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An anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, bringing together a collection of essays, interviews, meditations, visual projects, text-sound scores and audio by some of the leading individuals in the field of cultural and performance studies, experimental music and contemporary art.

The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.

The Rectange label "recycled" by Otomo Yoshihide.

An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.

A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.

Three tracks recorded in one day at the Studio des Variétés in Paris in 1994. First a kind of Aylmerian hymn in six saxophone layers (2 percussive, 2 high-pitched and 2 melodic), then a sax piece treated with a multitude of superimposed effects, then an improvisation on samples recorded previously in solo.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

This first monograph in French on the Swedish artist Lars Fredrikson, situated at the intersection of art history, sound studies, and media studies, seeks to shed light on the distinctive features of his work by highlighting its dialogue with the history of painting, kinetic and electronic arts, music, and sound practices in art, as well as the epistemologies and material cultures of science and technology.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.