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Nicolas Ballet - Shock Factory - Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.
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.
Annea Lockwood - Glass World (book + CD)
2023
Room40
sold out
An exploration into the complexity of sounds drawn exclusively from glass (reissue of the record released in 1970, remastered by Lawrence English).
E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
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...
Azimuts - Se permettre l\'écriture chez les designer·euse·s, artistes, chercheur·euse·s
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
The 56th issue of the design research journal, devoted to the question of writing in design practices.
Artists\' Survival Kit
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of essays and a critical attempt to rethink and improve the relationship between artists and art institutions and to give visibility to the precarious, complex, and very often existential reality of the art workers.
XKatedral Anthology Series II - An Anthology Of Slowly Evolving Timbral Music (2 vinyl LP)
2023
XKatedral
The second in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music, featuring exclusive music from Kali Malone, Jessica Ekomane, Mats Erlandsson, Theodor Kentros, Wilma Hultén, and Maria W. Horn.
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.
Flash Art - Fall 2023 – The Always Already
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Rhea Dillon, Art & Language, Nikita Gale, Precious Okoyomon, Rory Pilgrim & Carol R. Kallend, SoiL Thornton, WangShui, Issy Wood...
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Eileen Myles, motherhood and an artistic career, Kelly Reichardt, Pierre Creton, Julien Gosselin's sermon on the fall of Vienna, squatting on algorithmic video surveillance in Rotterdam...
 7038634357 - Neo Seven (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
2023
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
 blackbody_radiation - Ultra-Materials (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
Andrew Black aka blackbody_radiation's debut album gathers six ghostly drones, created with the help of sound masking, fully in line with the aesthetics of Jan Jelinek's Faitiche label.
Robert Bonaccorsi - La Bataille du riz de Gilles Aillaud  et la « Salle rouge pour Le Vietnam » - Itinéraire d\'un tableau singulier
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
An essay by Robert Bonaccorsi on Gilles Aillaud's highly unusual painting "La bataille du riz", illustrated by a portfolio containing the historical documents mentioned in the text, from museum archives or the author's own collection.
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).
Don Cherry - Blank Forms - Organic Music Societies
2023
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
(last copies available!)
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.
 Coil - The Ape Of Naples (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Important Records
Repress of Coil's final studio album and absolute masterpiece, re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters.
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.
 Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
 Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (CD)
2023
Sub Rosa
From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
Elisa Filomena - Endeavour
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The Drawer - Books
Elisa Filomena's women.
Ella Finer - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Chihei Hatakeyama - Hachirogata Lake (vinyl LP)
2023
Field Records
Matching expansive ambience with environmental sound, Chihei Hatakeyama's new album continues Field Records' exploration of Japan and the Netherland's shared approach to water management.
Jan Kopp - Ronce
2023
French edition
Naima
An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.
Tori Kudo - Ceramics
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Tori Kudo's ceramics.
 Lary 7 - Larynx (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Recorded in Lary 7's legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon's hybrid music and engineering practice.
Alan Licht - May 99 (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
29.00 26.90 €
The experiments of three musicians with different backgrounds who improvise together around continuous sinusoidal waves, between minimal and rock sensibilities.
 Malayeen - Malayeen (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Repress of the Lebanese trio's 2014 album, born from Raed Yassin and Charbel Haber's love for the music of quintessential Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid, disassembling and re-configuring the work and style of the iconic guitarist's innovative take on Arabic music.
Enzo Mari - Singing Enzo Mari The Function of Esthetic Research (vinyl LP)
2023
various
A musical version of legendary Italian designer and artist Enzo Mari's rare book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), singed by a computer-aided software.
Josh Mason - An Anxious Host (vinyl LP)
2023
Students Of Decay
Josh Mason's first vinyl outing since 2019, a pivotal release thoroughly shot through with the humidity, warmth, and "end of the line"-ness of the state of Florida.
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.
Florence Montmare - America Series
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph by Swedish-Greek-American photographer and artist Florence Montmare showcases images made in 2021–22 while traveling across the United States from east to west (and back), to meet the minorities who make up today's America.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
Charlemagne Palestine - The God Bear Archives 1 (2 CD)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.
 Pathé\'O -
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud - Guernica / Ukraine
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A complete light on the unpublished work given by Jean-Pierre Raynaud to Ukraine, a modern version of Picasso's Guernica, a universal symbol of the denunciation by art of the horrors of war, whose exact monumental dimensions the French conceptual artist now takes up in order to realize, almost a century later, the counterpart according to his own aesthetic codes.
David Robbins - High Entertainment
2023
English edition
Reliable Copy
High Entertainment by David Robbins argues for a category of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment.
Mathilde Rosier - Champ de visions
2023
French edition
Cirva
A little book-object that offers a perspective the installation by French artist Mathilde Rosier at the invitation of the Mucem: glass "seed-eyes" sown on the façade and in interior spaces of the Centre de Conservation et de Ressources (Marseille).
 Shela - TV Songs (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Lisbon based keyboardist João "Shela" Pereira's new strangely haunting album.
 Starving Weirdos - Atheistaregods (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
More than a decade after the release of "Land Lines", the mythical Humboldt County, California based duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay reappears seemingly out of nowhere with "Atheistsaregods".
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.
Abigail Toll - Matrices of Vision (CD)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
The debut release of experimental music artist Abigail Toll on Shelter Press: a compositional study using data aesthetics as a means to critically engage with the social and political mechanisms that surround us.
Jan Van Imschoot - Les nocturnes des bonnes-vivantes
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A series of flamboyant and exhilarating works by the Flemish painter, dedicated to his personal pantheon of the great female figures of History.
Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
An audio time-travelogue, based on found reel-to-reel tapes of pre-recorded slideshow commentaries from the 60s and 70s, collected by Mark Vernon over the past twenty years.
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.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Ana Mendieta - Aux commencements / Search for Origin
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.
Pierre Henry - Diary of my sounds
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
New expanded edition of an essential text for defining the thought of composer Pierre Henry (1927-2017): a musical biography in the sense of a diary and an autobiography in forty-two sequences that accompanied him in various forms between 1977 and 2005 (audio download link included).
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