Graphème Vol.2
* This second volume contains 12 new scores in full colour and in b&w as well as an insert poster score! * Welcome to the second instalment of Graphème, a publication for experimental and graphic music scores. As in the first edition, we find new ways to talk about organised sound and creative solutions to artistic questions and endeavours. In publishing a work like this, we hope to offer an alternative outlet for composers and performers to express, explore and publish their ideas in a direct …
Grammofon-Missionen - Swedish Jesus Music Aesthetics 1960 - 1990
With a preface by Johan Kugelberg and additional interviews by Emil Karlsson. This lavish coffee table book takes an in-depth visual look back at the amazing art and graphics of the so-called Swedish Gramophone Mission. The book presents the largest collection of Swedish Christian records from the 1960s -1980s ever amassed featuring 777 record covers, many of them extraordinary and surreal private/custom pressings.
Jam packed with lots of interviews, liner-notes and previously unpublished phot…
Spacescapes – Dance & Drawing since 1962 (Book)
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.Dance and drawing are intimately linked to the gesture that performs them. The dancing body creates a figure in space and leaves an impact on site, while the action of the artist sets a point into motion and captures an ephemeral event, which is reproduced in graphic or visual form. Throughout the 20th century, the performing and visual arts thus converged on many …
Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World (Book)
Last copies, long sold out at source. 504 Pages!| Scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from Bolivia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Switzerland and forty-six other countries discuss artistic expressions that may not make big headlines yet, but anticipate major changes to come. Produced in often times small studios from Jakarta to La Paz, Cape Town to Helsinki, these works experiment with the new possibilities of the Internet age and illuminate new spaces beyond the confines of commercialism, propag…
Written on The Wind (Book)
With clear references to navigation, Written On The Wind presents the work of Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942), one of the most significant artists of the past fifty years through his drawings, which are probably the least known aspect of his oeuvre. The exhibition, eschewing a chronological narrative, is an exhaustive survey of the works on paper in favour of an intimate look at the interests and obsessions of the artist, and offering a privileged insight into his work and his vision of the wor…
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio (Book + Dvd)
* Lucky restock, longtime sold out at source. Light wear on covers* This reference monograph (450 pages!), conceived in close collaboration with Vito Acconci, presents the whole of his work, starting at the end of the 60s until today's Acconci Studio projects. It includes descriptions of Acconci's audio pieces, performances, installations, films and diagrams along with an exhaustive chronology of works and bibliography, not to mention a DVD of 3 new 20 minutes long film-performances.
Scott: The Curious Life & Work of Scott Walker
** Hardcover edition ** The extraordinary personal and professional journey of Scott Walker who went from golden-voiced sixties pop-singer to iconoclastic musical adventurer. Author Paul Woods examines how the celebrated vocal range and philosophical concerns of Noel Scott Engel - aka Scott Walker - continue to challenge the accepted territory and subject matter of popular music.
The arrival of the Walker Brothers in Britain in the mid-sixties marked the first sighting of a long-haired American …
John Zorn
In Italian Una ricca monografia dedicata da Maurizio Principato a uno dei maggiori protagonisti della nuova musica, tra jazz, colta e sperimentazione. John Zorn è uno dei musicisti di punta della scena newyorkese e questo libro esplora per la prima volta l'intero universo del'artista americano, rivelandone la storia, la formazione e l'esemplare filosofia di vita. Una guida alla labirintica discografia, alle numerose collaborazioni, alle molteplici ispirazioni.
Demetrio Stratos. Scritti, documenti, testimonianze
In Italian Una ricca antologia definitiva curata da Claudio Chianura, rivolta a studiosi e appassionati, con alcuni testi inediti e diverse immagini, dedicata alla voce di Demetrio Stratos e alla sua originale ricerca musicale e antropologica. Testi di Demetrio Stratos, Gianni Sassi, GE Simonetti, Janete El Haouli, Paolo Tofani, Massimo Villa, Claudio Chianura, Daniela Ronconi, Gigliola Nocera, Franco Ferrero, Fatima Miranda... e molti altri.
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 (Book, Hardcover)
Artists, writers, musicians, choreographers and filmmakers explore the possibilities of data, digitization and algorithms at the dawn of computer technology
Writings
** 2023 Repress ** Writings is the first collection to widely survey the singular Tony Conrad polymath’s prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes fifty-seven pieces: essays originally published in small press magazines, exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and album liner notes, along with other previously unpublished texts. Conrad writes about his own work, with substantial contributions on The Flicker, …
Sonic Meditations (Book)
First published in 1971 and long out of print, 'Sonic Meditations' is now reprinted by Pauline Oliveros Publications & Ministry of Maåt Publications. 25 meditations for musicians of all ages and skill levels, to help them learn how to focus on, listen to, and produce sound naturally. An important work in the development of Oliveros' Deep Listening. A "must" for any music library!
"One of the most seminal works in late 20th century avant-garde musical thought, Sonic Meditations not only departs …
Nile Night: Remembered Texts from the Deep
Nile Night is a lovely new book of poems that also includes a cd of readings by Ione and music by Pauline Oliveros. 'Nile Night: Remembered Texts from the Deep' will move your mind with sounds, sensations and feelings; arousing your dreams and taking you far into that fabled land of Egypt. How fortunate for me that I shared one of these journeys with Ione and can find my own memories amplified as I dive into the depths of these writings. What an enrichment to have these poetic texts and to keep …
Call and Response (Book)
Seeing and imagining music in a pandemic: a dialogue of found scenes and inspired sounds between two protagonists of experimental music
Primal Energies (Book)
The first survey of sculptures and installations by sound-art pioneer Bill Fontana
By Alison Knowles: A Retrospective 1960-2022 (Book)
The first survey of the Fluxus cofounder’s prolific avant-garde output, from eight-foot-tall books to make-a-salad performances
Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking (Book)
Tip! 580 Pages. An anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking.Since the 1960s, the act of walking has provided a way for artists and musicians to escape the formality of the concert hall or institutional venue, engaging with shifting public spaces, natural environments, and the social and political sphere. Walking redefines notions of composer, performer, public, and music itself, while opening new modes …
Waters' Witness (Book)
An exploration of the soundscape of coastal cities by the French-Lebanese artist.
Listen – Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian (Book)
This oral autobiography of the underground experimentalist also serves as a history of the 1980s tape and electronic music scene in the US
Alvin Lucier’s Reflexive Experimental Aesthetics (Book)
Making audible what is usually inaudible, rendering sound visible in an unusual way, and facilitating a spatial experience of sound—this is what constitutes the pioneering work that makes Alvin Lucier one of the most important representatives of American music in the second half of the twentieth century. The stated aim of the study at hand is the detailed historical and theoretical exploration of Alvin Lucier’s work, with particular focus on his decidedly reflexive experimental aesthetics. The …