Sound arts

Singing insects of the Causses, vultures feeding, passerine songs, underground streams, barking stags, rumbling storms, amphibian choruses, sheep bells... a reference in the audio-naturalist field.

Waterkil is a singular sound creation starring Axel Dörner on trumpet & Jassem Hindi on electronics. The recordings for this album were made during a three week residency at EMS in Stockholm and during a live show at Able gallery in Berlin.

The album Living Theory Without Anecdotes conflates Nicolas Wiese's acousmatic compositions from the years 2009-2011. All four tracks are constructed out of samples from acoustic instrument and object recordings, and are characterized by floating structures allowing slow crescendos and little disruptions.

Apo33 – Julien Ottavi, Zak Cammoun, Yan Jun, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Joris Guibert, François Bayle, Kasper Toeplitz...

Audioplay by Adrian Williams (music by Theodor Köhler), performed and recorded live at Portikus, in Frankfurt am Main, between September 24 and November 6, 2011.

Brandon LaBelle's revolutionary diary during the Arab Spring.

An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.

2CD-Box collecting 11 pieces from Jean Dubuffet's “'Expériences musicales” (recorded in 1961) for the first time on CD.

CD presenting 37 solo text-pieces, phonetic poems and poetry duets (with Monika Lichtenfeld) written and composed between 1952 and 2010.

5th issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...).

Thomas Tilly, 11 paragraphes sur un concert improvisé (Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Mattin), Expérience cinéma – Phénoménologie de l'apparition, Wandelweiser...

Sonic Protest 2012; interviews with Daniel Menche and Yann Leguay; Propositions pour une architecture habitée de l'écoute by Jean-Luc Guionnet; Manifeste pour un visuel qui ouvre l'œil by Joris Guibert; Séisme, tsunami et autres désastres by Eric Cordier; Projet Fukushima by Otomo Yoshihide; Ring Modulation 5 by Kasper Toeplitz...

The function of utopian thinking in urban planning and spatial culture (based on the project by Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley).

Reference monograph dedicated to an artist who works with sound as a material.

Jean-Luc Guionnet, Skullflower, Manifeste pour un visuel qui ouvre l'œil, Penser le sonore / écrire la musique (La disparition annoncée de la pensée solfégique), John Fahey, Ring-Modulation#4, Du côté de la Russie...

Monograph based on Ann Veronica Janssens' exhibition at Wiels, with an essay by cultural theorist, critic and video artist Mieke Bal.

Mark Leckey, Ruth Ewan, Tom Marioni and the sonic explorations in San Francisco Bay, Robert Morris, Pierre Henry, Louie Louie, Dora García, Hannah Rickards...

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).

A piece for mezzo-soprano, voices, instrumental ensemble, electronics and videos (with a DVD, with no sound, to synchronise, or not, with the CD).

These studies confront real spaces captured in the field and others reconstructed in the studio.

The visual score of L'Étonnement sonore by Carole Rieussec, Johann Maheut, and Guillaume Robert; Faire un bruit qui me ressemble, Vomir and Francisco Meirino, by Kasper T. Toeplitz; John Cage's Williams Mix reinterpretated by Valerio Tricoli and Werner Dafeldecker; Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick's Parades and Changes; Quelques compositeurs du Royaume-Uni by Tim Parkinson; Ring Modulation 3, la pensée électronique by KTT...

CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.

Reference monograph.

Conversations between Alessandro Bosetti, Peter ablinger, Tomomi Adachi, Arturas Bumsteinas, Jennifer Walshe & Alexander Waterman, interview with Joëlle Léandre, Cornelius Cardew's Teatrise by Matthieu Saladin and by some interpreters (Oren Ambarchi, Didier Aschour, Arturas Bumsteinas, Laurent Dailleau, Jean-Marc Montera, Jim O'Rourke, Julien Ottavi, Jean-Jacques Palix, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmikler & John Tilbury), Connivence des extrêmes by Xavier Hug, Ring-Modulation#2 by Kasper Toeplitz...

For its 88th issue (special issue limited to 666 copies!), the quaterly magazine turns into a carte blanche given to more than 80 personalities related to various experimental sound practices. A tribute to the do-it-yourself way.

In the cross-over between sound and architecture.

Third issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...).

First monograph (video installations, mechanical, electronic, light and sound devices, living or naturalized animals, sculptures, performances, photographs and drawings...), with two essays and a conversation with the artist.

A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).

A collection of the audible traces of dancing bodies (audio CD with booklet).

Kasper T. Toeplitz / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe / Captain Beefheart / Rolf Julius / Jean-François Denis (Diffusion i Média / empreintes DIGITALes) / a history of metal, from Black Sabbath to Sunn O))) / chronic, readings, records, news, concerts...

A fanzine dedicated to the relationship between visual arts and music.

Retrospective monograph: a complete overview of the visual and sound works by Rainier Lericolais.

Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.

John Wynne's untitled installation for 300 speakers, pianola and vacuum cleaner, at once monumental, minimal and immersive, using sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.

Three sound compositions by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan's capital.

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin & Ray Brassier / chroniques / Jean-Claude Eloy / Thierry Madiot / Seijiro Murayama / Taku Sugimoto / L'interaction par et pour tous, Patricia Kuypers / Emmanuel Adely / disques / concerts / infos / index.

Sound and auditory experience as platforms for social meeting, urban intervention and environmental investigation.

Sixteen visual artists give their vision of Clair Obscur's album We Gave A Party For The Gods And The Gods All Came.

A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.

Sound installations by the French graphic design studio.

“Metal Machine Theory” par Mattin / chroniques / Mastering / Interfaces / L'interaction par et pour tous, Carole Rieussec / Cave12 / disques / notes de lectures / concerts / infos / index.

New musical practices, modes of production and reception of culture, since the emergence of electronic music in the 1990s.

Soundtrack for an exotic elevator, innocent muzak, only a priori, an orchestra with sequins and cheap junk (the soundtrack of Pierre Beloüin's eponymous installation).