World Food Books

Terry Fox
The Eye is not the Only Glass that Burns the Mind

2018, English
Hardcover, 192 pages, 24 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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The retrospective Terry Fox: Elemental Gestures, which opened at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2015 before being shown in Mons, Wuppertal, and the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2017, clearly demonstrated Fox’s key role in the development of art since the 1970s. It not only revealed him as a pioneer of performance, video art, and sound installation but also presented his experimental exploration of language and space. A symposium held in conjunction with the Bern exhibition adopted a variety of approaches to reflect on the performances and installations of this European American based in Switzerland. This is the starting point for the publication in which scholars, artists, and close associates seek to define more precisely the often silent “situations” at work between object and word, sound and sculpture, labyrinth and experience, body and action. Thanks to Spector Books (Leipzig).

Out–of–print, NF copy.

File under: Terry Fox Terry Fox Michael Glasmeier Carsten Seiffarth Spector Books / Leipzig Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Terry Fox
Works with Sound

2003, English / German
Hardcover (w. CD), 120 pages, 24.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kehrer Verlag / Heidelberg

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"Works with Sound" presents a complex body of work, comprising thirty years of sculptures, drawings, environments, and performances. Fox, who since the 1960s radically rejected traditional art forms and sought new ways of artistic expression, has been increasingly concerned with investigating the seldom-observed energetic aspects of materials. Hence, sound gained a central significance in his works. The artist is dedicated to finding sounds that make energies palpable and connect the listener and his physical surroundings. Profusely illustrated rich chronology of all works with sound, including extensive biography and accompanying texts by Terry Fox and contributions by Matthias Osterwold and Eva Schmidt. Edited by Bernd Schulz. Bi-lingual English and German texts.

Accompanied by an audio CD with excerpts from six sound performances since 1975.

NF copy with unplayed CD.
Signed dedication to historian and sound theorist Douglas Kahn, from the book's author Matthias Osterwold, a prominent German curator and artistic director who shared a long-standing creative relationship with Terry Fox (1943–2008).

File under: Terry Fox Joseph Beuys Terry Fox Matthias Osterwold Eva Schmidt Bernd Schulz Kehrer Verlag / Heidelberg Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Objects / Ephemera / A/V Signed Books

P Wits
Multiples

2025, English
Softcover (staple bound), unpaginated, 19.5 x 14.2 cm
Ed. of 40, signed,
Published by No Label / Aotearoa New Zealand Witchhammer Press / Aotearoa New Zealand

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Multiples is a zine collection of collages produced for limited run lathe cuts by New Zealand artist P Wits. Published in an edition of 40 signed and numbered copies, 2 colour Riso cover, full colour interiors, by No Label/Witchhammer Press, New Zealand.

File under: P Wits No Label / Aotearoa New Zealand Witchhammer Press / Aotearoa New Zealand Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Goat’s Foot Lever
by Sean Campbell

2021, English
Softcover (staple–bound), unpaginated, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
Ed. of 53 hand numbered copies.,
Published by No Label / Aotearoa New Zealand Witchhammer Press / Aotearoa New Zealand

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Goat’s Foot Lever is a tract on the craft of witching by Sean Campbell published by No Label/Witchhammer Press, New Zealand.

The grimoire displays systemic explanation into the teachings and practices of Internal Masonry, along with psycho-poetical-libidinal observations of fetishistic occurrences within the bible and other similar cultural esoterica.

In 2010 Sean Campbell completed a master’s degree in Religious Studies/Philosophy at the University of Regina in Canada. His MA thesis was included in a publication titled, Tubal Cain, put out in limited edition by The Matthew Barney Studio. He then penned, “Myrrh’s Clarion Call”, a poetical essay contributed to the playbill for the production of “BA”, a filmed performance by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler; published 2014 by Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., New York, as an insert in the monograph for River of Fundament. Campbell is also the creator of acclaimed musical projects Wold and Black Mecha. He resides in Providence, Rhode Island.

Edition of 53 numbered copies with foil embossed card covers.

File under: Sean Campbell Wold Black Mecha Sean Campbell No Label / Aotearoa New Zealand Witchhammer Press / Aotearoa New Zealand Occult / Esoterica Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Nam June Paik
Global Groove 2004

2004, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 23.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Guggenheim Museum / New York

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In 1974, WNET-Channel 13 in New York City broadcast Nam June Paik's Global Groove, a whirlwind, multi-media piece and one of the most influential works of video art. The program took a wide look at culture and transformed the WNET broadcast studio into an experimental venue for dancers, musicians, and performance artists. Weaved into Global Groove were films and videotapes by other artists, interviews and voiceovers, pop music, appropriated commercials, and broadcast breaks.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the broadcast, Global Groove 2004 celebrates Paik's work on and for television, documenting and interpreting his key television projects. The included essays survey and interpret the distinctive contribution Paik made to remaking video and television into an artist's medium, and examine Paik's historical importance and relevance to new developments in internet art. In-depth analysis and photo essays reveal the range of Paik's transformation of video, including his experiments in the 1960s with the Paik-Abe video synthesizer; his seminal videotapes for broadcast: Global Groove, Suite 212, Guadalcanal Requiem, Lake Placid 80, Living with the Living Theater; and his global television productions: Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, Bye Bye Kipling, Wrap Around the World. Additionally, a selection of the artist's seminal writings on the future of television is featured.

VG with light wear to extremities.

File under: Nam June Paik Charlotte Moorman The Living Theatre Marshall McLuhan Thomas Krens Anja Osswald Guggenheim Museum / New York Fluxus Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Echo : The Images of Sound 1

1985, Dutch
Softcover (fold–out), 27 x 17.5 cm (folded); 27 x 87.5 (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Very rare 1985 fold–out exhibition guide/programme published in conjunction with Echo : The Images of Sound 1, held November 22—January 6, 1985. A complete guide to all of the concerts and installations, illustrated throughout with profiles of all the artists, and accompanying text by Paul Panhuysen. Artists featured: Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.

"From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects."

Good copy, light general wear, some creasing. Folded as issued.
27 x 17.5 cm (folded); 27 x 87.5 (unfolded)

File under: Julius Ellen Fullman HUM Max Eastley Takehisa Kosugi Hugh Davies Godfried-Willem Reas STEIM The Simulated Wood VANDALIA Arnold Dreyblatt Richard Lerman Leon van Noorden Paul Panhuysen Johan Goedhart Hans-Karsten Raecke Jon Rose George Smits Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Sound / Music Art Sculpture / Installation

Echo : The Images of Sound 1

1987, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Rare 1987 exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 22—January 6, 1985. Illustrated throughout with texts by Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Anton van Gemert, Bart Lootsma, Arnold Dreyblatt, Leon van Noorden, George Smits, and Hugh Davies. Artists include Max Eastly, Takeisha Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Horst Rickels, Rik van Lersel, Giancarlo Cardini, Juan Hidalgo, Jon Rose, and others. Includes selected bibliography, discography, and index.

blurb: "From November 1984 until January 1985 a group was held in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven of works that combined image and sound. Installations, concerts and a symposium were organised around the exhibition, featuring artists who use sound in their work and composers who use visual aspects. In addition to a photographic report of this festival 'ECHO. The images of Sound I', this book contains a general survey of the development of sound arts and cassettes that have been published in the field of sound art. This section is written by Hugh Davies. Photographs, scores, drawings of articles describing the development of their own work are supplied by Julius, Ellen Fullman, HUM, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Hugh Davies, Godfried-Willem Reas, STEIM, The Simulated Wood, VANDALIA, Arnold Dreyblatt, Richard Lerman, Leon van Noorden, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Jon Rose and George Smits.[...]"

Very Good—Near Fine copy

File under: Max Eastly Takeisha Kosugi Walter Marchetti Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Horst Rickels Rik van Lersel Giancarlo Cardini Juan Hidalgo Jon Rose Ellen Fullman Godfried-Willem Raes Anton van Gemert Bart Lootsma Arnold Dreyblatt Leon van Noorden George Smits Hugh Davies Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Fool's Mate Vol. 13 August 1980
"La Pop Metaphysique"

1980, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fool's Mate / Tokyo

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Rare early issue of the world's finest "Euro Rock Magazine", Fool's Mate, from Japan. Fool's Mate Vol. 13 August 1980. In the 1970's—1980's, Fool's Mate (named after the 1971 Peter Hammill LP), edited by Masashi Kitamura with regular contributions by Masami Akita (Merzbow) and many other heads, was a vital conduit between emerging and metamorphosing avant-garde music cultures in Europe (Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Music, Electronic, Cosmic, Psychedelic Folk, Avant Pop, Rock in Opposition, Post Punk, Industrial, etc.) and Japan. No doubt responsible for the resonance of experimental contemporary music there during that period through to today, each issue of Fool's Mate during these early years was packed cover-to-cover with exclusive interviews with the artists, rare photographs and graphics, thematic genre/artist/label/artistic movement features, in-depth profiles/discographies/family-trees, catalogues, lyrics, letters, collage art, record, book, and live reviews, columns and an endless stream of concert and import/record store/label/venue/cafe adverts, all presented in a perfectly obsessive fanzine aesthetic manner, cut 'n' pasted across many paper stocks. The Americas and other realms, including new directions in Japanese alternative music, are all covered alongside their European counterparts, with many issues exploring key artistic and theoretical influences, such as Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Eros, Futurism, etc.

This issue "La Pop Metaphysique" with cover feature on the history of King Crimson (Part 1) with in-depth chronology, the history of German Rock Music part 1 (Amon Düül I and II, Gila, Kluster, Neu!, Harmonia, Conrad Schnizler, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Can, Sky Records, Roedelius, Moebius, etc), "Pop Music for all the Schizoid-Human & Schizoid-Ages" (Suicide, James Chance, Monochrome Set, etc.), Slapp Happy/Peter Blegvad/Kew Rhone/Amateur/Henry Cow/Faust, "The Real Story of National Health", "U.S.A. Free Music" (L.A.F.M.S., Trans Museq, Henry Kaiser, etc.), Georges Bataille, Gunjogacrayon, Metabolist, David Bowie, Etron Fou Leloublan, Mario Millo, PFM, Ralph Lundsten, Memoriance, and much more. Highly recommended to any fan of such things.

Very Good copy. General wear/age. Price–dropped due to one LP cover cut out of review section.

File under: Hans-Joachim Roedelius Dieter Moebius Amon Düül Amon Düül 2 Amon Düül I Amon Düül II Gila Kluster Neu! Harmonia Conrad Schnizler Klaus Schulze Tangerine Dream Can Sky Records Suicide James Chance Monochrome Set Lindsay Cooper Slapp Happy Peter Blegvad Kew Rhone Amateur Henry Cow Faust L.A.F.M.S. Trans Museq Henry Kaiser Gunjogacrayon Metabolist David Bowie Etron Fou Leloublan Mario Millo PFM Ralph Lundsten Memoriance Masashi Kitamura Masami Akita (Merzbow) Georges Bataille Fool's Mate / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Art Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Surrealism

Terry Fox
(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c.

2003, English / German
Softcover, 64 pages, 29 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fridericianum / Kassel

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"(RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c." was a major exhibition by the American conceptual, Fluxus, and sound artist Terry Fox (1943 – 2008), May 31–July 13, 2003, at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. This profusely illustrated, comprehensive exhibition catalogue accompanied the show, with contributions by Ulli Seegers and Nikola Dietrich, foreword by Rene Block. Bi–lingual German and English texts. A figure in the conceptual and performance art movements, Fox's work frequently integrated bodily experiences, political actions, and intricate multi-layered audio environments. (RE/DE) CONSTRUCTIONS &c. highlighted his ongoing thematic preoccupations with restructuring spaces, transforming materials, and analyzing sounds. This was an important late survey of the artist's work.

Terry Alan Fox (1943 – 2008) was an American conceptual and fluxus artist known for his work in performance art, video art and sculpture. He was one of the first generation conceptual artists and was a central participant in West Coast conceptual art movements and fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s. More than 120 performances - the first of which took place in Germany in 1970 at the invitation and with the assistance of Joseph Beuys - and numerous museum exhibitions have made him internationally known, especially in museum and artistic circles. He was represented three times at documenta in Kassel. Fox was active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Europe, living and working in Liège, Belgium in the later part of his life.

G–VG copy, some wear to extremities.

File under: Terry Fox René Block Ulli Seegers Nikola Dietrich Fridericianum / Kassel Fluxus Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki

2011, English
Softcover, 169 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by PAJ Communications / New York

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In this ground-breaking look at a new art genre, Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves brings together a genealogy of 150 artists and artworks—and more than 250 images—from 1921 to the present that encompasses performance, video, radio theatre, sound art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. Here is a fascinating account of the ingenuity and creativity of artists who have made new discoveries in broadcast, public works, performance composition, sound, and text, stretching the boundaries of both transmitter and receiver. At a time when public access struggles with corporate control of the airwaves, artists have combined activism and communications technologies to represent alternative worlds on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Artists featured include Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Delia Derbyshire, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Maryanne Amacher, Ray Johnson, Scanner, Videofreex, Valie Export, William Basinski, Marshall McLuhan, Bertolt Brecht, Pierre Schaefer, Negativland, Antoni Muntadas, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Piene, Robert Whitman, Hildegard Westerkamp, Wolf Vostell, Orson Welles, Brandon LaBelle, Tetsuo Kogawa, Max Neuhaus, Keith Sonnier, Ezra Pound, Nam June Paik, Lucio Fontana, Alison Knowles, Chris Burden, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Antonin Artaud Delia Derbyshire John Cage Allan Kaprow Maryanne Amacher Ray Johnson Scanner Videofreex Valie Export William Basinski Bertolt Brecht Pierre Schaefer Negativland Antoni Muntadas László Moholy-Nagy Otto Piene Robert Whitman Hildegard Westerkamp Wolf Vostell Orson Welles Brandon LaBelle Tetsuo Kogawa Max Neuhaus Keith Sonnier Ezra Pound Nam June Paik Lucio Fontana Alison Knowles Chris Burden Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Karlheinz Stockhausen Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht Walter Benjamin Galen Joseph-Hunter Penny Duff Maria Papadomanolaki Marshall McLuhan PAJ Communications / New York Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Fluxus Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Alison Knowles
Footnotes

2000, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 17.15 x 24.13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Granary Books / New York

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First edition of this out-of-print volume of Alison Knowles collage journal spanning 30 years.

Once upon a time [composer] Jim Tenney and I went walking in the woods. We came to a clearing and there under a tree was an arrangement of toy locomotives in the middle of nowhere. Pausing, we mused, where were they going, where had they been?

Attempting to write just such an imaginative history of her own life, and its comings and goings, New York artist Alison Knowles has compiled Footnotes—a collection of collage pages made from small, red travel books collected over 30 years, then pasted up and redrawn, in no definite or logical order. The settings of these collages range from Germany to Japan (but always coming back to New York), with a loosely woven context provided by jotted-down ideas and overheard conversations between her friends. These delicate pencil drawings convey a sense of time lost and regained, displacement and reorientation, of the scattered nature of our interior lives.

Alison Knowles (b. 1933) is an American visual artist and a founding member of the Fluxus movement, internationally known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications.

Very Good copy with light tanning to edges of book block.

File under: Alison Knowles Granary Books / New York Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music

Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression
by Jack Sargeant

1995 / 1999, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

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Expanded 1999 print of the first 1995 Creation edition of Deathtripping, the first illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema Of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement and its roots in the New York art/rock and underground film scenes. Including interviews with key transgressive film-makers, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Casandra Stark, Beth B, Tommy Turner, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, plus collaborators Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman and David Wojnarowicz; studies of more recent film-makers including Jeri Cain Rossi, Richard Baylor, Todd Phillips; a brief history of underground/trash cinema: Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar, John Waters; notes and essays on the philosophy and aesthetics of transgression; extensive film analysis; index and bibliography. Heavily illustrated with rare and often disturbing photographs, Deathtripping is a unique document, the definitive guide to the roots, philosophy and development of a style of film-making whose influence and impact can no longer be ignored.

WARNING: CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL

VG copy.

File under: Richard Kern Nick Zedd Casandra Stark Beth B Tommy Turner Tessa Hughes-Freeland Lydia Lunch Joe Coleman David Wojnarowicz Jeri Cain Rossi Richard Baylor Todd Phillips Andy Warhol Jack Smith George Kuchar Mike Kuchar John Waters Jack Sargeant Creation Books / London Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Drugs / Psychedelia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Counterculture

Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire
By Arnold Schoenberg

1995, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 28 x 21 cm
Published by Dover / New York

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In a number of his early compositions, Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) expressed the strong emotions stirred in him by the poetry of Richard Dehmel. Among these seminal works, Verklärte Nacht (1899) stands out for the beauty and strength of its chromatic language, drawing on Wagner's advances in Tristan und Isolde for its emotional impact.

The program of Verklärte Nacht is a love story. Yet, in both its content and psychology, the work clearly anticipates the innovative twentieth-century music Schoenberg himself helped to forge.
Pierrot Lunaire, one of Schoenberg's best-known and most striking works, was composed in 1912. It is a music setting for solo voice and chamber ensemble of 21 poems by Albert Giraud, translated into German by the Expressionist poet Otto Erich Hartleben. In this satiric work, evoking moods that are by turns ironic, melodramatic, and sinister, Schoenberg incorporates a highly specialized use of the speaking voice, the singing-speech delivery call Sprechstimme, within an instrumental framework of jolting atonality.

Both Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire deeply influenced the development of the Second Viennese School and, in time, the course of twentieth-century music. They are reprinted here from authoritative editions.

File under: Arnold Schoenberg Otto Erich Hartleben Richard Dehmel Dover / New York Sound / Music Art

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

NOISE GRAPHICS (1980—1990)

2022, English
Hardcover, 224 pages, 22 x 29 cm
Published by Masala Noir / Paris

$89.00 $55.00 - Out of stock

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A visual archive of Noise vinyl and cassette covers, 1980—1990. Merzbow, Bourbonese Qualk, Maurizio Bianchi (MB), Controlled Bleeding, The Haters, Whitehouse, Le Syndicat, Broken Flag, Anti-Music, Borbetomagus, Sonic Youth, Sonic Death, ZSF Produkt, Ramleh, P16.D4, Area Condizionata, Kleistwahr, Masonna, DD. Records, Alto Stratus, Boredoms, Pussy Galore, Septiembre Negro, GG Allin, Lokomotiv S.S., Giancarlo Toniutti, The New Blockaders, Club Moral, Coup De Grace, H.N.A.S., Come Organisation, Birthbiter, Consumer Electronics, Minamata, Mauthausen Orchestra, Pain Teens, S·Core, The Gerogerigegege, Psychic T.V., Sonic Violence, Epitapes, ZG Music, Recloose Organisation, Con-Dom, Deviant & the Clones, Skullflower, Pure, Thee Un-Kommuniti, Skullflower, Putrefier, Ethnic Acid, and many many more.......

Last remaining copy discounted as the content (book block) has been bound upside–down. Sample image only (the right way around).

File under: Maurizio Bianchi (MB) MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Merzbow Controlled Bleeding The Haters Whitehouse Le Syndicat Broken Flag Anti-Music Borbetomagus Sonic Youth Sonic Death ZSF Produkt Ramleh P16.D4 Area Condizionata Kleistwahr Masonna DD. Records Alto Stratus Boredoms Pussy Galore Septiembre Negro GG Allin Lokomotiv S.S. Giancarlo Toniutti The New Blockaders Club Moral Coup De Grace H.N.A.S. Come Organisation Birthbiter Consumer Electronics Minamata Mauthausen Orchestra Pain Teens S·Core The Gerogerigegege Psychic T.V. Sonic Violence Epitapes ZG Music Recloose Organisation Con-Dom Deviant & the Clones Skullflower Pure Thee Un-Kommuniti Putrefier Ethnic Acid Bourbonese Qualk Masala Noir / Paris Sound / Music Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées SALE

Interviews With Sound Artists
Edited by René van Peer

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Ed. of 750,
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first edition of this wonderful collection of interviews with sound artists taking part in the festival ECHO, The Images of Sound II, in 1987, highlighting New Music and Sound Art, compiled by René van Peer. "This [accompanying] book has become an autonomous account of the personal histories of a number of sound artists, and thus it aims at providing an impression of the origins of Sound Art and New Music"—Paul Panhuysen, March 1993. Comprised entirely of in-depth interviews with Joe Jones, Richard Lerman, Jean Weinfeld, Martin Riches, Takehisa Kosugi, Horst Rickels, Johan Goedhart, Terry Fox, Christina Kubisch, Jim Pomeroy, Walter Fahndrich, Yoshi Wada, Paul Panhuysen.

Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. A valuable resource.

René van Peer is a journalist specializing in non-mainstream music.

Very Good copy.

File under: Joe Jones Richard Lerman Jean Weinfeld Martin Riches Takehisa Kosugi Horst Rickels Johan Goedhart Terry Fox Christina Kubisch Jim Pomeroy Walter Fahndrich Yoshi Wada Paul Panhuysen René van Peer Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik

2002, English / German
Softcover (spiral–bound), 76 pages + 2 x audio CD, 26.5 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Spiral–bound book and double CD set published to accompany the exhibition, Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik, Klanginstallationen - Akusmatische Konzerte, 2000, organised by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD and Technische Universität Berlin, lead by Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar Hein, Carsten Seiffarth. The publication comprises two CDs housed in a polyurethane sleeve inside a 76 page spiral-bound book in bi–lingual English/German containing liner notes, essays, biographies and full-colour photographs of the participants, installations and performances.

CDs feature: François Donato, Adrian Moore, David Prior, Mario Verandi, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Tom Johnson/Martin Riches, José Antonio Orts, Ed Osborn, Christina Kubisch, Wolfgang Mitterer

As New copy.

File under: François Donato Adrian Moore David Prior Mario Verandi Alvin Lucier Ron Kuivila Tom Johnson/Martin Riches José Antonio Orts Ed Osborn Christina Kubisch Wolfgang Mitterer Andreas Bernnat Frank Gertich George Goodman Herbert Velasquez Laurie Schwartz Silke Borgstedt Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Comic Stripping

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26.6 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Melbourne

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Wonderful, exceptionally rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Comic Stripping at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, May 31—June 24 1983. Features the work of Howard Arkley, Julie Cunningham, Juliet Darling, Juan Davila, Linda Marrinon, Raymond X, Peter Tyndall, Christopher Van Der Craats, → ↑ →. Illustrated throughout with work and texts by the artists and an introduction by Denise McGrath.

Very Good copy with ex-libris 200 Gertrude St. archive stamps to contents and final page of catalogue. Small mark, soft surface tear from old sticker to bottom-left of cover, otherwise a lovely copy with only light wear.

File under: Maria Kozic Philip Brophy Howard Arkley Julie Cunningham Juliet Darling Juan Davila Linda Marrinon Raymond X Peter Tyndall Christopher Van Der Craats → ↑ → George Paton Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Painting Sound / Music

Het Apollohuis 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001
(Lot of 3 books)

1985–2001, English
Softcover (3 volumes), 144 + 152 + 102 pages, 30.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

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Lot of 3 books. Each book is a five year compendium documenting the programme series at the legendary sound arts venue Het Apollohuis between the years 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001. Founded by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in 1980, Het Apollohuis was a unique space dedicated to experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...sound art, new music, performance art and the new media," in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in a former nineteenth century cigar-factory. Between 1980 and 2001, Het Apollohuis organized 253 art exhibitions, 476 concerts and performances, 46 public lectures, symposia and several festivals (as "ECHO: images of sound II" in 1987 or FLEA Festival in 1997). Alongside an ambitious programme, Het Apollohuis also published prints, artist books, multiples, audio-cassette tapes, LPs, and CDs. This wasn't a museum or a traditional gallery. It was an independent space operating outside institutional structures, able to take risks and follow intuitions.

These books document all of these activities through profuse photo documentation, floor–plans, descriptions (in English), invites and biographies, all indexed. Includes accompanying essays. All in English.

For anyone interested in the history of experimental music and sound art in the 1980s–1990s, these books are essential. Not as nostalgia, but as documentation of a moment when possibilities were opening up, when artists were finding each other, when spaces like Het Apollohuis proved that independent platforms could operate at the highest level of ambition and seriousness. An indispensable reference.

Artists include: Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Merzbow, Jerry Hunt, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier, Yoshi Wada, Christian Marclay, Terry Fox, Akio Suzuki, Junko Wada, Paul Panhuysen, Michael Parsons, Alvin Curran, Bernard Villers, Takashi Kazamaki, Iva Bittová, Borbetomagus, Jon Rose, Rhys Chatham, Junko Ueda, Paul Gees, Tibor Szemző, Richard Lerman, Joe Jones, Christina Kubisch, Pascal Comelade, Jon Gibson, Tari Ito, Jim O'Rourke, David Shea, Rolf Julius, Gordon Monahan, Warren Burt, Keiji Haino, Eugene Chadbourne, Goji Hamada, Rafael Toral, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Jaap Blonk, Roman Signer, Ikue Mori, Felix Hess, Pierre Bastien, Goji Hamada, Herman De Vries, Ellen Fullman, Hugh Davies, Jan Boerman, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Arnold Dreyblatt, Phil Jürgen Olbrich, Remko Scha, Jackson MacLow, Anne Tardos, Paul Dutton, J.H. Kocman, Eric Andersen, Alison Knowles, the Maciunas Ensemble, Hideharu Matsueda, Tokihiro Sato, Trimpin... just the tip of the iceberg.

All Very Good copies with some light wear to boards, light knocking.

