Sound Art / Music & Sound Studies

The expanded edition of the scores of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's piano music: the 16 pieces of Éthiopiques 21, with photographs, drawings and handwritten letters from the Emahoy Music Foundation archive. 128 pages, 29 x 29 cm.

A zine on the ten years of Kaoru Abe in Tokyo's free jazz scene, 1968-1978, with excerpts from an unpublished 1973 conversation between Abe and Shinto recorded in a small Shinjuku coffee shop. English and Japanese.

Fourth issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on the musical world of Pierre Bastien and the mechanical instruments of his early years. A 24-page zine in English and Korean, edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg.

Third issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press: Ikue Mori from the drums of DNA in the New York No Wave scene to computer music, her move from Tokyo and the meeting with John Zorn. A 20-page zine, 2024.

Sister Irene O'Connor remembers her first years as a young nun at a kindergarten in Singapore and how she began making music. Made with Freedom to Spend after the Fire of God's Love micro museum in Seoul. English and Korean.

An 88-page A4 book on the DIY bootleg cassettes of the 1980s: Portastudio, Walkman and home Xerox, tapes copied in small numbers and shared like letters, and the lo-fi experimental, noise and improvised music they carried.

Transcript of a conversation between Mississippi Records and music scholar Thomas Feng for the 102nd anniversary of Emahoy's birth: the release of Church of Kidane Mehret, Portland and New York, her legacy. 20 pages, English and Korean.

Second issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Ethiopian nun and composer whose piano music offers solace and reflection. A 20-page zine edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg, 2023.

A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Eliane Radigue

The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene.

Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry

The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.   Since 2006, in the city of Caen in Normandy, the ]interstice[, rencontre des inclassables festival has explored a creative nexus of intersecting practices fro…

2024 Stock. 208 pages, Paperback. Profusely illustrated book about The Process - Church of the Final Judgement, based on The Process Archives. 18 Chapters, illustrated with 140 rare photos and documents.  "Papa’s book makes good use of his extensive collection of Process memorabilia. As the shadowy cult’s narrative history unfolds, he is able to refer to, quote from extensively and even reproduce from the vast amount of literature they produced. In doing so, Papa is able to give his readers an a…

Deluxe 88 pages offset printed CMYK, sewn-glued binding, and folded flaps cover Following the first issue, Nothing Personal, which sold out in a matter of weeks, Lasse Marhaug returns with the second installment of 8090 VÅG, his annual, highly personal magazine devoted to sound and the people who make it. Subtitled No Idea of North, the new issue gathers long, in-depth interviews with Knurl, Matmos, Anja Lauvdal, Kjell Bjørgeengen and Runhild Gammelsæter, conducted in the informal, unhurried to…

A collector's field guide to 300 LPs and 45s of folk, rock and psychedelia from South and Southeast Asia, chosen and annotated by Chris Menist and Maft Sai of Paradise Bangkok.

A collector's field guide to 400 gospel soul records from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, from choirs and vocal harmony to funk and disco, chosen and annotated by Greg Belson of The Divine Chord Gospel Show.

A collector's field guide to 400 African funk, soul and disco records, from 1970s funk and Afrobeat to disco and the diaspora, chosen and annotated by Uchenna Ikonne and Manu Boubli, with a cover by Lemi Ghariokwu.

Bilingual Edition English and French An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.   This volume includes an introductory essay by Frédéric Acquaviva,…

Trilingual edition (English / German / French) The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations. Echoing the famous quote by the Guerrilla Girls, Maggy Mauritz held her first exhibition at the age of 80, in 2021 at the Loeve&Co. gallery.   …

A retrospective of the visual work of Aleksander Lebedev-Frontov, a key figure in Russia’s post-Soviet underground culture. This book presents his visual work through a chronological trajectory, from his early collages and works produced for Limonka to the visuals and album covers of his musical projects. It reveals a distinctive graphic language, combining détourned propaganda, dark humor, and a deep obsession with the avant-gardes of the 20th century. Through this journey, Lebedev-Frontov emer…

Texts in French/English/Chinese A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book. More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…).   “I never have dreamed. I would like to, but how?”   Jacques Ponzio is a French writer and musician, and a leading specialist on the works of Thelonious Monk.

Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew the founding line of noise as an art of pure negation. From the outset TNB armed the music with a manifesto: blockade as resistance, an anti-music and anti-art set against every convention of composition, performance, and even personality, the sound…

Korm Plastics' yearbook on music, fourth edition: Michel Faber, Robin Rimbaud, Klaus Maeck with Einstürzende Neubauten in 1981, David Elliott on Heldon, feminist labels, Popol Vuh in Norway, the No Fun Fest and more.

