Music

Eight pieces of free vocal improvisation by the duo of Jason Kahn and Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, who have been working together since 2015.

Three pieces spanning free improvisation, noise and extended saxophone technique with Ulrich Krieger, one of the masters of contemporary experimental music.

Berlin-based, Italian-born sound artist Andrea Taeggi introduces his debut release on Hands in the Dark records, an album showcasing six mesmerizing and rhythmically intricate electronic compositions.

Pakito Bolino; Basman Aldiwari; Phill Niblock by Kasper T. Toeplitz; Dominique Grimaud; Félix Blume; Leandro Barzabal; Dror Feiler...

The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.

A historicist approach of music genres.

An account of artist Io Burgard's experience in the town of Ugine (archives, concert, residency, exhibition), part fanzine, part punk, part white cube.

First vinyl edition of Giuseppe Ielasi's archipelago of animated sound sculptures.

Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.

Archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition.

Archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition.

Centered around the Villa Aurora Organ, an intriguing and mostly unknown instrument built in 1928/29 by the Artcraft Organ Company in Santa Monica, California, "Outerlands" presents a deeply personal approach to the instrument's particular properties, very much in line with Discrepant's ethos.

On their first album since 2017, the Berlin-based trio Denseland (Hanno Leichtmann, David Moss and Hannes Strobl) instead ventures slowly but steadily into unknown territory.

The heyday of New York's underground and alternative cultural scene in the 1980s: a look back at the history of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, a primary hub for the burgeoning East Village drag, gay, feminist, punk, and art scenes.

This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.

An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.

A selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.

Issue dedicated to the work of writer, poet, performer and musician Mathias Richard.

Anniversary issue: 30 artists celebrate 30 years of Neural + 20 of Crónica; interviews with Olga Goriunova, Siegfried Zielinski, Luciana Parisi, Hito Steyerl, Jussi Parikka; The Neural Archive; reports: xcoax 23, Renaissance 3.0 ZKM; books/DVDs & music reviews...

Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.

This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The second volume si devoted to musician mediums.

This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The first volume is an exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses. It features records of spiritual séances and medium trances, haunting spirits and haunted places, audios of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini...

This second project released on Sub Rosa by the Japanese artist Kaoru Tashiro, manages to create a subtle dialogue between four composers, and four musical pieces, mixing a delicate blend of Japanese and European sensibilities. Those different approaches convergence thanks to the highly recognisable sensibility of Kaoru Tashiro's way to play.

The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.

In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).

Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.

Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.

Two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century.

A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.

François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.

The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music.

The transdisciplinary journal continues its return around the theme of the chanson.

This publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994 (new edition).

An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.

A music drama performed in the Hebbel Theatre Berlin in 1994—a key work from Sven-Åke Johansson & Alexander von Schlippenbach.

A unique 90s Berlin underground artefact by Kunstkopf.

A conceptual punk re-enactment by The Curators.

The musician and visual artist's new album, somewhere between folk and experimental music.