Slot Machine Music, Vol. 1 & 2: Field Recordings from Middle American Casinos
"Video gambling addicts, academic researchers, and industry professionals alike describe the trancelike state into which problem gamblers suspend themselves with remarkable consistency: they unanimously call it the machine “zone,” a kind of inner experience during which the rhythmic flow of human-machine collusion borders on mysticism. Time is abolished in the act of contemporary video gambling—simulated slot reels roll, virtual poker decks deal, and all worldly concerns are lost—leaving only th…
Stillness in their isolation
low volume listening highly encouraged.
for a while now, i've been fascinated in the sensory threshold, the moment in between sensing or not, like when doing a hearing test; at one point you hear a sound and next you don't, but you're not quite sure. do you hear the beeps, something from outside or maybe something from inside yourself?
for this project, i wanted to try and recontextualize loud traffic and constant hum of air conditioning units into a quiet, nearly inaudible form as the hustle an…
Sédiment
*80 copies limited edition* I often went for walks in the Colonster woods; I always found the place quite mysterious, both in its light and its soundscapes. These soundscapes evolve as you walk through the woods, passing through its lights and fir forests crisscrossed by streams that guide you along the paths. For many months, I returned to this site, without necessarily having any expectation or goal other than to record improvisation sessions and soundscapes. For this project, I wanted to work…
Two museums
*80 copies limited edition* There is a science museum that was built when I was a child. It has an exhibition building and a planetarium. I visited it a lot at different times. Because it was built a long time ago, the atmosphere inside feels like going back decades. The dim lights, the seemingly endless winding corridors, the sound of the air conditioner working hard, the exhibits that’re not as new as before, all of these things make me imagine that building in a new way.. That imaginary build…
Heathen Muzak (7")
7" multi-axial scratched anti-record in 12" sleeve by Frans de Waard's experimental music project, released by RRRecords in 1989 in a numbered edition of 200 copies.
Travelogue: Thailand
The third in the Travelogue project on Touch. finds von Hausswolff and Shukla rounding off another whirlwind 9 days in Southeast Asia in the unusual setting of the Lanna Kingdom (Kingdom of a million rice fields) of Northern Thailand. A multifaceted location where Thailand shares borders with Myanmar, Laos and China in what is known as The Golden Triangle, a commercial trade zone between the nations. This frontier region is home to hill tribes, countless Buddhist monasteries, stupas, The Mekong …
Site Maps
Recorded over the course of many years on analog equipment at various locations in Arizona - Black Mesa, Dead Horse State Park Cemetery, Spring Creek Ranch, Badger Springs, #3 Tank, McElmo Canyon, red Rock State Park, Picture Canyon and Cornville ruins.
Hallways
*50 copies limited edition* Hello Spiral returns to the same North London block, the same triangulated geometry of balconies and courtyard, but with a shift of orientation. His previous record looked outward from the eighth floor, these four new recordings move inside, into the building’s arteries. Joe explores the hallways of the complex where he has lived and listened for years, using the same tool as before, an iPhone and its voice memo app. The recordings were made in situ, each exactly elev…
Sounds Of The Modern Hospital
Death Is Not The End reissue Mark Vernon's sought-after 2013 collection Sounds of a Modern Hospital on vinyl & cassette formats. Whilst every effort has been made to record the subject in as great a degree of isolation as possible, the sound recordings you will hear on this record were made in a real working hospital and not under controlled conditions. Therefore, on occasion, you may hear some unavoidable background noise, conversations and other extraneous sounds.
All recordings were made by M…
Australian Frogs 2
*2025 stock* A collection of the best recordings selected by the Dutch sound artist Felix Hess from his "Frogs" series featuring frog calls from around the world, released on cassette tapes, vinyl, and CD-Rs from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. A limited-edition pressed CD of this long-discontinued series, with new artwork by Sakura Kondo. It is a series that inspired the artist, who was a physicist studying the trajectory of boomerangs, to create sound works later in life. Australian Frogs …
Frog Night
*2025 stock* A collection of the best recordings selected by the Dutch sound artist Felix Hess from his "Frogs" series featuring frog calls from around the world, released on cassette tapes, vinyl, and CD-Rs from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. A limited-edition pressed CD of this long-discontinued series, with new artwork by Sakura Kondo. It is a series that inspired the artist, who was a physicist studying the trajectory of boomerangs, to create sound works later in life. Frog Night includ…
Palenque
*2025 stock* A collection of the best recordings selected by the Dutch sound artist Felix Hess from his "Frogs" series featuring frog calls from around the world, released on cassette tapes, vinyl, and CD-Rs from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. A limited-edition pressed CD of this long-discontinued series, with new artwork by Sakura Kondo. It is a series that inspired the artist, who was a physicist studying the trajectory of boomerangs, to create sound works later in life. Palenque is a rec…
Ecotonalities: No Other Home Than The In-Between
«I like to think of my microphones as musical instruments that are ‘played’ by the beings, elements, and objects in an environment.» — Ludwig Berger
Un Feu De Cheminée
Immerse yourself in the comforting atmosphere of an authenticopen fire with this original disc, unlike any other. This disc has been specially designed to recreate, with remarkable fidelity, the sound of a crackling, glowing wood fire in the hearth of an imaginary fireplace.
A Grammar for Listening
2008. Paris and Glasgow. Eric La Casa recording sounds for Luke Fowler's 16mm triptych. Not compositions but investigations into the infra-ordinary - that space-time at low intensity where background noise meets the inaudible. How to create a meaningful dialogue between looking and listening? This question drove Fowler's film cycle. La Casa's answer: find a listening point in relation to everything taking place. The microphones amplify all living substances in motion - from the interior of the b…
Two Intersecting Loops of Silence (10")
Two Intersecting Loops of Silence marks a contemplative chapter in the trajectory of Katja Mater, where silence and the perception of time are intimately entwined. Mater translates the invisible dimensions of temporal experience and stillness into a tactile, rhythmic form, engaging the listener in a careful dance between what is absent and what is present. The work, emerging partly in response to the altered rhythms of the pandemic era, actively invites reflection on linearity and cyclical repet…
WhiteOut
"Even without visiting a place, we often think we know it. It’s a syndrome of the modern age. The world is right before us, on screen, summarised and sensorially curated into a particular vision that casts light across ‘just so much’ of an impression of a place and a time. In some ways, I realised this phenomenon most strongly when I visited Antarctica in the summer of 2010. In my mind’s ear (and eye) certain features of that place were front and centre – imagined, as to be real. The stark colou…
Written Systems
*50 copies limited edition* "Written Systems" contains four new sonic poems by Alfredo Costa Monteiro based on speech synthesis, inspired by structural ideas in grammatology and linguistics. "Real Objects" is based on a sentence that is never heard in its entirety. Its fragments are revealed little by little over repetitions, offering a conceptual deconstruction. The absence of natural language’s continuity leads to an isolation of words from speech, converting them into real sonic objects. "Ins…
Terminal
*180 copies limited edition* "Several years ago, I walked away from a long-standing abusive relationship. The process of healing wasn’t linear, nor was it easy—but it began with something elegantly simple: walking. I spent countless hours walking through the city and in particular Point Pleasant Park, combing its rocky beaches searching for "sea brick" washed ashore. Over the course of 2 years, I collected 104 pieces of broken bricks. Each brick, a symbol of a week, a step, a moment of reclaimin…
Crying Glacier
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* 2025 was declared the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation by the United Nations, accompanied by the proclamation of March 21st of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting this year. As they put it, “this is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere…