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Co-editor: Rachel O'Dwyer; interviews with Kyriaki Goni, Tiziana Terranova, Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis De Bel, Tim Shaw, Surya Mattu; Dreaming otherwise: the past and future of community wireless networks; We Organise You Music, So You Don't Have To; reports: FAEN 2019, Mud Muses, Nam June Paik exhibition...

Springing from a decades deep body of work, defined by a rigorously singular and adventurous approach to sound, cellist, composer, and improvisor Okkyung Lee returns with Yeo-Neun, her first outing with Shelter Press, and arguably her most groundbreaking and unexpected album to date.

The second issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, is dedicated is devoted to the concept of resonances, with contributions by Maryanne Amacher, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, Christina Kubisch, Okkyung Lee, Pali Meursault, Jean-Luc Nancy, David Rosenboom, Tomoko Sauvage, The Caretaker, David Toop, and Christian Zanési.

Art & vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist's records in Switzerland.

Six pieces exploring multi-phonic spaces on the clarinet and alto saxophone, spaces linked to breath and the sonic landscapes developed by the amplification.

A highly psychedelic electroacoustic piece from 1981 built on fractal patterns in the studios of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes de Lyon, and another one composed almost four decades later, based on birdsong and forest sounds.

Dominique Grimaud makes you listen to the The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and many more artists from the 1960s, like you never hear before.

An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).

Teruyuki Kurihara's full-length album on Mille Plateaux is inspired by nature, particularly the cycles of "destruction and creation", characterised by industrial and experimental music cast in minimalist fashion.

The meeting between the double bass player and singer Fantazio and the workers of a centre providing care through employment in Paris.

A previously unreleased concert recording from 1983 by Das Moabiter Duo (Sven-Åke Johansson and Thomas Kapielski). An eclectic improvisation associating drums, electronics and concrete music, offering a snapshot of the experimental Berlin scene of the 1980s.

Four compositions by the electronic musician from Quebec, conceived during his studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, from 2017 to 2019.

The Canadian artist's second album features two immersive pieces that explore ideas of compositional drift: The Nonsuch is inspired by nocturnal hallucinations while In Praise of Blandness builds on sinologist François Jullien's concept of “blandness”.

First duo album with Quentin Rollet (saxophones, synthesizer, electronics) and Romain Perrot (keyboards, electronics, voice).

Co-editors: Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, intervioews with Špela Petrič, Tega Brain, Joyce Hinterding, Kat Austen, Thomas Thwaites, Melle Smets; The Sound of Disappearance and The Sonic Sublime; reports of ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna, 58th Venice Biennale and Liechtenstein Brunch, 18th Media Art Biennale WRO “Human Aspect”.

An accordion and two turntables for an abstract musette.

Emma Souharce, contemporary Arabic-language poetry, Michèle Bokanowski, Olivia Block, Barre Philips, Jojo Hiroshige, Lin Chi-Wei...

The first vinyl edition of Shea's classic album, celebrating the 25th year of its release: a crafty piece of complex narrative audiocollage, combining samples and acoustic instruments, inspired by Chinese philosophy, easy listening, and experimental music.

Frédéric Acquaviva's new record—A QR code record without record limited to 100 copies: a 69 minutes opera for voices (with Joël Hubaut, who also wrote the text, Dorothy Iannone and Loré Lixenberg), dead electronics and video.

First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).

The Alien Issue features writing on the alien and alienation by Sarah Hennies, Franklin Bruno, inti figgis-vizueta and James May on listening to ourselves and each other, Marc Hannaford, Nicole Kaack in conversation with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Charmaine Lee and id m theft able on building a home, Matana Roberts, Jacob Wick, Wendy Eisenberg, Chris Pitsiokos and Ben Young on WKCR and Triple Point Records, a contribution to the 2019 exquisite corpse series by Lester St. Louis, and more. The print edition includes very special full color reproduction of Charles Gaines's Librettos.

First official solo album of Claire Bergerault, Stick Slip is an incredible cloud of frequencies where voice and accordion twist the space like an electronic music with psychoacoustic effects. A light and intense record at the same time, always on this acoustic border which makes the inner ear resonate like a mini oscillator.

A piece created in 2013 that is a step towards applying spectral techniques in an electroacoustic environment.

Vast cross-composition by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Benjamin Bondonneau created for the Bordeaux ensemble le Un. A wild thought towards Claude Lévi-Strauss and his notion of "bricolage".

Mads Emil Nielsen continues his Framework series, a collection of open, hand-drawn graphic scores and recordings. The series includes Nielsen's own subjective translations of the visual material and sound pieces accompanied by visual notations, and collaborations—in this case with Andrea Neumann, Jan Jelinek and Hideki Umezawa.

The encounter of the rock band Melmac with the poet Anne-Claire Hello.

An essay by the French composer that provides some perspective on his musical concepts and formulates his vision of music and society.

Facsimile scores and documents about the radiophonic work created by Luc Ferrari in 1991.

Facsimile scores and documents about the creation premiered on 28 February 1977 at the Palais des Arts, Paris, by Bernard Parmegiani.

A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards.

A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards.

A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards.

A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards.

A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards.

The magical drawings and works of Samantha Davies and Matthew Bower of the noise-rock band Skullflower, which invoke and evoke the Egyptian god Set.