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New edition of Thomas Köner's fourth album, recorded in 1994-1995.

A musical encounter between two important and uncompromising figures in contemporary experimental music in France.

A musical encounter between two important and uncompromising figures in contemporary experimental music in France.

The new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford: a shimmering and skittering piece inspired by the play of light and shadow on water.

Mahalla – The Survey offers a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims at a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating Uzbek cultural heritage: the mahalla (luxury box set including numerous documents, a 7" vinyl record by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen).

The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene (Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Milford Graves, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Suicide, Michael Snow, Tom Verlaine, Yo La Tengo...).

A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.

A new edition of Thomas Köner's album inspired by the capital of Greenland and the wide open spaces of the Arctic region, an ideal gateway into the world of the German musician and sound artist.

This book is a documented and illustrated manual of the turntablism practices developed by Maria Chávez over many years. It encourages experimentation and personal research through numerous examples and detailed instructions.

Unholy Movie is an edition inspired by the films of Vincent Epplay, associated with an original fiction of Daniel Foucard. An audio K7 is included.

Fantas Variations features eight reworks of Caterina Barbieri's composition Fantas (Ecstatic Computation, 2019) by a diverse mix of artists lending to a wide spectrum of new works extrapolated from the original work.

Cylene Suisse Redux documents François J. Bonnet and Stephen O'Malley's Switzerland tour in December 2019, following the release of their first album, Cylene, whose material is re-worked by Jim O'Rourke and Ryoji Ikeda.

Binding a deep social and political conscious with rigorous musical experimentation, the Brussels based, Italian pianist, performer, composer, Giovanni Di Domenico, delivers Downtown Ethnic Music, the 4th instalment of Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, focused on inspired contemporary experimental efforts in the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract music.

A "poly-autobiographical" musical combinatory poem inspired by the life stories of a group of musicians whose testimonies Alessandro Bosetti has collected, exploring the shifting and multiple dimension of identities through voice expression, between electro-acoustic research, jazz and experimental opera.

Contemporary poetry in Arabic: Maya Abu-Alhayyat; "Jean-Michel Jarre or the time of the jesters", by Jérôme Noetinger; Takayuki Hashimoto; Louis Moholo-Moholo; Simon H. Fell; Titania Tapes; 60 album reviews...

Interviews with Addie Wagenknecht, Antonia Hernández, Elisa Giardina Papa, Finn Brunton, Mario Santamaría, Sung Tieu; articles: Muzak that listens, Just Say No...

This edition, printed in serigraphy, delivers the reworked transcription of a recorded interview between musicians Jacques Demierre and Louis Schild, in which the notion of surveying and measurement is examined, among other things and in a conversational manner (with a musical transcription and a contribution from the playwright Michèle Pralong).

Post-isolationist, deep ambient & folk classic Murder Ballads (Drift) by M.J. Harris (Scorn) and Martyn Bates (Eyeless in Gaza) re-emerges in this first vinyl outing.

This journey, this slowly drifting sonic meditation, is an "inner soundscape", a dialogue between the senses, the conscience and the world, inside / outside, interconnected. Like waking up from a long dream, and being stuck into its echo. The April Sessions immerges the listener into a drone-ish universe, full of random acousmatic events, inner monologues and a vast and unwritten subjective map to be drawn.

Unreleased 25'06 side A track (1979-80) + selected works circa 2000 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.

A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.

A heterophonic musical piece for performative concert, composed by the choreographer Lotus Eddé Khouri.

A beautiful work that features piano, electronics, processing, and field recordings.

A work of orchestral scale, merging a vast number of heavily manipulated sound-sources, made from the most minimal means by the British-Iranian experimental composer and turntabist.

Building on the ground of many of the historic French electroacoustic pioneers connected to studios like Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), while moving into new realms, this electroacoustic composition of sprawling scope weaves a free-standing world of texture and sublimated tonality to produce ambient expanses comprising pointillistic detail drawing on unplaceable generative sources.

Joachim Nordwall proposes for his contribution to the MMXX series a singular gesture built around captured vocalizations: the work's title, spoken by a number of voices, stands as doubling mantra and raw material, increasingly repeated layered, processed, and fed with further tonal and textural interventions over its duration, allowing Nordwall to push the boundaries of his own practice, between musique concrète, sound-art, and experimental electroacoustic music.

Jean-Luc Guionnet and Claire Bergerault have been working as an organ and voice duo in various churches since 2007. The challenge is, each time, to adapt to the configuration of the building and the organ, and then to stretch their music on the breach of this singularity.

An off-track, frenetic and exciting improvisation session bringing together musicians who have known each other for many years and are playing together for the first time.

An inspiring album that dissolves the boundary that too often separates live and studio, improvisation and composition.

A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.

First vinyl edition of the 3rd album by Norscq (The Grief / The Atlas Project) that combines ancient texts, oriental singing, post-industrial electronica and dark ambient.

Five musicians and producers from Italy and Europe experiment on new sounds together, inspired by a large variety of artistic environments and soundscapes.

An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.

Italian pianist, performer and composer Giovanni Di Domenico presents 4 new pieces in collaboration with Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Joe Talia and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto.

Two essentiel works of musique concrète commissioned for and and realised at the GRM by Lionel Marchetti during the mid ‘90s.

A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).

Souffle Continu Records; interviews with François Bonnet / Kassel Jaeger, Yann Gourdon, Satoko Fujii, Hans Reichel, Christophe Guérin; Lelio Giannetto; books and records reviews; contemporary Arabic poetry: Carol Sansour by Henri-Jules Julien...

The latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote is an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic-synthetic, requiring active listening.

A split LP from two leading voices in electroacoustic music.