Wouter Jaspers' guide to radio for artists: crystal sets, shortwave, SDR, home-built antennas, the politics of the spectrum, fifteen artistic approaches from Kubisch to Kogawa, exercises and a timeline of radio art 1909-2026.

Giancarlo Toniutti in a book-length conversation with Aram Yardumian, from his teenage tapes to Xenakis, René Thom and field recording, with archival photos, a full index of works and a CD of three new pieces.

Limited to 800 copies! Each book is numbered and signed by the author. Large format book. Descenes and Discords: An Anthology is a powerful time capsule of the birth and evolution of punk music through the pages of two influential fanzines: Descenes and Discords. These publications, originally printed and distributed in Washington, D.C. during the late 1970s and early 1980s, captured the raw energy, irreverent spirit, and revolutionary ethos of the underground music scene - first local, then nat…

The book contains Ecopolitik, an introduction as an epilogue by José Luis Espejo, a letter to the Huaorani people, two research texts and one bertso, descriptive texts and photos of recordings, a possible chronology, a glossary, a compilation of several texts with testimonies, reports and declarations from different people, groups, institutions, and publications in reference to the impact—direct or indirect—of the noise from the oil industry during its various phases of development on the peopl…

English edition, hardcover, 292 pages. A relentless and unflinching collection, Domestic assembles the lyrics and texts of Kevin Tomkins-founding member of Sutcliffe Jugend and a key figure in the UK power electronics scene. Raw, brutal, and unapologetically intimate, this book lays bare the psychological terrain of control, submission, and the darkest corners of human desire and detachment. Divided into six visceral sections, Domestic shatters societal norms, piercing through the polite veneers…

Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew the founding line of noise as an art of pure negation. From the outset TNB armed the music with a manifesto: blockade as resistance, an anti-music and anti-art set against every convention of composition, performance, and even personality, the sound…

A collector's field guide to 400 spiritual and cosmic jazz records, from the mid-1960s to today, chosen and annotated by Amir Abdullah and Manu Boubli, with rarity scores and lists by Gilles Peterson, King Britt and Matthew Halsall.

Markus Müller's 288-page history of the Globe Unity Orchestra at sixty: Schlippenbach's liner notes, photographs by Gérard Rouy and Cristina Marx, interviews with Schlippenbach and George Lewis, new texts by Corbett, Lake and Gustafsson.

Aldo Chimenti's history of Death In June, written with Douglas P.: from the punk years of Crisis to Operation Control (2023), with photographs largely from Douglas P.'s own archive, some never seen before. Softcover with French flaps, 516 pages.

Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson's photographs of working-class life in Glasgow's Gorbals in the 1970s, made with the Citizens Theatre: a 240-page hardcover, the first volume of a series devoted to his photography. Timeless.

Personal correspondence between Genesis P-Orridge and Jean-Pierre Turmel over a fifteen-year period. This book pays tribute to one of counter-culture's single most iconic figures of the past fifty odd years, someone who has over the course of he/r career influenced countless fellow artists and theorists. Comprised of an exclusive unpublished interview with the artist conducted by Nicolas Ballet in 2016, theoretical texts on he/r work, and archival documents from the personal collection of Jean-P…

*100 copies limited edition* Eighth Tower Magazine is a periodical publication dedicated to music and modern mythologies. It explores alternative and experimental sound practices, tracing connections between contemporary music, invisible cinema, and dark fiction. Eighth Tower investigates how modern mythologies are shaped, transmitted, and transformed. It is conceived as a space for reflection, documentation, and critical exploration, where sound, image, and narrative converge into a shared cult…

224 pages5.4 x 8.2 inchesPaperbackOctober 2026Second Printing

Gli atti del convegno NoMus 2025 per i settant'anni dello Studio di Fonologia Musicale della Rai di Milano: saggi e testimonianze su Berio, Maderna, Nono, Zuccheri, radiodramma, televisione e pioniere dell'elettronica, con 165 immagini d'archivio.

Eighth Tower Magazine is a periodical publication dedicated to music and modern mythologies. It explores alternative and experimental sound practices, tracing connections between contemporary music, invisible cinema, and dark fiction. Eighth Tower investigates how modern mythologies are shaped, transmitted, and transformed. It is conceived as a space for reflection, documentation, and critical exploration, where sound, image, and narrative converge into a shared cultural landscape. Volume I - co…

Hardcover, 364 pages. Photographic/Artist book, with little text contribution (mostly written in Italian). Fra zero e infinito is a comprehensive monograph published by Fondazione Mudima in 2018, dedicated to Giuseppe Chiari, one of Italy’s most influential conceptual artists, avant-garde composers, and a central figure in the Fluxus movement. Edited by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi, the volume gathers critical essays, archival documents, and photographs that trace C…