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Guionnet, Jean-Luc + Eric La Casa: Reflected Waves [60 pages 21x25 cm + DVD video 1h48mn] [Used Item] (Passage d'encres -- France ) Price: $19.50 In Stock Eric La Casa and Jean Luc Guionnet recorded this conceptual work in Melbourne, Australia, combining different scales of time, space, & attention, with different working strategies to create a gallery installation, and this book & DVD package exploring the acoustic phenomenon of "standing waves" to engage with the physical relationship between sound and space. |
Stangl, Burkhard / Dieb13: Jardin Des Bruits (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Returning to their duo work together 17 years after their erstwhile records eh, guitarist Burkhard Stangl and turntablist Dieb13 explore and expand the sonic properties of their work in this new "Garden Of Noises", using electronics and recordings of soundscapes from Paris and Montreuil, recorded live at Instants Chavires in France, 2019. |
Li, Bin : I Am Also Here (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A work of silence and intervention from Manhattan-based Chinese composer and sound artist Bin Li presenting two versions of the title track, with Stefan Thut on viol & voice on the 1st version, and voice only on the 2nd, using the locations of Manhattan and Gimmelwald, Switzerland as the background of careful viol and voice placement; intriguing and compelling. |
Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $11.66 In Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
Chabala, Barry / Lance Austin Olsen: Patterns For A Future Human (Roeba -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Guitarist Barry Chabala merges musique concréte and improvisation, using recordings from painter and visual artist Lance Austin Olsen that Olsen recorded in his workshop while creating a series of large collaged and folded paintings--mutterings, physical sounds and other ephemera--which he sent to Chabala to use as a backdrop for these spaciously meditative guitar improvisations. |
La Casa, Eric : Interieurs (Swarming -- France ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A stunning exploration of interior architecture through recordings of the elements of three spaces including La Casa's own apartment, finding micro and macro-scopic sound in common elements that he uses to create fascinating compositions reflecting both the captivating fullness and stillness of each space, as the composer questions his relationship with each space. |
Give Guitars To People (NATuerlich / Arbeit / Rua): The Look Of Silence, Vol 1 (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The trio of guitarists Patricia Bateira (NATurlich), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Vitor Rua (Vitor Rua & The Metaphysical Angels) combine to create a new style of long-form electronic music, a richly continuous work seemingly without start or end, incorporating sustain, effects, & field recordings into a beautifully abstract aural environment. |
Machinefabriek: Amalgaam (Zoharum -- Poland ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Based on a series of improvisations on a very hands-on hardware setup, with an old tone generator, effects pedals, dictaphones, contact mics, &c., Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt) took these recordings into the studio to compose these four works, 2 brief pieces and the 2-part, intricate "Amalgaam", in an absorbing album of dramatic texture & sound. |
Pisaura (Michael Pisaro / Zizia): Asteraceae (Sedimental -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A work composed from field recordings of performances around Los Angeles during the winter of 2018-19, the Pisaura trio of Michael Pisaro, Amber Wolfe Rounds & Jarrod Fowler (Zizia) used astrological charts to determine patterns of composing, performing, recording, and producing music with celestial and terrestrial rhythms; a mysteriously detailed and almost reverent work in sound. |
Brown, Don / Dan Reynolds: D=D [HARDCOVER BOOK w/ CD] (Sacred Realism -- Germany ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock The culmination of 15 years of work is this ambitious installment of Bryan Eubanks with Joe Foster, Dan Brown, and Dan Reynolds' sound project, in a CD of diverse compositions merging concrete, acousmatic sources and field recordings, with an accompanying 391 page book of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary from the artists & contributors. |
Kubisch, Christina: Italienische Stucke/Italian Pieces (1974-1984) (Tochnit Aleph -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A conceptual performance piece from Christina Kubisch, composed and recorded between 1974-84 while in Italy, including a NY performance recorded by Phill Niblock, realized with Arturo Morfino on drums, guitar & objects and Fabrizio Plessi gargling water; an unusual, engrossing and excursive work integrating electronics, field recordings, wind instruments and voice. |
The Yes, Well... (Jeph Jerman / Dave Knott): No, Really. [CASSETTE] (Self Released -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Beginning in 1995 in Seattle, audio explorers Jeph Jerman & David Knotts explore lo-fi approaches using cassettes, mini-cassettes, dictaphones, various assortments of homemade instruments & collected materials, this 2020 cassette including recordings of mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio, and input from a number of contributors. |
Gerard, Pierre: Imprevu Visible Inverse (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using guitars, violin, electronics, field recordings, abstract voice, and a "sound knife in the sand", Pierre Gerard recorded this set of 13 works in Liege, Belgium, and Wimereux, France, in 2019, using intuitive approaches to his minimalist electroacoustic compositions as he assembles his elements to convey human gesture and architectural form in sound. |
Hamel, Max: First Snow [CASSETTE] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock A live solo recording made using the amplified and processed sounds of snow, hail, and wind, captured by sound artist Max Hamel using a piezoelectric disc taped to a metal plate stuck out his window during the first snow storm of 2019, processed in real time using resonant filters, delay lines, and chaotic processors, the whole edited for these two compositions. |
Lopez, Francisco: Untitled (2019) [CD + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Prolific sound artist Francisco López, with more than 378 diverse works composed over 40 years, from nearly silent to overwhelming swells of sonic force, here in a set of eight pieces composed from different source materials, pieces and origins, using field recordings, synthetics and sources of mysterious origin, paced and placed in profound and breathtaking ways. |
Kouw, Matthijs: The Great Image Has No Form [CD + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock With the haunting impression of spiritual peacefulness and inner contemplation, Netherlands sound & experimental musician Matthijs Kouw blurs synthetic sound, field recordings and acousmatic sources into a reflection of his interest in Daoism and his visit to China's Wudang mountains, where he studied Chinese meditation and martial arts. |
Mighty Cloud, The (Dave Quam / Joe Foster): Especially Songs (Sacred Realism -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An unusual journey in abstract sonic narrative and environments from Portland's Dave Quam (FKA Massacooramaan, Modern Melodies) and Seoul's Joe Foster (English, Don Brown and Dan Reynolds), their four pieces using concrete & acousmatic sources, field recordings, enigmatic errata and instrumental elements presented as sentences in sound that imply and defy intention; gripping. |
Kahn, Jason: Infinity Suite [BOOK + CD] (Editions -- Austria ) Price: $15.58 In Stock A 60 page book and CD from sound artist Jason Kahn, the audio composition representing an interconnected set of sound impressions focused on the Indian city of Varanasi, using field recordings of life on the street, the people, animals & music heard there, into the holy sites of the city, the school rooms, ending with a cremation and inevitable quiet at end of day. |
Rousay, Claire: A Collection [2 CDs] (American Dreams Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Exploring the earliest work of Claire Rousay, from her performances as a solo drummer and then transitioning into a musique concrete/new music composer, the 1st CD collecting Rousay's favorite drumming cuts, sequenced into a large single composition, the 2nd CD beginning with percussion work as Rousay adds voice, sonic & field recorded material to create a monumental composition. |
Corcoran, Kevin / Giacomo Salis / Paolo Sanna: Sul Filo [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Initiating like a jet shaking the sky, the trio of Kevin Corcoran on percussion & objects, Giacomo Salis on percussion, objects & field recordings and Paolo Sanna on percussion & objects create otherworldly sonic environments that project collapsing and ringing events above often turbulent foundations, creating side-long journeys that engage through mysterious and surmisable sound. |
Nakajima, Rie: Fusuma [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Spain ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock Working with sculpture and objects in sound installations and live performance, Rie Nakajima captured this appealing set of kinetic performances named for the objects featured in each: a handle of a Japanese sliding door (fusuma), Japanese rice bowls, coils, jars, shells, flower pots, plastic bags, tin foil, tin cans, chopsticks, a bamboo pot, stones, cups, &c. |
Regler: Regel #5 (Classical Music) (Nueni -- Spain ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An actualization of Manfred Werder's text score, "2015³", taking a quote from Walter Benjamin, "through excessive fatigue I had thrown myself on my bed in my clothes in the brightly-lit room, and had at once, for a few seconds, fallen asleep", the Regler trio present an abstract interpretation through location recordings of the band setting up and falling asleep. |
Padang Food Tigers (Stephen Lewis / Spencer Grady): God's Plenty (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Blurring abstract electronics with folk improvisation in gently evolving music with an experimental edge, the London Panang Food Tigers duo of Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady use keyboards, guitars, dobro, charango, field recordings and electronic sources to create contemplative atmospheres, a sort of ambient-folk music drawing out forgotten daydreams and moods; beautiful. |
Allbee, Liz: Rille (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Berlin trumpeter Liz Allbee's solo work focuses on the interaction of voice, extended approaches to her instruments, which includes her self-designed quadrophonic trumpet, electronics and acoustic homemade instruments, on Rille presenting four enigmatic works of dramatic pacing--environmental and rhythmic--guided by impressionistic spoken words and moments of tonal clarity. |
La Casa, Eric: Everyday Unknown 4 & 5 (Swarming -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Exploring the details of everyday life as he examines the relationship between his environment and himself, microscopic audio explorer Éric La Casa investigates sounds beyond the threshold of auditory hearing, capturing barely perceptible sonic manifestations with incredible clarity and detail, constructing engaging works from these surprising and intriguing sounds. |
McPhee, Joe: Route 84 Quarantine Blues (Black Cross Solo Sessions 2) (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock One of Corbett vs. Dempsey's Black Cross Solo Sessions, Joe McPhees approaches his album recorded during pandemic lockdown in his home through tenor sax, voice, water, objects and field recordings, the center of the album a cycle of compositions by Charles Mingus, alongside works by Carla Bley and influences by Joni Mitchell, and a virtual symphony of saxes on the title track. |
Dykstra, Jordan / Koen Nutters: In Better Shape Than You Found Me (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The first album from the duo of American composer & violinist Jordan Dykstra and Dutch composer Koen Nutters, developed by exchanging material of ambient & spacious nature using slow chord development, field recordings, viola, pitch pipe, crotales, piano EBow and electronic programming, the resulting work diverse and constantly evolving through fascinating details. |
McIntosh, Andrew: A Moonbeam Is Just A Filtered Sunbeam (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Intended to be played continuously without a break, composer and violinist Andrew McIntosh's long-form composition features field recordings of pine woods in his home state of California in performance with violin, viola, piano, wine glasses, slate and electronics, an ethereal work combining improvisation, open tunings, just intonation and sympathetic resonance. |
Liyou, Lucy / YSKA: A Need/A Want [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Narrated by text-to-speech vocalization, Korean-American pianist and composer Lucy Liyou collaborates with Bulgarian-born guitarist Ivana Kafedjiyska (YSKA) in an album of languorously floating and understatedly abrasive music complemented by subtle field recordings, two works of curiously philosophical, baffling and observational verse; unique and compelling. |
Svobodni (Bennington / Hunger / Priest / Seyler): Mercenary Blues (ThatSwan! -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Thematic improvisations pairing synthetic sounds and effects with acoustic bass, sax and drums, recorded in the studio by the Chicago quartet of Jimmy Bennington on drums & percussion, Phil Hunger on synth, guitar & effects, Dvi Priest on acoustic bass & effects, Brian Seyler on tenor saxophone, augmented by field recording from a Syrian marketplace, Jackals and Hyenas. |
Iddon, Martin: Sapindales (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Four clarinet-based works in trio, duo and solo from UK composer and musicologist Martin Iddon, performed by Heather Roche on bass and contrabass clarinets, Juliet Fraser on voice for "Muses", Anton Lukoszevieze on cello and James Opstad on double bass; music with intricate, interweaving lines, the title piece a mesmerising work for multi-tracked clarinets and field recordings. |
Neuman-Hammond, Eli: Carnival's Quarrel With Lent (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Two renditions of two sound works from Massachusetts composer currently based in NYC, Eli Neuman-Hammond, both pieces using slide whistles in scores for multiple performers, captured in the open air in Ridgewood, NY, Washington Square Park, and in Marblehead, MA, each performance a minimal configuration that varies the fingerings or breathwork of the performers. |
Samartzis, Philip / Eugene Ughetti: Array [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock A 3-part performance work exploring the effects of powerful climate forces affecting the poles of our planet, as Philip Samartzis and Eugene Ughetti use recordings of radar & scientific instrumentation used in upper atmospheric research along with custom built instruments, producing a unique series of textures, rhythmic cycles, resonances, and timbral phenomena. |
Teube : Teube [CASSETTE] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Strange environments of sound from the French trio of Simon Le Vigouroux on double bass, Cyril Noël on electronics and Thomas Coquelet on electronics, in two morphing works connected by name through each side of the cassette, expeditions guided by murky rythmic elements and mutated field recordings, surrounded by rich and darkly tinged sonic elements. |
Houben, Eva-Maria : John Muir Trails (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Four compositions depicting the John Muir Trails, a high-quality set of biking trails near Madison and Milwaukee two hours from Chicago, composed by Eva-Maria Houben and performed by the West Coast percussion duo DesoDuo of Katie Eikam and Kevin Good, portraying the trails through bowed cymbals, marimba & vibraphone along with field recordings from the outdoor ambiance. |
Gerard, Pierre: A Simple Eye (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Putting less focus on the strings and more into sonic environments, French guitarist Pierre Gerard releases a set of eight abstract compositions for voice, guitar, cello, piano, violin, bass clarinet, electronics & field recordings, intended for random playing, employing silence and active sections to catch the passive or background listener off guard. |
Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka : Across / Birds / Lines (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Five extended works of descriptive ambience from Finnish composer and musician Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, working with algorithmic and electronic manifestations over five pieces--four works "Across" and one "Across (Lines)"--based on environmental field recordings of birds and ambiance, structures that he morphs & reiterates to create different facets of a single outdoor space. |
Too Tall To Sing (Flin van Hemmen / Jozef Dumoulin): New Dance Moves (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A collaboration recorded in New York City and Paris through the exchange and evolution of sound files between sound artists and instrumentalists, percussionist Flin van Hemmen and pianist Jozef Dumoulin, each using samples, field recordings, percussion, keyboards, voice and programming to create sound portraits of propulsive impetus and reflective evocation. |
Snow / Licht / Onda: Five A's, Two C's, One D, One E, Two H's, Three I's... (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock New Yorkers Snow, Licht and Onda in their 2007 Victoriaville performance, an improvised set using sound from sparse to dense with mutated field recordings, synth, radio, &c. |
Jerman / Barnes: Hiss Lift (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Two extended sound collages and cut-ups from field recordings and percussion recorded during tours from 2014 to 2017, the title taken from a sign in one of the hotels that Jerman & Barnes stayed at, apt for the mix of punctuating locations, dissipating noise and unusual percussive passages, a fascinating journey that expands and contracts to make captivating stories. |
Underriner, Chaz: Meditations (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Composer and sound artist Chaz Underriner composed these eight meditation in 2021 during residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the NYU Music Technology studios, recorded at Stetson University in Florida with an ensemble including four vocalists, cello, piano, percussion, electronics and field recordings; beautifully introspective and thought provoking works. |
Klein, M. / Steffan de Turck: A New City [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Het Generiek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock A collaborative album from Dutch sound artists M. Klein (Adept, Sweat Tongue) and Steffan de Turck (Staplerfahrer) using field recordings and keyboards in two extended sound collages that take familiar sounds and transform them into a journey through an imagined land, accompanied by melodic synthetic fragments, a reflective work like a lost memory. |
D.L., Jean / Rutger Zuydervelt: Scramblings (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using electric & acoustic guitars and autoharp over spacious electronics and field recordings, Belgium musician & video artist Jean De Lacoste and Rotterdamn sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, create broad pallets of ringing sounds over which acoustic instruments intone, with cellist Fransesco Guerri joining on one of 8 gently unfolding "Scramblings". |
Machinefabriek: Our Arms Grew Together (Music for a performance by Marta & Kim) (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Following his collaborations with choreographers & dancers Marta Alstadsaeter and Kim-Jomi Fischer resulting in the performances & albums As Much As It Is Worth and Engel, Rutger Zuydervelt composed this work for their dance/circus performance Our Arms Grew Together about romantic relationships, developed around recordings from the daily lives of Alstadsaeter and Fischer. |
Gryke Pyje: Collision And Coalescence [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Composers and performers Jani Hirvonen and Johannes Schebler create a complex universe in sound & melody, a veritable forest of sound referencing global and spiritual environments, using warm instrumental sources, field recordings, world percussion and extended use of the studio in a satisfying series of journeys with a mysteriously transcendental and devotional feeling. |
IQ+1: Conversaphone Plus [VINYL] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $20.95 In Stock Describing their approach to their submersive electroacoustic music as a seance, the Czech Republic septet IQ+1 with Peter Vrba, George Bagdasarov, Veronika Hladka, Jana Kneschke, Michal Zboril, and Katerina Bilejova release their 3rd album, a mix of strings, trumpet, clarinet, harmonium, synth, electronics & field recordings, creating a virtual acousmatic music of great detail. |
Roigk, Stefan : Suffering For The Promised [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Multi-disciplinary artist living in Berlin, Stefan Roigk developed "Suffering For The Promised" over a 14 year period, composing this large work of acousmatic music as an atmospherically intense yet utterly fragile piece, combining concrete sounds, field recordings and devotional vocal fragments in an eclectic and highly intimate composition of great depth and detail. |
Torba (Mauro Diciocia): Musique Inconcrete [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Italian sound artist Mauro Diciocia presents the second installment in a trilogy of related recordings, informally named "Le Musiche", using field recordings from a variety of settings mostly around Salento in southern Italy, organizing his recordings to create auditory sketches in sound, telling abstract yet compelling stories that envelop the listener. |
Ali, Sean : My Tongue Crumbles After (Neither/Nor Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New York bassist Sean Ali demonstrates his astonishing bass technique and creative momentum in a solo album, accompanied at times by collages assembled from field and voice recordings, creating unusual sonic backdrops against which his powerful playing, preparations, bowing and other extended techniques reveal an optimistic and unusual creative intent. |
Chefkirk / S27E152 : Immediate Shred [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A presents S27E152, aka Brisbane's Tristan Eyles, using field recordings and image synthesis; Side B is Chefkirk, aka Roger Smith, combining concrete sound with improvised drone and harsh electronics. |
Farmer, Patrick : Wild Horses Think Of Nothing Else The Sea - Tape Readings [2 CASSETTES + TEXT] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock During 2012 Patrick Farmer walked half of the Welsh Coast, writing a series of observations, which on this release are read in environmental settings by Antoine Beuger, Jeph Jerman, Bruno Guastalla, Sally Ann McIntyre, Holly Pester, Daniela Cascella, & Michael Pisaro-Liu. |
Gestalder / Marion / Becheanu: 3 vues d'un paysage / 3 views of a landscape (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A subtle album of soundscape from the French trio of Violaine Gestalder on saxophones, Louis Michel Marion on double bass, and Stefania Becheanu on field recordings, depicting 3 virtual aural views of a single landscape, the field recordings conveying a sense of location as the bass and sax use extended techniques and subliminal playing to create their vista. |
Kay, Martin: Courtyards (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sound artist Martin Kay focuses on the intimate and visceral symphony of domestic activity reverberating throughout a variety of shared courtyard spaces in Paris, using field recordings from various locations to examine their distinct acoustic characteristics. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Draw Sound [3-inch CD + BOOK] (Herbal International -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An unusual release of drawings and coins - 98 tracks in 8 1/2 minutes, where each track is the sound of one or more coins dropping by the hand of sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, plus one track from Woody Sullender; the book has pencil drawings apparently inspired by the sound. |
Lutnahimat: Erosions (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Lutnahimat is the London-based project of composer/sound sculptor Ian S. in a work mixing electronic self-built instruments with sound samples recorded in India and Cameroon. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Santos: Cyclic Symmetry (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Recorded in the studio in 2017, "Cyclic Symmetry" presents an electroacoustic trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and CS mainstay Carlos Santos on field recordings, in a minimal work suggested to be heard on infinite loop, contrasting deep silence with sections accenting the slow, interwining harmonics of both Rodrigues' string work. |
Snyder, Nicolas: Temporary Places (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock West Coast sound artist Nicolas Snyder is a composer, filmmaker, sound-documenter, gardener, and forager; fascinated by the sounds of nature, he took recordings from streams and National Parks in Vietnam, Pennsylvania, and California and merged them with music composed in the studio to create these works of great beauty as a study of locational and emotional memory. |
Szilard: Spokes (Palaver Press -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Jeremy Young, aka Szilard, in his debut full-length release as a solo performer on guitar and sine waves, with texts from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal" (1857) read by Aki Onda, Ella Joyce Buckley, Liam Singer and Catherine Metayer. |
Novi_sad: ΚΕΡΑΥΝΟΣ (Raster Music -- Germany ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Using environmental sounds & field recordings from 5 continents--Oceania: Tarkine Rainforest; Asia: Okinawa; Europe: Ancient Olympia And Iceland; Africa: Uganda, Botswana & Namibia; America: Amazon Rainforest & Niagara Falls--sound artist Thanasis Kaproulias takes listeners on an incredible journey through sound from reflective to cathartic, from ominous danger to awe-inspired beauty. |
Niblock, Phill: Ghosts And Others (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $19.95 In Stock An engrossing set of compositions through field recordings captured around the globe, transitioning by passages of trains, trucks and cars and accompanied by unusual percussive elements and strange melodies, as Niblock invites us to a funeral procession, a collective farm, and untold other exotic and fascinating streets and unexpected environments. |
Ughi, Federico: ULERS Two (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Percussionist, drummer and improviser Federico Ughi performed this live recording in Brooklyn, 2001 using field recordings captured in Rome on a journey from Piazza S. Cosimato, Trastevere to Via Alberico, Borgo Pio, using those recordings, live sampling and live editing along with drum and percussion techniques to create a unique journey in sound. |
O'Malley, Stephen: MMXX-11: ...st-Vast Sommaren [CLEAR VINYL] (Matiere Memoire -- Belgium ) Price: $26.95 Out of Stock A rich and beautiful drone work from Stephen O'Malley recorded at EMS in Stockholm, the title translating to "East-West Summer", as the piece emulates an accommodating evening, electronic crickets introducing and then settling into a slowly rotating and absorbing combination of tones, the flickering crickets returning to fade out the sense of restful night. |
Shepard, Craig: Trumpet City [2 CDs] (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Trumpet City is a 60 minute live-installation of 40 or more trumpets performing outdoors in a public space, first commissioned and presented by the Prasidialdepartement and the Musikpodium of the City of Zurich, these two realization are from recordings at 51st Street, in Manhattan, New York and at Meeker Avenue between Lorimer and Leonard Streets, in Brooklyn, New York. |
Tsunoda, Toshiya: Landscape And Voice [VINYL] (Black Truffle -- Austria ) Price: $31.95 In Stock A truly unique set of compositions juxtaposing lush field recording with disruptive vocal repetitions, vowel sounds from six different speakers, creating disorienting moments that lull the listener into complacency and then startles them with unexpected interference, as the composer explores how he can establish a subjective relationship with natural environments. |
Physique (Sam Scranton / Neil Quigley): Curve Tote (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $6.00 In Stock Creating soundscapes from homemade instruments, Text-To-Speech, AI voices, lap steel guitar, found objects, field recording, &c., the duo of sound artists Sam Scranton from Chicago and Neil Quigley from Kilkenny, Ireland, present six unusually unfolding compositions of deceptively relaxed environments layered with mysterious elements and a sly sense of humor. |