File under: Eliane Radigue Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Merzbow Jerry Hunt Elliott Sharp Alvin Lucier Yoshi Wada Christian Marclay Terry Fox Akio Suzuki Junko Wada Paul Panhuysen Michael Parsons Alvin Curran Bernard Villers Takashi Kazamaki Iva Bittová Borbetomagus Jon Rose Rhys Chatham Junko Ueda Paul Gees Tibor Szemző Richard Lerman Joe Jones Christina Kubisch Pascal Comelade Jon Gibson Tari Ito Jim O'Rourke David Shea Rolf Julius Gordon Monahan Warren Burt Keiji Haino Eugene Chadbourne Goji Hamada Rafael Toral David Behrman Zeena Parkins Jaap Blonk Roman Signer Ikue Mori Felix Hess Pierre Bastien Herman De Vries Ellen Fullman Hugh Davies Jan Boerman Esther Ferrer Boris Nieslony Arnold Dreyblatt Phil Jürgen Olbrich Remko Scha Jackson MacLow Anne Tardos Paul Dutton J.H. Kocman Eric Andersen Alison Knowles the Maciunas Ensemble Hideharu Matsueda Tokihiro Sato Trimpin Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Group Shows / Collections Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND II, 1999
Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki

1999, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 100,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 13 May — 4 July 1999, featuring the work of Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 100 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Alien Productions Thorsten Goldberg Christina Kubisch Akio Suzuki Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND III, 2001
Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz

2001, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 250,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 10 May — 1 July 2001, featuring the work of Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 250 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Ulrich Eller Christoph Lahl Robin Minard Alexander R. Titz Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Conceptual Art Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Music, Language and Environment
Writings by David Dunn

c. 1989, English
Softcover (spiral bound), unpaginated, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by David Dunn / California

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, privately issued anthology of writings by pioneering experimental/environmental composer and researcher, Harry Partch's assistant, and Harry Partch Ensemble member, David Dunn. Around this time Dunn privately issued a series of 4 staple-bound publications that documented his pioneering work of electronic and acoustic, collected and reflected in his own words. This much larger anthology brings together a most vital compilation of his major technical and philosophical writings and sound research around human and non–human language, music, composition, and bio–acoustics that shaped his work and philosophy, opening with his 1984 essay Music, Language and Environment, followed by An Expository Journal of Extractions from Wilderness: Notes Toward an Environmental Language (1981), Speculations: On the Evolutionary Continuity of Music and Animal Communication Behavior (1983), Mappings and Entrainments (1984), Synchronisms: Toward a Phenomenological Science (1986), The Self-Referring Universe: Identity, Nonlocality and Evolution (Allyn B. Brodsky and David Dunn), Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic Art and Nature, Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond, Environment, Consciousness, and Magic (An Interview with David Dunn, 1988).

Composer David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. He was an assistant to the American composer Harry Partch and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional and experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research. His compositions and soundscape recordings have appeared in many international forums, concerts, broadcasts, and exhibitions. In addition to his multiple books, recordings and soundtracks, he has been anthologized in over 50 books and journals. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Good–Very Good copy, light wear to cover pages.

File under: David Dunn Chris Mann David Dunn Chris Mann Allyn B. Brodsky David Dunn / California Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ecology / Earth

Interviews with David Rosenboom 1976–1983

c. 1980s, English
Softcover (spiral–bound), unpaginated, 28 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Self-Published

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A privately–published, spiral–bound compilation of interviews with American experimental music pioneer, David Rosenboom, spanning 1976–1983. Includes extensive interviews by Larry Polansky, Eva Soltes, Richard Teitelbaum, Walter Zimmermann, Symposium on Computer Music Composition (questions from C. Roads), Recent Cybernetic Insights from Synapse magazine, and more. Compiled around the time Rosenboom toured Europe with Anthony Braxton Quartet and was teaching at Mills College, Oakland.

David Rosenboom (b. Fairfield, Iowa, in 1947) is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback: in the 1970s he built systems in which the brainwaves of performers shaped the music, documented on Brainwave Music (1976) and in his book Biofeedback and the Arts. He has also worked with cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms, and has performed with the mridangam master Trichy Sankaran. He studied composition, performance and electronic music at the University of Illinois with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller and Kenneth Gaburo among others, taught at Mills College and for three decades was dean of music at CalArts, where his students have included several generations of experimental composers.

VG with only very light age/wear.

File under: Larry Polansky David Rosenboom David Rosenboom Larry Polansky Richard Teitelbaum Walter Zimmermann Eva Soltes Self-Published Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay