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A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of art brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic scores by Nurse With Wound, first published in 1986.

Second (and last) volume of the short retrospective of the blog Au grisli clandestin, a visual annex of the musical website Le son du grisli.

“Megarave Metarave” considers the historical traces of the futuristic promises of rave culture and the early web.

MacLise's early electronic music.

The SalMar Construction is an amazing large music synthesis engine conceived and constructed in the early 1970's by a composer for use by a composer. These unreleased recordings were made at IRCAM in Paris in 1983. It illustrates the power that an electronic composition can achieve when the composer arrives at a true synergy with his synthesizer.

As a body of repertoire, these 150 pieces of Christian Wolff are remarkable for their freshness of musical thought and energy (John Cage considered Wolff to be the most “musical” of the experimental composers).

The reissue of the Manifesto of Futurist Musicians (written in 1911), in which the Italian composer, musicologist and ethnographer Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955) explains the "violent and absolute principles" of a futuristic music which inspired Luigi Russolo's The Art of Noises.

3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.

The first Luigi Russolo's intonarumori complete reconstruction ever attempted. Some of the Russolo instruments have been reconstructed here for the first time.

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

This record highlights Leo Kupper's earliest unique compositions produced during the 1960's when he was ardently seeking out structures distinctly applicable to purely electronic sounds.

An experimental film by Oswald Wiener (1965)—copy signed by the artist.

Fear Drop #17 is dedicated to glacial sounds, between field-recording and music (featuring T. Köner, J. Winderen, A. Tedeschi, K.Schulze, Troum / A. Baker, J. Hudak et S. Mathieu, L. English, Øe & E. Coniglio, Materia Aurora, SleepResearchFacility, L. Marchetti, Tünel, M. Mantra, Penumbra, Lull, Biosphere, Galati, Parhelion, Netherworld, M. Namblard, D. Quin, J.F. Laporte, C. Olan; 55 historical recordings of Inuit music...). With a 10 track CD included.

First ever sound-edition by famous Swiss sculptor and conceptual artist Roman Signer. Recorded 1982 in the River Steinach, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

The magazine first issue: featuring Gee Vaucher, Stephen Wright, Coil, Glassbox, Claude Lévêque, Mabel Tapia, Franckdavid, Société Réaliste, Raphaële Jeune, Élodie Lesourd, Agnès Joffray, Robert Hampson, Sandy Amerio…

The ideal funeral soundtrack (16 previously unreleased tracks by Arnaud Maguet, Cocoon, Robert Hampson & Sébastien Roux, Norscq, Gerome Nox, Paradise Now & Gerard Malanga, Rainier Lericolais & m-o-r-s-e, Scanner, Black Sifichi, Simon Fisher Turner, Coil...).

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

Reissue of Bernard Parmegiani's masterpiece (1975), considered as a milestone in the history of music, an absolute classic of electroacoustic music.

Interviews with texts and imaginary autobiographies by Luc Ferrari: the first book to offer a comprehensive and insightful look into the work and career of one the most pioneering music composers of the second half of the 20th century.

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

The seventh and last volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1930-2012), including unreleased material and rarities (Henry Jacobs, Tziga Vertov, Luciano Berio, Bülent Arel, Don Preston, Helmut Schäfer, E-L Scott de Martinville, John Oswald, Justin K. Broadrick, Storm Bugs, Henry Cow, Osso Exotico, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Cabaret Voltaire, Mika Vainio, New GX Jupitter-Larsen...), and a 84 pages booklet of critical and biographic notes.

This second Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional bonus tracks.

The complete version, as premiered in 1982, of one of the François Bayle's masterpieces.

The complete version, as premiered in 1982, of one of the François Bayle's masterpieces.

A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.

Water, porcelain bowls, hydrophones, condenser microphones, metal wire and wood spoons (vinyl re-issue of the CD released by and/OAR in 2009).

Artists' record by the American performers duo (limited edition of 100 copies).

First issue of the experimental music annual review.

In Fear Drop #16, on the theme of synaesthesias and the musical landscape: Victor Segalen, Jean Giono, Ernst Jünger, J. K. Huysmans, Michael Prime, Coil, Merzouga, Hervé Moire, La Rivière series (Kaon / Toy.bizarre), M. Namblard, S. Whethman, F. López, Freiband, G. Toniutti, Tarab, P. Juillard, L.-M. Riek, Michael Begg (Human Greed), Steve Roden, Bernhard Günter, Stefan Knappe (Drone Records, Substantia Innominata).

100 minutes of electronic noise music and harsh speeches: a road movie between Beijing and Shanghai featuring Torturing Nurse, Wang Changcun, Wang Fan, Li Jian Hung / Dickson Dee, the poet Sun Meng Jin and Zbigniew Karkowski as radical red line.

A 5-disc overview of exploratory works written between 2002 and ​2012.

A musical project that investigates the perception of the otherness of the world of the crippled and their right to their own self-expression.

Thorsten Soltau musical cut-up piece Grün wie Milch stands alongside Preslav Literary School's drone tragedy Alamut in this wonderfully designed split album.

The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).

A new body of works.

An inquiry into the musical aesthetics of the wind: for buzzing music kinematics, nature and music; from the singing tree to the aeolian harp; Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen; around records by Francisco López, Alan Lamb, Yannick Dauby & Wan-Shuen Tsai, Tarab, Eric La Casa, Leif Elggren, Michael Northam, Bruno Moreigne; the traces of the wind in the work of Cédric Peyronnet / toy.bizarre... (with a 14 track CD included).

Baudouin de Jaer decodes Adolf Wölfli's hermetic and emblematic scores.

This cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional tracks.

A deep, strong and raw portrait of one of the greatest musical thinker in Europa. Célestin Deliège.

The collaboration between J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus) and Fred Bigot (Electronicat).

Analysis (“A Brief History of Sound Art” by Rahma Khazam; “Sound Art, a Fortified Art” by Bastien Gallet; “Notes on Steve Reich's Pendulum Music” by Christophe Gallois; “A Formless Form” by Mathieu Copeland; “Sound in Artist's Films” by Alexandre Castant, etc.) / “focus” on Philippe Decrauzat's Leslie, by Matthieu Poirier, monographs (Laurent Montaron, Su-Mei Tse, Georgina Starr, Joachim Schmid) / interviews (Sébastien Faucon, Kerwin Rolland) / artist's interventions (Nicolas Fenouillat, Dominique Petitgand, Jérôme Poret, Samon Takahashi)...

First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure, a pioneer of minimalist electronic rock as the co-founder of the cult band Suicide.

First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure.

Remastered recordings of the first performance of Nitsch's 8th Symphony (for Choir, Orchestra, and Noise Orchestra).

Three musics for films and installation—one of the most beautiful albums by Simon Fisher Turner.