Music

Edited from the composer's archives, historical documentation about the project & genesis of the work inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante (1973).

An unpublished text by Luc Ferrari from 1982, in which he expresses some of his hopes and concerns about what would become La Muse en circuit that same year. Forty years later, the present director Wilfried Wendling wrote a text in echo.

The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.

Built from deconstructed layers of texture, tone, and arrhythmic percussiveness, Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi's 'Palimpsests' distills 6 years of work into 9 splintered, airy reimaginings of minimalism—each surprising, creatively rigorous, and startlingly beautiful—that rest at the outer reaches of contemporary electroacoustic practice and musique concrète.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Arditti String Quartet, David Watson and the Phoenix Ensemble Basel.

With six songs in forty-five minutes, Blend The Horse! adds new influences (Broadcast, Radiohead, Tropical Fuck Storm) and brings together opposites dear to The Snobs: electric and electronic, melodic and hypnotic, noisy and pop.

Sound American Publications' 27th issue, The Life Issue, proposes a reflection upon the smallness—and largeness—of living amidst a tumultuous, globally-shared moment (featuring Claire Rousay, Susan Alcorn, Jack Langdon, Lea Bertucci & Audrey Chen, Katie Porter, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Henri Pousseur, Chris Pitsiokos, Catalytic Sound collective, Ka Baird, Mazen Kerbaj...).

A series of compositions using environmental sounds and field recordings from the five continents.

One of Ghédalia Tazartès' final recordings, with Rhys Chatham, in 2018-2019.

Artist's book.

The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.

The biography of the singer and performer Mikami Kan, figure of the Japanese underground scene, with two unreleased concerts on CD.

The life and work of Amercian experimental musician/composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt (1943-1993)—an intimate portrait of a lifetime spent with one of the most eccentric figures in the world of new music

A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa, Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s.

FLEE's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music, through a 2XLP compilation and a 240 pages long book in Arabic and English.

FLEE's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music.

FLEE's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music.

A territorial project but also a collective, musical, social and political experience of listening and exchange.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Arditti String Quartet & David Watson.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Phoenix Ensemble Basel.

A 1975 unreleased Strumming performance in Antwerp.

Spanning 1966-1993, Mémoire Magnétique Vol. 2 is a revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani.

An initiatory drift through the complex, multiple and singularly innovative sound art of Frédéric Acquaviva.

Terrine, Gabi Losoncy, Nour Mobarak; focus Bruisme Festival; Augustin Bette; 20 Italian records; interviews: Thurston Moore by Jacques Debout & Michel Henritzi ; Michel Chion by Jérôme Noetinger; John Tchicai by Gérard Rouy; Pole Ka; books and records reviews...

A beautiful reflective album built around the piano as a central element and inspired by the sound of whispering.

Mark Leckey finally presents the soundtrack to his autobiographical allegory 'O' Magic Power of Bleakness', a mind sluicing fantasy/autobiographical narrative inspired by folklore and half-remembered tales of teenage life growing up in the Wirral, a personal history woven into screwed 808s, ringtones, sacred chimes, smudged synths, sirens and levitating ambience that sounds like nowt else.

An absorbing sound collage album that emerged out of the production material of the film, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, with musical excerpts from Tim Berne & Bill Frisell, Tony Conrad, Graham Lambkin, Mary Jane Leach, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Folke Rabe, Éliane Radigue, and Akio Suzuki.

Between a film diary and a manifesto on the creative process, this book is a wild and enchanting journey in Karen Dalton's footsteps, the cult singer and her breathtaking voice, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the '60s, and offers an investigation combining texts, photographs, drawings and archives, at the crossroads of the worlds of art, music and cinema.

Between a film diary and a manifesto on the creative process, this book is a wild and enchanting journey in Karen Dalton's footsteps, the cult singer and her breathtaking voice, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the '60s, and offers an investigation combining texts, photographs, drawings and archives, at the crossroads of the worlds of art, music and cinema. The book is accompanied by Emmanuelle Antille's film A Bright Light – Karen and the Process on DVD (special offer).

Tetsuo Furudate's new album, featuring Keiko Higuchi and Olga Magieres.

A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

Two compositions conceived mainly from researches on the inaudible and the unspeakable, as part of a series devoted to the representation of infraliminary sound phenomenons of the reality, of everyday life.

Marcel Alocco's Events, some poem-scores to be performed in a real or imaginary space.

Algorithm as material and writing.

This album draws its sounds from improvisations generated by a violin, a few dozen freshly awakened birds, highly reverberant spaces, a voice saying words of Roberto Juarroz and Paul Verlaine, the nostalgia of childhood westerns, a viola mounted with electric guitar strings and the memory of those who left too soon.

A sensual and abstract album by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, one of the most interesting electroacoustic musicians our time.

The first new album in over 40 years by American composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush: Bay Area experimentalism meets 20th century classical modernism.

The unexplored interactions between hypnosis, music and medicine in the 19th century, between the world of science and the world of art.

Crossed interviews around the project of the curator Mathieu Copeland, who transposes the exhibition to the stage for the duration of a show, pursuing his investigation into the nature of an exhibition.

Crossed interviews around the project of the curator Mathieu Copeland, who transposes the exhibition to the stage for the duration of a show, pursuing his investigation into the nature of an exhibition, accompanied by a libretto that gathers the transcriptions of the texts of the thirteen invited artists.

A project by contrabassist, composer and theorist of experimental and improvised music Christopher A. Williams, inspired by Kantian proposals for perpetual peace, applied to collective musical composition and performance.

Five rare pieces from the minimalist "rhythmic drone" period of the early 1980s of the ensemble founded by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet, reissued for the first time.

A posthumous duo LP featuring text and music by Conrad Schnitzler, music by Wolfgang Seidel, and artwork by Matt Howarth.

A punk philology (with Simon Critchley, Emanuele Coccia, Dennis Cooper, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kim Gordon, Donatien Grau, Richard Hell, Paul McCarthy...).