United States

The height entry in Blank Forms' ongoing series of anthologies is devoted to the Amercian experimental musician/composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt.

The final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt's compositional process.

An utterly essential document of early American minimalism, available on LP for the first time since it was originally released in 1984. Cut at Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.

An utterly essential document of early American minimalism, available on LP for the first time since it was originally released in 1984. Cut at Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.

New release of the first album of American Gamelan composer Daniel Schmidt.

New release of the third album of American Gamelan composer Daniel Schmidt.

The 14th album of the American musician and sound artist, a key figure in minimal electronic music and the man at the head of the 12k label, is an invitation to an immobile journey.

The connections between design, skateboarding and graffiti in the practice of the American industrial designer.

A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.

A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.

The first book to examine the life and work of the fascinating figure of Saul Bass, exploring the designer's revolutionary career and his lasting impact on the entertainment and advertising industries.

An overview of the influential work of a key figure in experimental film and video.

Valerie Solanas's rarely published, legendary play, Up Your Ass (1965), explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them through her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness and camp.

Texas experimental artist Claire Rousay's new album inaugurates her collaboration with Shelter Press (two 15-minute pieces, with Alex Cunningham and Mari Maurice on violin, Marilu Donovan on harp and Theodore Cale Schafer on piano).

Texas experimental artist Claire Rousay's new album inaugurates her collaboration with Shelter Press (two 15-minute pieces, with Alex Cunningham and Mari Maurice on violin, Marilu Donovan on harp and Theodore Cale Schafer on piano).

Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zaki's new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, including an essay and interview.

Flanger Magazine's second album integrates strings, wind instruments, percussion, and synthesizers, and subtly blends folk, Americana, chamber music, electronica, and jazz in a suite of pastoral, ethereal, and kaleidoscopic pieces.

"Out of Our Hands" brings together Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra who, through the hands of Ordinary Affects, have created debut recordings of two new compositions.

Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.

Pauline Oliveros and György Ligeti revisited by Ensemble 0.

New monograph, highlighting the topicality of the issues that run through all of Ericka Beckman's work over some forty years.

This monograph spans two decades of the internationally acclaimed American artist Ellen Gallagher's career, including paintings, works on paper as well as three film installations created in collaboration with Dutch artist Edgar Cleijne.

An inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice through a series of newly commissioned essays, an interview and writings by the artist himself, expanding on the technological, queer, filmic, and cultural inquiries that comprise the rich world of Blas's practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists.

An impressive title on Don Cherry's far and wide discography. On this date he went literally East, playing Tibetan and Asian instruments. The album was originally released in 1974 on the Scandinavian label Sonet and highlights a session of the previous year with famous Swedish jazz improvisers Bengt Berger and Christer Bothen.

A book of interviews with Sylvère Lotringer.

At the invitation of Frédéric Paul, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016).

An evocative musical tribute to Greek architect and painter Dimitris Pikionis, based on field recordings and small "poor" objects such as tin whistles, music boxes and toy harmonicas: a meditative, whirring, vibrating and suspended sound piece, both "environmental" and particularly musical.

A pair of contemporary music giants re-release a long-lost 2003 live recording, previously available only as a CD-R.

Reissue of a milestone of ambient music, produced and released by Brian Eno in 1978, featuring Marion Brown, Gavin Bryars, and Michael Nyman.

An unusually intimate, close-quarters account of daily life in postwar communist countries.

American conflict photographers at the turn of the 21th century.

Dreamtime X is a diary kept between March 2020 and March 2021, capturing the conditions of lockdown as experienced by the author. Articulated in the form of 100 short poetic entries, the publication veers across a set of ambivalent perspectives.

A unique live performance at Issue Project Room gathered the former Sonic Youth member and artist Kim Gordon and the legendary minimal blues master and artist Loren Connors in 2014.

A collection of biographical and musical essays about composer-performer Julius Eastman—a compelling portrait of Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

An investigation of dubplate decay and the tactile relationship to the disc.

The first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (remastered edition transferred from original tapes, with an expansive 20-page booklet).

A series of collages by Edie Fake.

A series of new semi-abstract oil paintings by the American artist.

Three pieces for speaking pianist by the American avant-garde musician, politically committed composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021), performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (for whom two of the pieces were composed).

Over the last four decades, American artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image practice in the ruins of originality and authority. With contributions from Erika Balsom, Elena Gorfinkel, Tendai Mutambu, John David Rhodes and Shola von Rheinold, Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines explores how she has extended and contested the paradigm of experimental cinema.

The first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American postmodern dancer, choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings.

The first new album in over 40 years by American composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush: Bay Area experimentalism meets 20th century classical modernism.

Twelve articles by Michael Bierut, translated into French and annotated, complemented by a selection of his most emblematic projects.

Illustrators / comic book makers / funny people Johnny Ryan and Frédéric Fleury started insulting each other by posting obscene, crude, hilarious drawings to each other. As they are both proud young men and also profoundly disturbed in their brains, they kept this going for, like, six months or something. Finally, here is the book that collects all those comics.

A photographic dive into a New York City at the height of its decadence and its cultural importance.

Catalogue / artist's book.

The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.

Facsimile edition of Stephanie Oursler's 1975 artist's book.