Minuzia
Minuzia consists in an acoustic version of an audio installation that the French bassoon player Dafne Vicente-Sandoval had been presenting at a few sound art exhibitions; a handful bassoon cane reeds were regularly soaked into water, and these very thin slices of wood would start crackling in the course of their drying out process. These minute sounds were amplified by contact microphones and listened to through headphones. With an original text by the British anthropologist Tim Ingold.
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Pietra di Langa
Pietra di Langa extends Enrico Malatesta’s investigation on the oscillatory patterns by stones and ready-made objects. It consists in a solid made of concrete, whose shape has been obtained by silicone casting an actual stone.
With an original text by the British anthropologist Tim Ingold:
“Who says that stones cannot speak? Most of us, if asked. We are pretty convinced that stones are inanimate objects, and that they are therefore incapable of moving of their own accord. And without movement, …
Transducer
Transducer derives form a functionally similar instrument built by the Australian sound artist Felicity Mangan.
Instructions:
• Turn on the transducer by the red switch in the tee.
• Turn on Bluetooth on phone or computer, pair your device with MH38.
• Check sound levels on phone or computer (about 3/4 of maximum is usually best), then play sound.
• Attach the stronger magnet (the disk shaped one) to any magnetic metal surface/object or clamp a non magnetic object with both the disk and the ring…
Trifoglio
Trifoglio is a portable mid/side stereo speaker.
The device is designed to be listened to while holding it in the hands (like a book) and plays music created specifically for it* by different artists: as soon as new contributions are available they are published online.
Current sound compositions by: Adam Asnan, Alessandro Bosetti, Andrea Belfi, Andy Guhl, Attila Faravelli, Choi Joonyong, Dario Lozano-Thornton, Enrico Malatesta, Fabio Selvafiorita, Felicity Mangan, Francisco Meirino, Giovanni L…
Bilia
Bilia derives from the work of percussionist Enrico Malatesta. The release consists of five wooden balls (3,5 cm Ø) carved from different woods. Enrico’s very own sound comes from a horizontal approach to the percussion instruments that are, in his practice, a space for movement, where every action is also a form of exploration and listening as well as an exercise in imagination.
«Percussion instruments are round-shaped, and I utilize this simple notion as a starting point. I often apply fricti…
Freie Aerophone
Freie Aerophone is based on Matija Schellander’s solo pieces for double bass, The Drill and Matija Schellander, that make extensive use of indistinct low pitches resonating a space, and sound projections by circular movement of the performer with the instrument.
In the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification (Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1914), the freie aerophone is an instrument in which the vibrating air is not contained within the instrument itself, for example a siren or a bullro…
Unidentified Musical Subject
**Limited edition of 100 copies. Grey vinyl** With his new album "Unidentified Musical Subject" Bernhard Loibner fuses the world of experimental electronic music with the human directness of acoustic instruments. Strongly connected to the event-like aesthetics of contemporary experimental electronic music, Loibner manages to enrich the acoustic spectrum through the use of carefully treated instrumental elements. No sequencers or drum machines were used during the production process in order to r…
Interieurs
**200 copies** Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.
For more than 20 years, while listening to the environment, Éric La Casa (born 1968, Tours, lives and works in Paris) has been questioning the perception of reality and has expanded the notion of what's musical today. Through his aesthetic of capturing sound, his work fits equally into the fields of sound art and music. As a result o…
Opus Mors
Exclusive deluxe release of 4 LP set in 180g black vinyl. Packaged in archival handmade box, bound in linen and embossed, including five unique prints on Tyvek paper. Signed and numbered limited edition of 250. Jacob Kirkegaard's Opus Mors is four listening spaces for one of the existential and natural aspects of being alive, which is death. The project portrays four sound environments that the human body commonly will be surrounded by or exposed to in the immediate post mortem: a morgue, an aut…
Matthew
Edition of 250, includes signed insert by Sullivan. "Matthew Sullivan's Matthew is nailed together with driftwood from around the world. The waters of Italy, the pubs of London, birds of Japan, a phone call in Los Angeles. Sullivan moved from California to London in 2016. Living in London was a pivotal time for Matt, as I see it. This record digests that time. Each sound on Matthew means something specific to the artist. Locales and memories focus to mind as passages rise and sink. Us listeners…
