Sound Art / Aural Documentary

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** As collectable a Burroughs artefact as it is a Giorno one. On the first LP, William Burroughs reads satisfyingly lengthy extracts from The Wild Boys, Junkie, Naked Lunch and an early draft of Cities of the Red Night, which was not published until 1981. On the second LP, John Giorno reads three signature poems: ‘Suicide Sutra,’ ‘Eating Human Meat’ and ‘Subduing Demons in America.’ The material featured regularly in the per…

** Original copies of this rarity. Sealed! Few copies available **  Volume five of the series, again a double-LP, with Anne Waldman, John Giorno, William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & John Cage all gracing the iconic cover, sitting in business attire at a boardroom-style table. Including readings from them, and Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Jackie Curtis, Frank O’Hara, Maureen Owen, Charles Bukowski Ken Kesey, Tony Towle, Jack Spicer, Peter Orlovsky, Taylor Mead, Michael McClure "Don't yo…

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  The third in the Dial-a-Poem Poets LP series. Features many of the same artists included on previous volumes plus, for the first time, Kenneth Koch and Gary Snyder. Since 1962, John Giorno has been disseminating his streetwise, pioneering poetry to audiences worldwide. He lifts his poems off the page, delivering them through rhythmic performances; paintings, prints, and installations; and in LPs, mixed with music. Among …

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  The seventh in the Dial-a-Poem Poets LP series. Iconic cover featuring  Giorno posing with Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, and two children in a park. It also features Robert Ashley's “Interiors with Flash” a study for what would become 'Automatic Writing' "Yet another fine album title from Giorno Poetry Systems, which could apply to any organisation or person applying any form of censorship on the already dead forms of med…

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  In 1978, Semiotext(e) founder Sylvere Lotringer approached John Giorno about organizing a tribute to William S Burroughs, bringing together European and American academics for a series of seminars, celebrating the writer as a "philosopher of the future", someone who best understood postindustrial society. Giorno was more interested in a counterculture event that would feature musicians, poets, novelists and artists along…

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** A pioneer of performance poetry—one of the leading cultural trends of the nineties—John Giorno has fashioned a signature style of intense, highly amplified, repetitive verse, with subtle shifts of phrasing, volume, and pitch to alter time and sense. Giorno has also been crucial to expanding the range of avant-garde poetry and music via new media technologies - and this compilation, also including five John Cage's tracks, …

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** First side of this album is a recording of Glenn Branca’s score for choreographer Twyla Tharp’s Music for the Dance Bad Smells, played by Sonic Youth co-founders Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. Side two presents the original line-up of the John Giorno Band. The same line-up, without bassist Philippe Hagen, also feature on another 1982 GPS album, Life Is a Killer, whose other contributors include Ornette Coleman Prime Time…

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  A Dial-A-Poem Poets life-centering collection of different ensembles of speakers with and without instrumental music. Works by Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Jayne Cortez, The Four Horsemen (B.P. Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, Rafael Barreto Rivera), John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Rose Lesniak, Ned Sublette.  "Mutant Disco was the big thing downtown, and Giorno wanted a piece of it. The irritating ran…

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** A legendary compilation with contributions from no less legendary figures/bands like William S. Burroughs, Sonic Youth, Diamanda Galas, Michael Gira, Coil and many others. "Each year, Giorno and his friend William S. Burroughs put out a compilation featuring themselves and the musicians most admired among the New York loft set. This year he and Burroughs are joined by Coil’s tromping and pulsing instrumental “Neither His …

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** A legendary compilation with contributing musical artists include William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits, Butthole Surfers, Chris Stein, Einsturzende Neubauten, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, Swans, John Giorno Band, and Chad & Sudan. Cover art by Gary Panter. "This is a crazy compilation of varying degrees of outsider musicians and poets. It’s a polarizing collection of names – you’re either into Swans or you’re not. You either get…

** Original copies of this rarity. Few copies available ** The first of several releases documenting John Giorno’s dial-a-poem project. The album was released at the height of protest against the Vietnam war and of confrontation between the US establishment and radical domestic organisations such as the Yippies and the Black Panthers. Running along the bottom of the front cover is the message: “At this point, with the war and the repression and everything, we thought this was a good way for the …

Big Tip! ** 100 copies, signed and numbered. With a signed drawing by Hermoine Zittlau*  Hermoine Zittlau was to appear again as a band in December 1987 for the last performance of Die Tödliche Doris. This time together with Etsuko Okazaki and Tabea Blumenschein. It was the opera "Autofahrt in Deutschland", which I developed with Nikolaus Utermöhlen as the last joint Die Tödliche Doris band project. Two years later, in 1989, Hermoine Zittlau reappeared at the presentation of "Die Tödliche Doris …

