Sound arts

 
 
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Makis Solomos - Pour une écologie de la musique et du son - Le vivant, le mental et le social dans la musique, les arts sonores et les artivismes d\'aujourd\'hui
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Charlemagne Palestine - The God Bear Archives 2 (2 CD)
2024
Matière Mémoire
forthcoming
Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.
Olivia Block - The Mountains Pass (vinyl LP)
2024
Black Truffle
forthcoming
A major work by the American sound artist and composer, the culmination of three years' work inspired by nature and the animal world, introducing her voice, but also drums, into her sound palette.
Marian Zazeela - Dream House 78\'17\
2024
Superior Viaduct
forthcoming
Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux.
Marian Zazeela - Dream House 78\'17\
2024
Superior Viaduct
forthcoming
Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux.
Magda Stawarska -
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
forthcoming
In this critical biography, Omar Kholeif offers an introductory field guide to Magda Stawarska's practice.
 The Rita - Correlations
2024
English edition
various
forthcoming
This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.
Jessica Ekomane - Octavia / Manifolds (vinyl LP)
2024
Shelter Press - Records
forthcoming
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Jessica Ekomane (explores the multiple possibilities of polyphonic writing) and Laurel Halo (for piano and electronics).
The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
forthcoming
The glass as a listening device.
OpticalSound
2024
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
forthcoming
Interviews with Michel Dector et Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Alice Dourlen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jim O'Rourke, Steven Stapleton, Andrea Laszlo De Simone; Johanna Went and Dame Darcy by Nicolas Ballet; Mickael Vis; Yûichi Yokoyama; SMITH; Marcel Broodthaers; Current 93; IKHÉA©SERVICES; Alan Dunn; Oskar Schlemmer; Blaine L. Reininger; Martin Le Chevallier; Ludovic Chemarin©...
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (2 vinyl LP)
2024
Blank Forms - Records
forthcoming
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (CD)
2024
Blank Forms - Records
forthcoming
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Giuseppe Ielasi - Rhetorical Islands (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
forthcoming
First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission by Jérôme Noetinger for l'Audible Festival, Paris.
Phill Niblock - Rhymes With Water (vinyl LP)
2024
God Records
forthcoming
Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.
Phill Niblock - Boston III / Tenor / Index (vinyl LP)
2024
Alga Marghen
forthcoming
Some of the earliest works by American composer Phill Niblock, including three never before released pieces: "Index" (1969), "Tenor," and "Boston III" (both from 1972). Until now, it's been impossible to encounter Niblock's compositions from earlier than the 1960s, a reality thankfully rectified by the long overdue publication of this LP on Alga Marghen.
Switched On - The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
2024
English edition
Contingent Sounds
forthcoming
The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music.
Raven Chacon - A Worm\'s Eye View From a Bird\'s Beak
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
An overview of the career of Amerindian composer and artist Raven Chacon.
Nina Dragičević - Auditory Poverty and its Discontents - An Essay
2024
English edition
Errant Bodies
Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - It\'s Not Quite That Inventive (Sixty Years with Broken Music) (2 CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.
Julia Eckhardt - Intermediary Spaces
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
umland / Q-O2
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).
 DASDAS - Un zèbre bleu aux yeux de mouche (vinyl LP)
2024
PiedNu
A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.
Renato Leotta - Ondina (vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
Nero
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Christina Kubisch - Zenger Station (vinyl LP)
2024
Edition Telemark
New electromagnetic recordings by Christina Kubisch: a suite of pieces focusing on the electromagnetic sound qualities of trams, buses and related infrastructure.
Dan Warburton - Parking (CD)
2024
Swarming
Two works recorded 14 years apart, registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages.
Alexandre Centeio - Panorama (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
Part of a (very) loose but somewhat like minded kaleidoscope where one can trace something like a Portuguese hauntology, centred around labels like Russian Library or Prisma Sonora Records, Alexandre Centeio joins Discrepant with the surefire release of "Panorama".
Taku Unami - Parazoan Mapping #2 (newspaper + digital)
2024
Kindling
currently out of stock
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file.
Revue & Corrigée
2024
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Musta Fior; Carla Bley; Amanda Guttiérez by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; interviews with Nadia Lëna, Aude Romary and Audrey Lauro; Bruitisme festival; a survey by Michel Henritzi of three musicians and activists of DIY version 2.0 (Jo Fusiller and his Tanzprocesz label, Claire Gapenne for Accueil Froid in Amiens, and Jędrekp for the Parisian concerts Le Non_Jazz)...
Zorka Wollny - Singing Machine (vinyl LP)
2024
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience.
Robert Cahen - La nef des fous (vinyl LP)
2024
Shelter Press - Records
Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.
 0 Propos - Zéro propos. Zéro titre (2 vinyl LP)
2024
DUUU
A double vinyl of sound poetry composed by the duo Gaël Bandelier & Gilles Furtwängler.
Anne Le Troter - Le Corps Living Room (vinyl LP)
2024
DUUU
currently out of stock
A sound performance inspired by Merce Cunningham, in which a group of speakers seek to escape from society, to retreat by mimicking the objects that surround us in the forest.
Aviva Endean - Moths & Stars (CD)
2023
Room40
Australian composer and clarinetist Aviva Endean has developed an impressive capacity for creating work that merges intense control (of breath, of instrument, of composition) and a willingness to allow the music to lead. On Moths & Stars, her second solo work, she charts out a sound world that is equal parts timbre and tone, placing sounds relationship to space as a paramount focus for her pieces.
Sam Dunscombe - Two Forests / Oceanic (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
Sam Dunscombe's second album, Two Forests / Oceanic, uses field recordings and rational tuning practice to reimagine the music used for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions.
Jean-Luc Guionnet - Those whose fathers never met (CD)
2023
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
An improvised encounter between the two musicians (Jean-Luc Guionnet, alto saxophone / Lê Quan Ninh, percussion): five pieces of different lengths, alternating long periods of subtle restraint with moments of incredible intensity.
Mark Vernon - Sheet Erosion - Audio Archaeology Series Volume 3: Brest (CD)
2023
Sonoris
Sheet Erosion is the third episode in a series of works based around ideas of audio archaeology and found sounds. The setting this time is the city of Brest in France.
Stefan Roigk - de—COMPOSED (book + 2 CD)
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.
Éric La Casa - Supersedure 2 (book / CD)
2023
Swarming
Percussion by Paris-based Japanese improviser Seijiro Murayama and field recordings by sound artist Éric La Casa, "small, simple gestures" on the threshold of the musical, a low-key presence, listening to inhabited spaces.
Marko Ciciliani - Why Frets? 2083
2023
English edition
Mille Plateaux
A multimedia book featuring transdisciplinary works by composer, audiovisual artist and performer Marko Ciciliani, that illuminate different aspects of a fictional history of the electric guitar from varying angles (including an USB-Stick with audiovisual works).
 SG<!----> - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.
Marja Ahti - Tender Membranes (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
Black Truffle label's first release from Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electro-acoustic composer Marja Ahti: four lengthy pieces, partly inspired by the image of the senses and mind as membranes allowing for the passage between inner and outer spaces, sensation and its causes, creating a world.
Nickolas Mohanna - Double Pendulum (vinyl LP)
2023
Run/Off
Double Pendulum is a selection of new material from NY-based artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna. Using a varied palette of percussive devices alongside the electric guitar and computer, hammered notes flutter into brushed cymbals to create pulsing and immersive shapes.
Tarek Atoui - Waters\' Witness #03
2023
English edition
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
The fourth volume in a series that documents Tarek Atoui's project Waters' Witness, created in collaboration with French photographer and Atoui's long-term collaborator, Alexandre Guirkinger, is intended as a visual embodiment of the work's development for Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Pali Meursault - Melt (vinyl LP)
2023
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
A project exploring the sounds of glaciers, captured in crevasses, glacial torrents or moraine folds using microphones, hydrophones and seismic sensors.
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