Sound Art / Field Recordings

300 copies * “Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surpris…

A seminal figure in the history of 20th century avant-garde, yet sinfully overlooked, Wolf Vostell unleashed ideas - those running wild through his debut LP Dé-coll/age Musik, which remain a slap to the face, more than half a century after they were set into play. A founding member of Fluxus, an early instigator of Happenings, an innovator of video art, Vostell was equally one of the most radical and irreverent practitioners in sound that the world has ever known. First released in 1982, …

200 copies, Green Vinyl. About 10 years ago I tried to contact Dutch artist and scientist Felix Hess, when he was still alive, but never got a reply. Years later, in 2022, I was talking to Frans de Waard, who told me he was administering the sound archive of the late Hess together with Mark Poysden. Together we started working on an album to celebrate his life and many accomplishments. It includes selections from all the highly collectible Frogs releases from the 80's and 90's, while the artwork…

A collaborative effort between Italian's two best record labels, Black Sweat and Holidays

Finding the mysticism in everyday life, Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther sculpt elaborate electro-acoustic field recordings with “Unter Grund”. Quite lush in terms of their sonic detail not a single element goes unnoticed. Much of the sound has a journey-like quality to it while the origin of the sound slowly comes into view. By opting for such a style the pieces resonant on an intellectual as well as an emotional level. Sounds positively teem with life for the duo chooses to amplify the busy…

2024 Stock. Rare gallery edition documenting the Christina Kubisch's Poitiers version of Electrical Walks is all about illuminating listening. Today we are bombarded by electromagnetic waves from the ground to the atmosphere and into space - wireless networks, security systems, lights, computers, antennae, ATMs, even ads. But since we can't hear or see them, we've remained oblivious to how they affect our environment and perceived reality. But now, thanks to specially built magnetic headphones d…

Culled from a massive collection of recorded material compiled during the artist’s exhibition, Floating World, at Potts in 2018 and edited for release in 2020. Speech and sounds made by viewers in the gallery were captured by umbrellas fastened with microphones and speakers. The audio was processed in real time by software that modified the playback speed and then distributed it at random throughout the space.

Brandon LaBelle's Dirty Ear was recorded and produced over the last year using dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas. Composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities. Initially tracks 1-4 were composed for the installation work Prototypes for the mobilization and broadcast of fugitive sound shown at the Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato.

MTS is made of audio materials collected during the summer of 2016; the two tracks combine and try to reproduce the muteness of documents and various misperceptions. Limited edition of 70. Elisha Morningstar produces abstract sound pieces through manipulation of different kind of sources. Tape loops, concrete parts, harsh noise .. if the elements of this release have been widely developed in a myriad of outputs, what makes this one unique is the way in which these elements are used to tell a sto…

Leo Okagawa is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Japan.  For this album Leo Okagawa uses field recordings from various metro stations during the quarantine period & sounds by radio stations.

Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water As Brian Eno made music for environments rather than from them (Music For Airports) these CDs are best listened to within the strange damp world of the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool. The ceilings of these caverns are thin and the sound of dripping water can frequently be heard, but not necessarily seen. It is a sound that has intrigued artists for nigh on a century and this collection brings together historical piece…

Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water As Brian Eno made music for environments rather than from them (Music For Airports) these CDs are best listened to within the strange damp world of the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool. The ceilings of these caverns are thin and the sound of dripping water can frequently be heard, but not necessarily seen. It is a sound that has intrigued artists for nigh on a century and this collection brings together historical piece…

* Original 1995 edition, long out of print. * Oropendola: Music by and from Birds weaves together a rich tapestry of music and wildlife recordings from Madagascar, Kenya and Brazil, featuring the songs and habitats of birds from around the world. The booklet provides written information by Douglas Quin about his wildlife recordings and his compositions. It is illustrated with scores and spectrographs. The considerable time and energy spent in the field, obtaining recordings, is an integral part…

Field recordings tracing the river from Tower Bridge out to the estuary marshes, where industry and birdsong compete for the same air. Ian Rawes has been documenting London's disappearing soundworld since 2008.

