Mono Fluido
"Mono Fluido' collects two major compositions from Christina Kubisch which, until now, have been unreleased. Extensive liner notes and & photographs detail the origins of the work. Heavy drones and deep emotions run through these newly discovered pieces." In 1980, the deeply fascinating sound artist Christina Kubisch made some professional recordings in an Italian studio for the soundtrack of Fabrizio Plessi's 'Liquid Movie'. She returned to the sounds in '81, mostly field recordings of swinging…
Lautlos (Book)
Hardcover, 126 pages. English/German. This publication is an encounter between the works of two artists from different generations, who never met personally although both spent time in Berlin. Rolf Julius, who was born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven and died in 2011 in Berlin, worked in the tradition of a "music for eyes and ears." Nina Canell, born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, belongs to a younger generation of artists whose three-dimensional work has an emphatically non-monumental quality. With an acut…
The Sound Sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet (Book)
This book is a classic in the history of art. In it François Baschet recounts the research and creation of his Sound Sculptures, with which he began a pioneering career combining art and science, sculpture and music. The willingness to share his findings inspired another breakthrough: participatory exhibitions, spaces where everyone could explore and play with sound. François Baschet’s conception of acoustics—a method of understanding the functional relations between form, matter, action and sou…
Für den Blick Nach Unten (Book)
German/English. First edition. Softcover. 36 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 11 through April 22, 2007. From the exhibition press release Rolf Julius is one of the most important representatives of contemporary sound art. His nuanced, mostly small-format sound installations explore the visibility of sounds, the audibility of images and the aesthetic and ontological potential of silence in the most subtle way. Since the 1960s, Julius, a constant border crosser between music a…
Schwarz Bleibt Stumm. (Book)
German, English. Rolf Julius's rare exhibition catalogue. Paperback, 22 cm, 79 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations.
Small Music (Book)
Rolf Julius has frequently been compared to John Cage for his attempts of integrating the world of common noises into the realm of sounds. "The surface of a sound interests me. Is it round or angled, grinding and raw, or smooth, etc." Julius thus creates extraordinary sound installations which can be described as "music for the eyes" and have secured him an unmistakeable place in the spectrum of contemporary art.
Walzer Für Ein Dreieck
Art-Record / Handmade Art Edition of 100 Copies in Box with 4 Prints & 2 Inserts. This is the first vinyl record by the legendary Rolf Julius (1939-2011) whose work is largely focused on “small music”, or sounds so subtle they’re barely discernible. One of the most significant artists in the border areas of music and fine art, Julius, like John Cage, works with the term of "silence", and sound is a liminal listening experience. The sounds in Julius' works have spatial and physical qualities such…
Sacratávica
Recently created Guatemalan label Identidata is extremely proud to present "Sacratávica", the very first collected survey of Joaquín Orellana’s avant-garde / modern classical compositions. With a career spanning over 50 years of activity across contemporary art, performance, theater and sound art, Orellana is a highly singular figure in Guatemalan culture.
Stratosphere Sound -Last Tracks-
Limited 100 copies with download cord. Toukaseibunshi is Hironari Iwata's solo project. 1985-1988, 2009-2018. He died in 2018. He is musician & photographer. And He runs self label "Angakok", in 80's. His solos always featured a "stratosphere"sound. It was dazzling, deep, sometimes sad, and filled with endless hopes and prayers. These 3 tracks are his last recordings. It's so cool and emotional, deep drone music.
Recorded 2017, his last recordings. Limited to 100 copies.
"Toukaseibunshi (Perme…
Fiction of the Physical
Crystalline examples of Zweig’s aesthetic and brilliance...A labyrinth of sound worth getting lost in
Tonarm, P.S.
