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Resonant – Bodies, Songs, and Strings (Book)
Published on the occasion of the 2025 exhibition Corps à cordes: Vibrations and Resonances at the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO in Chatou, curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorák, this book explores the resonances between Sufism and contemporary artistic practice. Taking the setâr - a key Sufi instrument - as a central metaphor, it reflects on the vibratory nature of emotion, healing, and transmission across human, ecological, and spiritual realms. Conceived as both an extension of th…
Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 (Book)
The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene.
Intelligent Life (Book)
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 A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.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 Night to Remember: UK Soundsystem Flyers, 1972-1994 (Book)
DINTE mint their short run book publishing imprint, The End books, with this vast collection of flyers for dances, clashes and blues parties in the Caribbean soundsystem tradition from across the UK between the early 1970s and mid 1990s. Comes complete with introduction by David Katz (People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae) and outroduction by Kevin Le Gendre (Don't Stop the Carnival: Black British Music, Children of the Ghetto: Black Mus…
Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music (Book)
Huge Tip! *2025 repress* Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music is a non-academic essay by French poet, novelist and music enthusiast Fanny Chiarello. It’s also the first book to be published by Permanent Draft, an all-female record label and micro-press founded by musician Valentina Magaletti and writer Fanny Chiarello, dedicated to promoting contemporary female, non-binary and transgender artists. Basta Now is essentially a huge (yet admittedly not definitive) overview of 2…
Sonoton 60 (Book)
The book, a celebration of the German production music library’s 60th birthday, is a collaborative venture between the label and Disco Pogo.
We Know How To Hate - The Opus De Society story (Book)
Before the internet collapsed distances and democratized distribution, the international noise underground operated through an intricate web of mail-order catalogs, hand-dubbed cassettes, and photocopied fanzines. Labels emerged from bedrooms and basements, their catalogs circulating through postal networks that connected isolated outposts of extreme sound across continents. Few figures navigated this world as actively as Frans de Waard, and few labels embodied its uncompromising spirit as purel…
1995-2001 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications
This book surveys the final six years of Het Apollohuis, the alternative art space founded by artists Paul and Hélène Panhuysen in 1980 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The rarest volume in the series - printed in only 500 copies, compared to the 1000-1500 print runs of the previous volumes. Housed in a former cigarette factory, Het Apollohuis produced exhibitions, concerts, installations, lectures, and publications concerned with experimental, interdisciplinary, and interactive art. Much of the work …
1990-1995 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications
1990-1995 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications Het Apollohuis. 152 page A4 size book with photos and comprehensive documentation of all exhibitions, concerts, performances, installations and lectures that took place between 1990 and 1995. Essential archive of one of Europe's most significant experimental venues. David Behrman, Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Terry Fox, Phill Niblock, Noise-Maker's Fifes, Joe Jones, Jim O'Rourke, Rhys Chatham and many more extraordinary art…
Fiddler's Green 9: Akashic Ashcan (Magazine + 7" Flexi)
Our ninth issue, also known as “Akashic Ashcan,” published August 2025. Fiddler’s Green 9 features copper titling, a cover drawn by Arik Roper, and 56 pages of art and magic, including reviews, a letters column, and the following: Cover Notes, Dendrites and the Erstwhile Knight. Fanfare for the Common Mage: A Farewell to Abra-Melin, Editorial by Clint Marsh. Anarcho-Oneiric Quietism: A Manifesto, by Seán Martin Reburying the Past: The Witch Bottles of Coggeshall, by Emma-Grace Clarke, illustrat…
Suivez Ma Trace / Track Me Down
*Text in French and English*  Ross Bolleter's latest collection of poems draws on his experience as a musician/composer especially in the field of ruined piano, and includes tributes to Thelonious Monk and other luminaries who have inspired him over a lifetime of musical and poetic creation. This new book explores the themes of childhood, eros, love, death—and football.
La Dernière Croisade
*Text in French*  In a country sinking into civil war, a man wants to avenge his daughter's death. He is joined in his fight by a few desperados... A censored artist, self-produced musician, director, illustrator, writer, and provocative performer, Jean-Louis Costes (born in 1954) is a cult figure of the underground.
Le Diamant De L'Herbe
*Text in French*  A short story by Xavier Forneret, set to music by Nurse With Wound. A wealthy Romantic, Xavier Forneret published his writings and theater at his own expense. Legend has it that he fell asleep every night in an ebony coffin, which André Breton later opened to recognize one of Lautréamont's precursors. Could Le diamant de l'herbe, a short story here set to music by Nurse With Wound, seems to prove him right...
The Odessey
2025 stock To mark the 50th anniversary of the recording of their classic Odessey and Oracle album, The Zombies have assembled an eclectic collection of rare and unseen photos, original artwork and personal memories that offer readers an intimate snapshot of one of the more influential bands to emerge from the UK music scene of the 1960s. The superbly illustrated book includes handwritten lyrics for 22 songs. From early hits “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” through every song on Odessey and …
Mouans-Sartoux, Paris, Eschenau, Digne-Les-Bains, Trédrez-Locquémeau
Bilingual Edition French/English This book is a visual and geographical journey through the artist's work and exhibitions, enriched by five original samples—olive leaves, charcoal, street paper, earth and seaweed—inserted and activated by hand according to the artist's recommendations. In 2024 and 2025, the Espace de l'Art Concret, the Dourven Gallery, the Aline Vidal Gallery, and the Gassendi Museum presented the work of Herman de Vries, reflecting their long-standing relationships with the art…
Sudden Music
Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity.Improvisation is everywhere, says David Rothenberg, and his book is a testament to its creative, surpris…
From This World, Another
From This World, Another marks the first release for Terra Nova Editions, a new series of books not available from our usual distribution channels. This book is published along with a new album of music, recorded remotely during the pandemic, by David Rothenberg and Stephen Nachmanovitch, two veteran improvisors who also have written books on improvisation and the creative process. What started out as liner notes just got longer and longer… Stephen and David share an affinity for improvising mus…
Errant Sound Reader – Thoughts and Practices from the Berlin Artist-Run Space (Book)
Errant Sound Reader brings together essays, interviews and documentation of projects by artists and researchers associated with Errant Sound, an artist-run space in Berlin. Since 2014, Errant Sound has been an active part of Berlin's independent art scene, supporting work in sound art and experimental sonic practices. Over the years this has included a range of exhibition projects, performance events, discursive formats, and collaborative initiatives that investigate sound in diverse ways and th…
Oacis
**2025 Stock** As regards content, acoustics and optics, raster-noton.oacis goes beyond the momentary. The texts by top writers like Rob Young (The Wire), Pinky Rose, Peter Kraut (NZZ) and Martin Pesch (e.g. Frieze, Spex, Kunstforum) examine how raster-noton works on the cutting edge of electronic music, computer graphics and video animation, with which supreme ease the label moves between pop/club culture and the fine arts. The creative cover flap includes a CD with audiotracks and multimedia d…
Flitting Splits Reverb Adage (Book)
An assignment: find the titles of Rob Mazurek’s records and the names of his bands. Put them in a line. Now tell me he’s not a poet. Mazurek is a bona fide polymath. He thinks in multiple media. One modality bleeds into another, the musical into the visual into the verbal. And they are cumulative, as seen and heard and read in these beautiful poems. Colors explode, repetitions draw musicality out of words, text refers to the shape of a sound. Conjuring a cosmic sonosphere, the sound-crust on the…
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