Matthews, Wade / Carmen Morales: Fall Five Improvisations (Aural Terrains -- UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Inspired by and recorded at the basilica of a former monastery overlooking a valley in southern Spain, the duo of Wade MatthInspired by and recorded at the basilica of a former monastery overlooking a valley in southern Spain, the duo of Wade Matthews on digital synthesis & field recordings and Carmen Morales on prepared piano, present improvisations with a unique palette of timbres, contrasting spacious moments against rapid interaction as they "Plunge and Tumble" through five captivating dialogs.ews on digital synthesis & field recordings and Carmen Morales on prepared piano, present improvisations with a unique palette of timbres, contrasting spacious moments with rapid interaction as they "Plunge and Tumble" through five captivating dialogs. |
Pisaro-Liu, Michael : Two Scrolls From Western Australia (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Composer Michael Pisaro-Liu asked guitarist Jameson Feakes and saxophonist Josten Myburgh to each select a location in Western Australia and make a set of field recordings at different times of day, providing the basis for a musical scroll akin to Chinese scroll paintings, each musician then a poetic character placed into the virtual landscape of their recordings. |
Corner, Philip: On Tape From The Judson Years (Alga Marghen -- Italy ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Early tape collage works from Fluxus founder and member of the Experimental Media Foundation Philip Corner, five distinct pieces recorded and developed between 1962 to 1963 in New York's Lower East Side, including Lucinda Pastime" for a a dance piece by Lucinda Childs, and "Oracle, a Canata on Images of War" commissioned by the Living Theatre; includes a 16-page booklet. |
Columbia Icefield (Nate Wooley / Mary Halvorson / Ryan Sawyer): Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes (Pyroclastic Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The second outing for trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield band with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Susan Alcorn on pedal steel guitar, Ryan Sawyer on drums, plus violist Mat Maneri and bassist Trevor Dunn joining for one track; an album of sublime and subtly complex sondscapes in beautiful abstractions that evolve to exceptional group and solo interplay. |
Nakajima, Rie / Takahiro Kawaguchi: Utsuho [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock Rapid and lucid activity of mechanical and organic activity, a mad mechanism under the control of master machinists perking the ears in inexplicable ways, from the collaboration of Japanese sound artists Rie Nakajima and Takahiro Kawaguchi, their uncredited sources seemingly a mix of motors, bells, squeaky toys, material flurries, whistles, &c. &c.; playfully fascinating. |
Mohanna, Nickolas: Sight Drawings [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Run/Off Editions -- USA ) Price: $22.46 In Stock Using sources from the world about him--field recordings, sampled orchestral noises, and voice recorders--New York composer and sound artist Nickolas Mohanna explores the spatial impressions of sound within a delicate acousmatic language, weaving inexplicable sounds into reorganized, recognizable components, creating a solid and compelling structural language. |
Wolfarth, Christian: 39 / Part I - III (Hiddenbell Records -- Switzerland ) Price: $13.95 In Stock 39 tracks make up this compelling 3-part solo percussion work from Swiss improviser and composer Christian Wolfarth, using a game approach where some sequences are determined by the roll of a dice for note values, rest and tempo, Wolfarth performing on dead wood, a drum or 39 pine cones, augmented with recordings of stones, water, footsteps, church bells, &c. |
Battus / Gauguet / La Casa: Chantier 4 (Swarming -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Using the building site of the Paris Philharmonie as their source location and inspiration, the trio of Pascal Battus using found objects, Bertrand Gauget on saxophone, and Eric La Casa on microphones, improvise and record the background sounds, machines, and environmental influences, using those recordings to create these three fascinating compositions. |
Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann: Eidolon (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock During his 2018-19 Canadian tours, Tim Olive joined Vancouver residents Joda ClŽment and Mathieu Ruhlmann for two trio performances, after which they went into the studio to record these four detailed improvisations using synthesizer, harmonium, glockenspiel, field recordings, feedback, magnetic pickups, preamps, octave generators, ukelin, cymbal, tapes, and objects. |
