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Sakrale Räume Sacred Spaces 1985-1997 (postcards book)
*2024 Stock * Edition of 50 copies, containing an original drawing by the artist, numbered and signed. Christina Kubisch Sakrale Räume Sacred Spaces 1985-1997. Booklet and set of 15 postcards with images from installations. Text is in German and English
Sakrale Räume Sacred Spaces 1985-1997 (Postcards Set + Book)
*2024 Stock * Christina Kubisch Sakrale Räume Sacred Spaces 1985-1997 limited 1000. Booklet and set of 15 postcards with images from installations. Text is in German and English
Lautlos (Book)
Hardcover, 126 pages. English/German. This publication is an encounter between the works of two artists from different generations, who never met personally although both spent time in Berlin. Rolf Julius, who was born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven and died in 2011 in Berlin, worked in the tradition of a "music for eyes and ears." Nina Canell, born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, belongs to a younger generation of artists whose three-dimensional work has an emphatically non-monumental quality. With an acut…
Resonanzen / Resonances
*2024 Stock * Hardcover, 224 pages + audio CD. Sound art is among the most fascinating phenomena in the development of modern artistic expression. It has changed our awareness of space and made us realize that our everyday surroundings are also resonance spaces. This book documents examples of the work of important protagonists of sound art while also providing essays on the subject from the standpoints of music science, philosophy and perceptual psychology
Sounding Spaces (9 Sound Installations)
*2024 Stock * English / Japanese Book (Hardcover, 80 pages) with interviews and explanations about the works presented during the exhibition of the same name held @ ICC Tokyo, july 11 - september 29, 2003.
Zeitversetzt/ Shifted in Time
*2024 Stock *Hardcover, large format.  Christina Kubisch (Berlin) internationally renowned for her sound installations and Bernhard Leitner (Vienna), whose sound-space compositions have opended up new fields for media art, have collaborated on projects for the Art Festival "pèlerinages" near Weimar (Germany 2004). In an old castle, Kubisch has created invisible sound zones based on induction loops as well as an installation with fluorescent light and sound surfaces. Leitner has created a sound-s…
Über die Stille
*2024 Stock * English/Danish book, 54 pages, catalogue of the exhibition‚ Über die Stille. Audiovisuelle Installation von Christina Kubisch‘ at the Office of Arts of the City of Kaiserslautern from April 4th to May 16th 2008 in the Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern
Contemporary German Sound Installations: Black listen to red (Red listen to black)
*2024 Stock * English/Danish book, 68 pages, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, in 2003
Klangi
*2024 Stock * English/Finnish Hardcover book, 52 pages with audio CD, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Museum of Archaeology and Contemporary Art Aboa Vetus Ars Nova in Turku, in 2010
El Hotsaren Espazioa. Begiradaren Denbora - Espacio Del Sonido. El Tiempo de la Mirada
*2024 Stock * English/Spanish Hardcover book, 128 pages with audio CD catalogue, documenting a sound art exhibition held at  Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia - San Sebastiàn (Spain) in 1999.
KlangRaumLichtZeit
*2020 Stock * Christina Kubisch is part of the first generation of sound artists to develop their own techniques, such as magnetic induction, in the course of realizing their installations. Since 1986, the trained composer has added light as an additional formative element to her work with sound. This book compiles works that can be viewed as straddling the border between music and visual art. The book also contains elements about the history of her work from 1980 to 2000. This is the bookstore …
A La Maison Live
Edition of 30. Limited edition professional archival-quality, Grade-A CDr cover empty chair comes with copy of the performance poster (mini-size). . Images, words, and actions blend and transform space into an immersive environment of rhythm, color, light, and signal distortion created by Marcia Bassett and Ursula Scherrer. A La Maison Live, audio documentation from 2022.03.19 recorded at à La Maison Residency, Paris, as part of the Maison d'hôte monthly program. At the closure of their residenc…
Covering The Surface
Recordings from a multimedia installation with live/sounds performance by Marcia Bassett, Ursula Scherrer and Sergej Vutuc at The Film Gallery, Paris 3.22.2022. Performing schematic gestures printing to light transmission. Overlay Actions Parallel Projections. Visual Marking Variations. Illuminated Light Exchange Form. Expanded Performing.
Simultaneous Soloists (Book)
2024 stock. Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. Joseph and Swagato Chakravorty, and visual materi…
Concerto For Modern, Movie, And Pop Music For Ten Instruments And Voice
Artist's book / exhibition catalogue and audio CD published in conjunction with "Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice" a concert by Stephen Prina held at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 18, 2010 and a screening of two films by Prina held March 19, 2010.. For 30 years, Stephen Prina (born 1954) has enjoyed a simultaneous career as a visual artist and as an acclaimed musician, both under his own name and with The Red Krayola. Having kept his artistic int…
Around the Plywood
**300 copies** Document of salad, who performed BGM and sound performance for the exhibition "new lagoon in Hokan-Cho, Okayama " curated by Ayako Tsutsumi (edition.nord). Salad is a music team consisting of Masami Baba (Based in Hyogo) and Nagai Tsume (Based in Niigata). Ayako commissioned Nagai Tsume to compose the BGM for the exhibition. Masami Baba is a sound artist who has been attracting Ayako's attention for some time.This work is a reconstruction based on the sound of their first performa…
Rot - Oder wie Laut ist Schwarz?
