Genuine Leather (Book)
For the past fifteen years, Jan Utecht has toured North America, Europe, the UK and Scandinavia with his black metal band Occvlta. During this time he started taking photos with a small format camera, inspired by analogue and point-and-shoot photography. This gave him the opportunity to portray more than a hundred metalheads, friends and musicians.
Some of the people you see in this book are pictured on posters that have hung on the walls of rehearsal rooms for decades, including his own. These …
LÄRM #2
*Bilingual Edition (English / German)* Once more, it’s a journey to the fringes. Recalling resistant and peculiar aesthetics, wondrous and forgotten outgrowths of music and cultural history of the last seventy years – a search for works with inherent value, often contrary to a semblance of seriosity. Among them are Vox Populi!, Takahisa Zeze, Antediluvian, Unica Zürn, Wolfgang Hilbig, Sergio Martino and others.
The Negative Way (Book + CD)
*Bilingual Edition (English / French)* The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation. The initial fragments, written about twenty years ago, provide a valuable testimony to the connections, differences, and questions of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh. The book is accompanied by a CD, Song Lang, a solo recorded in March 2024 at the Sound (Dis)obedience Festival in Ljubljana, Sloven…
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, each attempting to grasp sound’s fleeting nature through verbal and visual expressions. What are auditories? The plural of “auditory” emphasizes that there is no one way of hearing, and that hearing is not an isolated activity. For the inaugural present…
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 and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy’s project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.
Steve Underwood’s text appeared in a 2010 magazi…
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 “Daxophonie”, Guillaume Belhomme's “Eric Dolphy”, Phil Freeman’s “In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor”’ and “Radio Cologne Sound Das Studio für Elektronische Musik des WDR”, to name just a few - Wolke Verlag returns with “Cause and Curi…
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 scene from Germany, and the more recently completed "A Fistful Of Spaghetti" covering the amazing Italian "Spaghetti-Rock" scene, this book had been germinating as long as the latter, with the basic structure and discographies largely completed decades…
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, free improvisation, jazz, rock and, metal, producing a remarkable catalog of solo work as well as collaborations with Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, and a slew of oth…
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.
Happy Birthday, a Year from Cage
Brand new agenda spanning 16 months around John Cage thoughts and works. Still untouched!
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.
Music Sound Language Theater - Etchings from Crown Point Press
1980 illustrated soft-bound exhibition catalogue with several essays on Cage, Marioni, Barry and Jonas.
View Vol.I No.1 April, 1978 - John Cage
First issue of American art/music magazine from 1978 completely devoted to John Cage.
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.
Per gli Uccelli
Still sealed copy of groundbreaking John Cage book on the legendary Multhipla imprint! Translated by Walter Marchetti.
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, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, La Monte Young, etc.
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, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, La Monte Young, etc.
Diary: How To Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (1967)
Original edition of John Cage's 1967 artist book with multi-colored text published by Something Else Press.