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  A Dial-A-Poem Poets life-centering collection of different ensembles of speakers with and without instrumental music. Works by Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Jayne Cortez, The Four Horsemen (B.P. Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, Rafael Barreto Rivera), John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Rose Lesniak, Ned Sublette.  "Mutant Disco was the big thing downtown, and Giorno wanted a piece of it. The irritating ran…

Tip! *2024 stock* A project (Book+CD) by Yannick Dauby about sounds and stories of low and middle altitude mountains of Yilan, North East of Taiwan. The book (in English and Chinese) features interviews with five persons who have special knowledge and experience about the forests of Taipingshan and Fushan : Lue Kuang-Yang, Kacuzi Hacyo, Wu Chiu-Hsiang, Lai Chun-Piao, Lai Bo-Shu. Notes about listening and sound recording practice by Yannick Dauby. Identification of animal sounds with Chinese, Eng…

Tip! *2024 stock* Three sound compositions (2008, 2009, 2011) by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan’s capital.

Tip! *2024 stock* "Marc & Olivier Namblard, audio-naturalists and listening walkers, have been roaming the Cévennes, a land of contrasts and elusiveness, marvellous and unspoilt, in the south-east of the Massif Central, since they were children. Patience, wandering and knowledge of the natural environment have enabled them to record in depth and to a high standard. Their best recordings have been brought together on these two discs, a tribute to the Cévennes landscapes and their wildlife. Among …

The worlds of sound art and child-rearing collide on an album of children's songs and chants collaged and transformed by Simon Fisher Turner

A special bundle to introduce a new and quite promising label from Milan, Italy. Curated by Ludwig Berger, Vertical Music is a home for non-linear music, deep mapping, and the long now.

Visionary, challenging and beautiful, pushing the potentiality of organized sound incrementally ahead, Vanessa Rossetto's 'Self-care' is unquestionably one of the most engaging releases we've heard so far this year. A bristling expanse of environmental texture and incident, slowing building across its duration into a moody sonic space of startling psychological depth.

Understanding the Marshall McLuhan’s quote: “the medium is the message” through sound collage. In 1967, Marshall McLuhan teamed up with graphic designer Quentin Fiore to write The Medium is the Massage, a short 160-page book that offers a condensed, effective presentation of his ideas on the nature of media, communication and technology. The book was soon accompanied by an album bearing the same name, which Wikipedia describes like this:      An audio recording based on the book was made by Colu…

Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series with two readings by Judith Malina of the Living Theatre, a performance by F.A. Nettelbeck with Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb and recordings from an event at the Wichita Art Museum with Charles Plymell and Bob ranaman.

Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series. From the archives vol. 8 with rare material by Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Charles Plymell, Edward T. Hall, Marshall McLuhan and a British acid radio program

** Limited edition of 70 copies. The cassette comes with two laser printed inserts **

*150 copies limited edition* Parking features two works recorded 14 years apart registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages. The architectural form and function underpinning the parking garage demands a highly adaptive response to negotiate indeterminate conditions and hidden tensions generated by compressed space, reflective materiality, multipurpose infrastructure, and active thoroughfares. Rather than conside…

**100 copies** In hardbound embossed special package (like previous edition in this series), numbered & signed, with an original work by Hartmut Andryczuk, signed and numbered.  52 pages with a foreword by Hartmut Geerken and 38 applicants for the Goethe Institute in Kabul in the 1970s. With Audio CD. To do justice to the dark irreparable situation afghanistan, bombed far back by the west, is in today, i am juxtaposing 38 passport photos of afghan people, in original format & still from the time…

Morning prayer. Children playing. Cooking dinner. Singing a lullaby. The quotidian sounds that form our everyday experiences are those recorded in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, while visiting Mahallas. Following "Siberian Field Recordings", his recent dazzling cassette release on Second Sleep, and his contribution to the "MMXX" series on Matière Mémoire Éditions, we are glad to offer copies of what is possibily Carlos Casas' most 'hidden' release. Released on occasion of his cross-discipl…

CD+Book, art edition Original sound installation by Eiki Mori (born 1976 in Ishikawa, Japan).  A horn speaker, used to send small sounds far away, will emit whispers of various voices that read Mori’s poems in multiple languages. In the galley space, these voices shall sound nostalgic but at the same time be felt as if they are heard for the first-time, coming from somewhere around the globe. The 15 shibboleths written down for this installation do not really stand for symbolic things or events…

During the 51-day siege of the Davidians by the FBI and due to the deadlock in negotiations, the authorities cut power to the cult complex and bombarded them with music to disrupt sleep. However the Davidians went to the window and responded with their own songs.

