water.” A voice-within-a-voice daydream hums with toothy sibilance. Yellow synths crackle like fire, the most ancient of all musics. Rules-based organisations quake at the critique of “All the mess.” Blunt stabs of fizzing electricity reach an ever-sustaining peak lik…

*200 copies limited edition* Dana Ollestad is an American multimedia artist living in Tokyo. He regularly carries out concerts in which he structures performances while producing sounds from light through the use of light-emitting objects, from which he also releases intense light. This album documents two solo performances by Ollestad at Ftarri, Tokyo, on March 25, 2023, and November 9, 2025. Arranging light-emitting objects around a table bearing an array of performance equipment, he made skil…

On this album Lucie Vítková and Merche Blasco explore cyborgness through their relationships with their instruments. Lucie perceives the accordion as an extension of their body - sound, matter, and movement locked in a self-generating cybernetic loop. Merche built Anette, a 3D printer, as her interlocutor and companion in the performance space; in return, Anette printed thimble-microphones Merche wears on her fingers, which render the machine's unique electromagnetic voice audible to human ears.…

'Underground Vein' is a mystifying and curious recording for two electric basses. Focusing on prepared techniques, modulation effects and the odd sighting of looped phrases, Masatake Abe and Ken Ikeda create an undulating sea of texture and atmosphere across the albums 12 pieces. A strange, alien landscape of sounds and moods, Masatake had the following to say about the albums creation and inspiration: "Ken Ikeda is active as an electronics player, but it may not be well known that he was origin…

Tip! New collaborative work by two veterans of the European experimental scene, Dirk Serries + Asmus Tietchens. Dirk Serries and I have long been colleagues and friends. Since the 1990ies we have exchanged sound materials to be reworked and published on an on and off basis. "Die Höfner Akten" are something new and special to in so far as the source material with its basic structure has been improvised exclusively on an acoustic guitar (of the 'Höfner' brand). Dirk and I had agreed upon the follo…

*Limited edition of 300 copies* Previously unreleased in any form, the seven tracks comprising "Brengenging Sala" (with a running time of more than 73 minutes) offer a true overview of Matt Shoemaker's genius as a master sculptor of potent and affecting sound art. His trademark haptic tones and scraping feedback build tension; his elegant electronics provide guidance; and his scrupulously curated field recordings articulate the sense of place requisite for full immersion in this sound world. Per…

Tip! *200 copies limited edition* At the end of 2024, Eric's purchase of an electric cooker with induction hobs was the catalyst. Between auscultations and improvisations, Eric offered Francisco his recordings of the object in his kitchen. In return, Francisco completely reinterpreted these recordings. From this dual level of listening, the elements created resonated in each artist's sound world. Pieces created from shared original raw sound source materials.

Jana Irmert Portals: Produced entirely from sounds recorded in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Colombia, Portals evokes the hidden world of sounds that lie beyond our perception. Whether concealed in ultra-sonic frequency registers or in the depths of the aquatic medium, these sounds bear witness to an unsuspected and teeming animal activity. Insects, frogs, bats and freshwater dolphins move about, hiding from our eyes and ears. Revealing this palette of sounds, in particular through transpo…

*100 copies limited edition* This is a special work by acclaimed composer and musician Adriaan de Roover, who has released records on Dauw, Viernulvier, Pias, and Consouling Sounds. Chansons de trottoir / Stoepliedjes documents his relationship to sampling in the form of a radio play. Originally created as a radio piece for Resonance FM in Manchester, the album is a sonic portrait of a walk through Brussels. It is constructed from two field recordings: one made during a walk from Metro Midi towa…

*Limited edition of 100 copies.* BIN represses a 7” by Kain originally released in Denmark in 1985. It's doing Raw House with a punk-ish sound texture. (Or maybe it was Raw in the first place back then...). Limited to 100 copies.

*Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the artist* Casida de la tierra que nos dejan is a sound work by Marcelo Expósito composed of four pieces published on 7’ vinyl record. This work dialogues with the way in which the Italian musician Luigi Nono early adapted the poetry of Federico García Lorca, trying to dig into the layers of idealisation traditionally accumulated about the writer from Granada, in order to carry out a materialistic updating of procedures common to both the writer and the m…

In 1973, the Sound Sculpture Show took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery. An LP audio catalogue (with a booklet) of the exhibition, entitled “The Sounds of Sound Sculpture”, was released in 1975 under the supervision of the Canadian sound sculptor John Grayson and US composer David Rosenboom. Grayson had edited an important early book on the field, “Sound Sculpture”. The LP included rare takes of Rosenboom and Grayson, amongst others, playing famous pieces by pioneering sound sculptors includin…

On Paris Public Spaces 2, Éric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama stage brief, focused vocal interventions across Parisian sites, letting microphone placement and urban acoustics turn spoken sound into a moving portrait of how voice and city continuously re‑shape one another.

*75 copies limited edition* Aves de Nahá is the result of an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge between anthropology, ornithology, and the Lacandon community of Nahá, Chiapas, México. It centers on the aural relationships between the Lacandon people and the birds of their jungle. The work invites us to listen to birds as sentient beings — creatures whose calls and songs announce shifts in weather and time cycles, accompany rituals, and participate in a shared environment where the jungle it…

Tip! *2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "When I was in Paris 2013 - 2015, the second apartment in which I stayed was on Rue Adolphe Mille, which more or less ran along the western border of the Parc de la Villette in the 19th Arrondissement. On the opposite side of the park, the new Philharmonie de Paris, designed by Jean Nouvel, was nearing its long-delayed completion. Eric La Casa, a master of in situ field recording/performance, lived just up the street as well and, in 2013, ventured in…

**Blue tape Limited Edition to 100 numbered copies ** Matière Mémoire presents ਚੈਨਲKAANALचैनलRÁÐעָרוּץ by Charlemagne palestine, Oren Ambarchi and Eric Thielemans.

