Music

This second issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design, blending retro nostalgia with cutting-edge innovation.

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Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.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

A portfolio of 15 graphic scores (printed on different types of paper) by musician, artist, composer and sound artist. Alan Courtis

The catalog of the fifth edition of the International Graphic Design Biennial, organized by le Signe, centre national du graphisme in Chaumont, in 2025, on the theme of music.

The first ever vinyl issue of the 2001 "Asuma" LP by Finnish artist Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic), remastered by Rashad Becker.

Legendary New Zealand-born experimental composer and sound art pioneer Annea Lockwood returns to Black Truffle with On Fractured Ground / Skin Resonance, her third release for the label.

A stunningly, beautiful, multidimensional mercurial work by mysterious Berlin-based composer, music producer, instrument builder and artist Konrad Sprenger (Jörg Hiller), collaborator of Arnold Dreyblatt, Ellen Fullman, Phillip Sollmann and Oren Ambarchi.

The soundtrack to the eponymous debut feature-length animation film by Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer, composed by Anthony Pateras and released as a stand-alone album, recorded with a slew of guest musicians: 29 pieces based on "weird folk melodies ornamented with electro-acoustics," imbued with a sense of mystical surrealism, otherworldly and haunting.

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Critical insight onto creative methods and discourses central to the field of sound art.

A series of previously unreleased recordings of mouth organs and other rare traditional instruments from China's Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.

Philip Glass' founding work of minimalism performed by Dedalus Ensemble.

Philip Glass' founding work of minimalism performed by Dedalus Ensemble.

Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992: a monumental piece, originally one component within filmmaker Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's ambitious composite work "Lac Noir", offering crucial access to an important period in Parmegiani's career.

Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992: a monumental piece, originally one component within filmmaker Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's ambitious composite work "Lac Noir", offering crucial access to an important period in Parmegiani's career.