Taken from Dr Timothy Leary 'How To Operate Your Brain': "The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos"  Personnel on 'You Can Be Anyone This Time Around' Jimi Hendrix – bass guitar Buddy Miles – drums John Sebastia…

* comes with a set of postcards * Recording of FBI tape Q 042 'Death Tape' recovered from Jonestown, Guyana, after the Peoples Temple mass suicide/murder of 1978.

* In process of stocking * Fascinating, historically important and previously publicly unheard recordings of the great Irish author and playwright Brendan Behan.These tapes became the source for his book Confessions of an Irish Rebel, posthumously published in 1965 following his tragic death the year before. They were recorded by his friend and confidante Rae Jeffs in the Chelsea Hotel, NYC in 1960. Tranferred for the first time from the original 1/4” tapes, with a sleeve made from another unsee…

In 2020, Pali Meursault and Thomas Tilly collaborated to create Radio Glaces, a fourteen-part sound collection featuring recordings of glaciers in the Alps and testimonies from people who have a close relationship with this environment: glaciologists, geomorphologists, hut wardens, mountaineers and high-mountain guides. As a continuation of this first project, Melt* was a series of improvised performances by the duo of sound artists, playing back the sounds and vibrations of the glaciers as they…

Tip! Musician and field recordist Action Pyramid finds magic in the everyday on Mardle, a compelling and confounding suite of hydrophone compositions revealing the sonic 24-hour cycle of the UK’s freshwater ponds. Rooted in Jack Greenhalgh’s sonic research on pond biodiversity, Mardle brings to the surface the delicate sounds of aquatic insect stridulations, plant respiration and photosynthesis - an ecology of otherworldly rhythms and alien hyper-sounds that feel more like early synth experiment…

Two previously unreleased works from the late Danish composer, musician, publisher, artist, and Fluxus actionist Henning Christiansen. "Rødhætte" (1985) is a rendition of Little Red Riding Hood featuring Ursula Reuter Christiansen as narrator. All the hallmarks of Henning's unique approach to music/sound appear as the tale goes deeper into the depths of animalistic frenzy. "Ruinmusic" (1984) inhabits the last breath off the piano housed within the former Marienborg Manor. Prior to the destru…

*2023 stock* UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp is a project of the mappa editions label. The aim is to bring curatorial activities more to the field, trying to map various cultural and social phenomena from the sonic vantage point. For that we use marginal forms of sound art that links the interest in active listening, experimenting with sound, social and critical dimensions of listening, oral and aural history and the issues of acoustic ecology. We are very much interested in the way how particular pl…

Everyone just talked to himself, said the prince, "we are in an age of soliloquy. The art of soliloquy is also a much higher art than the art of conversation," he said. "But talking to yourself is just as pointless as talking," said the prince, "although much less pointless." - Thomas Bernhard

Big Tip! Exploring the intersection of sound libraries and ethnographc recordings, ‘Field Recordings of Mythical Beasts’ is a series of fake field recordings of mythical creatures. The recordings were created using traditional foley techniques originally developed for films. Field Recordings of Mythical Beasts represent explorations of a long forgotten expedition group on its journey to remote regions of the world. The Phoenix, Hydra, Griffin, and Holga have all been documented in their 'natural…

Taken from Dr Timothy Leary 'How To Operate Your Brain': "The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos"  Personnel on 'You Can Be Anyone This Time Around' Jimi Hendrix – bass guitar Buddy Miles – drums John Sebastia…

CD comes with a 90-page catalogue released on occasion of the exhibition Sound-shifting by Möslang/Guhl at the Chiesa San Stae as part of the Swiss contribution to the 49th Venice Biennal 2001. During the preparations for their installation on the occasion of the 49th Venice Biennal in the Church San Stae in Venice, the Swiss artists Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, also known as the band Voicecrack, the artists did a series of video takes. This painterly series constitutes the main bulk of this a…

Tip! ** Edition of 100, bilingual (German / English). Signed and numbered. Interview with Wolfgang Müller with original recordings from Die Tödliche Doris** On August 27, 2018, Wolfgang Müller arranged to meet his longtime friend Tabea Blumenschein for an interview at her apartment in Allee der Kosmonauten. He had noted personal and artistic station of her life. At that time, he had no idea that it would be the last interview with Tabea. This interview, actually more of a personal conversation …