Music

These recordings performed by pianist Philip Thomas reveal Wolff as a composer fully exploring, in different ways, the continuum between music which is highly fragmented, embracing extended silences—composed or indeterminate—to that which is more progressive and seemingly driven, albeit taking in disarming and unconventional routes.

A proposal for a radio project on the diffusion of world music in the digital age, focusing on the concept of “seismographic sound”.

A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual artists, including Martha Rosler, Art & Language, Andrea Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne Rainer.

This new album by the American cellist offers an appreciation of her talents as both a composer and performer, in a unique and elegant style reflecting her many inspirations, from baroque music to Americana and experimental music.

The soundtrack of an interactive project around phantom islands—islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. A collection of fictitious soundscapes, between field recording and exotica music.

A 4-hour work recorded at Steamroom (composer's studio) between 2017 and 2018: a hypnotic, multi-faceted, labyrinthine piece which flows as slowly as a river while speeding back through memory, and shows all the talent of Jim O'Rourke.

Coéditrice : Rachel O'Dwyer ; entretiens avec Pip Thornton, Joana Moll, Mendi et Keith Obadike; ASurveying Surveillance Capitalism, Decode: Data Cooperatives, Our voices granted to machines ; Transmediale 2019, Master/Slave exhibition, Leonardo 50 years anniversary...

Artist's book.

The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.

A socio-political history of punk and post-punk covering four decades and three continents.

The definitive edition of Loren Connors' texts.

The first comprehensive publication of the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix's written work in a two-volume set.

The republication in print form of the poems of Art Ensemble of Chicago's founding member breathes new life into a forgotten document of the Black Arts Movement.

Christine Wodrascka, pianist and improviser, and Jean-Yves Evrard, guitarist and improviser, produce one and the same complex sound material, a homogeneous and multiple sum, advocating a freedom nestled in the interstice of notes.

Joëlle Léandre (double bass, voice) and Alexandra Grimal (saxophones, voice) compose, improvise and underline the freedom of musical creation.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

Special 30th anniversary issue, including an audio CD.

An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.

An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.

A "lyrical drama about the woman who invented chicory stockings": the libretto of a troubadour operetta for narrators, children's choirs, accordion, dessert and Vosges spruce.

For its 50th release, Black Truffle presents the 9th album from one of the label's core ensembles, the power trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi.

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth, Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, is a revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by the electroacoustic music pioneer.

The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound.

The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains an unique signed collage.

A sound and photographic project about the disappearance of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

Sofi Hémon; interviews with Maria Chavez, Tori Kudo, Rudolf Eb.er and Anne-Laure Pigache; arcticles on Max Neuhaus and Tetsuo Kogawa...

Large format catalogue documenting a multichannel installation by Florian Hecker at Kunsthalle Wien, transformated into a resonating space, with texts by curators, researchers, theorists, and art historians.

The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.

The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.

The singer Christophe puts to music Olivier Mosset's interviews.

A short story by Pierre Loti (1850-1923), which tells the irremediable separation of a couple of beggars who have lived together for a long time, illustrated by a sound piece by Quentin Rollet and Romain Perrot (Vomir).

Anniversary special issue: a return on 25 years of reviews.

Dialect melodies are passed along since time immemorial and yet are only spontaneously available in the moment. Before caught and preserved they have to be released. Antje Vowinckel reflects upon this paradox through a collection of dialect recordings which are then imitated by humming musicians who try to catch the correct melodic lines.

A portrait of Derek Bailey (1930-2015), by another great figure of sound experimentation.

Special Metal issue.

The debut release of Alasdair Roberts, Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong and Benjamin Webb's vocal project is an intimate collection of traditional and newly composed songs.

The debut release of Alasdair Roberts, Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong and Benjamin Webb's vocal project is an intimate collection of traditional and newly composed songs.

The Santos Silva / Zetterberg / Lindwall trio's second album takes the musical creation a step further by adding live electronics for real time sound treatment to an unique conceptual approach to composition & improvisation rooted in both free jazz and contemporary classical music.

Unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma's personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM's Studio 116 during the 1970's.

Available for the first time ever on vinyl, one of Bill Laswell's masterpieces, the meditative ethno-ambient project inspired by the holy region of Banaras in India, in collaboration with Coil, Tetsu Inoue and Trilok Gurtu.