A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).
The French artist Marie Angeletti presents photographs from a project hosted by two sites belonging to a color manufacturing company in the cities of Gémenos (France) and Shanghai.
First-ever release for Darmstadt-based composer Hans Essel who has been active in improvised music and “Grundlagenmusik” (foundational music) for more than 20 years.
Singing insects of the Causses, vultures feeding, passerine songs, underground streams, barking stags, rumbling storms, amphibian choruses, sheep bells... a reference in the audio-naturalist field.
Anti-catalogue in form of a newspaper in which the artist analyses and documents preliminary works and art pieces exhibited at Air de Paris gallery in 2014.
Waterkil is a singular sound creation starring Axel Dörner on trumpet & Jassem Hindi on electronics. The recordings for this album were made during a three week residency at EMS in Stockholm and during a live show at Able gallery in Berlin.
The album Living Theory Without Anecdotes conflates Nicolas Wiese's acousmatic compositions from the years 2009-2011. All four tracks are constructed out of samples from acoustic instrument and object recordings, and are characterized by floating structures allowing slow crescendos and little disruptions.
52 notes on paper documenting the artist's daily life in Berlin between 2010 and 2012, and several reproductions of paintings, sculptures, collages, drawings and silkscreen prints.
In this short essay, philosopher Richard Shusterman discusses Arthur Danto's
aesthetic theory and develops a new reflection to go beyond the differences between art and life.
Tris Vonna-Michell's latest artist's record/book is constructed around two works, Capitol Complex (2012-2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012-2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages.
The series of "Papiers Ouverts" by Jean Degottex (1918-1978) created in 1974 and poems by Maurice Benhamou fed the improvisations of the two musicians. Ghosts, ruins, stars, rubble ... punctuate this work recorded in Belgium, Monos gallery.
The lyrical and earthy flight of Isabelle Duthoit, the furious growls of Johannes Bauer's dandy trombone, the electrifying stripes of Luc Ex, the legendary founder of Dutch group The Ex, produce a passionate musical mix.
"Une indécence française" (A French Indecency) retraces the first twelve years of "Nova Sodomia". The complete universe of His Excellency Otto: dictature of fun and indecence.
This publication proposes a set of aural exercises that show readers how to disappear, reappear, join a group, or leave a group. Its annex is a lexicon of some of the sounds that dwell in or are banished from the middle-class household.
A collaborative project initiated by Anicka Yi, Jordan Lord, Lise Soskolne and Carissa Rodriguez, based on Mal Ahem and Moira Weigel's viral essay and on Derrida's Politics of Friendship.
The main characters in Frenchy Steel are anthropomorphic glamrock frogs plunged into a teenage fantasy drawn with mastery and uninhibition. An urban & psychedelic Heroic fantasy penned with great details by Jurictus.
The second volume of the comprehensive monograph / artist's book dedicated to Gérard Collin-Thiébaut takes a look back at the artist's works from the seventies.
The first collection of texts by Steve Rushton, exploring the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy.