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New composition by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk: a highly dynamic and eclectic ride between directed feature, audio-art and faked diary.

First part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. This is the reissue of the first LP from 1973. Recordings of the 3rd Berliner Poetsworkshop (First Berliner Musicworkshop) with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 12th & 13th July 1973.

Third part in the reissue series of all the legendary Selten Gehörte Musik records from the 70's. Originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975, the Münchner Konzert 1974 is performed by all-star artist line-up of Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus.

Second part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. This is the reissue of the Double-LP from 1974. Recordings of the second Berliner Musicworkshop with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 15th - 26th November 1973. Also included are the two bonus pieces from the 7'' single which came only with the first 100 copies of the original edition.

Jean-Noël Cognard and his label Bloc Thyristors, a portrait of Anna Zaradny, Jean-Claude Eloy's virtual orchestra, music and handicap, a tribute to Bernard Heidsieck, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...

A complex and mysterious work by Swiss electro-acoustic artist Israël Quellet for symphonic bass drum, symphonic tympanies, organ, tibetan horn, homemade horn, triangle, tubular bells, shocks inside the church, anvil metal tank and church bells. A challenging listen, but so rewarding.

An original music by Murcof which is the framework of Patrick Bernatchez's film “Lost in Time”, a sound project that is part of the explorations around Bach's “Goldberg Variations” initiated in Berlin in 2010.

166 minutes with Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).

During the 1950s and 1960s, Roberto Gerhard gathered a significant magnetic tape collection in his home studio, creating a major repository of early electronic sound recordings of his own works. The pieces on this record present a complex set of challenges for audio restoration, giving at the end a complete understanding of his compositional process and allowing the spirit and vitality of his electronicwork to speak clearly to the listener.

First vinyl edition of one of Aidan Baker's masterpiece, first released in 2006. Three long and wonderful ambient titles, plus a live version of the eponymous title as a bonus. The artwork, designed by Francis Meslet, intensifies in the most admirable manner the depth of this dizzying music.

This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Gréaud performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, Crossfading guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes MRI images of the artist listening to the piece.

A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary.

A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary. Limited edition accompanied by a real butterfly, on black cardboard, unique piece.

Interviews with Jon Ippolito, Ben Fido-Radin, Olia Lialina, Constant Dullaart, Graham Dunning, Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante (Working IT museum); articles on Artworks & defunct software, embracing social life & forgetfulness, sound reconfigurations, reports on Bio-Fiction 2014, Transmediale 2015, Sonic Acts 2015, Accès)s( #14, records and books reviews...

More than a decade after his first work as Manyfingers, Chris Cole returns with The Spectacular Nowhere, with which he confirms his status as an atypical composer, able to marry references and genres, to offer a singular work of pop, classical, and experimental music.

More than a decade after his first work as Manyfingers, Chris Cole returns with The Spectacular Nowhere, with which he confirms his status as an atypical composer, able to marry references and genres, to offer a singular work of pop, classical, and experimental music.

Long-range acoustic hallucinations for violin (Anthony Pateras) and piano (Erkki Veltheim).

Six audio explorations for mixed electro-acoustic quintet.

A milestone film from American composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, presented for the first time in DVD with two alternate soundtracks, T H I R is a mesmerizing and hypnotic film from his Environments series shot in upstate New York in 1972. This film is one of Niblock's finest and undiscovered jewels—a must have classic release.

A cut-up piece recorded primarily in the first part of 2013, many tracks using field recordings and cassettes found on late winter tour down south, later edited and assembled in late 2015.

Eight pieces mostly made for flutes (for piccolo, flute, alto flute, piano and percussion).

Performances of clarinet solo around the work of Roger Caillois & graphic scores (with Maurice Benhamou, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Michel Doneda, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jonas Kocher, Ly Than Tien, Christian Rosset, and Matthieu Saladin).

In 2015, the web radio RadioDordogne offers five carte blanche to sound artists and composers. They each deliver a piece, born from what the territory evokes to them.

A literary and sound dive into a fantastic and whimsical bestiary (with Benjamin Bondonneau, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Géraldine Keller and Michel Mathieu).

A suite of musique concrète composed in the personnal studios of the composers from 2013 to 2015.

A studio album of songs by Frédéric Le Junter (voice, texts and home-made instruments) and Dominique Répécaud (electric guitar), where the music is truly at the service of texts with a pataphysical and surrealist edge but still in the realm of popular music.

Michel Doneda and Lê Quan Ninh started working together in 1986 but "Aplomb" is their very first recording as a duo. An art of breath and of beating, a supple gesture for a subtle yet penetrating sound object.

Rashad Becker, Catherine Lamb, video in performing Arts, Festival Sonorités, what is normal music?, Cie Ouïe/Dire, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...

This LP edition is an attempt at collecting various elements of Hans Rudolf Zeller's work. All recordings have been made within the last 10 years, yet many of the underlying concepts date back to the 1960s or 1970s.

This vinyl LP stems from a series of performances by sound artists Mattin and Hong-Kai Wang. The recording consists of a superimposition of four layers of conversations between the two artists.

First vinyl LP edition by Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen since 1986 (sound installation).

That Summer's very first vinyl, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its first album, “Drowsiness of Ancient Gardens”, consists of reworks (covers and remixes) of a number of That Summer's songs by some of the industrious musicians who have been part of the “band” over the years, in some way or other.

This composition by Alessandra Eramo shows for the first time a vocal interpretation of eight onomatopoetic words from the Manifesto of Futurist Music The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo, between sound poetry and noise.

Entitled “Studies for Player Piano,” the first issue of the contemporary art journal premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere, is dedicated to the life and work of experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). With Mario Garcia Torres, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carlos Sandoval, Céline Condorelli...

First monograph.

Lasse Marhaug, Les Instants Chavirés, William Basinski, Uzeste Musical / Cie Lubat de Gasconha, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (on John Cage)...

Minimalist progressive lofi techno tracks by MACON (Nicolas Murer) for a series of exhibitions by visual artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

The second issue of the magazine published by Optical Sound, between experimental music and contemporary art.

First release by Yvan Etienne (Serge Modular, field recordings, hurdy gurdy).

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).