World Food Books

Beatles Press Book

1969, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 32 pages, 28 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Apple Press Office / London

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Very rare original 1969 Beatles Press book, issued privately by the Apple Records Press Office on Saville Road and not available for commercial sale. Contains all record releases, tour dates and performances, and diary of events 1962 to 1969. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the band and wrapped in stiff airbrushed covers.

Very Good copy with some light marking, light cover wear.

File under: The Beatles Paul McCartney John Lennon George Harrison Ringo Star Apple Press Office / London Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Wir nennen es Ludwig. Das Museum wird 40! / We Call It Ludwig: The Museum Is Turning 40!
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior

2017, English / German
Softcover, 431 pages, 20.3 x 27.1 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This publication documents the first forty years of exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig through an archive of installations and ephemera. It includes impressions from all the directors of the institution as well as the architects of the building. The conceptual starting point is the anniversary exhibition "We Call It Ludwig: The Museum Is Turning 40!" (2016), which is reflected here in a complete overview of all the works on display. For the anniversary exhibition, which was jointly conceived by the director and all the museum’s curators, twenty-five international artists and artist collectives were invited to engage in depth with the institution and to react to the question of what the Museum Ludwig means to them.

Participating artists included Georges Adéagbo, Ai Weiwei, Ei Arakawa & Michel Auder, Minerva Cuevas, Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Meschac Gaba, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Diango Hernández, Candida Höfer, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kuehn Malvezzi, Christian Philipp Müller, Marcel Odenbach, Ahmet Ögüt, Claes Oldenburg, Pratchaya Phinthong, Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmuş, Gerhard Richter, Avery Singer, Jürgen Stollhans, Rosemarie Trockel, Villa Design Group, Christopher Williams.

The expansive archive portion of this large book includes important work by countless artists spanning 40 years.

Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior

File under: Ai Weiwei Ei Arakawa Michel Auder Maria Eichhorn Andrea Fraser Meschac Gaba Hans Haacke Bodys Isek Kingelez Kuehn Malvezzi Christian Philipp Müller Marcel Odenbach Ahmet Ögüt Claes Oldenburg Gerhard Richter Avery Singer Jürgen Stollhans Rosemarie Trockel Villa Design Group Christopher Williams Georges Adéagbo Minerva Cuevas Guerrilla Girls Candida Höfer Diango Hernández Pratchaya Phinthong Yilmaz Dziewior Walther König / Köln Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Photography Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism SALE

La Scena della Notte : Il Design dei Disco-Club
a cura di Cesare Pergola

1991, English / Italian
Softcover, 46 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Firenze Alinea Editrice / Italy

$60.00 - Out of stock

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"The Night Scene : The design of the Disco-Club", scarce Italian catalogue published to accompany the unique exhibition, La Scena della Notte : Il Design dei Disco-Club curated by Cesare Pergola at Villa Montalvo, Florence, 21-30 September, 1991. Profusely illustrated throughout in glossy colour with texts in English and Italian, this exhibition publication surveys the interior design of 1980's night clubs. From the land of some of the most inventive and iconoclastic discotheque designs, curator Cesare Pergola here presents nine emblematic clubs from around the world: the Palladium (New York), the Haçienda (Manchester), Otto Zutz (Barcelona), Rock Hudson (Rimini), Le Palace (Paris), Bolidò (New York), Gold (Tokyo), Taxim (Istanbul), Manila (Florence). Each club is presented through interior photography, plans and profiles, including information on the designers themselves, including Arata Isozaki, Ben Kelly, Giovanni Tommaso Garattoni, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Nigel Coates, Cesare Pergola, and more. A must for any night club or post-modern interior design enthusiast.

As New copy.

File under: 9999 Gruppo 9999 Ben Kelly Arata Isozaki Giovanni Tommaso Garattoni Massimo Iosa Ghini Nigel Coates Cesare Pergola Keith Haring Firenze Alinea Editrice / Italy Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music

MAGIC
Edited by Jamie Sutcliffe

2021, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 14.5 x 21 cm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$40.00 - Out of stock

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From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and complex bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic.

Dispensing with simple narratives of re-enchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care.

Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a 'magical-critical' thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.

Artists surveyed:
Holly Pester, Katrina Palmer, Ithell Colquhoun, Anna Zett, Monica Sjoeo, Sofia Al-Maria, Jack Burnham, Jeremy Millar, Susan Hiller, Mike Kelley, Morehshin Allahyari, Center for Tactical Magic, David Steans, Porpentine, Travis Jeppesen, Linda Stupart, Caspar Heinemann, Elizabeth Mputu, Faith Wilding, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, Henri Michaux, Kenneth Anger, Benedict Drew, Mark Leckey, Robert Morris, Jenna Sutela, Haroon Mirza, Zadie Xa, Saya Woolfalk, Ian Cheng, Tabita Rezaire, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Elijah Burgher, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sahej Rahal

Writers:
Charles Fort, Victoria Nelson, Gary Lachman, Yvonne P. Chireau, Randall Styers, Isabelle Stengers, Alan Moore, Simon O' Sullivan, Lucy Lippard, Louis Chude Sokei, Patricia MacCormack, Mark Pilkington, AE, Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, Michel Leiris, Aime Cesaire, Austin Osman Spare, Erik Davis, Mark Dery, Elaine Graham, Jeffrey Sconce, Giulia Smith, Esther Leslie, Alice Bucknell, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Hannah Gregory, Kristen Gallerneaux, Mahan Moalemi, Jamie Sutcliffe, Gregory Sholette, Aaron Gach, Eugene Thacker, Diane Di Prima, Allan Doyle, Aria Dean, Emily LaBarge, Lou Cornum, Joy KMT, Scott Wark, McKenzie Wark, Phil Hine, Jackie Wang, Sean Bonney

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Holly Pester Katrina Palmer Ithell Colquhoun Anna Zett Monica Sjoeo Sofia Al-Maria Jack Burnham Jeremy Millar Susan Hiller Mike Kelley Morehshin Allahyari Center for Tactical Magic David Steans Porpentine Travis Jeppesen Linda Stupart Caspar Heinemann Elizabeth Mputu Faith Wilding David Hammons Ana Mendieta Henri Michaux Kenneth Anger Benedict Drew Mark Leckey Robert Morris Jenna Sutela Haroon Mirza Zadie Xa Saya Woolfalk Ian Cheng Tabita Rezaire Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Elijah Burgher Sahej Rahal Charles Fort Victoria Nelson Gary Lachman Yvonne P. Chireau Randall Styers Isabelle Stengers Alan Moore Simon O' Sullivan Lucy Lippard Louis Chude Sokei Patricia MacCormack Mark Pilkington AE Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater Michel Leiris Aime Cesaire Austin Osman Spare Erik Davis Mark Dery Elaine Graham Jeffrey Sconce Giulia Smith Esther Leslie Alice Bucknell Gary Zhexi Zhang Hannah Gregory Kristen Gallerneaux Mahan Moalemi Jamie Sutcliffe Gregory Sholette Aaron Gach Eugene Thacker Diane Di Prima Allan Doyle Aria Dean Emily LaBarge Lou Cornum Joy KMT Scott Wark McKenzie Wark Phil Hine Jackie Wang Sean Bonney Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Painting Surrealism Occult / Esoterica Ecology / Earth Ecology Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Feminism Theory / Essay

Nonbinary : A Memoir
by Genesis P-Orridge

2021, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 24 x 16 cm
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

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A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge.

In this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of “industrial music,” founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020) takes us on a journey searching for identity and their true self. It is the story of a life of creation and destruction, where Genesis P-Orridge reveals their unwillingness to be stuck—stuck in one place, in one genre, or in one gender. Nonbinary is Genesis’s final work and is shared with hopes of being an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists.

Nonbinary is the intimate story of Genesis’s life, weaving the narrative of their history in COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. It also covers growing up in World War II’s fallout in Britain, contributing to the explosion of new music and radical art in the 1960s, and destroying visual and artistic norms throughout their entire life.

In addition to being a captivating memoir of a singular artist and musician, Nonbinary is also an inside look at one of our most remarkable cultural lives that will be an inspiration to fans of industrial music, performance art, the occult, and a life in the arts.

“Genesis had a profound impact on me as an artist and then a dear friend. Reading this illuminating and radically open memoir is an honor. The echoes of such a strong creative voice unveiling the experiences of the proverbial climb to becoming a true artist and later cultural icon is mesmerizing.” — actor, director, and author, Asia Argento

“Genesis was continually breaking new ground and developing new projects with the aim of short circuiting received ideas, chipping a hole in the carapace, questioning everything: religion, education, nationality, sexual identity to find the reality behind the society of the spectacle. Gen was always going forwards. It is fascinating to read the back story, finally told.” — bestselling author, Barry Miles

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle COUM Transmissions Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Psychic TV Harry N. Abrams / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Counterculture

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge : Sacred Intent
Conversations with Carl Abrahamsson 1986-2019

2020, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm
Published by Trapart / Stockholm

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Sacred Intent gathers conversations between artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and longtime friend and collaborator, the Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson. From the first 1986 fanzine interview about current projects, over philosophical insights, magical workings, international travels, art theory and gender revolutions, to 2019’s thoughts on life and death in the the shadow of battling leukaemia, Sacred Intent is a unique journey in which the art of conversation blooms.

