Harkening Critters
Forms Of Minutiae presents 'Harkening Critters', the label’s second non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions highlighting, this time, the incredible variety of animal signals.
Frogs, a Selection of Field Recordings
Tip! *Much needed Repress!!!* About 10 years ago I tried to contact Dutch artist and scientist Felix Hess, when he was still alive, but never got a reply. Years later, in 2022, I was talking to Frans de Waard, who told me he was administering the sou…
Mess (Akt IV)
150 copies made available for international distribution, limited LP edition including an insert with drawings, score and notes. Over the past two years, Lorenzo Abattoir's work has focused on researching various breathing and amplification technique…
Transcendental Meeting at Hatagaya
Jared Carrigan plays synthesizer and sampler. Yuya Oguma plays bass guitar with effects. Zefan Sramek plays synthesizer with looper and effects. Recorded at Forestlimit in Hatagaya, Tokyo. Mastered by Taku Unami. "I bathe in the lake and walk through…
Footprint
Tip! Limited edition. Stunning tape by Tomonao Koshikawa (of Takehisa Kosugi, East Bionic Symphonia and Marginal Consort fame), mastered by Taku Unami. Falling somewhere in liminal space between cosmic music, drone, and musique concrète, with immersi…
Turning Porous
As part of the upcoming solo exhibition and publication “on becoming amphibian”, forms of minutiae and Galería Vilaseco present "turning porous", a gathering of amphibious and hydrographic acoustics by field recordist, artist, and forms of minutiae’s…
Premonitions
*60 copies limited edition* “Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark cl…
Caverne Sonore
A collaborative effort between Italian's two best record labels, Black Sweat and Holidays
Sounds Of The Sea Vol. 1: Underwater Sounds Of Biological Origin
2024 stock. Did you know that cancer crabs are great percussionists, as are catfish, snapping shrimp, drum fish and black croakers? Hear the noises of our underwater friends, recorded at depths of from five feet to two thousand fathoms below by the N…
Upstream Ensemble
Edition of 100. forms of minutiae and TBA21–Academy present "upstream ensemble", a communal happening and aqueous sound piece initiated and composed by field recordist, artist, and f–o–m co-founder Pablo Diserens. During the 2022/23 digital residenc…
The Great Animal Orchestra (Book)
2024 stock. Hardcover. Since the 1970s, California-based bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause (born 1938) has recorded more than 5,000 hours of natural habitats, including at least 15,000 terrestrial and marine species from all around the world.…
Melt
In 2020, Pali Meursault and Thomas Tilly collaborated to create Radio Glaces, a fourteen-part sound collection featuring recordings of glaciers in the Alps and testimonies from people who have a close relationship with this environment: glaciologists…
Éclipse des Ocelles
An absolutely stunning debut by Roxane Métayer - reissued in a limited edition of 150 vinyl copies by Morc Records - 'Éclipse des Ocelles' is the perfect European counterpoint to Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad, and so much more. Combining field recordin…
Singing The World Into Existence
2023 stock, very rare All of these Apollo albums have a tendency towards the odd, but this is one of the more eccentric. During 1990 and 1991, Paul Panhuysen "collaborated" with a group of canaries, keeping them in his studio, and featuring them as p…
Il Calore Animale + Zoomachia
Ginevra Bompiani (w/ Caterina Barbieri and Tomoko Sauvage) - Il Calore Animale / Francesco Cavaliere - Zoomachia Disc 1
After some brilliant releases by Soundwalk Collective over the last few years, Dischi Fantom returns with the first two installm…
Catorce Reflexiones Sobre el Fin
** Edition of 300. Comes with green inner sleeve ** Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin (Fourteen Reflections On The End) originated from an installation exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019. Fourteen magnetic bodies o…
Sounds From Dangerous Places
Two CDs and a 90 page hardback book with photos, info and interviews from audio documenter and experimenter Peter Cusak, recording in Chernobyl, The Caspian Oilfields, and various dangerous locations in the UK. The Chernobyl disaster of 26th April 19…
Seven Sounds, Seven Circles
* 2023 stock, reduced price. Sold out at the source, last copies around * Mindblowing artist's book that houses seven CDs that were the audio accompaniment to German conceptual artist Lothar Baumgarten's 2009 exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Au…
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 f…
Bodies of Water
In what can only be described as one of the most unique and engrossing releases we’ve encountered all year, the Zurich based Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies delvers “Bodies of Water”, a triple LP box set gathering the entirety of their trilo…