Music

A 2-CD collaborative album between Californian guitarist Henry Kaiser and Czech musician and composer P.ST.

Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to the master of minimalism Alvin Lucier.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

The portraits taken by the French photographer between 1990 and 2010 capture the essence of hip-hop and the street culture of African-American and Hispanic New York.

A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.

A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.

A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.

A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.

This intimate documentary delves into the Seattle music scene from the late 1990s into the 2000s, capturing a transformative era through photography and personal stories as the world shifted from celluloid to digital, grunge to indie.

A meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architectural spaces.

A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.

18 collages which pit boxers against musicians (Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Bill Evans... and countless other instrumentalists whom years of conservatory training had not prepared for the confrontation).

The raucous autobiography of the famed New York free jazz pioneer.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

Artist's book.

A sensitive work with which radio art and field recording composition pioneer Brunhild Ferrari revisits and recomposes her impressions of the past and her sensory reminiscences.

This rich collection spans much of Annette Vande Gorne's long career, and gives a great sense of the stylistic variety of her work.

Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.

L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.

Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.

This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.

Céline Guichard; Dalia Taha; on autodidacticism in music, by Fanny Chiarello; towards intercultural listening, a conversation between Kristoff K. Roll and the Mexican collective La Lleca; interviews with Alexandra Spence and Ayami Suzuki; Noises at Pompidou: a conversation between Marion Camy-Palou, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Nicolas Ballet; creating in psychic precariousness, by Aude Romary; book and record reviews..

Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...

Andrzej Karałow's piano metamorphoses in the cogs of Jérôme Noetinger's tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror: a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.

The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, Marja Ahti, Scott Arford, Nicolas Debade, Michael Gatt, Tim Ingold, Rolf Julius, Jules Négrier, John Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Hildegard Westerkamp, Randy Yau...).

Gilles Aubry's composition "L'Makina" is a haunting soundscape that combines AI-generated sound textures with modular synths. Structured in two parts, the piece explores the spectral possibilities of a virtual sound model developed using a machine learning algorithm, in collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou.

Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.

New Environments & Rhythm Studies is a further attempt to re-describe past tropes which laid claims to authentically represent music and sound from beyond the Western world (exotica, ethnomusicology, field recording) as undertakings of the imaginary.

A moment in bird territory: a musical piece created live in an aviary fitted out with musical instruments, in which visitors are invited to stay in the company of some sixty live Australian finches, hopping quietly (and harmoniously) on 12 tuned electric guitars that have become perches.

A previously unheard recording of a concert by Pakistani vocalist Salamat Ali Khan.

The second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie, 48 minutes of electrifying music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings.

The second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie, 48 minutes of electrifying music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings.

A meeting of minds and bodies on a heady percussive trip with no clear destination, captured live at Espacio Cultural El Tanque in Tenerife.

Discrepant's chieftain Gonçalo F. Cardoso continues his sonic travelogue on insularity with impressions of Macaronésia: Canary Islands, Açores and Cabo Verde.

Robert Millis' first album with the Discrepant label explores his obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies.

People Like Us, the project of artist Vicki Bennet returns to Discrepant with a special vinyl release of "Copia". This album marks the first new musical material since 2018, delving into the profound realms of existential collage and sampling, celebrating these forms as expressions of timeless connectivity.

Cross remixes by two emblematic figures of the contemporary electronic and experimental scene.

Vaginal Davis offers insights into her collaborative practice of making music in art-punk bands in Los Angles and Berlin.

Eight sound pieces delicately handcrafted like a game between inside and outside.

A double CD with Suite blanche, a musique concrète composition by Anouck Genthon (violin, sound recordings) and Lionel Marchetti (synthesizers, electroacoustics, sound recordings), and Angelica, a concert by the duo.

The genealogy of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's aquatic, immersive, multisensory installation, developed in over twenty versions over thirty years.

Bill Evans / Scott LaFaro / Paul Motian (1959-1961): the story of one of the most original, dazzling and influential trios in jazz history, and of the recording of three legendary albums.

A series of collages that plunges us into a world of multiple references tinged with eroticism, galaxies and cinematic universes.