Sound arts

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.

A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives.

Cornelius Cardew by Matthieu Saladin, interviews with Katsura Mouri, Franck Lilin and Evan Parker, Frédéric Tabet, contemporary Arabic poetry: Abdel Wahab Mohamed Youssef...

Dirty Ear Report #3 documents a collective workshop by sound artists and researchers working in the fields of experimental dramaturgy, sonic social engagement, and voice studies.

A village, its people, nine characters, some children, a forest. Three seasons : winter, lockdown an spring. Bruissons is the tale of a motionless journey, slightly disrupted. An exhibition – pictures, sounds. And a book.

Release of conceptual and perfomative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realised between 1974 and 1984, during Kubisch's years in Italy.

Unlike previous Gerhard Rühm editions on Tochnit Aleph which portrayed his phonetic poetry and longform radio-plays, the pieces on this edition are more conceptual, actionistic and (mostly) sound-based works recorded between 1962 and 1987.

A work Andrea Tippel started in 1993 and finished in 2009, consisting entirely of three-letter-words (two CDs in fullcolour six-panel DVD-sized digipak, with a biographical text, a chronology of the work and a text by Dorothy Iannone).

Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.

First monograph.

"Alter-" is Automatisme's reaction to altermodernism in sound art.

An extended drone work performed on organ, building from a peaceful single note to a harmonically rich and subtile combination of tones.

The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956.

Sean Baxter, Alessandro Bosetti and Hong-kai Wang, Mark Vernon, Kate Carr, Homei Yanagawa, Malaka Badr...

Thomas Köner's new album, marking the relaunch of the lengendary Mille Plateaux label.

Bruce McClure / Contemporary Arabic-language poetry: Soukaina Habiballah / Isabelle Duthoit / Jacques Brodier / Kazuo Imai / Evan Parker...

Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.

Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.

A piece of industrial musique concrète composed in the studios of GRM, created from field recordings of a vinyl record pressing plant: a mise en abyme of the record as an object.

In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.

Roven #15 is entirely devoted to the links between drawing and sound.

The second issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, is dedicated is devoted to the concept of resonances, with contributions by Maryanne Amacher, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, Christina Kubisch, Okkyung Lee, Pali Meursault, Jean-Luc Nancy, David Rosenboom, Tomoko Sauvage, The Caretaker, David Toop, and Christian Zanési.

Art & vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist's records in Switzerland.

Six pieces exploring multi-phonic spaces on the clarinet and alto saxophone, spaces linked to breath and the sonic landscapes developed by the amplification.

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).

Vinyl record unique for each edition, accompanied with a 36 page booklet with 16 drawings by Stéphane Thidet.

The Canadian artist's second album features two immersive pieces that explore ideas of compositional drift: The Nonsuch is inspired by nocturnal hallucinations while In Praise of Blandness builds on sinologist François Jullien's concept of “blandness”.

Emma Souharce, contemporary Arabic-language poetry, Michèle Bokanowski, Olivia Block, Barre Phillips, Jojo Hiroshige, Lin Chi-Wei...

Frédéric Acquaviva's new record—A QR code record without record limited to 100 copies: a 69 minutes opera for voices (with Joël Hubaut, who also wrote the text, Dorothy Iannone and Loré Lixenberg), dead electronics and video.

First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).

Exhibition catalogue.

First monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound arts (audio CD included).

Four essays by philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy on Anri Sala's recent practice. Szendy emphasises the key role played by music and sound in Sala's sensorial installations.

A radio novel inspired by the author's previous publication, associating infuences from sound fictions, experimental music, sound poetry, and rap.

Three unreleased field recordings from August 1990, documenting a sound installation made from a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall.

Une généalogie des grandes oreilles is the result of an iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on what she calls “Big Ears”: these military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening – an increased listening through a mediator, such as a tool, an instrument, an architecture, a system, etc.—and that the modern man has relentlessly improved with the purpose of anticipating potential dangers.

A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual artists, including Martha Rosler, Art & Language, Andrea Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne Rainer.

A reverse encoder that keeps only frequencies usually removed by the mp3 encoders, giving the “inaudible” frequencies to listen (software edition on SD card and silkscreen booklet, including a text by Jonathan Sterne).

The soundtrack of an interactive project around phantom islands—islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. A collection of fictitious soundscapes, between field recording and exotica music.

The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.

The first comprehensive publication of the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix's written work in a two-volume set.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

Special 30th anniversary issue, including an audio CD.

A sound and photographic project about the disappearance of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

Sofi Hémon; interviews with Maria Chavez, Tori Kudo, Rudolf Eb.er and Anne-Laure Pigache; arcticles on Max Neuhaus and Tetsuo Kogawa...