Music

CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.

A text on the need of love communication, through the story of a narrator who strives to learn music on a keyboard drawn on a cardboard piece.

Examining the 21st century's identity crisis.

Reference monograph.

Special issue: five new projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe, Luigi Presicce, and Nico Vascellari (limited edition).

Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.

A traveling correspondence that combines writing, image and sound.

Conversations between Alessandro Bosetti, Peter ablinger, Tomomi Adachi, Arturas Bumsteinas, Jennifer Walshe & Alexander Waterman, interview with Joëlle Léandre, Cornelius Cardew's Teatrise by Matthieu Saladin and by some interpreters (Oren Ambarchi, Didier Aschour, Arturas Bumsteinas, Laurent Dailleau, Jean-Marc Montera, Jim O'Rourke, Julien Ottavi, Jean-Jacques Palix, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmikler & John Tilbury), Connivence des extrêmes by Xavier Hug, Ring-Modulation#2 by Kasper Toeplitz...

For its 88th issue (special issue limited to 666 copies!), the quaterly magazine turns into a carte blanche given to more than 80 personalities related to various experimental sound practices. A tribute to the do-it-yourself way.

Monograph.

In the cross-over between sound and architecture.

Third issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...).

Artist Cédric Pigot created a bruitist composition to accompany the words and voice of poet Jacques Sivan. The CD recording comes with a 80-page publication printed on internet-found images. With an afterword by Bernard Heidsieck.

Two talks about John Cage and the concept of structure by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda (ultra-limited edition).

What is it we call “Black” music? A selection of texts from the April 2010 conference in Bordeaux based on a critical discussion of Philipp Tagg's open letter about “Black music,” “Afro-American Music” and “European Music.”

A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).

A collection of the audible traces of dancing bodies (audio CD with booklet).

Italian-German artist Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo) recorded the sounds of larvae during their transformation into flies. Trough rough, sub-real field recordings, she explores, interprets and lyrically re-invents the concept of metamorphosis.

This original radio sound piece unfurls a multiple electroacoustic flux in which audio archives of the voices of the great surrealist heroes of the Twenties (Man Ray, Duchamp, Aragon) are given a new breath of life and become electric.

This original radio sound piece unfurls a multiple electroacoustic flux in which audio archives of the voices of the great surrealist heroes of the Twenties (Man Ray, Duchamp, Aragon) are given a new breath of life and become electric.

The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.

Kasper T. Toeplitz / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe / Captain Beefheart / Rolf Julius / Jean-François Denis (Diffusion i Média / empreintes DIGITALes) / a history of metal, from Black Sabbath to Sunn O))) / chronic, readings, records, news, concerts...

A fanzine dedicated to the relationship between visual arts and music.

Third album by Cocoon, the solo project of Clair Obscur's leader Christophe Demarthe.

A collaborative artist's book and audio recording which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia disquisition on puppetry, serial killing and homoeroticism. The play and book are based on the Texan serial killer Dean Corll.

A collaborative artist's book and audio recording which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia disquisition on puppetry, serial killing and homoeroticism. The play and book are based on the Texan serial killer Dean Corll.

A film documenting a series of musical performances in the streets of Marseilles organized by Jacques Siron and commissioned by the Cité de la Musique.

Retrospective monograph: a complete overview of the visual and sound works by Rainier Lericolais.

Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.

Marianne Pousseur sings John Cage and James Joyce, Morton Feldman and Rainer Maria Rilke, Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, Giacinto Scelsi, György Kurtág, Henri Pousseur and Friederich Hölderlin, Frederic Rzewski and Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, Michel Butor, Théodore Botrel, Rudolf Sieczynski...

First posthumous recording of Henri Pousseur.

John Wynne's untitled installation for 300 speakers, pianola and vacuum cleaner, at once monumental, minimal and immersive, using sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.

Three sound compositions by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan's capital.

A musical, pictorial and cinematographic journey, as many sensitive interpretations of the domain of Certes in Gironde. Through the prism of Ernest Valeton de Boissière, inventor of the place and transmitter of the social utopias of the 19th century.

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin & Ray Brassier / chroniques / Jean-Claude Eloy / Thierry Madiot / Seijiro Murayama / Taku Sugimoto / L'interaction par et pour tous, Patricia Kuypers / Emmanuel Adely / disques / concerts / infos / index.

First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.

Sound and auditory experience as platforms for social meeting, urban intervention and environmental investigation.

A collection of texts about noise music: gesture, act, concept and performance.

Sixteen visual artists give their vision of Clair Obscur's album We Gave A Party For The Gods And The Gods All Came.

A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.

Sound installations by the French graphic design studio.

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin / chroniques / Mastering / Interfaces / L'interaction par et pour tous, Carole Rieussec / Cave12 / disques / notes de lectures / concerts / infos / index.