Music

A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Lee "Scratch" Perry's photographic works and writings, inventoried in the Black Ark studio in Kingston, one of the cradles of reggae and dub.

For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this story introduces the legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum.

Comprised of two expansive, sidelong pieces composed entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer, The Dip signals a subtle yet significant shift in the Berlin-based artist and composer Thomas Ankersmit's trajectory, imbuing the hyper-physical, psychoacoustic intensities of his live performances with introspective, atmospheric, and even melodic elements.

Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".

Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.

An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.

Mike Majkowski makes his debut on Hands in the Dark Records with Invisible, a selection of six moody and mysterious pieces produced between 2019 and 2025—a deep dive into loop-based, gritty ambient dub electronica.

Listening as a means of building community and knowledge.

The totally remastered version of the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero, recorded in 1984.

The totally remastered version of the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero, recorded in 1984.

A never released before live CD/DVD by Univers Zéro, a precious testimony to the band's artistic resurgence and stage energy.

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

Off The Record by French collagist Roméo Poirier is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public.

Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.

Léo Dupleix's "Round Sky" brings analogue synth, harpsichord, spinet, and just intonation into luminous balance. Performed with Asterales, the album unfolds in calm harmonic cycles and microtonal shifts that shimmer like light on water. From the deep resonance of "Poème d'air" to the glowing spinet arpeggios of the title track, Dupleix crafts music that feels both precise and tender—a spacious, quietly radiant exploration of tuned beauty.

The Vestige is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between Giuseppe Ielasi, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and Jack Sheen, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester whose recent projects have seen him moving seamlessly from enigmatic chamber music composition and installations to conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Sharpened to its core, Solids For Voices by the Danish group Valby Vokalgruppe dives deep into rhythmical architectures built almost solely from the voice.

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

Jacques Ponzio continues his tribute to Thelonious Monk by exploring the intense yet fleeting relationship between the pianist and saxophonist Steve Lacy.

A poetic wander through the city of Kyoto, between observation and listening.

A book of drawings by artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna that mirrors various sound compositions with an economy of gesture at its core. playful in form,

Pierre Bastien deepens his exploration of “elsewhere,” as well as the materiality of sound, through the machinery of his vast Mecanium.

Joke Lanz; female duo (Ana da Silva & Phew, Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, etc.); Magali Dougoud; François Bayle; Céleste Gatier; Banetoriko; Ed Williams; Madelyn Byrd & Ashlynn White; Nicolas Field & Thomas Florin; book and record reviews...

Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.

A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.

Ars nova meets dark folk, aural cinema, contemporary music, drone and much more... An astonishing album gathering three extended pieces that unfold the works of medieval musical genius Guillaume de Machaut, the greatest and last of the troubadours.

The Zenne Quartet performs the quartets of contemporary Belgian composer Walter Hus.

A 2-CD collaborative album between Californian guitarist Henry Kaiser and Czech musician and composer P.ST.

Rhythmic, exotic, deep & primitive sounds for post modern ears: the first album by the acoustic ensemble founded by Daniel Denis (Univers Zéro) and Alain Neffe (Pseudocode).

Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to the master of minimalism Alvin Lucier.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

The portraits taken by the French photographer between 1990 and 2010 capture the essence of hip-hop and the street culture of African-American and Hispanic New York.

A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.

A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.

A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.

A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.

This intimate documentary delves into the Seattle music scene from the late 1990s into the 2000s, capturing a transformative era through photography and personal stories as the world shifted from celluloid to digital, grunge to indie.

A meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architectural spaces.

A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.

18 collages which pit boxers against musicians (Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Bill Evans... and countless other instrumentalists whom years of conservatory training had not prepared for the confrontation).

The raucous autobiography of the famed New York free jazz pioneer.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.