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Calling
The first visual book on the massively influential musician and interdisciplinary artist whose six-decade oeuvre unites music, movement and art
Drumming
Beautiful invitation in the form of a small leporello to the presentation of the release of the 2LP+score edition of Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece Drumming at the Denise René / Hans Mayer Gallery in 1972.
Drumming
Spectacular first numbered and signed edition of the score of Steve Reich's minimalist masterpiece published by John Gibson in 1971 and printed in the form of a leporello to accompany the 2LP recording of that wonderful piece.
Ausstellung un konzert John Cage April/Mai 1978
Mailed copy of rare invitation card for a series of exhibitions and concerts by John Cage through Germany in 1978 ilustrated with a score.
Ausstellung un konzert John Cage April/Mai 1978
Rare poster for a series of exhibitions and concerts by John Cage through Germany in 1978 ilustrated with a score.
Notations
Rare 1969 first hard-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, La Monte Young, etc.
Notations
Rare 1969 first soft-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, La Monte Young, etc.
Due Qui / To Hear (Box, Art Edition)
Art Edition. 150 copies in limited collector’s edition. Box set including 7 drawings printed on tracing paper + scores. The compositions by Massimo Bartolini, Caterina Barbieri, Gavin and Yuri Bryars and Kali Malone featured in the score, published by SZ Sugar and designed by Studio Folder, were initially conceived to occupy the spaces of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Art Biennale in Venice and contribute to Massimo Bartolini's own artistic project as an integral part of the works Pensive Bod…
Due Qui / To Hear
Softcover, 24 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm. The compositions by Massimo Bartolini, Caterina Barbieri, Gavin and Yuri Bryars and Kali Malone featured in the score, published by SZ Sugar and designed by Studio Folder, were initially conceived to occupy the spaces of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Art Biennale in Venice and contribute to Massimo Bartolini's own artistic project as an integral part of the works Pensive Bodhisattva on A Flat, Due qui and A veces ya no puedo moverme. The exhibition project D…
Graphème Vol.3 (Book)
We are proud to present to you the third edition of Graphème: another series of graphic and experimental music scores by composers from a variety of backgrounds and experience. Each composer offers a rigorous conceptual framework and provides an often sensual dialog between composer, performer, sound and space in spirit of collaborative creativity. The pieces here represent imaginative and inventive ways to notate a musical vision, making use of innovative approaches – photographic representatio…
All Variations Are Valid, Including this One
*2023 stock* Esther Ferrer, in fifty years of dedication to art, has assembled a multidisciplinary and profoundly critical body of work in the tradition of process art, redrawing the boundaries of language and time, placing the body in the center, and then turning it into both subject and object. This catalog reproduces a good number of the scores of Esther Ferrer, as well as a CD with sound works. Special care has also been taken in the covers of the book, of which more than 40 different versio…
Unfinished Descriptions
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* For her first solo exhibition at Hundred Years Gallery, Tomoko Hojo explores the relationship between voices missing from the archive through photographs, objects, scores and sounds. Based on Yoko Ono’s historical exhibition Unfinished Paintings and Objects at Indica Gallery, London, 1966, this show Unfinished Descriptions focuses on undocumented works and highlights silenced parts of that exhibition and Yoko Ono herself. These works explore the relationship bet…
The Guests Go in To Supper (Book)
Rare 1st edition from 1986. Nearly 400 pages, large size, paperbound, smythe-sewn. Texts, scores and ideas of 7 American composers using language in composition: John Cage (Mushrooms et Variationes), Robert Ashley (Improvement), Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Charles Amirkhanian, Michael Peppe, and Kenneth Atchley. Published by Burning Books, 1986. Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan, Kathleen Burch and Michael Sumner. Introductions by Charles Shere and Frances Butler.
Two Sisters
** Exclusive coil bound 52 page A4 landscape score book to full album ** The new album from Sarah Davachi on her own Late Music imprint is a collection of nine extended compositions for chamber ensemble and solo pipe organ.  "The expanded instrumentation on this album includes carillon (a keyboard instrument comprised of very large cast-iron bells), choir, string quartet, low woodwinds, and trombone quartet, alongside sine tones and electronic drones.  Among the pipe organs featured on the album…
Walking from Scores (Book)
An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.
Roygbiv&b (Book)
*Artist book, foil-stamped cover* Roygbiv&b is Marina Rosenfeld’s first book publication, documenting her performance of the same name, and includes gate-fold renderings of the score pages, a “User’s Manual” by the artist, photos from the several performances of the work, and a foreword by musicologist Benjamin Piekut. 
The performance was Rosenfeld’s contribution to the exhibition Instructions Lab at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) in 2011.  A punning riff on spectral composition, the score from …
Lampo Folio
*In process of stocking.* The Lampo Folio is a collection of text-based scores from ten interdisciplinary artists who are all engaged on some level with sound and language. Each commissioned work is published in the form of instructions that can be used to enact a personal, possibly intimate performance at home. Taken together, these scores also suggest the prospect of repeatable, even synchronous performances by others. The Lampo Folio creates new stages within domestic spaces, and is a means f…
Graphème Vol.1 (Book)
Smallest Functional Unit was founded in 2020 by Ute Wassermann, Tony Buck, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas and Racha Gharbieh with the aim of performing and publishing unconventional, hybrid notational formats and graphic scores by international composers. The publication will appear as Graphème, a series with a thematic focus on experimental notation.
Selected Graphic Scores
Edition of 50 copies, Special Edition, Carboard box with 17 sheets Graphic Scores. This edition is published on the occasion of Alan Courtis’s exhibition, “Graphic Scores” on March 2-10, 2018.
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