With (in)famous projects like C.O.U.M. Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) and Pandrogeny, Breyer P-Orridge has consistently thwarted preconceived ideas and transformed disciplines such as performance art, music, collage, poetry and social criticism; always cutting up the building blocks to dismantle control structures and authority. But underneath the socially conscious and pathologically rebellious spirit, there has always been a devout respect for a holistic, spiritual, magical worldview – one of “sacred intent.”

Sacred Intent is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary art, deconstructed identity, gender evolution, and magical philosophy. The book not only celebrates an intimate friendship, but also the work and ideas of an artist who has never ceased to amaze and provoke. Also included are photographic portraits of Breyer P-Orridge taken by Carl Abrahamsson, transcripts of key lectures, and an interview with Jacqueline “Lady Jaye” Breyer P-Orridge from 2004.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Carl Abrahamsson Carl Abrahamsson Trapart / Stockholm Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Counterculture LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica

Renée Green
Ongoing Becomings – Retrospective 1989-2009

2009, English / French
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 24 x 29 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne

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The first overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Renée Green over the past twenty years.

This reference monograph provides the first overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Renée Green over the past twenty years through mediums as varied as film, video, installation, sound-related works, photographs, prints, banners, texts, websites, and ephemera.

The essays by Nora Alter, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Quéloz, Gloria Sutton, Elvan Zabunyan, and the interview between Julian Renbentisch and Renée Green not only give an historical overview of the artist's work, but engage with issues central to her practice such as questions of genealogy and memory, archives and their reworkings, movements and displacements, site-specificity and location, positionalities and perceptions. They offer new insight into the artist's specific use of images, sound and text, and her inscription in art history.

Born 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, artist, writer, and filmmaker Renée Green lives and works in New York and San Francisco. Her work is located both within the legacy of the most ambitious achievements of Conceptual and post-Minimal art, and within a post-colonial critique of culture. It often takes the form of complex, multi-layered archive-like installations that employ a vast array of sources, and point to a variety of issues, always involving the spectator as active participant through multiple points of access.

Edited by Nicole Schweizer.
Texts by Nora Alter, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Renée Green, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Quéloz, Juliane Rebentisch, Gloria Sutton, Elvan Zabunyan.

Published in collaboration with the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.

File under: Renée Green Nora Alter Diedrich Diedrichsen Kobena Mercer Catherine Quéloz Gloria Sutton Elvan Zabunyan Julian Renbentisch JRP Ringier / Zürich Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Minimal Art Sound / Music

ECM CATALOG
Edited by Kenny Inaoka

2010, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. dust jacket and dust jacket), 938 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by Tokyo Kirara / Tokyo Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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This absolutely remarkable ECM handbook of over 900 pages, edited by Kenny Inaoka, ECM’s label manager in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, originally conceived to accompany ECM’s 40th year celebrations, begins with a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of all of the officially released albums issued on ECM - and its subsidiary JAPO - from 1969 until 2010. Album covers are shown in colour (sometimes with alternate designs), and there is a section of Japan-only releases alongside the full international range of titles. This is followed by an individual album guide, complete with artwork, discographical information and capsule reviews for each release. All discographical information is in English, including titles, musicians, recording locations etc., making the book an extremely useful reference work for the non-Japanese reader/listener, and for collectors in general. A monumental, exhaustive document dedicated to one of the world's most innovative record labels!

The independent record label ECM – Edition of Contemporary Music – was founded by producer Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969, and to date has issued more than 1500 albums spanning many idioms. Emphasising improvisation from the outset, ECM established its reputation with standard-setting recordings by Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and many more and began to include contemporary composition – including Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Meredith Monk Dolmen Music – in its programme in the late 1970s and early 80s. To introduce Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa a sister label, ECM New Series, was launched in 1984. The New Series has since become a broad platform for a spectrum of composed music from the pre-baroque era to the present day. New music, improvised or notated, builds upon the strengths of earlier models, and the concept of modern music informed by older music resonates through the improvised and composed projects heard on ECM.

File under: Steve Reich Meredith Monk Jan Garbarek Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Eberhard Weber Gary Burton Chick Corea Wolfgang Dauner Carla Bley Keith Jarrett Paul Bley Pat Metheny John McLaughlin Evan Parker Annette Peacock Gary Peacock Terje Rypdal Ralph Towner the Art Ensemble of Chicago Arvo Pärt György Kurtág Valentin Silvestrov Tigran Mansurian Erkki-Sven Tüür Heinz Holliger Heiner Goebbels Alexander Knaifel Helena Tulve Giya Kancheli John Cage John Casado Charlie Haden John Abercrombie Dave Liebman Egberto Gismonti Dave Holland Steve Tibbetts Stephan Micus Codona Anouar Brahem L. Shankar Jon Hassell Elliott Carter John Adams Kenny Inaoka Tokyo Kirara / Tokyo Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo Sound / Music

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

The Music To Come
by François J. Bonnet

2021, English
Softcover, 56 pages, 10.5 x 16.5 cm
Published by Shelter Press / France

$24.00 - Out of stock

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This is not a study. It is a manifesto for a peculiar conviction: that music remains to be discovered, that it is still hidden. That, nonetheless, it does sometimes appear, but most often incompletely and unevenly. And that what we have hitherto referred to as ‘music’ is in fact only a preliminary, a prodrome. That all musics produced up until now have been nothing but simulacra, rituals to call music forth. This may sound crazy, and indeed unwelcome. But the sole concern of the following text will be to make this statement legible, understandable, and perhaps even to some extent acceptable. Its hope is that, setting out from a few intuitions, the possibility of a music to come can be formulated. That this obscure becoming will emerge, one trait at a time; that the shape of this music to come will reveal itself, gradually, by way of a cluster of assumptions, the reading of a multiple history, and the examination of damaging paradigms that have taken music far from itself. That the subjectivity of a writing, with all of its beliefs, its errors, its biases, its injustices and its shaky certainties, may yet manage to cast a singular and inspiring light upon the idea of music—this, ultimately, is the ambition of the lines to come.

File under: François J. Bonnet Shelter Press / France Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art

The Rap Attack
by David Toop

1985, English
Softcover, 168 pages, 21 x 18.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Pluto Press / London-Sydney

$150.00 - Out of stock

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The Rap Attack : African Jive to New York Hip Hop, first published in Britain in 1984, is David Toop's seminal, super early and important account on the evolution of rap music and hip hop culture, exploring its roots and various manifestations, from the music's African heritage to the electro-funk revolution. Toop's ever intelligent and in depth overview of the culture goes a lot further than introducing the seminal artists, it studies the socio-political and diverse musical landscape that shaped one of the most innovative movements in sound. The clubs (Roxy, Danceteria, Funhouse, etc.), the radio stations, the record stores, the video arcades, Beat Bop, Jive, Doo Wop, it's all here. Full of references, quotes, bibliography, discography, lots of background information on countless pioneering artists, the mcs, djs, breakdancers, producers, Afrika Bambaata, Cold Crush Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Kool Herc, The Sequence, Sylvia Robinson, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Double Trouble..., complimented with superb black and white photographs throughout by Patricia Bates. There's even a vocabulary section compiled by Monica Lynch from Tommy Boy Records. A pioneering book on the rise of hip-hop culture, and very scarce in the original British edition with vivid Dennis Morris cover. This is the second print of this edition (1985).

Good copy with only light cover wear/ageing. Very Good interior throughout.

File under: David Toop Pluto Press / London-Sydney Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

The Museum of Synthesizer Technology
by Martin J. Newcomb

1994, English
Softcover, 118 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Museum of Synthesizer Technology / Berkshire

$220.00 - Out of stock

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First edition from 1994 of the mega rare "The Museum of Synthesizer Technology" book, published upon the establishment of the museum itself in Berkshire, UK, which was opened by Bob Moog and only existed for a few years (1994—1997) and was at the time the largest collection of analogue synthesizers in the world. This wonderful resource book by synthesizer afficianado Martin Newcomb, brings the collection to print, lavishly illustrated with colour and b/w photographs of some of the most legendary analogue synthesizers ever made (or heard) — Moog, E-mu, Arp, Buchla, Oberheim, Sequential Circuits, Polyfusion, Electronic Dream Plant, Roland, Korg, EMS, EML, PPG, and the ever important lesser-known misc. models... — alongside the history of the synth, the history of Moog, instrument listings and background information on the manufacturers and models alongside their logos and designs, pics of pioneering musicians and engineers, wave diagrams, and much more. A must for any synthesizer library or serious electronic musician.

Good copy some light wear and a crease to the front cover.

File under: Robert Moog Martin J. Newcomb The Museum of Synthesizer Technology / Berkshire Art Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Electronic Music in Japan 1955-1981
by Yuji Tanaka

1998, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 704 pages, 21.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ASCII Co. / Tokyo

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first edition of this bible on Electronic Music in Japan (1955-1981) by author and analogue synth collector Yuji Tanaka, published in 1998, who later also published the great follow-up "Electronic Music in the Lost World". At over 700 pages, this is the heaviest study we've ever seen on the development of electronic music in Japan, from the composers around the NHK experimental music studio (Toshiro Mayuzumi, Makoto Moroi, Minao Shibata...), the 1970 Osaka Expo, Tomita, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) and Haruomi Hosono, Toru Takemitsu, Flied Egg, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yuji Takahashi, Phew, and all between. As much about the art as the technology, this extensive chronology and discography is richly illustrated with 100s of images of LPs, but also the analogue synths and the studios themselves, making for a valuable resource on both the artists and engineers that pushed the boundaries of electric composition in Japan across avant-garde, library, ambient, fusion, soundtrack, prog, pop, disco... Includes loads of international content for context within the timeline (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Weather Report, White Noise, Ron Geesin, Tangerine Dream...) A huge labor of electronic love laid out on Wasp yellow paper stock throughout, including the original Synthesizer graphic dust jacket and obi. Warning : all text are in Japanese!

Very Good copy with original DJ and Obi-strip.

File under: Tomita Iannis Xenakis Karlheinz Stockhausen Holger Czukay Kraftwerk Weather Report Isao Tomita Ruth White Robert Moog Silver Apples White Noise Toshiro Mayuzumi Makoto Moroi Minao Shibata Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) Haruomi Hosono Phew Flied Egg Ron Geesin Tangerine Dream The Flying Lizards David Cunningham Brian Eno Yuji Tanaka ASCII Co. / Tokyo Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

Free Jazz Communism

2020, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 cm
Published by Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki

$49.00 - Out of stock

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Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of Free Jazz Communism, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962. Including archive material and documents, commissioned theoretical and historical texts, and interviews, the book edited by Sezgin Boynik and Taneli Viitahuhta contextualizes politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music.

By focusing on concerts of Shepp–Dixon Quartet, leading avant-garde jazz musicians from the US, in the socialist anti-colonial festival in Helsinki, the book is introducing complexities in the usual Cold War stories about the sixties, and pictures politics of jazz as something transcending boundaries of nation-state and capitalist market regulations.

Apart from the theoretical and historical overview by its editors, the book includes testimonies of the collective and international spirit of the 1962 Youth Festival, translated documents from Finnish press, a new interview with Archie Shepp, commissioned text by Jeff Schwartz on the historical context of political engagement of free jazz musicians, and reproduction of three hard-to-find texts by Shepp.

The book is designed by Ott Kagovere.
Edition of 750 copies. 2nd Edition.

File under: Archie Shepp Bill Dixon Sezgin Boynik Taneli Viitahuhta Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

Julius Eastman
We Have Delivered Ourselves From The Tonal - Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman

2021, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 13 x 20 cm
Published by Archive Books / Berlin

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This publication presents a collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julius Eastman, who was among the first composers to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music. The book investigates his legacy beyond the predominantly Western musicological format of the tonal or harmonic and the framework of what is today understood as minimalist music. By trying to complicate, deny or expatiate on the notions of the harmonic, tonal hierarchy, the triadic, or even the tonal centre, Eastman's compositions explore strategies and technologies of attaining the atonal. One might be tempted to see Eastman in the legacy of Bartok, Schoenberg, Berg and others, but here too, it is worth shifting the geography of minimal tendencies and minimalism in music. It is worth listening and reading Eastman's music within the scope of what Oluwaseyi Kehinde describes as the application of chromatic forms such as polytonality, atonality, dissonance as the fulcrum in analysing some elements of African music such as melody, harmony, instruments and instrumentation. This publication constructs a non-linear genealogy of Eastman's practice and his cultural, political and social relevance, while situating his work within a broader rhizomatic relation of musical epistemologies and practices.

Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was an American composer, pianist, vocalist, and dancer whose work fell under minimalism. He was among the first composers to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music. John Cage, Christian Wolff, and finally Morton Feldman, came from this school in New York. Only Julius Eastman remained outside, the last figure, the most solitary and enigmatic—undoubtedly also one of the most powerful. In the 1970s and 1980s, Eastman was one of the very few African-Americans to gain recognition in the New York avant-garde music scene. He was politically committed, a figure of queer culture and a solar and solitary poet whose melancholy influenced his genius as well as his tragic destiny: suffering from various addictions, declared missing, actually homeless. During Winter of 1981-82, he got deported from his apartment by the police, who destroyed most of what he owned—including scores and recordings. He was found dead in 1990, on the streets of Buffalo, after years of vagrancy.

Edited by Federica Bueti, Antonia Alampi, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.
Contributions by Antonia Alampi, Rocco Di Pietro, Kodwo Eshun, Federica Bueti, Sean Griffin, Sumanth Gopinath, Jean-Christophe Marti, Josh Kun, Elaine Mitchener, Malak Helmy, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Jane Leach, George E. Lewis, Berno Odo Polzer, Pungwe, Christine Rusiniak.

File under: Julius Eastman Julius Eastman Federica Bueti Antonia Alampi Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Rocco Di Pietro Kodwo Eshun Sean Griffin Sumanth Gopinath Jean-Christophe Marti Josh Kun Elaine Mitchener Malak Helmy Marie Jane Leach George E. Lewis Berno Odo Polzer Pungwe Christine Rusiniak Archive Books / Berlin Sound / Music Art Theory / Essay LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater

CROWD Edition 7
February 1985 "The Parade Issue"

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 62 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by CROWD / Melbourne

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Scarce copy of the February 1985 issue of Melbourne's CROWD magazine, committed to "Fashion Music Style", published in Melbourne with heavy ties to Tokyo. With cover photographed by Rozalind Drummond, this issue, "The Parade Issue", includes features on "Fashion '84" (major Melbourne fashion parade presenting 32 Australian designers), "The Third Wave" a feature on Tokyo designers, "London Goes To Tokyo", "Tokyo International Collections" (Comme, Gaultier, Katharine Hamnett), an interview with PiL's John Lydon, Australian designer Marc Newson, British milliner Stephen Jones, interview with Sade Adu, fashion designer Reva Manicavasagar, Nick Lowe, fashion shoots, hair styling, films, records, social pages, clubs, clubs, clubs, fstreet fashion, great Melbourne advertisements, and more!

Good copy with wear and marking to covers, edges. Rippling to front cover.

File under: John Lydon Jean-Paul Gaultier Comme des Garçons Stephen Jones Public Image Ltd (PiL) Sade Adu Katharine Hamnett Reva Manicavasagar CROWD / Melbourne Art Photography Australian Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sound / Music Film / Video Fashion Textiles Anarchism

CROWD Edition 6
November 1984

1984, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 46 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by CROWD / Melbourne

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Scarce copy of the November 1984 issue of Melbourne's CROWD magazine, committed to "Fashion Music Style", published in Melbourne with heavy ties to Tokyo. With cover (Yohji Yamamoto) by photographer Polly Borland, this issue opens with Street Fashion and includes an exclusive interview with Andy Warhol via Keith Haring, an interview with Divine, interview with Howard Jones, Berlin (with photography by Rozalind Drummond), Polly Borland interview, The Cure, Machinations, Australian fashion designer Kara Baker's Sirens clothing label, Japanese fashion designer Koshin Satoh's ARRSTON VOLAJU clothing label (designer for Miles Davis), fashion shoots, hair styling, films, records, social pages, clubs, clubs, clubs, fashion parade reviews, great Melbourne advertisements, and more!

Good copy with wear and marking to covers, edges.

File under: Divine Andy Warhol ARRSTON VOLAJU Kara Baker The Cure Rozalind Drummond Polly Borland Howard Jones Keith Haring Yohji Yamamoto CROWD / Melbourne Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Sound / Music Art Australian Photography Photography Fashion Textiles

Art Club Monthly 10
January 1973

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Club Monthly / Japan

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Scarce January 1973 issue of Japan's monthly periodical of art criticism, featuring a cover by Japanese avant garde artist Natsuyuki Nakanishi depicting one of his “Compact Objects”. This issue also features a coloured artwork section by Tadanori Yokoo, and contributions by/about director Michio Okabe, composer John Cage, director Sergei Eisenstein, Tenjō Sajiki / Shūji Terayama, critic Yoshida Yoshie, composer Yūji Takahashi, composer Tōru Takemitsu, art critic Isamu Kurita, and many more.

Good copy with some cover wear and tanning.

File under: Tenjo Sajiki Tadanori Yokoo Shūji Terayama Shuji Terayama Natsuyuki Nakanishi Michio Okabe John Cage Sergei Eisenstein Yūji Takahashi Tōru Takemitsu Isamu Kurita Yoshida Yoshie Art Club Monthly / Japan Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Conceptual Art Fluxus Surrealism

City Indians
by Chris Wroblewski and Nelly Gommez-Vaëz

1983, English / German
Softcover, 80 pages, 24 x 28.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichborn Verlag / Frankfurt

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First edition of this rare photographic study of youth tribes between 1977 and 1982 by British photographer Chris Wroblewski and French photographer Nelly Gommez-Vaez. A masterpiece of punk rock and youth culture, City Indians aims to draw a comparison between contemporary subcultures and ancient native tribes thought its influences on hairstyles, tattoos, piercings and fashion. Chapters on "Mohicans", "Skinheads", "Sons of hell", "Sic Boys", "Rastas", and others, with incredible portraits of "City Indians" in Europe and the UK set against Martin Knox's incredible complimentary graphic design and a foreword by Claude Levy-Strauss, a prominent Native American ethnologist. All texts in English and German.

“As the western armies and cultures marched in and took over the civilizations of the east, the displaced and unwanted ceremonies, rituals and modes of dress quietly graduated and entrenched themselves in the west in return. Just as our museums and galleries are cramped with the looted remnants of vanished civilizations so too are our streets and inner cities brimming with the evidence of a tribal past.”

Very Good copy with light cover wear.

File under: Nelly Gommez-Vaëz Chris Wroblewski Eichborn Verlag / Frankfurt Photography Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Sound / Music

Inflamed Invisible : Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018
By David Toop

2019, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 302 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Published by Goldsmiths Press / London

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A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound.

In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors, singing sculptures, weather, meditations, vibration and the interior resonance of objects, interspecies communications, instructional texts, silent actions, and performance art.

Toop sought to document the originality and unfamiliarity of this work from his perspective as a practitioner and writer. The challenge was to do so without being drawn back into the domain of music while still acknowledging the vitality and hybridity of twentieth-century musics as they moved toward art galleries, museums, and site-specificity. Toop focused on practitioners, whose stories are as compelling as the theoretical and abstract implications of their works.

Inflamed Invisible collects more than four decades of David Toop's essays, reviews, interviews, and experimental texts, drawing us into the company of artists and their concerns, not forgetting the quieter, unsung voices. The volume is an offering, an exploration of strata of sound that are the crossing points of sensory, intellectual, and philosophical preoccupations, layers through which objects, thoughts and air itself come alive as the inflamed invisible.

File under: David Toop Goldsmiths Press / London Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art

Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom Before 1970
by David Toop

2016, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Bloomsbury Academic / London

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In this first instalment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brötzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

“Maelstrom indeed ... [This] is an encyclopedic vortex of musicology, memoir and speculative extemporisation on the nature of improvisation and freedom in music ... crammed with detail and fascinating observations ... A captivating reading experience that perfectly embodies its subject in form.” – The Wire

“Any discussion of free improvisation, as an essential (anti?)-discipline of creative music, is an amusing balance between considering an unruly child and a sacred cow. History has come into a wild favor towards a genre that perpetually defies definition and prediction. David Toop, with a critical facility informed by over forty years of activity on and off the bandstand, sets his ruminations in the service of the music. Essaying on free improvisation in the mode of composition can result in didactic chin scratch. Thankfully Toop engages the readers interest with a sentient breath of prose charged by academic insight where poetic space becomes the page. It's only the beginning.” – Thurston Moore

“David Toop has dived into the Maelstrom that is the genesis of improvised music and come up with a string of pearls. There is so much here that will be new to even those of us who thought we knew the subject. A remarkable piece of real scholarship that relies on painstaking research with a refreshing absence of jargon.” – Evan Parker

“Into the Maelstrom gives an astonishing, vivid history of improvised music across the 20th century before 1970, tracing its transnational criss-crossings, trans-arts contagions, the folds between Cream and AMM, 'musicking' and John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Nuova Consonanza and For a Few Dollars More. David Toop's panoramic account makes obvious how urgently we have needed this alternative history, attuned to musical sounds as they resonate with artistic, cultural and political currents. A landmark book, Into the Maelstrom re-centres those vast and auspicious margins deserted by previous music histories.” – Georgina Born, Professor of Music and Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

File under: Percy Grainger Group Ongaku Nuova Consonanza MEV AMM Spontaneous Music Ensemble Roscoe Mitchell Peter Brötzmann Han Bennink Misha Mengelberg Sidney Bechet Ornette Coleman Luciano Berio John Cage Edgard Varèse Pink Floyd Pauline Oliveros David Toop Bloomsbury Academic / London Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

The Order of Sounds : A Sonorous Archipelago
By François J. Bonnet

2019, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by Urbanomic / Cornwall

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This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a “sonorous archipelago”—a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.

Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an “organ of fear” and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that sound has rarely received the same philosophical attention as the visual.

