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Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.

Brunhild Ferrari's new work L'oreille voleuse (The Thieving Ear) and an extraordinary live reinterpretation by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, recorded in October 2025 in Paris.

Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.

Música para Plátanos takes its name—and much of its inspiration—from the group's recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music: improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.

The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations.

Women in the shadows: a few Iranian female musicians; interviews with Floy Krouchi, Marianne Schuppe, Yumiko Tanaka, and Riuichi Daijo; Kamilya Jubran by Valérie Vivancos; Prune Bécheau by Adrien Bardi Bienenstock; Journey to Korea: Loïc Gendry, Sunki Kim, Jin Sangtae, by Grégoire Bressac; book and album reviews...

A meeting of Hervé Zénouda's musical world and Anne Van Der Linden's visual one (set includes a vinyl record, a CD, 10 risograph prints, an 8-page booklet, and a postcard).

Conceived and written by members of INA-GRM, drawing on more than fifty years of experience in diffusing and presenting electroacoustic music in concert, the Acousmonium Handbook offers a synthetic exploration of the issues, techniques and methods applicable to acousmatic diffusion and sound spatialisation.

Conceived and written by members of INA-GRM, drawing on more than fifty years of experience in diffusing and presenting electroacoustic music in concert, the Acousmonium Handbook offers a synthetic exploration of the issues, techniques and methods applicable to acousmatic diffusion and sound spatialisation.

A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

A vinyl record somewhere between scratching and sound poetry.

Featuring more than six hours of music, this box set (mastered by Jim O'Rourke) presents a vast collection of tracks of remarkable coherence, which attest to the uniqueness and maturity of Kevin Drumm's artistic approach.

An unique reinterpretation of Pierre Henry's little-known sound heritage combined with eRikm's original composition.

An unique reinterpretation of Pierre Henry's little-known sound heritage combined with eRikm's original composition.

A selection of unreleased or hard-to-locate works from 2003 to 2008, a very prolific and creative period for the Californian artist.

A retrospective of the visual work of Aleksander Lebedev-Frontov, a key figure in Russia’s post-Soviet underground culture.

This box set features four CDs of previously unreleased tracks and two CDs of songs recorded for compilations. The material spans the period from 1988 to 2003. It includes a 32-page booklet containing an essay by Steve Roden on his music and track-by-track notes.

Five songs that focus obsessively on the doubling of the vowel o. 

Four improvised pieces recorded in studio by Phil Durrant (amplified objects, electronics), Jason Kahn (voice), Mark Wastell (percussion) and Caius Williams (double bass).

The final chapter of the post-isolationist, deep ambient & folk classic Murder Ballads by M.J. Harris (Scorn) and Martyn Bates (Eyeless in Gaza) re-emerges in this first vinyl outing.

Many Many Women by Petr Kotík is a large-scale composition for voices and instruments from 1975-78 on the text of Gertrude Stein's novella of the same name. It was published in Paris in 1910 as part of the book G.M.P. – Gertrude, Matisse, Picasso.

An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).

Le Un ensemble orchestra, accompanied by a group of guest researchers, continues its sonic, musical, and poetic experiments as it travels downriver along the Gironde estuary.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... A rare testament published for the first time in English and French.

With its second album, the Danish electro-acoustic trio Mesmer creates a sensuous and reflective space to inhabit in a time marked by speed, noise, and digital fragmentation.

Chuck Roth; Mark Cauvin; Keiko Higuchi; Aude Rabillon & Erell Latimier; Pauline Weidmann; Jean-Claude Éloy (1938–2025)...

Interviews with Machine Listening, Tomomi Adachi, Erin Gee, Pedro Oliveira; article: The Watery Graves of Electronic Speech, or Phonemes in Davey Jones' Locker; reports: Festival de la Imagen 2025, Choose Your Filter!...

A collaborative album born from a live performance rooted in a meticulous mutual observation of each musician’s playing style and setup: eRikm’s turntables, electronic devices, and vast sound library; and Pierre Bastien’s mechanical orchestra and range of acoustic instruments.

Miroslav Beinhauer performing Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knížák, Gordon Monahan, Elliot Sharp, Milan Gustar, and Yoon-Ji Lee, on a famous broken piano.

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

Phil Maggi's twentieth album is a body of work five years in the making, conceived between 2019 and 2024 across a period that moved through pandemic stillness and intense creative immersion, between ambient-atmospheric, soundscapes and free-jazz with a touch of concrete music.

Schatterau's third album sees the German duo blossoms with beauty and sophistication through a broad creative language.

A three-CD set offering a glimpse into the work of the improvisation ensemble Le UN, featuring performances by a large ensemble in various acoustic settings, small and medium-sized ensembles, and outdoor performances in public spaces (light intervention brigade).

Two masters of field recording, and great promoters of paying attention to reality through listening, share recordings of their sound world (starting from a domestic environment changed by the arrival of a new electric stove).