Sound arts

Ben Vida's new LP, based on a concrete poetry score / text piece.

This artist's book / CD includes an innovative work made of sound and pictures related to an installation made by the artist in Japan in 2012.

3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.

Sound (and aural perception) in contemporary art.

Luc & Brunhild Ferrari's Chantal, Eliane Radigue by Kasper Toeplitz, Yvain Von Stebut, Musique Action festival, filming music, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 5)...

First monograph.

A project based on a travel to the Nourages scientific research station in French Guiana, situated in the heart of a tropical rainforest. The result is a collection of compositions and phonography characteristic of the zone.

First release of Gerhard Rühm's Radio-Play “Masoch”. A ritual recitation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Ignatius von Loyola for one female and one male speaker, a chorus of speakers, and tape.

Sixty years of sound and music creation on the French Riviera and beyond (with Jean Dupuy, Éliane Radigue, Arnaud Maguet, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Sun Ra, Yves Klein, Thomas Köner, Pascal Broccolichi, Lars Fredrikson, Robert Malaval, Ludovic Lignon, The Bells Angels...).

RadioDordogne#1 is a vast montage of sound recordings made by the sound cartographers in 2014 for the web radio RadioDordogne. Sound heritage, readings, landscapes, archives, musical creations are intertwined to propose six radio pieces for listening.

Christine Baudillon, Robin Fox, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 4)...

Interviews Special Issue.

Six conversations recorded in Berlin between the artist Heimo Lattner and colleagues, focusing on the artist's research and practice, especially around the recurring theme of the voice, which Lattner's work queries as fundamental to issues concerning the formation of social and cultural identity.

A collection of original poems Leif Elggren wrote between 1970 and 2013 and translated for the first time into French. With illustrations by the author.

Jonas Kocher, Guy Girard, Tetsuo Furudate, Festival Densités, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 3)...

The first poetry book wrote by the visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.

The long overdue first proper collection of sound-poetry / musique concrete pieces by German installation & conceptual artist Michael Barthel.

Mon's early concrete phonetic poems recorded 1962-64, as well as the radio-play “Ich bin der ich bin die” from 1971.

The experimental scene in Cairo, radio studios in Warsaw, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 2), Sandra Remski's writings during live shows, the retro-krautrock-mania...

Sound avant-garde in architecture: a journey through architecture, art and music in the twentieth century.

An initiatory sound journey in the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro.

Konrad Smoleński, an active participant in both the independent music scene and the visual art scene, combines punk rock aesthetics with the precision and elegance typical for minimalism. This book reflects on the artist's practice in the context of his most challenging and conceptually complete effort to date.

Volume #6 explores the production spaces and other soundscapes, through the works of Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Martin Kersels, Raymond Gervais, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller or Dan Peterman, Marcel Broodthaers' performance at Speakers' Corner, and Audio Arts magazine. With special interventions by Arnaud Maguet and Cocktail Designers.

A series of interviews with 27 international artists/musicians, centered on the relation of sound to space.

Esther Ferrer, PaaLabRes, Eric Cordier, Le 102 in Grenoble, Lionel Marchetti, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...

2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.

A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.

First monograph.

An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.

Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).

Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).

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.

This publication proposes a set of aural exercises that show readers how to disappear, reappear, join a group, or leave a group. Its annex is a lexicon of some of the sounds that dwell in or are banished from the middle-class household.

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.

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.