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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.
The Performative Word (Book)
The first monograph on John Giorno (1936-2019), poet, performer and activist who brought the written word off the page and into life. Accompanying the MAMbo Bologna retrospective, it maps six decades of radical practice at the crossroads of poetry, art and political action.
Air Maul - An Arnold Schönberg, 5860 Canyon-Cove, Hollywood, CA (2LP)
A strange 2LP compilation released by Murawski-Zimmermann Verlag in 1988 as a hommage to Arnold Schönberg, with piece for voices and intruments by Hans-Joachim Hespos, Howard Skempton, Dieter Schnebel, Christian Wolff, Michael Rumpf and Kurt Schwitters. With insert.
Die On Me
Originally released on CD in 2002, this LP features archival recordings dating back to 1959 alongside recordings made by Hal Willner in January 2001 (Jan 7th - 10th). For the fi rst time ever on vinyl, `Die On Me' has been re-mastered & newly edited by Kramer. Within this historic collection are the last voice recordings of the legendary Beat poet Gregory Corso. Intimate and raw, he muses on his life in conversation with friends Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Faithfull, and the legendary Chicago write…
Wildlife & it's Results
The tape Wildlife & it’s Results by Sue Fishbein, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, captures a collage-based soundpiece from early 1980s San Francisco. A key figure in the mail art network, Fishbein constructs an aural patchwork where found sound, irony, and cultural debris converge into a sharp yet playful critique of everyday noise.
Dick Higgins
This tape by Dick Higgins, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a 1977 interview conducted by Michael Gibbs in Barton, Vermont. A crucial Fluxus figure, Higgins reflects on intermedia, publishing, and experimentation, creating a vivid self-portrait where personal recollection and artistic theory flow into one another.
Ulises Carrion
The self-titled tape by Ulises Carrión, reissued by Counter Culture Chronicles, revisits his elusive Trios & Boleros, a work once privately circulated. Here, Carrión reimagines popular form through a deconstructed lens, where fragments of music and voice are refracted into conceptual gestures that linger between intimacy, satire, and radical sonic experimentation.
Morgen II
Morgen II by Pier van Dijk and Robert Joseph revives the radical Dutch sound poetry of the 1980s. This tape, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a sprawling word-piece where language fractures, collides, and reforms, blurring the divide between voice and noise, gesture and rhythm, memory and rupture.
Sound Proof.
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is honored to announce the release of Gedichte, a rare collection of surrealistic poetry by legendary artist Meret Oppenheim. These German-language poems reveal an intimate dimension of the visionary who revolutionized modern art with her provocative sculptures and conceptual works. Best known for her iconic Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) - the fur-covered teacup that became synonymous with Surrealist art - Oppenheim's literary voice demonstrates the s…
Hideki Nakazawa Music Works Concert
2013 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "This is the complete, uncut recording of the concert of the same name, held in the Music Hall of Kichijoji Art Museum on December 8, 2012. All of the tunes were composed by visual artist Hideki Nakazawa under the banner of "methodicism." Pieces using two different systems--polyphonic tunes created from the Japanese syllabary, and instrumental pieces for solo performance--were performed alternately. Polyphonic tunes like "Japanese Syllabic Invention in Two Voice…
Mégapneumes + Wolman Et Son Double (2LP Bundle)
Gil J. Wolman's Alga Marghen collection documents the radical origins of sound poetry. Mégapneumes and Wolman Et Son Double reveal the Lettrist pioneer's organic infra-language and doubled consciousness explorations - essential documentation of the 20th century's most undervalued sonic revolutionary, finally receiving rightful recognition.
Mégapneumes
Gil J. Wolman's revolutionary Mégapneumes reveals the radical origins of sound poetry. This essential collection documents the Lettrist pioneer's organic infra-language from 1960s recordings, including material found on his tape recorder after death - anticipating Chopin and Gysin by a decade
Euforia ( Book)
Bilingual edition (English / Italian) 24 x 30 cm (softcover) 304 pages (ill.) Euforia is a comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work and artistic activities of Tomaso Binga (pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, Salerno, 1931), a central figure in Italian visual and sound poetry, performance, and feminist art. Since 1971, Binga has adopted a male pseudonym as a critical gesture to expose and parody the privileges of men within the art world, using irony and paradox to question inherited str…
Blanksmanship
Edition of 200 copies, hand-stamped sleeve, 24-page booklet. The first ever reissue of 1994 sound poetry masterpiece Blanksmanship, a high point in the work of legendary avant-garde poet and artist John M. Bennett. Editions Basilic and Luna Bisonte Prods previously collaborated on »A Flattened Face Fogs Through: Selected Sound Poetry (1986-1994)«, an anthology of Bennett’s sound poetry released in 2022 to widespread acclaim.
John M. Bennett’s Blanksmanship is a totemic representation of someth…
Ursonate
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Jaap Blonk's Ursonate, featuring the complete text-sound work by artist Kurt Schwitters. Blonk first recorded the canonical Dada poetry piece in 1986, released as an LP on BVHAAST, Willem Breuker's label. He has returned to the work multiple times over the ensuing decades, and this incredible new recording shows his deepening understanding of the pioneering work. Blonk writes in the liner notes: "Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) wrote his Ursonate or Sonate in Urlauten ('…
Opera Poesia
Gatefold LP, w/ 52 pages book including scans of Tomaso Binga's original poem scores from 1976 to 2023. Italian and English. Offset printing. Limited edition of 350 copies. Opera Poesia is the first comprehensive audio collection of Tomaso Binga's poems performed by the artist. The practice of Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, b. 1931) is embedded in the language of visual and sound poetry, aimed at observing and questioning the idea of gender. Her practice explores the rights, social role…
Extrasussurrante
An updated companion to "Architettura Sussurrante" the curious sound experiment by Alessandro Mendini. 70 minutes of brand new and unreleased music. Digipak comes with 16-page full color booklet, documenting Mendini's sound collaborations with critical texts and rare pictures. Also, Mauro Sabbione (who composed the track Casa Mia using fragments of the Mendini’s op-ed) offers an expanded and oblique version that this time around takes advantage of the entire transcript. On both tracks, one relea…
Micro Poems
Micro Poems is the latest release by Andreas Bülhoff and Marc Matter. It is also the first release on the new imprint Spoken Matter that focuses on language-based sound works and sonic poetry. Four years after their first exploration of condensed meaning making with their release Of/Off, this record radicalises the concept of stupendous repetitions of isolated and ambiguous words by embracing the capability of the vinyl medium and the particularity of closed locked grooves, impossible on any oth…
Aussicht - Absicht - Einsicht: 25 Jahre Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie
2025 Stock, rare and out of print compilation. 2CD Recordings from the "Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie", an annual conference of worldwide visual and phonetic poets started in 1978 in Bielefeld, Germany. Performances & contributions by Gerhard Rühm, Carlfriedrich Claus, Henri Chopin, Jeremy Adler, Bernard Heidsieck, Franz Mon, Hartmut Geerken, Friedrich Achleitner, Ernst Jandl, Pierre & Ilse Garnier, Robert Lax, Valeri Scherstjanoi.
When the Bielefeld Colloquium Neue Poesie was founded in 19…
Pensieri 17-23
Tip! Recorded Between 2017 and 2023 in Rome, Drawing by Vito Stassi, Master by Polysick. Limited Edition Cassette. Giulia Crispiani is a writer and visual artist based in Rome. Her practice brings together her backgrounds in industrial design, object making, philosophy and art theory, which are manifested in live and printed formats such as performances and publications.