Hold The Sound (Book)
144, printed in offset. Artist Book. Can you hold a sound? This book experiments with giving tangible form to something seemingly immaterial. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thoughts on sound gathered by artists and researchers, eac…
Even When It Makes No Sense - The Broken Flag Story (Book)
Bomb! Softcover, 17×24 cm, 144 pages. English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise…
Cause and Curiosity: Walter Zimmermann in Conversation with Richard Toop (Book)
**Essential reading!** Having issued a truly remarkable suite of publications, dedicated to radical reaches of musical practice and thought, over the last year or so - George Lewis and Harald Kisiedu's “Composing While Black”, Hans Reichel's “Daxopho…
Twilight of the Alchemists - French Music Encyclopedia (Book)
Encyclopedia of French progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc. by Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman - Following on the tradition of our other country focused music books: "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" exploring "Krautrock" and the wider sc…
Issue 10
It probably goes without saying that here at Soundohm, we’re huge fans of all things Lasse Marhaug. Since the early 90s, he has remained one of the most radical and ambitious creative musical voices working in Norway, spanning the fields of noise, fr…
Writings Aabout Music
First 1974 edition of Steve Reich's important book. A must for anyone in new music.
Klangskulpturen
Rare fully illustrated catalogue of installations and performances by the great Alvin Lucier published in 1991 by daadgalerie.
Mud Book
Fun hard-bound and beautifully printed 1983 artist book on How to Make Pies and Cakes, a collaboration between John Cage and Lois Long.
View Vol.I No.1 April, 1978 - John Cage (signed copy)
Signed copy by John Cage of first issue of American art/music magazine from 1978 completely devoted the composer.
Notations
Rare 1969 first hard-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, M…
Notations
Rare 1969 first soft-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, M…
View Vol.II No.1 April, 1979 - Joan Jonas
Scarce first issue of American art/music magazine from 1979 completely devoted to Joan Jonas.
La musique concrète de Michel Chion
*2024 stock* French Text* A journey into the universe of one of the most original composers in the field of the concrete music (the essay is followed by an interview between Michel Chion and Christian Zanési, a biography and a discography).
Revenantes (Book + CD)
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy, with music by Nurse With Wound.
Gris-Gris
Tip, tip, tip! Book + LP bundle. "Two-Headed Doctor" is David Toop's forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris has accumulate…
Portables: A Visual & Historical Exploration of 222 Vintage Portable Turntables (Book)
A 470-page hardcover book featuring highly detailed photos and comprehensive research on 222 portable vinyl record players.
Once considered little more than a children’s plaything or a grade school accessory, the portable record player has gained new…
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.
A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin
A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred
*2024 stock* Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representati…
The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave
*2024 stock* How the creative use of pop music in film—think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now—has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s. Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear “The Sounds of Silence”? Better yet, what song …