Frasch, Heather / Ryoko Akama: Linking (Ftarri / Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $10.80 In Stock US sound artists Heather Frasch and UK Ryoko Akama, who together run the mumei journal exploring the relationship between text and sound, in works commissioned by Bruno Duplant based on written texts, each interpreted, recorded and edited by the other using objects, field recordings, electronics, cello & voice, with one piece from Frasch and two versions from Akama. |
Grady, Spencer / Fermata Ark / Mark Wastell: Thus : Excerpts From A Smaller Work (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock UK sound artist Fermata Ark, aka Harry Smith, composed this work from improvisations recorded by Mark Wastell performing on cello, double bass and harmonium, and Spencer Grady performing on 5-string banjo, ebow, violin bow and brass slide, creating an extended work of immersive and mesmerizing textures and tones, sounds rising and falling in sublime and passionate ways. |
Jerman, Jeph: Popular Fictions [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock Two side-long compositions from audio explorer Jeph Jerman, assembled using recordings of objects including "mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio" plus field recordings made through the spring and summer of 2020 in and around Cottonwood, AZ, joined with audio contributions from Doug Theriault, Chris Reider, Julie Schubert, &c. |
Jun, Yan / Zhu Wenbo: Twice (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Beijing sound artists Yan Jun and Zhu Wenbo developed this hour-long sound composition from independent recordings, a set of abstractions through recordings in the field, mechanical and electronic devices, human voice and utterance, acoustic and electronic instruments, &c. &c., made cohesive and compelling through independent time assignments by each artist; inexplicably interesting. |
Kahn, Jason : Voice and Sky [BOOK + CD] (Editions -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Sound experimenter and electroacoustic organizer Jason Kahn revisits previous works and expands on them with the book and CD release, with an essay on his approach towards public space interventions and text / sound installations, a track listing, photographs from the locations of his field recordings, and texts and prose poems to accompany the listener. |
Myburgh, Josten: Sculthorpe Studies (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A large work by the Western Australian composer Josten Myburgh, using harmonies taken from the music of Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe blended with environmental field recordings, performed by Josten Myburgh on sax & electronics, Jet Kye Chong on percussion, Jameson Feakes on guitar, Djuna Lee on bass, Stuart James on piano & electronics, and Kirsten Smith on flutes. |
Tsunoda, Toshiya / Taku Unami: Wovenland 2 [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock For their 2nd collaboration, sound artists Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami present a series of acoustic experiments, each track using a single field recording — fishing spots, birds, a hiking trail, &c, — recording and manipulating those recordings using specific processes, seeking to emulate the way our minds process the senses that we encounter to create our perceived reality. |
Unami, Taku / Devin DiSanto: Taku Unami / Devin DiSanto (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A live performance at Fridman Gallery in New York City as part of erstwhile's AMPLIFY 2015 festival from sound artists Taku Unami & Devin DiSanto, using electronics, concrete sounds, and spoken word to create diverse active environments of narratives and pure sound. |
Various Artists: 20 Jahre Inventionen VI (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New Pricing April 2019: Recordings from the Berlin Inventionen Festivals for New Music 2005 and 2006 featuring compositions by Edgar Barroso ("ODD"); Mario Verandi ("Comme un jeu des images"); Paul Wilson ("Trhough the Rain"); Ricardo Climent ("Wallwoodpeckers"); Vladimir Djambazov ("The Secret Life of a Snare Drum"); and Ludger Brummer ("Glasharle"). |
Dilloway, Aaron / Jeph Jerman: Casual Collisions (White Centipede Noise / New Forces -- USA / EU ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Originally released in 2013 on CDR, this meeting of sound artists Jeph Jerman and Aaron Dilloway show the skill, subtlety, and disruptive sonic skills of two innovators, using objects, damaged electronics, electronic loops and live acoustic sound to create large tapestries: 4 pieces that defy characterization through diverse approaches to impactful sound. |
Jerman, Jeph: Flapndr (Input Error -- UK ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Sound Artist Jeph Jerman explored his Cottonwood, Arizona environment between 2019-2021 to capture the field recordings, windswept drones and close mic-ed minimal sounds that make up Flapndr, combining them in the studio to form complex and sometimes dense compositions that evolve and mutate in a fascinating hybrid of nature and noise. |
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