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The first volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1921-2001), with some major works (Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Henri Pousseur, Konrad Boehmer, Luigi Russolo), a few rarities (John Cage, Nam June Paik, Gordon Mumma, Walter Ruttmann) and plenty of previously unreleased material (Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, DJ Spooky, Ryoji Ikeda, Pauline Oliveros, Angus MacLise, Philip Jeck, Survival Research Laboratories...).

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

An anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, bringing together a collection of essays, interviews, meditations, visual projects, text-sound scores and audio by some of the leading individuals in the field of cultural and performance studies, experimental music and contemporary art.

The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.

The Rectange label "recycled" by Otomo Yoshihide.

An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.

A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.

Three tracks recorded in one day at the Studio des Variétés in Paris in 1994. First a kind of Aylmerian hymn in six saxophone layers (2 percussive, 2 high-pitched and 2 melodic), then a sax piece treated with a multitude of superimposed effects, then an improvisation on samples recorded previously in solo.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.

A live recording on giant acoustic horns installed on a cliffside in the French Alps, playing with the echoes inherent to the site.