Music

The inaugural issue of Blank Forms' anthology, bringing together a combination of never-before published, lost, and new materials that supplement the non-profit's live programs. It is envisioned as a platform for critical reflection and extended dialogue between scholars, artists, and other figures working within the world of experimental music and art.

French musical website Le son du grisli now in print version. First issue includes: Jason Kahn, Sven-Åke Johansson, La Monte Young, Nurse With Wound, Zbigniew Karkowski, 1910's Manifesto of the Futurist Painters…

Music performance by Joe Jones's Solar orchestra recorded at a Erik Andersch's Garden party in 1983. This edition includes the reissue of a rare photographic book documenting the event, as well as a poster and a postcard.

First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.

First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.

Limited edition box set with 43 instrumental tracks recorded with an alto saxophone, a radio and an electric toothbrush by Mart Küchen. The musical pieces are accompanied by four poems written by the Swedish musician and eight plates by Austrian plastic artist Johannes Heuer.

The third volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1952-2004), for the first time on vinyl (3 discs with a poster booklet).

First reissue of the 1981 album by the legendary Hastings of Malawi featuring a founding member of Nurse with Wound and Pat Simmons. Reissued on red vinyl, like the original pressing, this classic masterpiece sits on the end of a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock.

Recordings of musical performances by Blondes, James Campbell, and I.U.D, inspired by paintings shown at Wade Guyton's exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in 2013. Acting as a catalogue, this edition includes 4 vinyl LP and a modelling of the exhibition installation.

More than an hour of ultra-rare documents, recorded in several places in Greenland and Canada from 1905 to 1987: the testimony of a century of Inuits recordings.

More than an hour of ultra-rare documents, recorded in several places in Greenland and Canada from 1905 to 1987: the testimony of a century of Inuits recordings.

A cosmopolitan post-punk compilation album, originally released in October 1985 on LTM Recordings. Featuring tracks by Section 25, The Anti-Group, Minny Pops, Tuxedomoon, Mazowsze, Eric Random, Dislocation Dance, The Happy Family, Crispy Ambulance, and A Primary Industry. With liner notes by LTM manager James Nice.

A cosmopolitan post-punk compilation album, originally released in October 1985 on LTM Recordings. Featuring tracks by Section 25, The Anti-Group, Minny Pops, Tuxedomoon, Mazowsze, Eric Random, Dislocation Dance, The Happy Family, Crispy Ambulance, and A Primary Industry. With liner notes by LTM manager James Nice.

A collection of musical works from the seventies by the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.

Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of “radionics”, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems.

New CD edition of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.

Pauline Oliveros surrounded by Belgian Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, performing 2 long pieces for orchestra.

A selection of radiophonic works from 2003 to 2011, completed with a 36-page booklet and 4 essays by Bosetti himself, Gregory Whitehead and Ksenija Stefanovic.

Recordings from Riehn's student years, including two versions of the composer's electronic translation of Lautreamont's masterpiece.

Recording of Hermann Nitsch's mighty pipe organ concert in Berlin, January 22, 2016.

For Bunita Marcus is a piano piece recorded in 1986 by contemporary composer Morton Feldman. Guillaume Belhomme revisits the singular relationship he shares with this track and gives a sharp analysis of it. This reeissue is completed with a fictitious letter from Feldman to American painter Philip Guston entitled Une minute, une seule.

French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.

In 2015, musicians Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips gave a series of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic with their band LDP as part of the “Listening” Tour. Listening is their tour's logbook and gathers memories, anecdotes, thoughts and pictures.

An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.

Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.

This volume gathers interviews with 25 prominent musicians focusing on the influence of spirituality in their works.

An exegesis of My Bloody Valentine's noisy pop masterpiece Loveless.

This seventh and penultimate installment in the series Henri Pousseur had programmed around his experimental and electronic music features his earliest works—his first steps—starting in 1954, when at twenty-five he composed his first piece of electronic music in the studios of the Cologne radio, where Stockhausen had created most of his famous pieces.

French band Cabaret Contemporain revisiting New York underground legend Moondog with the two Swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling.

Two different approaches—the Eastern and Western—to Persian instrument Santur, by musicians Hossein Malek and Leo Kupper.

Life on the inside is a limited edition of an audio companion to French sculptor Pierre Besson's exhibition at Le Carré in 2014—an excellent addition to the David Toop discography of any wide-ranging ambient fan.

An electroacoustic meditation on memories and on the persistence of the aura in a particular place, inspired by Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog.

A solar music by Joe Jones, performed and recorded early morning April 1, 1984, on the Baltic Sea beach of Sierksdorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

This improvisational band founded in 1968 by Dutch musicians Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet takes its source and inspiration from the works of George Maciunas. This LP edition features two pieces, both recorded on December 19, 1976, and never released before on any format. Here, the group comprised Leon van Noorden and Hans Schuurman, in addition to the founding members.

This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.

An electrical poem by Charles Plymell first published in 1966 in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, with a CD on which Bill Nace plays a music inspired by his own reading of Apocalypse Rose.

If France is a land of immigration, what about its variété genre? This issue of Volume! aims at tracing the French paths of artists of foreign origin—those who integrated the legacy of chanson française, and those who left a mark on their community by singing exile. As a protean form of expression, variété is an ideal object to observe the ways in which immigrant and foreign identities have been moulded in post-1945 popular music.

A subjective compilation by David Le Simple and Vincent Romagny concluding the three exhibitions cycle “Doppelgänger” at CEAAC curated by Romagny.

A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl, with David Sylvian, Demdike Stare, Pye Corner Audio, Pluramon...).

A collection of nightclub VIP bottle service receipts.