In The Order of Sounds, François J. Bonnet makes a compelling case for the irreducible heterogeneity of “sound,” navigating between the physical models constructed by psychophysics and refined through recording technologies, and the synthetic production of what is heard. From primitive vigilance and sonic mythologies to digital sampling and sound installations, he examines the ways in which we make sound speak to us, in an analysis of listening as a plurivocal phenomenon drawing on Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Barthes, Nancy, Adorno, and de Certeau, and experimental pioneers such as Tesla, Bell, and Raudive. Stringent critiques of the “soundscape” and “reduced listening” demonstrate that univocal ontologies of sound are always partial and politicized; for listening is always a selective fetishism, a hallucination of sound filtered by desire and convention, territorialized by discourse and its authorities.

Bonnet proposes neither a disciplined listening that targets sound “itself,” nor an “ocean of sound” in which we might lose ourselves, but instead maps out a sonorous archipelago—a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped and aggregated by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.

Introduction by Peter Szendy
Translated by Robin Mackay

François J. Bonnet
François J. Bonnet is a composer, visual artist, recording artist (as Kassel Jaeger), director of Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM) in Paris, and part-time lecturer at the Université de Paris 1.

File under: Robin Mackay François J. Bonnet Peter Szendy Urbanomic / Cornwall Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Daphne Oram
An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics

2016, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 16.5 x 22 cm
Published by Anomie Publishing / Wakefield

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Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the BBC in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising, film and theatre, to make her own music for recording and performance, and to continue her personal research into sound technology - a passion she had had since her childhood in rural Wiltshire. Her home, a former oasthouse in Kent, became an unorthodox studio and workshop in which, mostly on a shoestring budget, she developed her pioneering equipment, sounds and ideas. A significant part of her personal research was the invention of a machine that offered a new form of sound synthesis - the Oramics machine.

Oram's contribution to electronic music is receiving considerable attention from new generations of composers, sound engineers, musicians, musicologists and music lovers around the world. Following her death, the Daphne Oram Trust was established to preserve and promote her work, life and legacy, and an archive created in the Special Collections Library at Goldsmiths, University of London. One of the Trust's ambitions has been to publish a new edition of Oram's one and only book, An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics, which was originally published in 1972. With support from the Daphne Oram Archive, the Trust has now been able to realize this ambition.

An Individual Note is both curious and remarkable. When commissioned to write a book, she was keen to avoid it becoming a manual or how-to guide, preferring instead to use the opportunity to muse on the subjects of music, sound and electronics, and the relationships between them. At a time when the world was just starting to engage with electronic music and the technology was still primarily in the hands of music studios, universities, and corporations, her approach was both innovative and inspiring, encouraging anyone with an interest in music to think about the nature, capabilities and possibilities that the new sounds could bring. And her thinking was not limited to just the future of the orchestra, synthesizer, computer and home studio, but ventured, with great spirit and wit, into other realms of science, technology, culture and thought. An Individual Note is a playful yet compelling manifesto for the dawn of electronic music and for our individual capacity to use, experience and enjoy it.

This new edition of An Individual Note features a specially commissioned introduction from the British composer, performer, roboticist and sound historian Sarah Angliss.

File under: Daphne Oram Sarah Angliss Daphne Oram Anomie Publishing / Wakefield Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay

The Living Daylights
Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1974

1974, English
Newspaper, 28 pages, 41 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne

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Rare February 1974 issue of The Living Daylights, a radical, riotous weekly counter-culture magazine out of North Melbourne in the 1970's, edited by Oz magazine founder Richard Neville, along with Terence Maher, Michael Morris, and graphic designer Laurel Olszewski, and published by Neville's fellow OZ colleague, Richard Walsh, between 1973-4. The Living Daylights was packed with all happening things in youth counter-culture, filled with articles, cartoons, artwork, sex, drugs, rock n roll and protest. A provocative, humorous and controversial anti-establishment bulletin in the tradition of Oz, regularly featuring the artwork of Martin Sharp, Michael Luenig, Dickie, and Neil McLean! This issue features 186 Years of Penal Outrage, activists against the closure of Lameroo "Free Beach" in Darwin, Bondi photography by Syd Shelton, dodgy Adelaide drug squad, Melbourne marijuana activists, Nimbin news, female singers, women's liberation and beauty trends by Margaret Smith, Confessions of a Working Class Shit Eater by poet Eric Beach, Taiwanese actress Angela Mao, Fritz the Cat, and so much more.

A wonderful, very seldom seen, historical piece of Australian counterculture publishing.

Very Good copy with light wear/tanning.

File under: Syd Shelton Robert Crumb Neil McLean Eric Beach Richard Neville Terence Maher Margaret Smith Richard Walsh Incorporated Newsagencies / West Melbourne Eros Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Feminism Art Australian Art Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Film / Video Ecology Ecology / Earth Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay SALE