Rocks can fall at any time
Philip Corner is one of the greatest American avant garde composers, an American outsider, a unique philosopher redefining what we call music and art, bringing together different cultures in a new kind of harmony, inviting all of us to experience mus…
Concert ZAJ pour 30 ou 60 voix
One person says, sings or recites in any language. After the first minute, a second person joins the first one and they say, sing or recite in any language. After the two minutes, a third person joins the first one and the second one, and they all…
Text-Sound Compositions: A Stockholm Festival
Fylkingen Records in collaboration with the Swedish Radio released a series of LP records with text-sound compositions between the years of 1968-77. All of these were documentations of the international festival Text-Sound Compositions. A Stockholm F…
Dada Cinema
With Viking Eggeling : Symphonie diagonale (1921-24), Hans Richter : Rythmus 21 (1921-24), Hans Richter : Fimstudie (1926), Man Ray : Retour à la raison (1923), Fernand Léger & Dupley Murphy : Ballet mécanique (1924), René Clair & Francis Picabia …
Was ist das (Piece No.2)
Rare Edition by conceptual artist artist Arthur Köpcke (1928-1977) who was one of the most relevant German Fluxus artists. Köpcke’s Piece No. 2 is a very complex fusion of music, poetry, and visual art. This piece represents what is very characteri…
Disallow
Disallow is a unique encounter between legendary conceptual artist Vito Acconci and the experimental group New Humans, merging spoken word, noise, and performance art in the vein of Laurie Anderson and Glenn Branca.
How to Make a Happening
Historic release. Originally released as an LP in 1966 by Mass Art, this is Allen Kaprow, father of The Happening explaining how to do it, and what is - and is not - a Happening. Simple in construction, yet profound in context, How to Make a Happenin…
Pictures of Pictures from Pictures of Pictures (1975-1979)
Rare and long out of print LP...This album, featuring solo piano compositions, was released in 1983. The work draws inspiration from Modest Moussorgsky's 1874 composition "Pictures at an Exhibition," which was based on ten etchings. Klaus Peter Brehm…
Fluxus Anthology Volume 1
2004 release; essential overview of the various fluxus artists’ dabblings w/ sound, covering work recorded between 1961 and 1995. Highlights include: Dick Higgins’ 1961 “in memorian” (”the piece was made by assembling loops of a dub of a phonograph r…
A Fluxus Elegy
One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghen's VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of …
Early Works
2002 release. Alga Marghen proudly presents the first record ever produced by Ben Patterson: "This is not only my first CD, but also the first recordings of these works available to the general public." Starting as a virtuoso double-bass performer of…
More from the Judson years Vol. 2
2004 release. Excerpts from the liner notes of More from the Judson Years (Early 60s) Instrumental-Vocal Works Vol. 2, written by Philip Corner: "Everything Max Has" (1964), Max Neuhaus solo, recorded at the ONCE Festival, 1965. "A performance of Max…