Music

Kiki Jones; Fady Joudah; Mica Levi; Pascale Ciapp; Kasper T. Toeplitz; Graham Lambkin; Risaripa; Steve Albini; David Grubbs; DASDAS...

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16 international sound artists and musicians explore the materiality, spatiality, technicality and diverse cultural, social and political forms of sound, questionning the relationship between improvisation and composition, between performance and installation, etc.

A musique concrète piece divided into five movements, based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within circuses between 1988 and 1993.

Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.

Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project explores the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.

Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project invites artists and researchers to explore and unravel the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.

Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project invites artists and researchers to explore and unravel the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.

Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.

An album recorded in different parts of the world, in which the Canadian composer and sound artist explores how quantum mechanics profoundly influences the perception of sound.

An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).

2024 repress of KMRU's first release for Editions Mego.

2024 repress of KMRU's first release for Editions Mego.

The reissue of Chico Mello and Helinho Brandão's self-titled release from 1984, the first return to vinyl of this classic of Brazilian experimental music with its original cover art and complete track listing.

The first ever solo release from electronic music pioneer and innovator Laetitia Sonami, featuring a new composition especially written for her interface/instrument, the Spring Sprye, by her former teacher the legendary Éliane Radigue.

The first vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom's unique Future Travel, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously unheard live and studio material from the same period.

More than two years after the release of "Impressões de Outra Ilha", Discrepant's head honcho returns home under his birth name with the appropriately titled "Exotic Immensity". Conjured from the seeds of an exhibition of dioramas at Le Bon Accueil in Rennes, this double LP feels quietly epic in scope, a sprawling travelogue through imagined scenarios and what if possibilities.

Lisbon-based travellers Jibóia return to the Discrepant label with a new offering of globetrotting psychedelia.

Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ.

The long running vessel for Cameron Stallones' psychedelic excursions, Sun Araw, returns to Discrepant, using hydrophones and digital synthesis.

On "Cycle and Prayer," Indonesian experimental musician and instrument builder Wukir Suryadi expands the edges of his unique artistic world further, by digging in to meditative improvisation, art, and community building in his home workshop in the mountains of central Java.

Arbitrary presents the second in a series of 10" vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor.

Two sides off shimmering, tense compositions—culminating as one of Alessandra Novaga's most creatively ambitious and conceptually rich outings to date—freely inspired by the life and work of the Russian director Andrej Tarkovsky and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Four veterans of experimental music get together for a sunny studio improvisation.

The electro-experimental project of electronic musician Tanuki aka eRikm and author, cartoonist, illustrator and reader Caroline Sury.

A performance by Jérôme Lorichon (Buchla, electronics), Thierry Müller (electric guitar, iPad) and Quentin Rollet (saxophones), recorded live on May 5, 2016 at Le Détail, Paris.

A sonic adventure, where the Coax musicians' collective merges with the vibrant spirit of the Groupe d'Entraide Mutuelle de Montreuil, a mental health peer-help structure nicknamed "Les gens du 110". The ebullient, motley crew explores uncharted sonic territory, inspired by a series of workshops at the GEM, amid sculptures, frescoes, odds and ends, cries and laughter...

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).

An artist's book in which musician and sound artist Claudio Rocchetti questions the act of looking.

Sound artist and composer Alessandro Bosetti paints a series of portraits from a collection of conversations recorded in Italy over the course of a Summer.

Interplay is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before.

A new voice+electronics solo CD by Jason Kahn: voice, modular synth, mixing board, electromagnetic transducers, radio, spring reverb tank.

Composed by Jim O'Rourke and pieced together by Jim together with longtime collaborator and trumpeter Eivind Lønning at Jim and Eiko Ishibashi's home in the Japanese mountains, this engrossing new album blows brass wails and tense fanfares across O'Rourke's manipulated Kyma tapestries for a deep, captivating trip into the aether.

An album of ritualistic electro-acoustic early music that label head Stefan Schneider, who recorded the session, describes as "Suicide meets Hildegard von Bingen".

Newton is a sound work conceived by Cesare Pietroiusti, an artist interested in micro-events, paradoxical situations, behaviour and minor gestures that make up our daily life. NEWTON is an epic of the fall, experienced, suffered and observed by the artist himself.

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...).

For their thirtieth anniversary, Ulta-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. 

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Chris Korda, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.

A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.

Performed by Musiques Nouvelles, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Luc Fafchamps's eighth release, a kind of compilation of unreleased or rare pieces covering nearly three decades, is undoubtedly the best introduction to his work.

The cataclysmic meeting between Masami Akita (Merzbow), legend of the Japanese noise scene, and pianist Nicolas Horvath, great connoisseur of the classical repertoire and unparalleled experimenter.

Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.