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Stephen O\'Malley - Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano préparé (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The second collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Anthony Pateras, this time entirely acoustic, based around an acoustic guitar and prepared piano: a music that seems suspended, captivating by its almost organic coherence and modal simplicity, behind which resonances and subtle plays of pitch develop.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
2023
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
Félicia Atkinson - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme - Studio Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.
Honza Zamojski - Rise and Fall of the Middlemen
2023
English edition
Nero
Artist book: a visual and poetic investigation of the enigmatic figure of the "Middleman", combining short punchlines and full-page illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Sousveillance - L\'œil du contre-pouvoir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
Herman Parret - La délicatesse des sens
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different - 111 Vignettes of Left-Wing Figures, Themes, Films, and Writers
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji.
Mette Edvardsen - Livre d\'images sans images (vinyl LP)
2023
Xing
currently out of stock
A sound piece by choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen in collaboration with her daughter, Iben, based on the performance of the same name.
 Mattin - Homage to Annea Lockwood (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Recital
currently out of stock
A book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
2023
English edition
Perrotin
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
Nero
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (III) - Begleiter
2023
no text
Nieves
The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.
Eric Thielemans - Double Consciousness (vinyl LP)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Over the course of 40 minutes, the guitar treatments of composer, multi-instrumentalist and label head (Black Truffle) Oren Ambarchi (he also plays an audobon bird call) and the percussive work of Eric Thielemans perfectly merge in an outstanding improvisational session.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Loren Connors - Let the Darkness Fall (vinyl LP)
2023
Recital
sold out
The first vinyl edition of Let the Darkness Fall, a forgotten corner from the vast discography of Suzanne Langille & Loren Connors, joined here by David Daniell and Andrew Burnes (of the Atlanta-based group San Agustin).
Cassandra Miller - Traveller Song / Thanksong (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
The first release of celebrated London-based Canadian composer Cassandra Miller's music on vinyl, presents a pair of compositions for voice and ensemble that exemplify her gently absurd, strikingly beautiful, and utterly unique work.
Écrire avec et sans - LabBooks
2023
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
Publishing as a discursive process and the book as a device of (re)formulation and enunciation: the culmination of a research program aimed at extending the notion of writing to all dimensions of editorial practice.
Artforum - September 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
The Anti-aesthetic at forty, Chryssa, Sung Neung Kyung, Ed Ruscha...
Neural - Machine Transparency
2023
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...
Sound American - The Thirtieth Issue
2023
English edition
Sound American
The final issue of Sound American journal, , as a tribute to the musical community, with Eileen Myles, Ellen Pullman, Brandon Lopez, Ellen Fullman, Albert Oehlen, Natasha Pickowicz, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Michael Ranta, Sarah Hennies, Vincent de Roguin, and Lesley Mok.
 7038634357 - Neo Seven (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.
Tiane Doan na Champassak - The King is dead, long live The King!
2023
no text
Bruno
An artist's book expanding on Tiane Doan na Champassak's iconographic research on the former king of Thailand (and amateur photographer).
Pierre Escot - Carmin Profond
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
The transposition of an exhibition into a book format, spatialising concrete poetry on the page (artist's book).
 Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) - Symphony No. 107 - The Bard (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012.
Aradhana Seth - Sadak - Hand painted street signs in India
2023
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Artist, photographer and filmmaker Aradhana Seth's photographic archive of painted signs in India: a visual itinerary through the historical-economic changes of Indian society over the years.
Ahmed Abdullah - A Strange Celestial Road - My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Farah Khelil - Effet de serre
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bao Books
An ecological, urban and architectural anatomy inspired by Tunisia's palms and eucalyptus trees: a conceptual, committed and critical gesture of renovation of Tunis' municipal greenhouse at the Parc du Belvédère, which questions the very same definition of an artwork, the place of the artist and the role of cultural institutions.
Fakhri El Ghezal - To Redeyef
2023
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Bao Books
A photographic serie about Redeyef, a mining town in the south of Tunisia.
Julian Charrière - Controlled Burn
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
New monograph.
Klodin Erb -
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This artist's book provides a comprehensive insight into the artistic cosmos of Klodin Erb, one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Switzerland.
Félicia Atkinson - The Whisper
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
Félicia Atkinson's new artist's book, bringing together photographs, drawings and poems.
Driving the Human - Seven Prorotypes for Eco-social Renewal
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Seven tangible prototypes that respond to our current planetary moment, enabling new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the world (a scientific and artistic collaboration turned to a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable, and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach).
 Alexandre & Florentine Lamarche-Ovize - Dinosaures végétariens
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.
Marion Baruch - Tzimtzum
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Yuki Kimura - Col sporcar si trova
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Artist's book.
Gabriel Kuri - Forecast
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Julia Phillips - Energy Exchange
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Francesca Zappia - Flâneurs - Copies, Appropriations, Citations from the Collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques
2023
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques
Farah Al Qasimi - Star Machine
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An overview of photo and video works by Farah Al Qasimi between 2017 and 2021, with which the artist investigates how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other.
Nicolas Faure - The Order of Things
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.
Claudia Comte - After Nature - Cacti, Corals and Leaves
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.
Peter Greenaway - Four Storms & Two Babies - A Love Story
2023
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstorms (the script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway).
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Chefs-d\'œuvre
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
Ákos Rózmann - Mass / Mässa (7 CD box set)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
Ákos Rózmann's Mass consists of twelve electroacoustic compositions created between 1989 and 2004 in the composer's studio and at EMS in Stockholm. Like most of Rózmann's compositions, Mass is a long-form work with a duration of around seven hours. 
John DeAndrea - Grace
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
The first monograph dedicated to American sculptor John DeAndrea, one of the founding members of American Photorealism along with Duane Hanson, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Robert Cottingham in 1970, with an introduction by Catherine Millet, an autobiography of the artist and over 200 pages of illustrations.
Marine Peixoto - Basse saison
2023
French edition
La Salle de bains
currently out of stock
Basse saison combines photographs taken by the artist mainly during the winter of 2020, while staying in her native region, La Grande Motte in southern France.
Ákos Rózmann - Mass / Mässa (7 CD box set)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The complete version of electro-acoustic composer Ákos Rózmann's epic masterpiece 12 Stations presented for the first time in its entirety as a deluxe 7CD set.
Mousse
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Alongside Mousse's surveys, monographs, thematic essays, short profiles, fiction and book reviews, Issue #84 inaugurates four new columns with a reinforced emphasis on textuality and critical thinking: Criticism (by Kerstin Stakemeier), Thinkers (Ana Teixeira PintoAna Teixeira Pinto on Sara Ahmed), Curators (Kabelo Malatsie), and Reprint (selected by Lawrence Abu Hamdan).
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