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The lyrical and earthy flight of Isabelle Duthoit, the furious growls of Johannes Bauer's dandy trombone, the electrifying stripes of Luc Ex, the legendary founder of Dutch group The Ex, produce a passionate musical mix.

Tris Vonna-Michell's latest artist's record/book is constructed around two works, Capitol Complex (2012-2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012-2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages.

In 1984, John Cage gave a concert at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Thomas Wulffen seized the opportunity to talk to him about his work, about Berlin, and about Germany. The hitherto unpublished interview shows this major avant-garde artist in a relaxed mood, perfectly at his ease, though not without a light touch of irony. An historical document.

Apo33 – Julien Ottavi, Zak Cammoun, Yan Jun, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Joris Guibert, François Bayle, Kasper Toeplitz...

The collaboration between artist and poet Charles Pennequin, the band Gun-Gi and Laurie Franck.

Brandon LaBelle's revolutionary diary during the Arab Spring.

An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.

2CD-Box collecting 11 pieces from Jean Dubuffet's “'Expériences musicales” (recorded in 1961) for the first time on CD.

CD presenting 37 solo text-pieces, phonetic poems and poetry duets (with Monika Lichtenfeld) written and composed between 1952 and 2010.

5th issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...).

Thomas Tilly, 11 paragraphes sur un concert improvisé (Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Mattin), Expérience cinéma – Phénoménologie de l'apparition, Wandelweiser...

Sonic Protest 2012; interviews with Daniel Menche and Yann Leguay; Propositions pour une architecture habitée de l'écoute by Jean-Luc Guionnet; Manifeste pour un visuel qui ouvre l'œil by Joris Guibert; Séisme, tsunami et autres désastres by Eric Cordier; Projet Fukushima by Otomo Yoshihide; Ring Modulation 5 by Kasper Toeplitz...

A collaboration of the sound poet Anne-James Chaton, guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and musician Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai): a dense and structured sound design, in which words, rhythms, and melodic loops inexorably blend.

Medea is an original sound composition based on recordings of radio interceptions and field recordings compiled by Soundwalk Collective during a two-month journey by boat along the coasts of the Black Sea.

Jean-Luc Guionnet, Skullflower, Manifeste pour un visuel qui ouvre l'œil, Penser le sonore / écrire la musique (La disparition annoncée de la pensée solfégique), John Fahey, Ring-Modulation#4, Du côté de la Russie...

Medea is an original sound composition based on recordings of radio interceptions and field recordings compiled by Soundwalk Collective during a two-month journey by boat along the coasts of the Black Sea.

Mark Leckey, Ruth Ewan, Tom Marioni and the sonic explorations in San Francisco Bay, Robert Morris, Pierre Henry, Louie Louie, Dora García, Hannah Rickards...

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

Three substantial pieces by Luc Ferrari, with solo works of Brunhild Ferrari.

Two works by the Italian avant-garde composer of classical music Luigi Nono and the composer, sound artist and musicologist Hans van Eck.

A totally original and disturbing sound world mixing acoustic and electro-acoustic pieces.

A piece for mezzo-soprano, voices, instrumental ensemble, electronics and videos (with a DVD, with no sound, to synchronise, or not, with the CD).

These studies confront real spaces captured in the field and others reconstructed in the studio.

A transcript of the earliest of John Cage's extended writings.

The visual score of L'Étonnement sonore by Carole Rieussec, Johann Maheut, and Guillaume Robert; Faire un bruit qui me ressemble, Vomir and Francisco Meirino, by Kasper T. Toeplitz; John Cage's Williams Mix reinterpretated by Valerio Tricoli and Werner Dafeldecker; Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick's Parades and Changes; Quelques compositeurs du Royaume-Uni by Tim Parkinson; Ring Modulation 3, la pensée électronique by KTT...

CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.

Reference monograph.

Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.

Conversations between Alessandro Bosetti, Peter ablinger, Tomomi Adachi, Arturas Bumsteinas, Jennifer Walshe & Alexander Waterman, interview with Joëlle Léandre, Cornelius Cardew's Teatrise by Matthieu Saladin and by some interpreters (Oren Ambarchi, Didier Aschour, Arturas Bumsteinas, Laurent Dailleau, Jean-Marc Montera, Jim O'Rourke, Julien Ottavi, Jean-Jacques Palix, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmikler & John Tilbury), Connivence des extrêmes by Xavier Hug, Ring-Modulation#2 by Kasper Toeplitz...

For its 88th issue (special issue limited to 666 copies!), the quaterly magazine turns into a carte blanche given to more than 80 personalities related to various experimental sound practices. A tribute to the do-it-yourself way.

Monograph.

In the cross-over between sound and architecture.

Third issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...).

Two talks about John Cage and the concept of structure by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda (ultra-limited edition).

A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).

A collection of the audible traces of dancing bodies (audio CD with booklet).

Italian-German artist Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo) recorded the sounds of larvae during their transformation into flies. Trough rough, sub-real field recordings, she explores, interprets and lyrically re-invents the concept of metamorphosis.

This original radio sound piece unfurls a multiple electroacoustic flux in which audio archives of the voices of the great surrealist heroes of the Twenties (Man Ray, Duchamp, Aragon) are given a new breath of life and become electric.

This original radio sound piece unfurls a multiple electroacoustic flux in which audio archives of the voices of the great surrealist heroes of the Twenties (Man Ray, Duchamp, Aragon) are given a new breath of life and become electric.

The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.

Kasper T. Toeplitz / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe / Captain Beefheart / Rolf Julius / Jean-François Denis (Diffusion i Média / empreintes DIGITALes) / a history of metal, from Black Sabbath to Sunn O))) / chronic, readings, records, news, concerts...