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Peculiar Songs
** Edition of 200 ** Andrea Tippel was born in 1945 in Hirsau in the Black Forest and grew up as the middle of three sisters in Bremen. Her parents were the architects Maria Alexandra Mahlberg and Klaus Tippel. In 1971, Tippel moved to Berlin and began creating drawings, objects, composites, texts and books, as well as a few oil paintings. Tippel was appointed as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 1997 and co-founded the Dieter Roth Academy (DRA) in 2000. She passed a…
The Long String Instrument
**Very rare original 1985 LP drone masterpiece, few copies available. Minor wear is possible due to long storage** Ellen Fullman (b. Memphis, Tennessee, 1957) is a composer. Known principally for music she has written for an instrument she invented, the long string instrument, Fullman studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has performed with the Deep Listening Band and Paul Panhuysen. “The Long String Instrument (LSI) produces a unique almost orchestral sound, based on the overt…
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Long String Installations 1982-1985
**Rare original, few copies available** 3LP boxset with 40 pages booklet in English with artwork and photos, by Paul Panhuysen and Johan Goedhart which compiles several performances and installations by this two artists around Europe. Born 1934, Panhuysen was heavenly involved with the fluxus-related "De Bende Van De Blauwe Hand" before founding the Maciunas quartet. Increasingly concentrated in sound-art, he went on to produce the remarcable sound installations known as "Long String Installatio…
Strategic Structures
Strategic Structures unites Kat Epple, Bob Stohl, and Robert Rauschenberg in a 1989 suite where metallic sculptures and lush electronics intertwine. The album’s twenty-nine-minute arc traverses foreboding and angelic timbres, forging a resonant dialogue between new age ambience and avant-garde architectural sound.​
Headcrash
Headcrash is the final result of a series of live performances called “Quad Core”, brought to audiences all around Europe and further, and finally recorded at Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels) in the summer of 2016. This project interacts with computer data storage devices as a raw material to produce unpredictable instruments. Four hard-drives are used as turntables, hacked in many different ways and picked up with several magnetic sensors. Technically, the computer is controlling the hard-drives v…
Rebel Dabble Babble: Four Audio Works
Rebel Dabble Babble: Four Audio Works is a four LP collection featuring audio from Rebel Dabble Babble (2012), a multi-part video work and installation by artists Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy. Paul McCarthy has been involved with the Los Angeles Free Music Society for the past 40 years, notably being a member of Extended Organ, one of the "core" LAFMS groups. The project is an abstracted, layered piece, using the rumors of sexual relationships between the cast and crew during the making o…
Saying Water
Artist Roni Horn performs a 61 minute monologue reading from her writings on water. a monologue that she performed at the exhibition's opening, literary allusions became discursive. Dressed in black jacket and pants, she assumed the mannered cadence of a poet, showing slides and interrogating her work, her viewers, and herself. Emphasizing in her poses the androgyny of her name, her self-conscious attitude shifted to become by turns conversational, anecdotal, and seductive. Paired with the non-n…
Apollo And Marsyas: Het Apollohuis 1980-1997 An Anthology Of New
A special bundle edition for this double CD-set with accompanying 4 books that provide an outline of the programme series as het Apollohuis from the fall of 1980 to the mid 90s. Four catalogues and the two discs with thirty-eight excerpts are arranged in chronological order and give a truthful and appealing view of the width, the depth and the diversity of the concert programme of Het Apollohuis. The CDs feature Derek Bailey / Ernst Reijseger, Tom Johnson, David Gibson, Group 180, Rolf Juliu…
Australian Sound Sculptures
A pioneering testament to environmental sound art of the 1970s and 1980s
The Edison Effect: A Listener's Companion
Comes with a 22-page booklet in a two-panel Digipak sleeve. Paul DeMarinis presents a companion work to his acclaimed sound installation The Edison Effect, where ancient phonograph records, wax cylinders, and even holograms of records are played with laser beams instead of needles. This recording explores the archaeology of sound reproduction technologies, creating a dialogue between Edison's mechanical cylinders and contemporary digital audio. In the original installation, one of the most poeti…
Number Made Audible
Named in tribute to Fluxus-founder George Maciunas, the Maciunas Ensemble's Number Made Audible stands as one of the most radical documents of sound art to emerge from the Netherlands in the 1990s. Originally released by Het Apollohuis in 1993, this CD captures eleven pieces that transform numerical relationships into living sound through invented instruments: Duochords, Spring Strings, Musical Bows, Guitars with Tails, Tubular Aluminum Monochords. Founded in 1968 by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha a…
Dark by 6
Five installations by Ernie Althoff