Music

A tribute to Canadian pianist Paul Bley, a portrait of Polish musician Zenial, Parisian reference record store Souffle Continu, interviews with Art Kill Art, Sarah Hennies, Daniel Buess, carte blanche to multidisciplinary artist Noémie Sauve...

Zbigniew Karkowski's last recording, in Sweden, November 2013—a few weeks before his death—accompanied by musicians Jean-Louis Huhta and Lars Akerlund.

A composition by Yannick Dauby built upon the eletroacoustic modulation of Japanese bats' ultrasonic voices.

A sound collage of night time ambiances from Guiana (France), focusing on the calls of amphibians.

Special Beatles Studies issue.

A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.

Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.

French band Cabaret Contemporain revisiting New York underground legend Moondog with the two Swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling.

What Lies In The Sea is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.

On the occasion of the republication of eight texts by Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "Music for Miscellaneous: A Piece of the Sky Is Missing", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.

This publication documents the making of a sound mapping project of the city of Melbourne by artists Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Jean-Marie Massou, thelast chapter of the history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin, Le Splendide Isolement De L'électronique by Kasper T. Toeplitz...

Autumnal Sisters recollects seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo. It is the first extensive document of Bosetti's work with MaskMirror, a musical instrument which takes language rather than sound as it's main material.

The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.

Featuring: interviews with Constant (An Mertens, Femke Snelting), Rosa Menkman, Tristan Perich, Alberto Novello, Ralf Baecker, Phillip Galanter; an article on Simplexity, the art of the one-liner for sonic complexity, reports on “Disruption” ISEA 2015, “Test Exposure” WRO 2015, xCoAx 2015, digital news, books and records reviews...

Featuring: Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum on their book Obfuscation – A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, interviews with Mushon Zer Aviv, Francisco López, Jacob Kirkegaard, Benjamin Grosser, and Nick Montfort, reports on Media City – Intermedia Art Festival, Piksel 2015, Renewable Futures Festival, digital news, records and books reviews…

A billion perspectives on the same instrumental explosion, by Anthony Pateras and Valerio Tricoli.

Seven meditations for clarinets, pianos and electronics: The Long Exhale catalogues psychoacoustic experiments and sparse acoustic excursions undertaken between 2014 and 2015 by Australian composer/performers Anthony Burr (clarinets, ARP 2600) and Anthony Pateras (piano, prepared piano).

Music for two prepared pianos (Erik Griswold & Anthony Pateras) and electronics (Robin Fox) without precedent.

Instruments that sound like instruments: the debut album from North of North, featuring Anthony Pateras (piano), Scott Tinkler (trumpet) and Erkki Veltheim (violin).

A minimalist piece of forty-four minutes in which the electroacoustic composer and experimental guitarist goes beyond the conventional modes of the instrumental approach, deploys a radically personal atypical universe and subtly explores the idea of space by generating different degrees of tension and emotion.

An audio collage based on an archive of carpentry and hardware recordings from Mads Emil Nielsen's "SoundTales" project, released on limited edition CD with three printed drawings by French, Amsterdam-based visual artist Julie Dassaud.

A dive into the world of Frederic Le Junter's machines and DIY instruments.

A 48 pages book of drawings by Costes, with all the lyrics of the 10 songs that are on the accompanying CD.

What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema? (a project by Mathieu Copeland, with Chantal Akerman, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Philippe Grandrieux, Isidore Isou, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Meredith Monk, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Stenger, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé, Lawrence Weiner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...).

The small opera created by Nicolas Murer for Lili Reynaud-Dewar's installation presented at the 2014 Venice Biennale, sung by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Nicolas Murer and the choir of HEAD, Geneva.

A collaboration between visual artist Myriam Mechita and musician Leonard de Leonard.

Nantes-based artist Mathias Delplanque combines a variety of instruments (guitar, bass, melodica, kora, synths…) with live electronic treatment to create a series of eight melancholic pieces which gives prominence to chance and accident.

Nantes-based artist Mathias Delplanque combines a variety of instruments (guitar, bass, melodica, kora, synths…) with live electronic treatment to create a series of eight melancholic pieces which gives prominence to chance and accident.

The duo's second recording in the “Mind Travels” Series: Petitgrand's sumptuous melodies meet Geins't Naït's hypnotic industrial collages to form a listening experience both immersive and singular.

The duo's second recording in the “Mind Travels” Series: Petitgrand's sumptuous melodies meet Geins't Naït's hypnotic industrial collages to form a listening experience both immersive and singular.

Four pieces based on drum/cymbal + synthesizer recordings by Mads Emil Nielsen.

The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.

This publication is the closing project of a series of recent initiatives around the works of American experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow, including a pirate radio station, an art journal, a museographical essay by Mario García Torres, and an exhibition.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

Milan Knížák 1979's masterpiece never re-released in vinyl before: classic collages of noises created during performances and happenings, widely regarded as important sound art documents on record.

Ultimate mix from original recordings done at La Selva Biological Station during the rainy seasons of 1995 and 1996. This masterpiece is released in High-res audio on a USB card and comes with a silent vinyl (numbered and signed limited edition).

New monograph.

Sicilia Bambaataa is a booklet, risograph printed, which documents the namesake installation, a “soundscape” within the Museo Civico in Castelbuono, Sicily which plays in loop, repeating the audio recording of the dawn chorus, slowly diminishing as the city awakes.

The artist's magazine's rich and diverse third issue welcomes fiction for the first time.

In the series of works In Places Jason Kahn explores a variety of places and investigate them through their sounds. Influenced by Henri Lefebvre's theories, Kahn the musician experiences the daily rythms of life and how space is formed and reflected.

The Four Seasons Forever is the catalogue of Sam Falls' one year show which presents 13 sun-printed photograms of vinyls on colored textiles exhibited in a dramatic stage-like atmosphere, with parts of Vivaldi's masterpiece playing according to the season (artist's book, the first in a series published in limited editions by Flash Art).