Sound arts

 
 
Terry Fox - 552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
sold out
This double LP includes four unreleased selections from Fox's eponymous sound performance based on the great pavement labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral—which the artist saw as a metaphor for his own life in between health and sickness.
Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.
Steve Roden - A thousand breathing forms (6 CD box set)
2017
Sonoris
sold out
A selection of unreleased or hard-to-locate works from 2003 to 2008, a very prolific and creative period for the Californian artist.
George Brecht - This is the Cover of the Book
2017
English edition
IF Publications
sold out
In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.
Félicia Atkinson - Audio Book
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
This artist's book gathers an uncompromising collection of 200 found images and original work from Felicia Atkinson, composing a rasterized visual score.
Fluxus Anthology - A Collection of Music and Sound Events (vinyl LP)
2017
Song Cycle Records
sold out
A collection of sound works by Fluxus artists and affiliates (with Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, La Monte Young, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Milan Knižák, Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Philip Corner, Eric Andersen, Robert Watts, Nam June Paik, and Ken Friedman).
Marcel Duchamp - The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp (vinyl LP)
2017
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Originally released by Multhipla Records, The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp is a collection of experimental pieces composed in 1913 by the legendary artist, and executed by Petr Kotik and the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1976. Employing chance operations and non-musical sounds, Marcel Duchamp's musical oeuvre predated some radical concepts developed forty years later by John Cage.
Christina Kubisch - Two and two (vinyl LP)
2017
Song Cycle Records
sold out
This recording brings together two pioneers in their respective fields, sound artist Christina Kubisch and video artist Fabrizio Plessi. Two and two is the outcome of a Fluxus-oriented multimedia performance inspired by the natural elements.
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume I (vinyl LP)
2016
La Belle Brute
sold out
First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume I (CD)
2016
La Belle Brute
sold out
First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Michael Snow - Music For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Song Cycle Records
sold out
A collection of musical works from the seventies by the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.
Radionics Radio - An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought-Frequencies (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of “radionics”, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems.
Alessandro Bosetti - Stille Post - Radio Works – 2003-2011 (box set 4 CD)
2016
various
sold out
A selection of radiophonic works from 2003 to 2011, completed with a 36-page booklet and 4 essays by Bosetti himself, Gregory Whitehead and Ksenija Stefanovic.
Félicia Atkinson - Comme un seul narcisse (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.
Félicia Atkinson - Animals
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.
William S. Burroughs - Break Through In Grey Room (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Cut-up, lectures, incantations, soundworks recorded by the American writer himself in hotel rooms in Paris, London & New York, in the early 1960s (one of Sub Rosa's absolute classics, officially re-released).
David Toop - Life on the inside (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Life on the inside is a limited edition of an audio companion to French sculptor Pierre Besson's exhibition at Le Carré in 2014—an excellent addition to the David Toop discography of any wide-ranging ambient fan.
 Maciunas Ensemble - 1976 (vinyl LP)
2016
Edition Telemark
sold out
This improvisational band founded in 1968 by Dutch musicians Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet takes its source and inspiration from the works of George Maciunas. This LP edition features two pieces, both recorded on December 19, 1976, and never released before on any format. Here, the group comprised Leon van Noorden and Hans Schuurman, in addition to the founding members.
Joshua Bonnetta - Lago (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
An acoustic portrait of the Salton Sea in the Southern California desert developed as part of a joint project by Bonnetta and photographer Ron Jude.
Doppeldoppelgänger (2 vinyl LP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
A subjective compilation by David Le Simple and Vincent Romagny concluding the three exhibitions cycle “Doppelgänger” at CEAAC curated by Romagny.
Phil Collins - My heart\'s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand\'s in  the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught (2 vinyl LP)
2015
Nero
sold out
A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl, with David Sylvian, Demdike Stare, Pye Corner Audio, Pluramon...).
Stéphane Thidet - From Walden To Space (vinyl LP – Picture Disc)
2015
Optical Sound
sold out
This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (vinyl LP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
CRU (Contemporary Radical Underground)
2015
texts in English and French
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
sold out
First issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, including a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacques Lizène, Alvin Lucier, Loré Lixenberg, and Alex Mincek, posters, and documents.
L\'expérience de l\'expérimentation
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Perturbations
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
sold out
New monograph.
Charlemagne Palestine - Youuu + Mee = Weeee (vinyl LP)
2015
Sub Rosa
sold out
The first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).