Am Grabe (At the Grave) is an ongoing audio ritual executed by Stefan Fricke and Alper Maral. Since 2015, they have been visiting the graves and burial grounds of composers from various eras in order to record the sounds and noises present. Each sequence is a pure field recording, serving as a memento of a bit more than 4 minutes in length. After having been compiled for a series of radio programmes, selections from Am Grabe here appear on audio media for the first time. This edition commemorate…

**350 copies** The world of Mireille Capelle is one of music and theatre. She has performed as a singer in numerous European opera houses, under the artistic direction of the foremost stage directors and conductors. She is member of the artistic board of HERMESensemble. Mireille Capelle has a particular affinity with contemporary music and art, characterized by many encounters with the most important contemporary composers. Blue Veil is a sonic architecture composed for the exhibition I Fortuny.…

A beguiling work composed of spoken word monologues, field recordings, samples, occasional acoustic guitar noodling and off-key singing, “An Insect …” heralds a growing body of experimental music by Melbourne-based absurdist novelist / graphic designer Matthew Revert. This recording nods in the direction of improv, drone, light noise and neo-primitive folk without being captured completely by any of these categories. It’s quite a busy release with hardly any pauses or lapses in the continuous fr…

The Giardino Forico is a way of giving back a place, a knowledge, a humanity through our languages. It is the result of a vital artistic process, we listen and observe the space and we speak it.

I met Rolf Julius only once in September of 2009. Knowing I had studied his works for over a decade, he graciously invited me to meet him for his solo exhibition and performance in Montreal that year. By strange coincidence, not only did we end up staying in the same hotel in this city foreign to both of us, but our rooms were directly next to each other! He greeted me with such humility Ð and like roommates, for 4 days we shared every meal and nearly every conversation. It was there tha…

Few records dissolve the boundary between document and composition with the patience and rigour of Akira Rabelais' Hollywood. A single hour-long work, edited from nearly four hours of location recordings made on a Tascam recorder along a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard - specifically, between the Walk of Fame stars belonging to Betty Grable and Rod Serling - and has long since become one of the more elusive entries in the composer's catalogue. Born in South Texas and based in Los Angeles, Rabelai…

A pioneering testament to environmental sound art of the 1970s and 1980s

Double LP by Ben Frost for Richard Mosse's installation Broken Spectre (180 Studios, London, 2022), built from Amazon field and ultrasonic recordings and electronic composition.

Spring in the wetlands of Lake Constance, the Vorarlberg Rhine Delta and the Bodanrück: birds, frogs and toads recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1984 and 2003, assembled as a "Wetland Wildlife Chorus".

Winter visitors and migrant birds at Lake Constance (Untersee, Gnadensee and the Rhine Delta of Vorarlberg), recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1987 and 2003 and assembled into one winter soundscape.

Skylark, nightingale, thrush nightingale, song thrush, blackbird and golden oriole, recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1984 and 1999 in Austria and Germany with Neumann dummy-head microphones.

The red deer rut on the Darss peninsula on the Baltic coast of Germany, recorded by Walter Tilgner in September 1994 with a Neumann KU 100 dummy head, from midday to dawn; booklet with sonograms. Bonus: a 1934 shellac by Ludwig Koch.

The song of the red-spotted and the white-spotted bluethroat, a mimic of other birds, frogs and bells, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner; released in 1992 in Wergo's Natural Sound series.

Nightingale song recorded by Walter Tilgner on the nights of 14, 21 and 29 May 1983 along the Reichenaudamm at Lake Constance: nightingales at night and at dawn with the waking chorus of other birds.

The four seasons in a mixed beech wood and the red deer rut in a mountain forest, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner, mostly with a Neumann binaural dummy head, and assembled without further sound processing.

Two-disc spatial sound composition by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs, made from microscopically processed animal voices and nature sounds: a stereo version and a four-channel DTS version, with RaumklangMilieu studies. Released 2004.