Music > experimental / contemporary / electronic / electroacoustic / improvised music

Two long time out of stock references, remastered at le Laboratoire Central.

The work of these musicians and performers from Germany, Italy, France, and USA is settled between weird Pop, avant-trash, free improvised music, Mediterranean folklore and noise drones. A creation of unique and exciting experiences by artists coming from different social and musical backgrounds.

An adventurous sonic exploration of the voice, cello and electronics.

The Cigar That Talks, recorded by the trio of Michel Doneda, soprano and sopranino saxophones, John Russell, acoustic guitar and Roger Turner, drums and percussion, is an album of radical improvisation where copper, wood and steel become music by the only miracle of a perfect interaction seized on the spot.

Free improvisations and phonographies in the forest, bundles of sounds, armfuls of dead leaves, arboreal rhythms, chestnut blasts.

Norscq's new album.

A “kit” resulting from the two working visual artists Pierre Beloüin and P. Nicolas Ledoux's cross work.

An intimate journey into the personal universe of the artist through a series of daily leaps: from her New York studio in Tribeca to the numerous travels and landscapes she crossed over a whole three month period.

An intimate journey into the personal universe of the artist through a series of daily leaps: from her New York studio in Tribeca to the numerous travels and landscapes she crossed over a whole three month period.

Julien Martin / Akio Suzuki (Resonant Spaces Festival, 2006) / Michael Pisaro / Jean-François Pauvros / underground musics in France...

Écoutes, de l'entendre au faire (trois points de vue sur le son enregistré) / Pierre Redon (Art et environnement, les artistes au service de l'écologie ?) / Hans Tammen / Chris Corsano & Mick Flower / Chroniques d'arts sonores (Samuel Mittelman, Philippe Baudouin, Gwladys Déprez & Magali Schuermans) / disques, infos, concerts... / CD audio.

David Tudor (Rainforest IV by Kasper T. Toeplitz) / Lee Patterson / MAX/MSP1.1.2 (Kasper T. Toeplitz and Fred Voisin) / Circle X / records, infos, concerts...

Thematic anthology.

A collection of works from 1999 to the present, delivering an important overview of the artist/musician's pursuit of the uncanny within the everyday.

An audio work by Peter Downsbrough, in collaboration with two musicians of the Buffle collective Xavier Garcia-Bardon and Benjamin Franklin.

The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.

An artist book documenting a selection of Gréaud's works, with a special contribution by Daniel Birnbaum.

A complete overview of a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic and musical sculpture's work, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD with musical installations recordings.

A piece of concrete music based on voices of children of Lionel Marchetti's family, recorded in familiar holiday places.

Réinventer le paysage ? / Pourquoi faites-vous des disques ? / Art Zoyd / Derek Keller / Noah Creshevsky / Chris Dench / Compilation Trace Label / Pierre Bastien / Lauren Newton / Underground Jazz Trio...

Chroniques / L'empire des bruits / Questionnaire / Ian Nagoski / DDAA / Yoshisaburo Toyozumi / La vidéo selon Edson Barrus...

Chroniques / L'empire des bruits / Pauline Oliveros / Teruto Soejima / Norbert Möslang / La vidéo selon Edson Barrus...

Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.

One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.

A musical project recorded in in multi-track in different places of the Vézère valley (France), caves and troglodytic sites.

An improvised performance with Benjamin Bondonneau (clarinet), David Chiesa (double bass), Didier Lasserre (drums), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Laurent Sassi (sound).

A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.

A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.

New edition of the American compositor's writings, with an essay on his oeuvre and some testimonies by Steve Reich and Joan La Barbara.

The libretto for an opera of a new genre: the most ambitious project of French artist Loris Gréaud.

The libretto for an opera of a new genre: the most ambitious project of French artist Loris Gréaud (available in English edition).

A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.

An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.

This study takes a look back at a century of collage practice, including visual arts, photography, video art, cinema, sound art, and literature. Author Olivier Quintyn draws on a body of work that includes Picasso, Rodchenko, Jasper Johns, Max Ernst, John Heartfield, Denis Roche, Manuel Joseph, Anne-James Chaton, Oval, People Like Us…

An audiovisual performance that stages the texts of the writer Marc-Henri Lamande.

Two films and a musical piece by Joachim Montessuis.

Tsé (Guillaume Ollendorff)'s second album.

Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.

“Radio Territories” seeks to open the book on radio's historical, medial, and aesthetical status.

Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.