Matteo Nasini - The Sudden Gust (vinyl LP + prints)
2015
English edition
Nero
sold out
This vinyl edition collects several field-recordings of Matteo Nasini's aeolian instruments, executed by the artist in different places and conditions. Together with the vinyl, the edition presents eight large-format artist's prints related to the same practice.
Max Eastley - Another Evening at Logos 1974/79/81 (2 vinyl LP)
2015
Sub Rosa
sold out
This LP inaugurates a new series of vinyl-only releases based on the extraordinary Logos archives. Here, never released before recordings from live sessions at Logos Foundation, in 1974, 1979 & 1981, featuring Max Eastley, Feminist Improvising Group, COUM, Derek Bailey, and the Logos Ensemble.
Tacet - From Sound Space
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tacet
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.
OpticalSound
2013
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
sold out
The magazine first issue: featuring Gee Vaucher, Stephen Wright, Coil, Glassbox, Claude Lévêque, Mabel Tapia, Franckdavid, Société Réaliste, Raphaële Jeune, Élodie Lesourd, Agnès Joffray, Robert Hampson, Sandy Amerio…
Tacet - Experimentation As Questioning
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tacet
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.
Christof Migone - Sonic Somatic - Performances of the Unsound Body
2012
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
sold out
A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.
 MSHR - New World (vinyl EP)
2012
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
sold out
Artists' record by the American performers duo (limited edition of 100 copies).
Frédéric Post - Post Vinyle
2012
no text
Boabooks
sold out
Frédéric Post's picture discs homemade with glued (artist's book).
Tacet - Who is John Cage?
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tacet
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
First issue of the experimental music annual review.
Anthony Pateras - Collected Works 2002​-​2012 (5 CD box set)
2012
Immediata
sold out
A 5-disc overview of exploratory works written between 2002 and ​2012.
Thorsten Soltau - Grün wie Milch / Alamut (vinyl LP)
2011
Corvo Records
sold out
Thorsten Soltau musical cut-up piece Grün wie Milch stands alongside Preslav Literary School's drone tragedy Alamut in this wonderfully designed split album.
Christian Marclay - Cyanotypes
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
A new body of works.
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
sold out
Analysis (“A Brief History of Sound Art” by Rahma Khazam; “Sound Art, a Fortified Art” by Bastien Gallet; “Notes on Steve Reich's Pendulum Music” by Christophe Gallois; “A Formless Form” by Mathieu Copeland; “Sound in Artist's Films” by Alexandre Castant, etc.) / “focus” on Philippe Decrauzat's Leslie, by Matthieu Poirier, monographs (Laurent Montaron, Su-Mei Tse, Georgina Starr, Joachim Schmid) / interviews (Sébastien Faucon, Kerwin Rolland) / artist's interventions (Nicolas Fenouillat, Dominique Petitgand, Jérôme Poret, Samon Takahashi)...
Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music for Piano, Harpsichord & Strings Ensemble (3 CD)
2010
Sub Rosa
sold out
Charlemagne Palestine's most contemporary music work.
Klaus Weber - Large Dark Wind Chime (Tritone Westy) - Vinyl LP
2009
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
sold out
The sound of a 4.3 meters high wind chime recorded in the dome of Secession in Vienna.
Christian Marclay - Snap!
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Monographs
sold out
First publication dedicated to Christian Marclay's photographic practice.
Allen S. Weiss - Varieties of Audio Mimesis - Musical Evocations of Landscape
2008
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
sold out
An extensive essay, Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts.
Le groupe surréaliste révolutionnaire, Dotremont et Broodthaers (1939-1978) - L\'anthologie sonore de l\'avant-garde en Belgique 1917-1978 – Volume 3 (CD)
2008
Sub Rosa
sold out
Third volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.
Christian Marclay - Replay
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
The book reunites some of the performer, musician, visual artist and filmmaker's most important films and projections to date, with five important essays and an interview by Michael Snow.
Carsten Nicolai - Static Fades
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Monograph on the berliner artist / musician (Noto / Alva Noto / Raster Noton).
Saâdane Afif - Power Chords (+ CD)
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
Magritte, le groupe surréaliste de Bruxelles, Rupture (1926-1938) - L\'anthologie sonore de l\'avant-garde en Belgique 1917-1978 – Volume 2 (CD)
2006
Sub Rosa
sold out
Second volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.
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