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  • Peter Ruzicka – Arditti Quartet, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – String Quartets
    Peter Ruzicka – Arditti Quartet, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Stri…
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    Grading: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Morton Feldman – Ensemble Modern Conducted By Arturo Tamayo – For Samuel Beckett
    Morton Feldman – Ensemble Modern Conducted By Arturo Tamayo – Fo…
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Morton Feldman – The Turfan Ensemble, Philipp Vandré / Thaddeus Watson – Indeterminate Music
    Morton Feldman – The Turfan Ensemble, Philipp Vandré / Thaddeus …
    $25.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Philip Glass ‎– The Fog Of War
    Philip Glass ‎– The Fog Of War
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    Grading: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Penderecki & Xenakis – Wiktor Kociuban – Complete Works For Cello Solo
    Penderecki & Xenakis – Wiktor Kociuban – Complete Works For Cello…
    $15.00 | ,

    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alexander Knaifel ‎– Svete Tikhiy
    Alexander Knaifel ‎– Svete Tikhiy
    $20.00 | ,

    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Liza Lim – Ensemble Für Neue Musik Zürich – The Heart’s Ear
    Liza Lim – Ensemble Für Neue Musik Zürich – The Heart’s Ea…
    $10.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kim Kashkashian, Luciano Berio – Voci
    Kim Kashkashian, Luciano Berio – Voci
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    Grading: NM/NM. sealed *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Noriko Hisada – ensemble für neue musik zürich – Prognostication
    Noriko Hisada – ensemble für neue musik zürich – Prognostication
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Hans Werner Henze – Aristaeus, Orpheus Behind The Wire
    Hans Werner Henze – Aristaeus, Orpheus Behind The Wire
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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Roman Haubenstock-Ramati | Ensemble Avantgarde Conducted By Beat Furrer – Mobile For Shakespeare
    Roman Haubenstock-Ramati | Ensemble Avantgarde Conducted By Beat Furre…
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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • George Crumb – Ensemble Für Neue Musik Zürich – Vox Balaenae
    George Crumb – Ensemble Für Neue Musik Zürich – Vox Balaenae
    $15.00 | ,

    Grading: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Erkki-Sven Tüür – Nordic Symphony Orchestra, Anu Tali – Strata
    Erkki-Sven Tüür – Nordic Symphony Orchestra, Anu Tali – Strata
    $20.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Matthew Barnson – Sibyl Tones
    Matthew Barnson – Sibyl Tones
    $9.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Luther Adams – For Lou Harrison
    John Luther Adams – For Lou Harrison
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Luther Adams – Clouds Of Forgetting, Clouds Of Unknowing
    John Luther Adams – Clouds Of Forgetting, Clouds Of Unknowing
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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Luther Adams – The Light That Fills The World
    John Luther Adams – The Light That Fills The World
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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Dieter Ammann – The Freedom Of Speech
    Dieter Ammann – The Freedom Of Speech
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    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Berio – Ensemble InterContemporain – Sequenzas
    Berio – Ensemble InterContemporain – Sequenzas
    $40.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Goedicke ‎– Russian Futurism • Vol. 2
    Goedicke ‎– Russian Futurism • Vol. 2
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    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ha-Yang Kim – Threadsuns
    Ha-Yang Kim – Threadsuns
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    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Gurdjieff* / de Hartmann* – Music For The Piano Volume II
    Gurdjieff* / de Hartmann* – Music For The Piano Volume II
    $30.00 | ,

    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mikhail F. Gnesin ‎– Russian Futurism Vol. 3
    Mikhail F. Gnesin ‎– Russian Futurism Vol. 3
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    Grading: NM/NM. sealed *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Gavin Bryars – Allegresco / Alaric I Or II / Three Elegies
    Gavin Bryars – Allegresco / Alaric I Or II / Three Elegies
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Irvine Arditti Plays Works For Violin And Orchestra By Iannis Xenakis, Rafael Mira And Luciano Berio
    Irvine Arditti Plays Works For Violin And Orchestra By Iannis Xenakis,…
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    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Magne Amdahl ; Norwegian Radio Orchestra*& Dennis Storhøi / Ingar Heine Bergby – Astrognosia & Æsop
    Magne Amdahl ; Norwegian Radio Orchestra*& Dennis Storhøi / Ingar…
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Charles Wuorinen – On Alligators
    Charles Wuorinen – On Alligators
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    Grading: NM/NM *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
    Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
    $10.00 | ,

    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
  • Alva Noto Feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski ‎– Subterraneans
    Alva Noto Feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski ‎– Subterranean…
    $19.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    $18.00 | ,

    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
  • Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    $10.00 | ,

    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
  • Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
    Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centur…
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    In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
    Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
    $16.00 | , ,

    During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, and even Public [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
    $7.00 | , ,

    Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard’s insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
    Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
    $16.00 | , ,

    This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    $30.00 | ,

    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
  • The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    $17.00 | ,

    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
  • Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    $17.00 | ,

    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
  • Richard Hamilton – Painting by Numbers
    Richard Hamilton – Painting by Numbers
    $8.00 | , ,

    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
  • The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    $18.00 | , ,

    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
  • Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
    Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
    $22.00 | , ,

    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
  • Steven Birchall / Scott Huston ‎– Phenomena / Reciprocals II / Pento-Tholoi
    Steven Birchall / Scott Huston ‎– Phenomena / Reciprocals II / Pento-T…
    $25.00 | , ,

    Highly interesting split between composers, featuring the debut piece by Steven Birchall of Reality Gates fame. Label: Opus One – number 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970 [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    $24.00 | ,

    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
  • Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    $32.00 | ,

    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
  • Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    $35.00 | ,

    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
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
    $27.00 | ,

    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
  • Pierre Schaeffer – Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplines
    Pierre Schaeffer – Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across …
    $45.00 | ,

    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
  • Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    $35.00 | ,

    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
  • A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales
    A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musical…
    $45.00 | ,

    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
  • Tim Daisy – Relucent: Music For Marimba, Radios, And Turntables
    Tim Daisy – Relucent: Music For Marimba, Radios, And Turntables
    $18.00 | , ,

    “‘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