Robert Filliou En Conversation Avec Georg Jappe (Tape)
Robert Filliou (17 January 1926 – 2 December 1987) was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro. A 45 minute conversation by these two icons of the Fluxus movement, in French language. This tape was made for a gallery show in The Hague, few copies available
Goodbye 20th Century
Goodbye 20th Century is a double album of covers of Avant-garde recordings by Sonic Youth and collaborators. SYR4 features works by avant-garde classical composers such as John Cage, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, and Christian Wolff played by Sonic Youth along with several collaborators from the modern avant-garde music scene, such as Christian Marclay, William Winant, Wharton Tiers, Takehisa Kosugi and others. The album received mixed reviews, but most critics praised the group's efforts at popularizi…
The Bob Lens Archives vol. 2
* Edition of 60 * Tracks from Bob Lens's rare album Geluiden (Sounds), the follow-up to the Woorden album he made with Simon Vinkenoog and Hans Wesseling. Music and sounds for his expo's provided by friends Rolf Julius and Henning Christiansen
The Bob Lens Archives vol. 1
* Edition of 60 * The early 1980's, Dutch Fluxus artist Bob Lens was working in NY at the time. He recorded his tours in the city, soundscapes intended for use in later works.Bob catalogues the bridges he passes, the neighborhoods. He talks to passers-by and ends up in the loft of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela where a concert is going on
A Flattened Face Fogs Through (LP)
* Edition of 300 on black vinyl. Includes a full color 21 page 8.5" x 11" booklet of photographs, poetry, artwork, liner notes and other ephemera * Dr. John M. Bennett (Chicago, 1942) has been a prolific contributor on the absolute fringes of the American poetry, mail-art, and underground music worlds throughout his career, while working as a scholar and archivist of Latin American literature and avant-garde writing. One of two sons to prominent cultural anthropologist John W. Bennett, he was bo…
To Look Inside Music
The Henning Christiansen Archive is proud to present a collection of previously unreleased ‘classical works’ by Henning Christiansen, a large part of his oeuvre which has remained out of sight, until now. This 2CD compilation encompasses a variety of stylistic approaches written in the years from 1963 to 1988.
Op.1984 (160C) Goodday, Mr Orwell, Green Ear Year
Previously unreleased Henning Christiansen work from 1984. A dedication to George Orwell.
Op. 231 Der Mund spricht die Gedanken aus – Die Landschaft gibt ihren Klang (The Mouth expresses the Thoughts – The Landscape gives it Sound) Tape
High-biased cassette tape with printed art by Henning Cristiansen. Only 100 copies printed.
100 Years of Soundings
Edition of 90 copies plus 28 H.C. Pressed on white vinyl and packaged in a b&w gatefold sleeve.
Fluxstuff (4LP Box - Art Edition)
* Edition of 30 signed and numbered linen boxsets. 4 signed LPs with hand-drawn sleeves, also including a 112-page signed book with title page in calligraphy * Alga Marghen started their activities in 1996 soon to become a reference for experimental music, sonic arts and sound poetry publishing. Now in 2021 it’s time to celebrate the 25 years of activities and we decided to start by presenting for the first time on vinyl some of most radical and uncompromising Fluxus events. alga marghen is the…
Sounds from the Book of Bean
** Ltd. to 300 copies, incl. printed inner sleeve + 20 page full-size booklet ** The first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (b. 1933). Sounds from the Book of Bean is an assemblage of noises and texts related to The Book of Bean (1982), Knowles’ 8-foot tall walk-in book constructed at Franklin Furnace in New York. This recording, the sounds of making the big book, was continually played back inside of the installation. Echoes of Yoshi Wada hammering together the circular spine…
Fluxus, Events, Music (1964-2021) (Book)
* bilingual edition (English / French) 10,5 x 15 cm 40 bound cards * Marcel Alocco's Events, some poem-scores to be performed in a real or imaginary space. This bilingual edition in a new format is completed with previously unpublished works: "Forgotten Pieces" (1966-1976) and "Rhapsody, Baie des Anges" (2021). These events are meant to be performed again by anyone who wishes to. Some of the pieces in this book were performed on stage by the author during Fluxus concerts organized by Ben with Se…
YoplaBoum + Permanent Wave (2LP + CD)
* Edition of 300. 2xLP + CD * The double LP is housed in a single sleeve with two printed inner sleeves featuring liner notes by Leon van Noorden and Mario van Horrik, and a selection of photos and artwork from the period. The CD comes in its own cardboard sleeve and is attached to the outer LP sleeve with a removable glue dot. Third release by the Maciunas Ensemble on Edition Telemark after 1976 and the self-titled 50th anniversary LP from 2018. The group had been founded in Eindhoven, The Net…
Pond
** 2021 Stock. Sold-out at source ** 6th CANT release - recording by Katya Shirshkova "The Pond", homage to the work of the same name by Ben Patterson.
Katya Shirshkova: When I was 8 years old, Ben Patterson came to Irkutsk. They told me to show how I play Bach, and I did. Poorly. I also decided to play improvisation, unintentionally, I just got upset and played - I always liked to hold the keys and listen more. Ben liked it. He showed me a trick with a coin, I was scared. And dad became an hono…
1969-1976: A selection
A look at the activist artist group Guerilla Art Action Group (Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna, Joanne Stamerra, Virginia Toche and Jean Toche), The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976: A Selection is a compilation of manifestos, letters and press communiqués issued by the group (to Nixon, Hoover, The Secretary of Defense and Museum officials.)
Originally published in 1978, the publication documents the art actions by the Guerrilla Art Action Group between 1969 and 1976
Three Essays on Spirituality and Art
A stunning marvel and the first text from the wild and wonderful mind of Henry Flynt, "Three Essays on Spirituality and Art", across 196 pages - issued in a beautifully produced edition of 500 copies - takes on a rarely explored subject in contemporary context, seeded in the anti-authoritarian positions that Flynt laid down at the dawn of Fluxus and has embraced ever since. Radical, vibrant, and fascinating, before us rests an essential illumination of the inner workings of one of the most impor…
Cora
Cora Emens is a sex educator and performer based in the Netherlands. This re-issued work of experimental music was compiled in the 80s by Cora's ex-partner, Willem de Ridder (one of the founders of Fluxus) in the Netherlands from the home studio recordings of Cora. Now available in double LP form (originally released on a Radio Art Foundation cassette) with an additional bonus track 'Earplay'. This is the first time it's been re-released in any format. The original tape was mixed by Willem de Ri…
Live Improvisations
Slowscan's latest, a stunning, remastered vinyl edition of Takehisa Kosugi's New York, August 14, 1991 - expanded to include an entire second LP of recordings made by the composer with Ted Szànto in Amsterdam during 1979 - Bristles with energy, physicality, and immediacy, representing a highwater mark from one of the most important experimental composers of the last 100 years.
The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems (Book)
A short but potent collection of poems by Emmett Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series. The titular work—subtitled “the ultimate poem”and improvised around the eating of french fries—was originally performed with Robert Filliou in 1964. The six poems herein are characterized on the whole by compulsive flows of language, with short, piston-like lines carrying out obsessive serial modulations to create a perpetually un…
The Cursive Scandinavian Salve (Book)
Poet and anthropologist Klintberg was one of the earliest Scandinavian participants in Happenings and Fluxus. The Cursive Scandinavian Salve collects a number of event scores and scenarios that maintain a lyrical dialogue with Sweden’s oral traditions and picturesque landscape’s subtle evocations are counterbalanced by a continual, prankish flirtation with danger and volatility. This book includes several collaborations with and dedications to Åke Hodell, Sten Hanson, and Henning Christiansen, a…