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A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Off The Record by French collagist Roméo Poirier is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public.

Joke Lanz; female duo (Ana da Silva & Phew, Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, etc.); Magali Dougoud; François Bayle; Céleste Gatier; Banetoriko; Ed Williams; Madelyn Byrd & Ashlynn White; Nicolas Field & Thomas Florin; book and record reviews...

A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.

Rhythmic, exotic, deep & primitive sounds for post modern ears: the first album by the acoustic ensemble founded by Daniel Denis (Univers Zéro) and Alain Neffe (Pseudocode).

Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to the master of minimalism Alvin Lucier.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

Comprised of two expansive, sidelong pieces composed entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer, The Dip signals a subtle yet significant shift in the Berlin-based artist and composer Thomas Ankersmit's trajectory, imbuing the hyper-physical, psychoacoustic intensities of his live performances with introspective, atmospheric, and even melodic elements.

Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.

The Vestige is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between Giuseppe Ielasi, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and Jack Sheen, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester whose recent projects have seen him moving seamlessly from enigmatic chamber music composition and installations to conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".

Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.

An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.

"I hate all the words" by Luca Scarabelli and Michele Lombardelli's Untitled Noise, the eight instalments in the celebrated Die Schachtel's "Decay music" series, is a concept album composed of three tracks designed to explore the remote and hidden depths of psyche.

Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.

The definitive Babs Santini book: the complete graphic work of Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), covering his entire visual output over five decades, on nearly 600 color pages.

A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

A sensitive work with which radio art and field recording composition pioneer Brunhild Ferrari revisits and recomposes her impressions of the past and her sensory reminiscences.

This rich collection spans much of Annette Vande Gorne's long career, and gives a great sense of the stylistic variety of her work.

L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.

This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.

Céline Guichard; Dalia Taha; on autodidacticism in music, by Fanny Chiarello; towards intercultural listening, a conversation between Kristoff K. Roll and the Mexican collective La Lleca; interviews with Alexandra Spence and Ayami Suzuki; Noises at Pompidou: a conversation between Marion Camy-Palou, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Nicolas Ballet; creating in psychic precariousness, by Aude Romary; book and record reviews..

Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...

The first two albums of the fictional and conceptual girl band comprising Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner.

Andrzej Karałow's piano metamorphoses in the cogs of Jérôme Noetinger's tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror: a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.

The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, Marja Ahti, Scott Arford, Nicolas Debade, Michael Gatt, Tim Ingold, Rolf Julius, Jules Négrier, John Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Hildegard Westerkamp, Randy Yau...).

Gilles Aubry's composition "L'Makina" is a haunting soundscape that combines AI-generated sound textures with modular synths. Structured in two parts, the piece explores the spectral possibilities of a virtual sound model developed using a machine learning algorithm, in collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou.

Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.

New Environments & Rhythm Studies is a further attempt to re-describe past tropes which laid claims to authentically represent music and sound from beyond the Western world (exotica, ethnomusicology, field recording) as undertakings of the imaginary.

A moment in bird territory: a musical piece created live in an aviary fitted out with musical instruments, in which visitors are invited to stay in the company of some sixty live Australian finches, hopping quietly (and harmoniously) on 12 tuned electric guitars that have become perches.

The second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie, 48 minutes of electrifying music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings.

The second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie, 48 minutes of electrifying music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings.

Discrepant's chieftain Gonçalo F. Cardoso continues his sonic travelogue on insularity with impressions of Macaronésia: Canary Islands, Açores and Cabo Verde.

A meeting of minds and bodies on a heady percussive trip with no clear destination, captured live at Espacio Cultural El Tanque in Tenerife.

Robert Millis' first album with the Discrepant label explores his obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies.

People Like Us, the project of artist Vicki Bennet returns to Discrepant with a special vinyl release of "Copia". This album marks the first new musical material since 2018, delving into the profound realms of existential collage and sampling, celebrating these forms as expressions of timeless connectivity.

Cross remixes by two emblematic figures of the contemporary electronic and experimental scene.

Eight sound pieces delicately handcrafted like a game between inside and outside.

A double CD with Suite blanche, a musique concrète composition by Anouck Genthon (violin, sound recordings) and Lionel Marchetti (synthesizers, electroacoustics, sound recordings), and Angelica, a concert by the duo.

A portfolio of 15 graphic scores (printed on different types of paper) by musician, artist, composer and sound artist. Alan Courtis

The first ever vinyl issue of the 2001 "Asuma" LP by Finnish artist Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic), remastered by Rashad Becker.

Legendary New Zealand-born experimental composer and sound art pioneer Annea Lockwood returns to Black Truffle with On Fractured Ground / Skin Resonance, her third release for the label.

A stunningly, beautiful, multidimensional mercurial work by mysterious Berlin-based composer, music producer, instrument builder and artist Konrad Sprenger (Jörg Hiller), collaborator of Arnold Dreyblatt, Ellen Fullman, Phillip Sollmann and Oren Ambarchi.

The soundtrack to the eponymous debut feature-length animation film by Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer, composed by Anthony Pateras and released as a stand-alone album, recorded with a slew of guest musicians: 29 pieces based on "weird folk melodies ornamented with electro-acoustics," imbued with a sense of mystical surrealism, otherworldly and haunting.