Polyphone (Book)
* Hardcover 16,5 x 23 cm 288 pages 67 color and b/w illustrations. German & French * The publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition brings together works by more than 20 international artists that focus on the encounter of multiple voices and sounds. Polyphone deals with perceptual aspects, as well as with the socio-cultural and political dimensions of polyphony. Here, polyphony refers to both the musical term and the linguistic definition according to Mikhail Bakhtin, who points to the a…
Anthology of Text Scores (Book)
* 2021 Stock * Pauline Oliveros s Anthology of Text Scores contains over one hundred pieces that span four decades of creative work. Collected in one comprehensive volume, these individual and group meditations, as well as solo and ensemble performance pieces are invaluable resources for performing musicians, music students, and anyone interested in the life work of one the most unique voices in modern music.
Anthology of Text Scores contains all but 4 of the pieces in Deep Listening Pieces (mi…
Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening (Book)
* 2021 Stock * Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening, edited by Monique Buzzarté and Tom Bickley, is timed to celebrate the 80th birthday of composer and Deep Listening Institute creator, Pauline Oliveros. Though three previous collections of Oliveros’s writings have already been published, this anthology is the first published presentation of the many voices of the broader Deep Listening community. The historical record of Deep Listening connects back to the early 1970s when Oliveros began an …
Compositions (Book)
** 2021 Stock. English version ** This publication explores the work of the acclaimed Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay (1955), presenting a selection of works focusing on his sound compositions, from graphic scores to video installations. In this artist’s book, he shows the relationship between sound and vision, exploring the ways that sound can be made visually manifest. As the artist himself has said: ‘music runs through almost everything I do’.
Teasing Chaos (Book)
Restock due soon * 224 pages 110 color and b/w illustrations * David Tudor (1926–1996) was one of the leading pianists and interpreters of contemporary music in Europe and the USA in the 1950s. His ability to respond to the indeterminate character of demanding scores by composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Christian Wolff and to execute their at times ambiguous instructions was unique and fascinated his contemporaries. In the early 1960s, he made the transition from interprete…
Communicate, How?: Paintings and Tapestries, 1967 - 1980 (Book)
* Exhibition catalogue. Limited edition. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, extensive and copiously illustrated, with texts by Evie Ward, John Corbett, Lisa Alvarado, Christina Forrer, Naima Karlsson* Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present Moki Cherry, Communicate, How?: Paintings and Tapestries, 1967-1980. Following Blank Forms’ exhibition in New York, which took an in-depth look at the Don Cherry and Moki Cherry partnership, Communicate, How? places the spotlight squarely on Moki, …
An Uncommon Music for the Common Man
* 2021 stock * Percussionist, Improviser and AMM founding member Eddie Prévost's fourth book presents a fascinating series of reflections and challenging insights on music in its various forms, and the development of improvised music at the intersection of contemporary compositional and conceptual forms; alongside a personal history of Prevost's life and his relationship with music.
"Part personal history, part provocation, here is a compelling book about musical improvisation. But it's also abo…
The First Concert: An Adaptive Appraisal of a Meta Music (Book)
* 2021 stock * Percussionist Eddie Prévost co-founded in the 1960s the seminal improvising music ensemble AMM. In this book he presents a very personal philosophy of music informed by his long working practice and inspired by the London weekly improvisation workshop he first convened in 1999. Perhaps controversially, this view is mediated through the developing critical discourse of adaptionism; a perspective grounded in Darwinian conceptions of human nature. Music herein is examined for its cog…
Wendy Carlos: A Biography
This book is the first full-length biography to be written about the American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (b. 1939). With her debut album, Switched-On Bach, Carlos brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer to a generation of listeners. She not only blazed new trails in electronic music for decades but also intersected with many aspects of American culture during the second half of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. Her story features an eclectic cast of chara…
Sound and light
* 2021 Repress * The first full-length book dedicated entirely to the work of La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. Includes essays and analyses by Mitchell Clark, Henry Flynt, Kyle Gann, Catherine Christer Hennix, Ben Neill, Robert Palmer, Terry Riley & John Schaefer with an introduction by the editors & writings by the artists.La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela have been pursuing their art for more than three decades. Together, they have created large-scale works for light and sound of many hours' d…
The Art of Sound
A celebration of the visual artistry behind the evolution of sound recording with specially commissioned photography of iconic, rarely-seen artefacts from the collections of the EMI Archive Trust
America Señores Naturales
** Artist book. Hardcover, 64 pages, 37 B&W illustrations, 16 color illustrations. ** America Señores Naturales retraces the history of one of Lothar Baumgarten’s most famous site-specific interventions from 1984, Señores Naturales, and uses it as a point of departure to explore some of the key concepts that have shaped his oeuvre. In a newly commissioned essay, “Ground, Map, Floor: The Site and the Subject of Lothar Baumgarten’s Señores Naturales”, author Joanna Vickery-Barkow retraces the imp…
Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation
Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practices zooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South Asian dance music and investigates sound as part of a wider assemblage of cultural technologies, politics and practices. Carla J. Maier investigates how sounds from Hindi film music tunes or bhangra tracks have been sa…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound.
Within the areas of musicology, art history, and, later, sound studies, Sound Art has evolved at least since the 1980s into a turbulant field of academic critique and a…
Mute Records : Artists, Business, History
Mute Records is one of the most influential, commercially successful, and long-lasting of the British independent record labels formed in the wake of the late1970’s punk explosion. Yet, in comparison with contemporaries such as Rough Trade or Stiff, its legacy remains under-explored. This edited collection addresses Mute’s wideranging impact. Drawing from disciplines such as popular music studies, musicology, and fan studies, it takes a distinctive, artist- led approach, outlining the history …
Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for the New Common Practice
The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the often daunting complexity and abundance of resources and influences that confront them as they work to achieve a personal expression.
From pop to classical, the book speaks to the creative ways that new composers mix and synthesi…
Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design
What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future? Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of "Sonic Labor." Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary "Living with Sounds." The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and…
Annihilating Noise
Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of understanding the unexpected, the dissonant, the unfamiliar.
It presents noise as a negativity with no fixed identity that can only be defined in connection and opposition to meaning and ord…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and c…
Three Essays on Spirituality and Art
A stunning marvel and the first text from the wild and wonderful mind of Henry Flynt, "Three Essays on Spirituality and Art", across 196 pages - issued in a beautifully produced edition of 500 copies - takes on a rarely explored subject in contemporary context, seeded in the anti-authoritarian positions that Flynt laid down at the dawn of Fluxus and has embraced ever since. Radical, vibrant, and fascinating, before us rests an essential illumination of the inner workings of one of the most impor…