English/German. Kunsthalle Fridericianum between 1 April and 10 June, 2001. The booklet includes many images, a foreword in German by René Block; an essay entitled "Pictures of Sounds" by Volker Straebel in German with a side-by-side translation by George Goodman; a transcription of a conversation between Julius, Straebel and Aki Takahashi in English; Julius' chronology up to 2001, in German; and credits in German
Schwarz Bleibt Stumm. (Book)
German, English. Rolf Julius's rare exhibition catalogue. Paperback, 22 cm, 79 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations.
Small Music (Book)
Rolf Julius has frequently been compared to John Cage for his attempts of integrating the world of common noises into the realm of sounds. "The surface of a sound interests me. Is it round or angled, grinding and raw, or smooth, etc." Julius thus creates extraordinary sound installations which can be described as "music for the eyes" and have secured him an unmistakeable place in the spectrum of contemporary art.
Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VIII
* 2023 Stock * Exhibition catalog published by Mela Foundation presenting Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VIII. It features large-scale multimedia installations including Environmental Composition 2014, an installation version of Color (CNN), and a sound environment, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi improvising over the 77 sine wave frequencies that are imperceptibly changing. The relationship of their improvisatio…
Curtis Cuffie
Curtis Cuffie (1955–2002) was an artist who lived and worked in and around the East Village from the mid-1980s until his untimely death in the early 2000s. He moved to New York from Hartsville, South Carolina, as a teenager and lived unhoused for long stretches of his adult life. Cuffie found local notoriety for the way he adorned the streets of downtown New York, collecting what the city provided, often sifting trash to stage on-the-spot sculptures along the Bowery and Cooper Square. His arrang…
Unfinished Descriptions
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* For her first solo exhibition at Hundred Years Gallery, Tomoko Hojo explores the relationship between voices missing from the archive through photographs, objects, scores and sounds. Based on Yoko Ono’s historical exhibition Unfinished Paintings and Objects at Indica Gallery, London, 1966, this show Unfinished Descriptions focuses on undocumented works and highlights silenced parts of that exhibition and Yoko Ono herself. These works explore the relationship bet…
Seven Common Ways of Disappearing
Andrius Arutiunian’s debut album »Seven Common Ways of Disappearing« was first conceived as an installation for the Armenia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. The Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer uses hybrid forms of music, focusing on sonic vernaculars, hypnotic musical forms, and aural cosmologies. Arutiunian is known to work with installations, sound objects, and time-based collaborations with ensembles and performers. The piece on this record was written for two musicians, a ret…
Agenzia Dancing Days
*100 copies, white vinyl * Agenzia Dancing Days involves elderly people dancing to electronic music choreography. The dances are collective. The itinerant project took place in discos, dance floors, ballrooms, city squares and festivals. The record collects the sound recordings of rehearsals and performances.
Art's 1.000.060th Birthday (Tape)
**  Limited edition of 50 **  Art's 1.000.060th Birthday. HOK Gallery in The Hague, The Netherlands held a one-hour only Flux Shop event on January 17th, the noise of which was broadcasted worldwide and is contained in this cassette tape.   Liner notes: You wouldn't give it to him, seeing how alive and kicking ART still is but yessirree, according to FLUXUS's accurately tracked calender tuesday January the 17th, 2023 ART became 1.000.060 years pld. All over the world art projects burst forth, as…
Artists' Voices
Edition of 350 copies. Triple LP with sound pieces by Rita Ackermann, Gerard Byrne, Valentin Carron, Claire Fontaine, Jason Dodge, Giulia Essyad, Sylvie Fleury, Gilles Furtwängler, Mathis Gasser, Marcus Geiger / Heimo Zobernig, Vivienne Griffin & Kaspars Groshevs, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tobias Kaspar and Jan Vorisek, Anne Le Troter, Beat Lippert, Tobias Madison, Fabian Marti, Jonathan Monk, Damián Navarro, James Richards, Emanuel Rossetti, Ryan Conrad Sawyer, Ramaya Tegegne and Ricardo Valentim. Art…
Life On The Inside
Limited edition of 300. David Toop's environmental beauty Life on the Inside is the audio companion (created and recorded in 2015) to French sculptor Pierre Besson's 2014 exhibition D'objets noires et de Choses carrées (Black Objects and Square Things). This 34-minute ambient track was diffused inside of the sculpture and has never been published before. An excellent addition to the David Toop discography and a must for any wide-ranging ambient fan.