A Gift Like A Hollow Vessel
Edition of 250. Melbourne-based artist Arek Gulbenkoglu presents A Gift Like A Hollow Vessel, his second full-length album for Penultimate Press. Following on from the 2017 release Three Days Afterwards (PP 029LP), A Gift Like A Hollow Vessel sees a sharper scalpel at play, resulting in a more nuanced release which unfolds a curious journey of suburban psychedelia. Material source from voice and body sounds, recording of non-musical processes, actions and events, breath, tapes of animal sounds s…
Soundtrack From First Violin Film
Lucky restock, few copies available. When speaking of most artists, critical value is generally gauged by evaluating contributions to existing fields. Bruce Nauman is different. His influence is singular. The change his ideas provoked, unequaled. Since the mid 1960’s, he has laid the groundwork – in thought, context, practice, and materiality, for nearly every fine-artist that has followed in his wake. He is the towering pillar of conceptual thinking. Even those who do not directly draw on the g…
Oaxaca Dawn | Bamboo
**Edition of 250** Elevator Bath's ongoing series of picture disc LPs (each record being adorned with full-color artwork by the recording artist) continues with Tom Recchion's lovely 'Oaxaca Dawn | Bamboo.' Originally slated for release nearly ten years ago, this pair of humble field recordings is now finally available. 'Oaxaca Dawn' and 'Bamboo' are two raw, unadulterated, and unpretentious snapshots of specific moments in time and space: the early morning cracking of dawn in Oaxaca, Mexico and…
Solve
Mixed and composed by Mario DeVega, artwork and production Kristina Frei 2009. Working with unstable media involving a wide range of electronic devices and acoustic resonators, Mario de Vega explores the value of instability and the potential of its failure. Through site-specific projects, sculpture, documentation of ephemeral interventions and publications, his work overlaps relations between failure, vulnerability and simulation.
Probably the most active and outstanding mexican sound artist, h…
Vogelsang / Vogelsong / Vogelsung / Vögelsäng
On the occasion of the 2015 exhibition Le Caselle di Anton Bruhin at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in Milan, Alga Marghen presents the complete edition of Anton Bruhin's 1977 cycle Vogelsang/Vogelsong/Vogelsung/Vögelsäng. If the idea of recording birds came from Bruhin's friend, the Swiss painter Hans Krüsi (this was a common practice for the art brut master, who layered recordings of the many birds sharing his living space into primitive multi-track sonic sculptures), Bruhin is able to use th…
Music Made With Balloon And/Or Needle
The idea was to gather artists working with balloon and/or needle! With Davide Tidoni, Judy Dunaway, Una Lee, EVOL, Attila Faravelli, Enrico Malatesta, Gen 26 (Matjaz Galicic), Choi Sehee, Benedict Drew, Eugene Chadbourne, Jin Sangtae, Ricardo Arias, Dave Phillips, Horio Kanta, Hong Chulki, Luciano Maggiore, Umeda Tetsuya, Frans de Waard, Lee Miyeon.
Figures without ground
200 copies Figures Without Ground is the third in a series of three releases, across three labels and three formats, representing a total of six compositions. The first two releases in this series were Music for Cinema (cassette, YDLMIER), and Mild Disappearances (CD-R, Songs From Under the Floorboards, a sub-label of Intransitive Recordings). The two sides of Figures Without Ground represent a major transition from one mode of composition to another.
The cover of the album is a porcelain piece…
Music For Everyman 861
**Very rare original 1986 LP masterpiece, few copies available** Named in tribute to Fluxus-founder George Maciunas, this Ensemble (Paul Panhuysen and three others) cross disciplines (art, music and science) with ease. As the title of their record, Music For Everyman suggests, they attempt not just to document their own music but to inspire the D.I.Y. spirit in others. There's a clear debt to minimalist music, with an interest in layered drones and the exploration of harmonics. A Wide, White Wor…
Gong / Ear
** Limited edition of 305 copies, each with a hand-cut facsimile brass gong, silkscreened with Corner's calligraphy and mounted onto the jacket!!** A major figure in 20th century arts and music (and beyond), Philip Corner studied with Henry Cowell and Olivier Messiaen, and was one of the original Fluxus conspirators, among other highlights of his long and storied career. As part of the body of his 'Metal Meditations' work, Gong/Ear is a decades-long series of improvisations with dancers. Utilizi…
Fingering
*Numbered edition of 300. Digital download card included. It comes with 2x inserts with two holes and a tear* In Christoph Migone's own words: I've been using gutted reel-to-reel machines in my live improvisations since about 1998. At first principally in the context of my work with Alexandre St-Onge in the duo undo, but also in all sorts of under configurations, with the groups: Set Fire to Flames, l'oreille à Vincent, Fly Pan Am, Klaxon Gueule, Mecha Fixes Clock; and with individuals: Tim Heck…