Sound arts

New edition of Thomas Köner's fourth album, recorded in 1994-1995.

French designer Gregory Granados imagines the ideal shape of a vase/flower pot for a dancing plant. His discreet and subtle research questions the connection between the shaping of a given material and the sound it emits, investigating the acoustic properties of glass.

Practices of silence, sound, and orality, between concrete poetry, performance and sound art.

Mahalla – The Survey offers a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims at a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating Uzbek cultural heritage: the mahalla (luxury box set including numerous documents, a 7" vinyl record by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen).

The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene (Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Milford Graves, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Suicide, Michael Snow, Tom Verlaine, Yo La Tengo...).

A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.

A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.

Retrospective monograph.

This book is a documented and illustrated manual of the turntablism practices developed by Maria Chávez over many years. It encourages experimentation and personal research through numerous examples and detailed instructions.

Unholy Movie is an edition inspired by the films of Vincent Epplay, associated with an original fiction of Daniel Foucard. An audio K7 is included.

A "poly-autobiographical" musical combinatory poem inspired by the life stories of a group of musicians whose testimonies Alessandro Bosetti has collected, exploring the shifting and multiple dimension of identities through voice expression, between electro-acoustic research, jazz and experimental opera.

Contemporary poetry in Arabic: Maya Abu-Alhayyat; "Jean-Michel Jarre or the time of the jesters", by Jérôme Noetinger; Takayuki Hashimoto; Louis Moholo-Moholo; Simon H. Fell; Titania Tapes; 60 album reviews...

This journey, this slowly drifting sonic meditation, is an "inner soundscape", a dialogue between the senses, the conscience and the world, inside / outside, interconnected. Like waking up from a long dream, and being stuck into its echo. The April Sessions immerges the listener into a drone-ish universe, full of random acousmatic events, inner monologues and a vast and unwritten subjective map to be drawn.

New monograph.

A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.

An uncanny electroacoustic composition that incorporates field recordings, synthesis, and acoustic sources, among Carlos Casas's most ambitious and accomplished musical endeavors to date.

Joachim Nordwall proposes for his contribution to the MMXX series a singular gesture built around captured vocalizations: the work's title, spoken by a number of voices, stands as doubling mantra and raw material, increasingly repeated layered, processed, and fed with further tonal and textural interventions over its duration, allowing Nordwall to push the boundaries of his own practice, between musique concrète, sound-art, and experimental electroacoustic music.

Jean-Luc Guionnet and Claire Bergerault have been working as an organ and voice duo in various churches since 2007. The challenge is, each time, to adapt to the configuration of the building and the organ, and then to stretch their music on the breach of this singularity.

An off-track, frenetic and exciting improvisation session bringing together musicians who have known each other for many years and are playing together for the first time.

A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.

Monograph based on the research of the London-Lisbon based audiovisual artist around the use of ergot in female history.

An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.

A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).

Souffle Continu Records; interviews with François Bonnet / Kassel Jaeger, Yann Gourdon, Satoko Fujii, Hans Reichel, Christophe Guérin; Lelio Giannetto; books and records reviews; contemporary Arabic poetry: Carol Sansour by Henri-Jules Julien...

First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

Two improvised concerts where are woven between the piano and the saxophone subtle games of harmonic textures, appearances of differential sounds, resonances and sometimes some more noisy sequences.

An exploration of the synesthetic phenomenon, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.

This publication brings together the source material that has informed Marclay's visual practice over the past few years. It gathers nearly 600 black & white Xeroxes of found image collages compiled with the help of graphic designer Laurent Benner.

Two previously unreleased recordings from Philip Corner's "Gong/Ear" series of works. Side A was recorded on a South German night train ride in 1990, side B in the Alps in 1994.

A split LP featuring two complementary experimental sound performances.

Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.

Black Sifichi, Radio renversé by Elena Biserna & Carole Rieussec, Asmaa Azaizeh, Diamanda Galás, De l'utilisation de la musique sur les ondes by Jérôme Noetinger & Alphonsine Houëves, Cornelius Cardewby Matthieu Saladin, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Akira Sakata, Le conservatisme musical (et la musique à venir ?) by Kasper T. Toeplitz...

Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond compiles a selection of the visual and research materials accumulated during the development of the film and project Cemetery (2009–2019).

A piece made with materials from four artists (Arne Deforce and Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon), recorded in Marcus Schmickler's studio in Koln, with a Brauner microphone.

Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.

Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.

Formed in 2016 as the collaborative platform of composer Justin Hicks and artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos mines the history of Black music. This ongoing project has manifested in many forms: workshop, study session, concert, listening session, book, prompt, score. “Another time, this time, one time,” the first Mikrokosmos LP, uses Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Stefan Römer performs quotations from cultural or musical theoreticians commenting on performances by two iconic musicians, Syd Barrett and Conrad Schnitzler.

Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and mixes used for the 4 sound installations, made in-situ between 2005 and 2016 (with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Arnau Horta, Seijiro Murayama and Michaële-Andréa Schatt).

C.C. Hennix realizes Karlheinz Stockhausen's famous “intuitive music” masterwork from the late Sixties.

Monograph / artist's book.

Jean-Baptiste Farkas; Nathalie Leleu; RYBN; Laura Kopf; Marianne Derrien; Dorothée Deyries-Henry; Guillaume Aubry; Étienne Charry par Hervé Zénouda; Maxime Ansiau; Carole Douillard, Amelia Jones, Suzanne Lacy & Barbara T. Smith; Éric Degoutte; Jérôme Grivel; Vaughan Oliver; Alain Bergala; Gwendoline Samidoust; Yann Ricordel; Emma Briant; Olivier Mosset...

Book / sonic sculpture.

Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.

Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition.

Karbe Dinel creates a complex work of sound that shifts through diverse moods and seamlessly dovetailed sections, using synthesizer and effects to create deep resonating tones and high pitched complements, mysterious grainy ambience, haunting chambers of drifting electronics; a mysterious and compelling journey in the electronic realm.

A piece composed by Phill Niblock, performed live by Ensemble IRE trio: Kasper T. Toeplitz (ebass), Franck Vigroux (eguitar), Hélène Breschand (e harp) on side A / a piece composed and performed by Kasper T.Toeplitz (ebass) and Franck Vigroux (guitar, electronics) on side B.