The Molem Collective
* Edition of 300. Gatefold cover, white vinyl * The Molem Collective gathers a collection of hip hop sneakers of the young Morocco-born Zakaria Haddou aka Zak from Molem. He was commissioned by the Croatian-Belgian artist Hana Miletić to portray his collection of 24 pairs of sneakers, bought during the last eighteen months. The succession of different sneakers can be regarded as a short historiography of the hip hop subculture. The bold aesthetics, reflecting a rather objective approach, is very…
Remain Calm
** LP + 8-page booklet. Edition of 400 ** INFO is pleased to announce Remain Calm, an LP and booklet cataloguing Nile Koetting’s performative installation and its immersive soundtrack produced in collaboration with Nozomu Matsumoto and Miriam Stoney. In Remain Calm, Koetting draws inspiration from the earthquake and tsunami drills he experienced as a young student growing up in Japan. Through blending sci-fi narratives with ready-made technologies, Koetting creates scenographic performance envir…
Spatial Jitter
**Hardcover edition.  German / English Edition. Vinyl released in a book, accompanying the art installation "Spatial Jitter" ** Mouse on Mars take over the Kunstbau of Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany with a sound installation for which they developed a site-specific composition. Working with and responding to the exhibition space, the installation transforms the Kunstbau itself into a gigantic stereophonic acoustic instrument.   A rotatable horn loudspeaker pitchforks a sound like a pinball into …
E.S.P. TV Lifestyle Guru Pt. 2 : Soft Systems Music
Ben Vida’s “Soft Systems Music”, using facial recognition software as a compositional tool (!)
Shadows and Reflections
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 100 copies.* Shadows and Reflections develops from an audiovisual collaboration between Monty Adkins and the painter Andy Fullalove exhibited at Bradford Cathedral in October 2016. The exhibition comprised a series of fourteen paintings and sound that responded to the newly restored altarpiece by William Morris as well as the priceless stained glass windows in the Cathedral made my Morris’s company, which include designs by Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-J…
Atmosphæram
Tip! Atmosphæram inaugurates a new series of hyper-focussed solo studio recordings from Marco Fusinato, each consisting of two side-long pieces exploring noise and feedback, respectively. Documenting his guitar running through an array of distortion pedals amplified by two full stacks made up from his collection of Hiwatt DR103 Heads running at full volume, these recordings capture both the physical immensity and the glittering textural detail of Fusinato’s assaultive approach. Massive amplifica…
Background Sound In Textile Pavillion Of Expo '70. Obscure Tape
Joji Yuasa composed for some pavilions in EXPO '70. Especially at Textile Pavilion - in Japanese, Sen-i kan, "Space Projection 'AKO' " used multi-image projection and his concrete sound was well-known. This CD includes complete version of this work and orchestra part as the material. Also background sound of corridors and monologue of tall gentleman doll 'A Man of Rene Magritte' - this is a part of Yuasa's concrete work "Voices Coming" - are included.  With 40pp booklet written by electronic mus…
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Genkyo - Yokoo Tadanori Ii Works (Book)
Tadanori Yokoo held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1966 in Tokyo. His revolutionary work, which oscillates between conceptual art and pure design, rapidly gained attention in the international art world. With a signature style of colourful psychedelia and pastiche, he engages a wide spectrum of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and elsewhere. The subject matter often clashes with what seems a nonsensical collage of images. ‘Genkyo’ is an exuberant, far-reaching anthology…
My Niece's Pierced Knees (7")
When visiting Antwerp last summer, Uncle Jim (aka Alvarius B), recorded a rant for the invitation card single that anounces Dennis Tyfus' exhibition 'My Niece's Pierced Knees', opening on October 27th at Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. This card single was send out for free to everyone in the museum's mailing list.
E.S.P. TV Lifestyle Guru Pt. 1 : Colony
“Colony” features Ian Hatcher as a chat-bot deconstructing a technocratic utopia through algorithmic poetry
The Crystal Jaw
* Limited Edition of 100 vinyl copies 140gsm stamped and numbered white label Signed by the artist * The Crystal Jaw is a unique, immersive and crystalline sound creation made by Procession Towards the Unknown (Sammy Sayed, Alan Bishop, Sherif Elias, Amir El-Saidi and Ahmad Kubbara) recorded in Cairo in May 2021.  The Crystal Jaw is a 30 minutes soundtrack made for Sandrine Pelletier’s eponymous solo exhibition at MCBA (Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne) in collaboration with Olivier Duc…
We Forge The Future. Live At Reina Sofía
We Forge The Future is a document of a Laibach show, held in Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, on November 26th, 2017. For this museum occasion, Laibach re-enacted the historic performance that was initially staged on April 23rd, 1983, as part of the XII Music Biennale Zagreb in Croatia – then still a part of Yugoslavian federation. The performance caused furious public/media campaign against the group, whose result was a formal ban on Laibach in Slovenia and Yugoslavia, that lasted until 1987.  Musica…
Polyphone
* Hardcover 16,5 x 23 cm 288 pages 67 color and b/w illustrations. German & French * The publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition brings together works by more than 20 international artists that focus on the encounter of multiple voices and sounds. Polyphone deals with perceptual aspects, as well as with the socio-cultural and political dimensions of polyphony. Here, polyphony refers to both the musical term and the linguistic definition according to Mikhail Bakhtin, who points to the a…