Edition of 50 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Anna Schimkat (b 1974) is a Darmstadt born media artist and trained sculptress, living and working in Leipzig, Saxony since 2006. The first side of this release documents one of Schimkat's site specific sound installations, one of her main fields of work during the past years. »Spinhouse« is based on a 4-channel live installation, which took place in Dresden in 2014. The piece was created from and with the inherent sounds of the office build…
Primal Energies (Book)
The first survey of sculptures and installations by sound-art pioneer Bill Fontana
Xong Collection
This bundle offers a selection of the latest releases in the Xong series - and it includes the following:
Margherita Morgantin: Cosmic Silence 5, fluorescence 4 (White LP)
Romeo Castellucci, Scott Gibbons Il Terzo Reich (White LP)
Luciano Maggiore : Very Cheap Non-human Animal Imitations (White LP)
Lydia Mancinelli, Marcello Maloberti Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020. Lydia Mancinelli Legge Marcello Maloberti (White LP)
Kinkaleri, Jacopo Benassi : Once More (White LP)
Cosmic Silence 5, fluorescence 4
** Collector’s editions of 15 copies with a limited edition artwork by Margherita Morgantin: an eV (electronvolt) scalimeter in stainless steel with fluorinated enamel, size 3.5 x 27 cm. ** Xing presents the new LP Cosmic Silence 5, fluorescence 4 by Margherita Morgantin with Ilaria Lemmo and Beatrice Goldoni, sixth release of XONG collection – artist’s records
The release is on clear/white marble vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 15 copi…
Batterie Fragile
Tip! London based Valentina Magaletti, is a composer, producer and percussionist experimenting with new materials and sounds. She is one of the most prominent musicians of the wide experimental world. The prolific drummer collaborates with many musicians and releases albums in all musical directions (from noise to jazz by way of dub…). She was part of the acclaimed duo Tomaga. Lately Valentina Magaletti collaborates with Joao Pais Filipe, Lafawndah, Marlene Ribeiro among many others and she is p…
Atavist
* edition of 77 copies * Atavist is a limited edition handmade record. The record is constructed from wood glue poured over and then dried on top of a master record. Atavist is a unique listening experience where the medium itself directly affects the sound and composition of the record. As a result, Atavist creates an auditory landscape that has been eroded by time. An ancestral recollection discovered in an unremembered closet. A whispered voice emerging from a forlorn past. -Leicht
Anthony Ja…
Sonambient : Recordings of Harry Bertoia
* Deluxe metallic cardstock box, tip-on LP jackets, 11xLP standard weight LPs, 80-page book * Harry Bertoia’s Complete Sonambient LP Collection, featuring all 11 of Bertoia’s original records newly restored from their master tapes and housed in replica jackets. A deluxe box, printed with metallic inks and tip-on style print assembly, holds the 11 discs as well as a 80 page book containing a lengthy historic essay, Smithsonian interview with Harry Bertoia, exclusive Sonambient era material from t…
Temporary Audiosculptures And Artefacts
* 300 copies * Trying to set musical events in a sculptural form, the Düsseldorf/Wuppertal based artist and musician Detlef Funder (a.k.a. Konrad Kraft), develops the temporary audio-sculpture. Knowing that a tonal event can never take the materiality of a real sculpture, Konrad Kraft attempts this special transformation with the help of various elements. Human imaginativeness, time, as well as the tonal event itself are the elements for the listener to form an individual audio-sculpture and to …
Guitar Mural 1 feat. The Machines
Black Truffle is pleased to announce the first-ever vinyl reissue of Remko Scha’s Guitar Mural 1 featuring The Machines, originally published as a rare cassette edition by Taal Beeld Geluid in 1982. A computational linguist by profession, Scha played an important role in the development of sound, installation, and digital art in the Netherlands from the late 1970s onward, co-founding the performance and exhibition space Het Appolohuis in Eindhoven in 1980. Alongside Paul Panhuysen and Jan Van Ri…
Gradual Small Fires and a Bowl of Resonant Milk
Gradual Small Fires (and a Bowl of Resonant Milk), was commissioned by the university of Hong Kong’s new media school, and more specifically, the work was created initially for Daniel Libeskind’s building for the university’s CMC (Creative Media Center). For the grand opening of the building, several sound and new media artists were invited to create works on site. The work consisted of 5 different pieces – each object constructed of plexiglass, and each sound work anchored by a recording of a f…