Music

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Air-Air - on the inflatables structures theme - at the Grimaldi Forum de Monaco (Philippe Parreno, Yayoi Kusama, Sylvie Fleury, Lee Bul, Carsten Höller, Takashi Murakami, Bertrand Lavier, Andy Wharol, Kenji Yanobe, Archigram...).

Gerard Malanga's first hand documents from his personal archives, with unpublished music by various personalities.

The Rectange label "recycled" by Otomo Yoshihide.

Live recording of two performances given by the artists in France.

An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.

A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.

Three tracks recorded in one day at the Studio des Variétés in Paris in 1994. First a kind of Aylmerian hymn in six saxophone layers (2 percussive, 2 high-pitched and 2 melodic), then a sax piece treated with a multitude of superimposed effects, then an improvisation on samples recorded previously in solo.

Vinyl EP record.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.

A live recording on giant acoustic horns installed on a cliffside in the French Alps, playing with the echoes inherent to the site.

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.