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A literary text by Guillaume Belhomme combining metafiction and cut-up, with a CD on which Daunik Lazro performs Vieux Carré, a composition by Joe McPhee evoking the old French Quarter of New Orleans.

The first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine (piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice) and Rhys Chatham (trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar).

This vinyl edition collects several field-recordings of Matteo Nasini's aeolian instruments, executed by the artist in different places and conditions. Together with the vinyl, the edition presents eight large-format artist's prints related to the same practice.

First vinyl release of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Roberto Gerhard gathered a significant magnetic tape collection in his home studio, creating a major repository of early electronic sound recordings of his own works. The pieces on this record present a complex set of challenges for audio restoration, giving at the end a complete understanding of his compositional process and allowing the spirit and vitality of his electronicwork to speak clearly to the listener.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Roberto Gerhard gathered a significant magnetic tape collection in his home studio, creating a major repository of early electronic sound recordings of his own works. The pieces on this record present a complex set of challenges for audio restoration, giving at the end a complete understanding of his compositional process and allowing the spirit and vitality of his electronicwork to speak clearly to the listener.

Red Bird was composed between 1973 and 1977, using the studio of the University of York Music in UK. Wishart's compositional interests deal mainly with the interpolation by technological means between the human voice and natural sounds.

This LP inaugurates a new series of vinyl-only releases based on the extraordinary Logos archives. Here, never released before recordings from live sessions at Logos Foundation, in 1974, 1979 & 1981, featuring Max Eastley, Feminist Improvising Group, COUM, Derek Bailey, and the Logos Ensemble.

The long awaited documentation of the score of Paris based choreographer Gisèle Vienne's eponymous artistic ice skating choreographic piece.

First of two volumes of the “Movement Building” series, dedicated to Gabriel Saloman's music for contemporary dance.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Recording of Wolf Vostell's happening / Fluxus Concert “Sara-Jevo”, realised September 9th, 1994 at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Spain.

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

An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.

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.

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...).

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).