*80 copies limited edition* "What wonders can be found within a single square meter? Inspired by George Haskell’s book The Forest Unseen, field recordist Tomáš Šenkyřík decided to limit himself to a meter of wetland near his house, only to discover that the area was so blessed in biodiversity that it might even be too big. A warbler comments from the weeds; a buzzard flies overhead. But beneath the surface of the water, the real wonders are found. The plants yield the subtle sounds of photosynth…

*2026 stock. 40 copies limited edition* "Ganz im Gegenteil – the title of Andy Klingensmith's new album – roughly translates to “quite the opposite”. This element of a slightly surprising shift in perspective is at the core of the record. Equally inspired by the pain and catastrophes caused by human ignorance and the vast natural beauty of the Death Valley (the lowest point in North America), Ganz im Gegenteil was composed and assembled using recordings which explore the tactile sounds of variou…

*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* "Vstal is a collection of seven songs created in a dialogue between the experimentalist and composer Manja Ristić and the meticulous observer and field recorder Tomáš Šenkyřík. The album takes listeners on a journey across the European continent, from Ristić’s home on the Adriatic coast to the Czech-Austrian borderlands and the Moravian floodplain forests, which have long inspired Tomáš Šenkyřík’s sonic explorations. This broad scope, sensitively linking t…

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…

The Limited Edition 12" vinyl emerges as the sonic counterpart to the photobook "The Buzzer", through a collaboration between producer Pedro Augusto and photographer Miguel Proença, centered on the reimagining of a sound archive. The compositions trace the geographic and ­psychological terrain of the photographs, weaving together field recordings, voices, and signals from a mysterious shortwave radio, long believed to be of Russian military origin, into a landscape of memory and uncertainty.

*350 copeis limited edition.  Comes with 16-page booklet of program notes * In the 1960s, Robert Ashley pioneered the American avant garde with the ONCE Group and festivals, before irrefutably changing the face of American opera later in the 20th century. Buckner, in addition to running the fabulous 1750 Arch record label in the 1970s and 80s, is a noted baritone who has collaborated for decades with the likes of Roscoe Mitchell, Annea Lockwood, and the late Noah Creshevsky, amongst countless ot…

Sung Tieu employs sound as a critical tool to dissect how social and political power manifests within sensory realms. Through layered compositions, the artist examines the emotional and psychological effects of controlled environments, transforming space into an immersive auditory experience that highlights the structures of surveillance, bureaucracy and institutional design. Civic Floor examines the evolution of prison architecture, tracing the shift from the radial model developed in Britain i…

I.A. Maastunnel' A handmade art object of the work has been published in a limited edition of 50 copies by label Aloardi. It is a wooden pack made with the laser cutting technique, in a design based on the maps of the Maastunnel. It contains an USB pendrive with the documentary, including a bonus audio track, and an audio tape with the soundtrack.

*300 copies limited edition* The roots of Studio Music lie in a special encounter between sound artist Jan D’Haene and visual artist Mark Manders. Recorded in Manders’ studio, where sounds resonated among the artworks, the music unfolded in dialogue with the imposing space. As the concluding part of a diptych, following the EP Études, this album evolves more slowly and with greater layers. It forms a dialogue with D’Haene’s introspective passages and invites a moment of pause and stillness. In d…

*300 copies limited edition* This album is the result of a collaboration between composers and sound artists based in Valdivia, Chile, and London, UK. It was inspired by the long-running SoundLapse project at the Universidad Austral de Chile, where recordings of the wetlands around Valdivia were used within various ecological, educational, and creative projects. Composers and artists from both cities met to discuss the SoundLapse project, and discussed ways in which we might collaborate. Recordi…

In a sonic dialogue that balances delicacy and depth, Clinton Green and Barnaby Oliver explore the shifting textures of acoustics and resonance. Employing bowed aluminum bowls, strings, and a grand piano, their work unfolds in patient layers that probe the very essence of sound and its environment, evoking an atmosphere of quiet tension and subtle transformation.

Black Industrial Research Group delivers a limited edition self-titled 12" vinyl, handmade and numbered in an edition of just 100 copies, released in conjunction with live shows in London, Bristol, and Cardiff during November 2025. This rare artifact anticipates an extensive box set featuring original works by Dubmorphology, Klein, Nkisi, and Kodwo Eshun, further consolidating the project’s singular approach within the experimental industrial landscape.

William E. Jones's The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography is the original soundtrack to the eponymous film, issued on a handmade, numbered seven-inch vinyl in a strictly limited edition of 100 copies. The release features new texts by Jones and Jarett Kobek, extending the film’s provocative exploration of political and sexual imagery into the medium of sound.

After two years of digging, hunting, unearthing archives, digitising and a lot of correspondence, Nyahh Records is very excited to finally be announcing the release of ‘Under the Island: A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 – 1994’. Ireland, a country known mostly in the pop music arena for U2, Thin Lizzy, Stiff Little Fingers et al and of course, the Show Band era of the 60s’ to the present, the country is not known for producing a lot of ‘cutting edge, Avant Garde music. A few v…