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The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.

The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.

Historically important pieces documenting John Cage's early electronic and tape practice.

A tribute to film director Derek Jarman (reissue of the second full-length album by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner on Sub Rosa).

The complete series of works made by David Toop for Sub Rosa, 1996-2003.

A project based on a travel to the Nourages scientific research station in French Guiana, situated in the heart of a tropical rainforest. The result is a collection of compositions and phonography characteristic of the zone.

First release of Gerhard Rühm's Radio-Play “Masoch”. A ritual recitation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Ignatius von Loyola for one female and one male speaker, a chorus of speakers, and tape.

Recording of Wolf Vostell's happening / Fluxus Concert “Sara-Jevo”, realised September 9th, 1994 at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Spain.

A short retrospective of the blog Au grisli clandestin, a visual annex of the musical website Le son du grisli.

An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.

Sixty years of sound and music creation on the French Riviera and beyond (with Jean Dupuy, Éliane Radigue, Arnaud Maguet, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Sun Ra, Yves Klein, Thomas Köner, Pascal Broccolichi, Lars Fredrikson, Robert Malaval, Ludovic Lignon, The Bells Angels...).

A meeting of the GOL group with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari around the piece composed in 1969 by Luc Ferrari, and an improvisation.

RadioDordogne#1 is a vast montage of sound recordings made by the sound cartographers in 2014 for the web radio RadioDordogne. Sound heritage, readings, landscapes, archives, musical creations are intertwined to propose six radio pieces for listening.

Framework is a series of graphic scores and recordings by Copenhagen-based musician Mads Emil Nielsen. Framework 1 consists of 14 hand-drawn graphic scores, printed in risograph, with simple instructions and a recording for each score.

First meeting recorded live at Swissnex, San-Francisco, in February 2009 (Fred Frith: electric guitar; Michel Doneda: soprano and sopranino saxes).

Christine Baudillon, Robin Fox, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 4)...

Interviews Special Issue.

A collection of original poems Leif Elggren wrote between 1970 and 2013 and translated for the first time into French. With illustrations by the author.

All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.

Jonas Kocher, Guy Girard, Tetsuo Furudate, Festival Densités, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 3)...

Guillaume Belhomme's first fictional narrative (limited edition with a musical piece by Michael Esposito on a mini CD).

The first poetry book wrote by the visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.

The long overdue first proper collection of sound-poetry / musique concrete pieces by German installation & conceptual artist Michael Barthel.

A collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84 by Dominik Steiger. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ.

The experimental scene in Cairo, radio studios in Warsaw, PaaLabRes, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin (part 2), Sandra Remski's writings during live shows, the retro-krautrock-mania...

Konrad Smoleński, an active participant in both the independent music scene and the visual art scene, combines punk rock aesthetics with the precision and elegance typical for minimalism. This book reflects on the artist's practice in the context of his most challenging and conceptually complete effort to date.

An initiatory sound journey in the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro.

Volume #6 explores the production spaces and other soundscapes, through the works of Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Martin Kersels, Raymond Gervais, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller or Dan Peterman, Marcel Broodthaers' performance at Speakers' Corner, and Audio Arts magazine. With special interventions by Arnaud Maguet and Cocktail Designers.

A series of interviews with 27 international artists/musicians, centered on the relation of sound to space.

Special one-sided recording with a visible spiral loop on Side B by turntable-music performer Dieb 13.

Esther Ferrer, PaaLabRes, Eric Cordier, Le 102 in Grenoble, Lionel Marchetti, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...

The project initiated by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder, based on the eponymous score written by Cornelius Cardew in 1967.

2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.

A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.

First monograph.

An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.

Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).

Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).

A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).

First-ever release for Darmstadt-based composer Hans Essel who has been active in improvised music and “Grundlagenmusik” (foundational music) for more than 20 years.

Singing insects of the Causses, vultures feeding, passerine songs, underground streams, barking stags, rumbling storms, amphibian choruses, sheep bells... a reference in the audio-naturalist field.