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Four purely electroacoustic pieces recorded between 1994 and 2002 by the Argentine composer and theorist.

Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

Drawing from Lisa Lerkenfeldt's field work and electroacoustic practices, piano, cello and tape loop arrangements light up lost chambers and underground histories in a patchwork of reflective musique concrète, instrumental composition and surreal cinema.

Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), gathers twelve tracks shifting between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its exploration of the cyclical movements of grief and emotional turbulence, Trances produces a sonic world as raw, absorbing, and surprising as anything Reidy has created to date.

Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), gathers twelve tracks shifting between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its exploration of the cyclical movements of grief and emotional turbulence, Trances produces a sonic world as raw, absorbing, and surprising as anything Reidy has created to date.

A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.

A piece for saxophones and electronics, performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz (real time electronics) and Bertrand Gauguet (alto & baritone saxophones).

The first monograph devoted to the piano works of composer, pianist and improviser Frédéric Lagnau (1967-2010), whose music, with its communicative energy, offers a personal and poetic approach to minimalism. Sensitivity to sound, harmonic beauty and rhythmic intensity are its hallmarks.

Mike Cooper's new masterful experiment mixing free jazz, Oceanic, and Hawaiian inspirations, in collaboration with Geoff Hawkins, Jon Raskin and Tim Hill (saxophone), Elliott Sharp and Michael Thieke (clarinet), Scot Ray (lap steel guitar) and choreographer and dancer Ariella Vidach.

The new alchemical collaboration between Australian chamber ensemble Decibel, and French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti.

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's second album, Two Forests / Oceanic, uses field recordings and rational tuning practice to reimagine the music used for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions.

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.

"Spuren & Gegenworte" began with a quasi-telepathic collaboration between KM and RW. Both recorded a track on May 3, 2021, from 8:00 PM to 8:10 PM. These recordings were subsequently transformed, combined, juxtaposed, and further modified over the course of several months, resulting in the completion of the four pieces on the CD.

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.

The first published recording by Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand (fusing her Indian Raga singing in the Dhrupad style with his minimalist and experimental approach) and Uli Hohmann (joining them in a range of hand drums from the Middle East and North Africa, plus a dulcimer-sounding hammered guitar).

A 62' minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak.

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.

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.

The penultimate Blank Forms anthology presents new, in-depth interviews with musicians Theo Parrish, Amelia Cuni, Akio Suzuki, and more.

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 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.

A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.

An hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists, featuring Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.

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.

An ideal introduction to Lucier's late music.

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.

A project exploring the sounds of glaciers, captured in crevasses, glacial torrents or moraine folds using microphones, hydrophones and seismic sensors.

The third studio album from the Frenchmen Pointe du Lac offers a deep, catchy and classy dive into kosmische, electronica and jazz.

This album retraces ten years of practice by the contemporary mixed choir of sighted and blind people founded by vocalist, improviser, composer and researcher Natacha Muslera, which explores compositional modes distanced from the visual field, drawing inspiration from ecosystems and biotopes and blending ancestral and experimental vocal practices.

Francisco Meirino; Mona Kareem; Peter Brötzmann; Les Arènes du vinyle by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; interviews with Limpe Fuchs, Quentin Conrate, Mayuko Hino, Yuki Fuji & Wamei...

The fourth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Joan La Barbara, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy, Ghédalia Tazartès...).

Extra Muros – Czech Republic is the result of the fourth edition of FLEE's creative residency program which took place in December 2022 on the dance floor of Prague's most infamous nightclub Ankali.

Four works based on four performances.

A rested development is a collaborative sound and moving image work that used chance as a process to develop a sequence of autonomous elements that intersect and diverge in their unfoldings.

An object book (with CD) featuring 29 concert reviews from the Parisian noise and experimental music scene in 2011 and 2012. It provides insights into a dynamic, radical, and deeply communal music scene (with a selection of photographs by Steeve Bauras, an experimental sound piece by DJ Fusiller created from concert recordings compiled by the author, and period flyers).

The debut album of Danish group Mesmer, an environmental project including field recordings, improvisations and live recordings, intrigued by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.

New improvised quartet synthesizer / voice / accordion / saxophone / drums, recorded in concert in Paris then mixed / edited by Jean-Marc Foussat.

The continuation of the sound adventures of the duo after "L'impatience des invisibles". A new studio album plus a second CD including the tracks released on vinyl by Mind Records, on mini-CD by Lenka Lente and with a live track in trio with Richard Franès (Pointe du Lac).