Music

Recordings from Riehn's student years, including two versions of the composer's electronic translation of Lautreamont's masterpiece.

Recording of Hermann Nitsch's mighty pipe organ concert in Berlin, January 22, 2016.

For Bunita Marcus is a piano piece recorded in 1986 by contemporary composer Morton Feldman. Guillaume Belhomme revisits the singular relationship he shares with this track and gives a sharp analysis of it. This reeissue is completed with a fictitious letter from Feldman to American painter Philip Guston entitled Une minute, une seule.

French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.

In 2015, musicians Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips gave a series of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic with their band LDP as part of the “Listening” Tour. Listening is their tour's logbook and gathers memories, anecdotes, thoughts and pictures.

An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.

Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.

This volume gathers interviews with 25 prominent musicians focusing on the influence of spirituality in their works.

An exegesis of My Bloody Valentine's noisy pop masterpiece Loveless.

This seventh and penultimate installment in the series Henri Pousseur had programmed around his experimental and electronic music features his earliest works—his first steps—starting in 1954, when at twenty-five he composed his first piece of electronic music in the studios of the Cologne radio, where Stockhausen had created most of his famous pieces.

French band Cabaret Contemporain revisiting New York underground legend Moondog with the two Swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling.

Two different approaches—the Eastern and Western—to Persian instrument Santur, by musicians Hossein Malek and Leo Kupper.

Life on the inside is a limited edition of an audio companion to French sculptor Pierre Besson's exhibition at Le Carré in 2014—an excellent addition to the David Toop discography of any wide-ranging ambient fan.

An electroacoustic meditation on memories and on the persistence of the aura in a particular place, inspired by Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog.

A solar music by Joe Jones, performed and recorded early morning April 1, 1984, on the Baltic Sea beach of Sierksdorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

This improvisational band founded in 1968 by Dutch musicians Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet takes its source and inspiration from the works of George Maciunas. This LP edition features two pieces, both recorded on December 19, 1976, and never released before on any format. Here, the group comprised Leon van Noorden and Hans Schuurman, in addition to the founding members.

This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.

An electrical poem by Charles Plymell first published in 1966 in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, with a CD on which Bill Nace plays a music inspired by his own reading of Apocalypse Rose.

If France is a land of immigration, what about its variété genre? This issue of Volume! aims at tracing the French paths of artists of foreign origin—those who integrated the legacy of chanson française, and those who left a mark on their community by singing exile. As a protean form of expression, variété is an ideal object to observe the ways in which immigrant and foreign identities have been moulded in post-1945 popular music.

A subjective compilation by David Le Simple and Vincent Romagny concluding the three exhibitions cycle “Doppelgänger” at CEAAC curated by Romagny.

A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl, with David Sylvian, Demdike Stare, Pye Corner Audio, Pluramon...).

A collection of nightclub VIP bottle service receipts.

New picture disc by Jean-Luc Verna's band.

This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.

This third Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional track.

This third Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork.

An anthology of the work of a key composer of Belgian electronic music (color vinyl).

The complete work (unreleased for the most part of it) by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.

The extraordinary recordings from 1978 by David Toop of Yanomami ritual songs, shamanistic ceremonies and rainforest sounds. The 40 pages booklet recounts the full story of his fascinating journey in 1978 through the Amazon jungle to meet and record the last Yanomami shamen.

The extraordinary recordings from 1978 by David Toop of Yanomami ritual songs, shamanistic ceremonies and rainforest sounds. The 40 pages booklet recounts the full story of his fascinating journey in 1978 through the Amazon jungle to meet and record the last Yanomami shamen (LP version mixed by Lawrence English).

A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.

A text by André Salmon on French anarchist Léon Léhautier, accompanied by a mini-CD containing a piece by Nurse With Wound, Close to You.

First issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, including a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacques Lizène, Alvin Lucier, Loré Lixenberg, and Alex Mincek, posters, and documents.

An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).

New monograph.

Artist's book (drawings).

The first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).

This vinyl edition collects several field-recordings of Matteo Nasini's aeolian instruments, executed by the artist in different places and conditions. Together with the vinyl, the edition presents eight large-format artist's prints related to the same practice.

First vinyl release of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Roberto Gerhard gathered a significant magnetic tape collection in his home studio, creating a major repository of early electronic sound recordings of his own works. The pieces on this record present a complex set of challenges for audio restoration, giving at the end a complete understanding of his compositional process and allowing the spirit and vitality of his electronicwork to speak clearly to the listener.

Red Bird was composed between 1973 and 1977, using the studio of the University of York Music in UK. Wishart's compositional interests deal mainly with the interpolation by technological means between the human voice and natural sounds.