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Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
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THE FINAL RELEASE ON TORN LIGHT RECORDS Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Reggae / Dub
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Daniel Lentz – Missa Umbrarum
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“‘Missa’ is the third release by experimental American composer Daniel Lentz, a true unsung genius of the 80s modern classical age. According to the album’s performance notes, the highly [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Alva Noto Feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski – Subterranean…
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“NOTON is pleased to announce the release of Subterraneans, a collaborative EP featuring Alva Noto, Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore and William Basinski’s cover of David Bowie’s homonymous [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
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An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille’s revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
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These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Morton Feldman – Rothko Chapel / For Frank O’Hara
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If you could actually hear an abstract expressionist painting, it would probably sound a lot like the work of Morton Feldman. And that’s no accident: Feldman hung out in ‘50s […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Vu: The Story of a Magazine
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The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
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The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building’s destruction in the early 20th [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
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An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Richard Hamilton – Painting by Numbers
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The latest in Richard Hamilton’s series of publications on all aspects of printmaking. Four of Hamilton’s prints are shown here together with numerous stage proofs in order to [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
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An icon in his native city, Tsang Tsou Choi (1921–2007) covered the streets of Hong Kong with his graffiti for over 35 years, using a brush and ink to proclaim […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
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Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
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Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee’s unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
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Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
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In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
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Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Pierre Schaeffer – Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across …
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The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
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Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
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First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
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A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musical…
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Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
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Tim Daisy – Relucent: Music For Marimba, Radios, And Turntables
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“‘Relucent’ is Chicago composer and percussionist Tim Daisy’s latest solo effort. A collection of compositions and improvisations combining recent explorations with turntable manipulation [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Jan Martin Smørdal, Øystein Wyller Odden – Kraftbalanse
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“SOFA MUSIC continues to release the work of the extraordinary Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Recently he was awarded the prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize for his creative [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Wendy Carlos – Wendy Carlos’ Clockwork Orange
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Alternate takes & mixes from Wendy Carlos’s soundtrack to Clockwork Orange. Better than the original Label: Columbia – KC 31480 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1972 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Soundtracks / Library Music
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Art In Chicago: A History From The Fire To Now
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For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
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We live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren’t a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
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Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog Of Video Art And Artist Intervie…
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‘Feedback’ features the complete catalog of the holdings of the Video Data Bank archive, one of the largest collections of experimental video and documentary films. Temple University [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Black Fire! New Spirits: Images Of A Revolution
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At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
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A full overview of Roy Lechtenstein’s career, featuring large scale, full-color illustrations. Beautiful book. Art Institute Of Chicago, 2012 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
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Robert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Values Of Design
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Dual-language (Chinese/English) investigation into the design of every-day objects. Lavishly illustrated. Design Society/Victoria & Albert, 2017 Softcover Edition. Dent to upper left corner [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
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Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
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Developed in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography
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Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi (Original Motion Picture Score)
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The ground-breaking soundtrack to the film of the same name. Label: Orange Mountain Music – OMM0058 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2009 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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George Harrison – Electronic Sound
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“Hard as it is to believe, George Harrison, guitar picker, was also an electronic music pioneer, as these two lengthy, abstract tone poems for early-vintage Moog synthesizer reveal. A naif [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Rhys Chatham – Three Aspects Of The Name
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“In “Three Aspects Of The Name” I return to my hard-core roots as a minimalist. The musical vocabulary is essentially the same as that of my earlier composition, “Guitar [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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John Lennon And Yoko Ono* – Unfinished Music No. 1. Two Virgins
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Conceptual/art-music melding of minds between two lynchpins of the 60’s. Label: Apple Records – T-5001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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John Perreault – S/T LP
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“Ultra limited LP release, comes with 6 pages booklet, featuring two tape works pieces by conceptual artist John Perreault (b. 1937). The first work, “A Recorded Message,” features a tape [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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John Cage ▪ Witold Lutosławski ▪ LaSalle-Quartett – Streichquartette …
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Two string quartets by two masters. Label: Deutsche Grammophon – 2530 735 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1976 VG+/VG. Upper seam coming unglued. Some staining to jacket
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Louis Andriessen – De Tijd
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“Inspired by Augustine’s question about the nature of time, Andriessen composed a musical monument that explores the relationship between stasis and movement.” Label: [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Baptista Siqueira – Nordeste Jandaia
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Works by the Brazilian composer, Baptista Siqueira Label: Uirapuru – c14 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Country: Brazil Released: VG+/VG. Creasing to sleeve
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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V/A – Flame Tree And Other N.Z. Music
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Compilation of new music/modern comp from New Zealand. Label: Kiwi – SLD‒50 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: New Zealand Released: 1979 VG+/VG. Sleeve has tags on it, seams coming unglued
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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V/A – Tricesimoprimal Music
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“The four compositions are based on the 31-note system developed by Professor Adriaan Daniel Fokker, curator of the Physics Department of Teylers Foundation at Haarlem, Netherlands.” [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Philippe Boesmans – Intervalles II / Sur Mi / Fanfare I
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Works for electric organ and multiple pianos by the Belgian composer. Label: Musica Magna – MAG 50 010 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Belgium Released: VG+/VG+. Sleeve has some […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Karlheinz Stockhausen – Gruppen / Carré
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“The first piece on this CD originates in a commission that Stockhausen received from the WDR, but nobody – perhaps not even Stockhausen – could foresee the kind of music […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Charles Ives / Alan Hovhaness, The Walden String Quartet, Maro Ajemian…
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“Charles Ives is one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn’t always so: he was frustrated by indifferent audiences and ambivalent [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Peter Maxwell Davies – Salome
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Peter Maxwell Davies’ spectral & haunting version of Salome Label: His Master’s Voice – 157-39270/2 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Country: Denmark Released: 1978 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Roberto Gerhard – Astrological Series
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“Roberto Gerhard was born in 1896 in Valls, Catalonia as the son of a Swiss father and an Alsatian mother, and received his education in nearby Barcelona. He received piano […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Peter Maxwell Davies, The Fires Of London – Vesalii Icones
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Part of the Ken Russell curated series of British New Music. Label: Unicorn Records – RHS 307 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: UK Released: 1971 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some discoloration/staining.
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Jordan Cho-Tung Tang / Carla Scaletti / Michael Mauldin / John Donald …
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““Piece” for cello and harp. “Motet” for mezzo-soprano, narrator, bass clarinet and harp. “Three New Mexico Landscapes” for piano and clarinet. “Toccata” for electronically derived [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Rhys Chatham – Reve Parisien
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“”RÊVE PARISIEN” features four new Rhys Chatham compositions that were performed live at Kassay’s exhibition at Art: Concept in Paris in 2010, and loosely functions as an audio [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
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Arne Nordheim – The Tempest (Suite From The Ballet)
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Electronically-augmented score for Nordheim’s Tempest ballet Label: Philips – 9598 043 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Norway Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light discoloration/wear
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic