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Books

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	ARTCOUSTICS. The stories told by record covers: With CD 'Modern Shit Code:artcousticsRecord Price: £35.25 Quantity in Basket: none
Limited Edition of 300 copies, this is a 500 page 16 x 20 cm. book containing 175 pages of colour pictures of LP sleeves from the '60s, '70s and '80s that the organisers- it was published by the international centre of graphic arts in Ljubjlana as the catalogue for a major exhibition - feel somehow captured the zeitgeist. With explicatory chronological texts that philosophise, deconstruct and attempt to justify their choices. There are also interviews with local iconic cover designers, meditations on vinyl and typography, notes on installing sound, sound art and spatiality, a brief chronology of key dates, and a bibliography. Useful because being Slovenian it includes materials from the east-block that are seldom seen. And its orientation is not predominantly Anglo-American . The accompanying CD is not related, but is a CD transcription of the impossibly rare cassette release 'Modern Shit', made in the early 1980s by Amos/ L.Voag/ Xentos (fray) Bentos/&c and Lepke B (who both went on to be It's War Boys, Milk From Cheltenham, the Just Measurers, &c.) which is is a continuous mix of all sorts of materials, many swiped from hopeful pop bands who recorded by day in the duo's 8-track studio in Brixton. PLEASE ADD £ 5 for SHIPPING OUTSIDE EUROPE.
	ASHLEY, ROBERT & WALTER MARCHETTI: "Oct 25th, 2001. Merkin Concert Hall, NYC" Code:choose11 Price: £35.25 Quantity in Basket: none
Art Edition Double LP in gatefold sleeve. Edition of 300 copies. POST INCLUDED INSIDE EUROPE In 2001 Thomas Buckner organised a series of concerts at the Merkin Hall in New York City, the idea was to have one contemporary classic composer invite to perform together. Side1 and 2 feature works by Marchetti, "Nei mari del sud', Musica in secca" and "de musicorum infelicitate. Side 3 includes Robert Ashley's "Yes, but is it Edible?" for piano and voice dedicated to Thomas Buckner who performs it here with the composer. Side 4 includes "Practical Anarchism", by Ashley and "Musica per un bicchiere non molto grande", by Marchetti, performed by Ashley. Limited edtion of 300 copies. Unheard and unseen at time of writing. ADD £ 7 shipping outside Europe. Sorry, blame the post authorities.
	AUDIO CULTURE: Ed. Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner Code:audioCultureCox Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
450 packed pages of source materials covering Noise, Sound, Silence, Modes of listening, Experimental music, Improvisation, Minimalism, DJ Culture and, Electronica, featuring (amongst some 50 contributors) Attali, Russolo, Feldman, Varese, Moholy-Nagy, Cowell, Cage, Cardew, Stockhausen, Rzewski, Olivieros, Burroughs, McLuhan, Eisler, Adorno, Marclay, Brian Eno, Glenn Gould, Chris Cutler, John Oswald, John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Tony Conrad, Michael Nyman and Susan McClary -an essential collection, very well edited.Because of weight please add £1 to UK orders, £2 to European and £4 for world. Sorry.
	AUTUMN LEAVES: Sound and the environment in Artistic Practice. Ed Angus Carlyle Code:autumLeaves Price: £10.00 Quantity in Basket: none
24.5 x 16 cm, 128pp,with text, colour and black/white photographs, illustrations and documents in which 19 practitioners present short essays - mostly descriptions of works - as well as three interviews (by far the most interesting parts of the book for me) with Peter Cusack, Chris Watson and Hildegard Westerkamp. A snapshot of the field, revealing as much about the artworld as about an area of work still struggling to define itself. Postage please add £ 1.24 UK, £2.77 Europe, £4.83 Rest of the world.
	BAILEY, DEREK: Improvisation (book) Code:BAILEY,DEREKImprovisation Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
The first book to read on the subject, a broad and well written introduction by a scholar and a gent who knows of what he speaks - in spades. Highly recommended.
	BASCHET, FRANCOIS: Les Structures Sonores. With Free CD Code:FRANCOISBASCHETLesStructuresSonores Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
The Baschet brothers produced families of exquisite sculptures, starting in 1954, which were designed to be played as instruments - exquisite and exotic instruments whose sounds recall Partch, Analogue synthesisers, the Ondes Martinot, Fred Frith and otherworldly atmospheres impossible to produce except through this specific acoustic concatenation of materials and shapes. In this book their history, the principles of their design, the theory of sound that informed them and a fascinating anecdotal history of their careers and the careers of their designers in many countries and in collaboration with Cocteau, Varese, Schaeffer, Shankar, Cage, Tudor, Menuhin and Takemitusu (who has a piece for the instruments on the CD) are covered, along with 100Õs of photographs and design drawings and a clear meditation on acoustic principles and sonic theory. Another indispensable addition to every library. And not even expensive. Weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World.
	BLEGVAD, PETER: The book of Leviathan Code:PBLEVI Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
(book) A very beautifully produced, 26 x 17 cm format hard backed 160 page, full colour collection of Peter's Independent on Sunday cartoons. This is a universe (or a life) condensed into Peter's own version of a grain of sand. Funny, elusive, radical, endlessly inventive, sometimes scary, always pretty dep (see book for elucidation). It's the same price as a CD but 1000 times more work. A reference book, a philosophical companion, a puzzle, a collection of cartoon strips and some awful puns. You won't regret it. Weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World.
	BORAGE, FRED: Rural Class Struggles (book) Code:BORAGE Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Rural Class Struggles In Ambridge by Fred Borage. James Joyce meets Joyce James of the Barchester Echo. A unique and extraordinary book. Words fail me. Illustrated by Tintoretto Sheepdip. Hand printed and a rarity.
	BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO: African Feedback (book +CD) Code:bosettiAfrican Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
64pp A5 flatbound booklet with CD. The book consists of interviews made in small villages in Burkino Faso. Bosetti plays noise/music (Derek Bailey, Hugh Davis, Berio, Parch, Messaien, Yoshihide, Lucier, Chion, Parmegiani &c.) individually (via headphones) to people of all ages - who have never heard anything remotely like this before - and asks them first what they hear - eliciting the most extraordinary, elaborate, graphic and mystifying responses - and then what they make of it: whether it's music and what music is, &c. This is deep matter and the answers are sometimes luminous and always fascinating. It's rare to escape so completely from our own cultural frames of reference, and instructive how possible it is, notwithstanding, to approach and share experiences and concepts on the apparently fragile ground of language (even when that ground is compromised through interpretation). What is common as well as what is alien is made manifest and, above all, a kind of mental hospitality that seems hardwired is revealed. Bosetti is very sharp and accurate in his accompanying footnotes and doesn't mythologize or idealise. He is perfectly aware of his inescapable role as outsider and of the quasi parasitical relationship between white strangers like himself - neither tourists nor administrators -and indigents who know and will supply - for complex sets of motives - what they think is wanted of them. Many levels of information and of misunderstanding are at play here and they shift and elide as you read. Each short interview is accompanied by photographs of the people or the locality and a list of the specific music played. The CD is gripping - it's worth buying the book for alone. Made of the voices and vocal sounds of the questionees, imitations and musical sounds (Western and local) and the proximate soundscape - variously raw and processed - and brilliantly organised into a form that is like nothing I have heard before. I can't recommend it too strongly. But that's me. PLUS POSTAGE.
	BUCHANAN, STEPHEN: Those who say Code:AMF1042 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A strong and personal collection of songs, expressive swathes of sound and organic musicality. Strong and simple, no deadening rhythms, no pulsating basses, but plenty of power and personality.
	CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JOHN CAGE: Edited by David Nichols Code:CambridgeJohnCage Price: £19.39 Quantity in Basket: none
A comprehensive overview of his life, collaborations, innovations, visual art, scores, events and writings. Useful and hagiographic - so no criticism of the work, just intelligent exposition. Weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World.
	CARDEW, CORNELIUS: A Reader Code:cardewReader Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
Essential collection of Cardew's published writings, with commentaries and responses from many hands, including Richard Barrett, John Tilbury, Howard Skempton, Michael Nyman, Christan Wolff, Dave Smith, Eddie Prevost and others. Includes the legendary and long out of print book 'Stockhausen serves Imperialism', the legendary Treatise Handbook, writings about Cage, La Monte Young, Morton Feldman, Nuova Consonanza, The American School, Yoko Ono, Frederick Rzewski, The Scratch Orchestra (including the celebrated draft constitution) and many other pieces spanning the period 1951-1980, along with interviews, notes and introductions to his own works. An indispensable source for one of the key figures of British experimental music in the second half of the C20. 390pp, photographs. (Sorry but appalling international post costs mean please add £4 Europe and £7 rest of world postage.
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (Polish Edition) Code:FUPOL Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
(book) ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (book) Code:FUPPB Price: £13.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Theoretical and critical writings on Music. 200pp. Illustrated with woodcuts and Photographs. Chapters on Sun Ra, The Residents, Phil Ochs and Elvis Presley, What Is Popular Music?, Progressive Music in the UK, Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms, Henry Cow, Rock in Opposition etc. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (hard) (book) Code:FUPHB Price: £25.26 Quantity in Basket: none
As paperback, but hardback and signed. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular, German ed. (book) Code:FUPG Price: £17.63 Quantity in Basket: none
German translation with final chapter replaced by a new article on Plunderphonia. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular, Japanese ed. (book) Code:FUPJAP Price: £25.26 Quantity in Basket: none
Japanese edition, 3 extra chapters ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	DAVIES, HUGH: Sounds Heard - with Free CD Code:HUGHDAVISSoundsHeard Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
An immensely useful book by one of the UKÕs early experimenters and pioneers in sound art, and a working authority in the field. This book collects much of his own writing on environmental listening, musical history, improvisation and indeterminacy, new instruments, audio art and installations and includes project descriptions and workbooks. 124 pp, with pictures and photographs. The CD contains a great collection of early plunderphonia, installation recordings, pieces for invented instruments and sound sculptures, musical boxes and found instruments (buzzers, dot matrix printers, eggslicers, tin can and fishing line &c). An important contribution to the field. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	DEBRIS FIELD (catalogue and CD) Code:debrisField Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
21cm square 44 page colour catalogue of exhibition at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery with texts and pictures by Max Eastley, Keith Rowe, Tom Phillips, Hugh Davis, Colin Potter, Paul Mason, Peter Oakley, Loren Chasse, Phil Mouldycliff, Julian Lees, Russell Mills and Colin Fallows with 48.30 ambient glitchy CD by Rowe, Chasse, Mouldycliff and Potter. Hard to obtain (closed) exhibition catalogue
	DUBUFFET, JEAN: Experiences Musicales Book + CD Code:dubuffetExperiences Price: £29.38 Quantity in Basket: none
232pp book in French, lavishly illustrated. Born in 1901 Jean Dubuffet studied painting, gave it up to become a wine merchant. Then in 1943 he became a full time artist, working in various media, including what we would now call installations, in a style often referred to as Art Brut ( now associated with the art of children, the mentally ill, or naifs) - a term coined by Dubuffet himself, though not to describe his own work but that of outsiders who had no stake in the artworld, and who eschewed representation, working from their own individuality rather than fashion or cultural conditioning. In 1960 he began, with a tape recorder, at home, to make improvised music, with all manner of instruments (formal or conventional expertise was not an issue) with Danish painter Asger Jorn. The CD that accompanies this book collects a selection of their improvisations - on various instruments - that are abstract, sometimes rhythmical, always focused and, somehow, visual - like Pollocks or Twombleys they pullulate with a diffuse Brownian motion. They also express a kind of serenity - gentle charm - without ever being less than extremely radical, especially considering when they were made. All the pieces here are dated 1961, with one late work from 1978. The book, 16.5 x 24 cm, 232 pages is in French and lavishly illustrated with photographs, facsimile documents, drawings, paintings, sculptures, stage-sets and photographs (18 in colour), as well as articles and interviews covering all the facets of Dubuffest musical involvements and experiments, including his 'animated painting performance' Coucou Bazar (with original music by Ilhan Mimaroglu). Very nicely produced, well laid out (wide spaced text) and thorough, it also has a complete annotation of the tapes, a discography and a short biography and bibliography. Weight means we have to add postage to this  sorry: £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World
	DUFRENE, FRANCOIS: Catalogue plus CD Code:dufreneCatalog Price: £37.60 Quantity in Basket: none
Price INC. POSTAGE INSIDE EUROPE A key post-war artist, deeply involved with the New Realism, the Lettrists, the Ultra-lettrists and the still mostly neglected Sound Poets, Dufréne. Like his friends Hain, de la Villeigle and Rotella he is probably most famous for his work with posters torn from walls and manipulated (he worked with the reverse sides). His work (indeed all of the work at this time) with tape recorders, pre-recorded sounds and sound poetry is less known, and every newly released artefact is useful. This CD has a good representative selection. It's hardly poetry in any sense of the word in everyday use; in some pieces classical music pounds while distorted roaring, howls, squeals, overtones and feral noise accompany it, elsewhere Dufréne duets with Chico Hamilton, and with himself, neither of him sounding particularly human. Once or twice he sounds almost normal. Otherwise, this is a substantial catalogue from a comprehensive 2007 retrospective exhibition in Portugal, 250 19 x27 cm. pages, beautifully produced, filled with high quality colour prints of his found and manipulated poster work, drawings, elaborate illustrated writings, paintings and objects, as well as photographs, a discography, a filmography, biography, bibliography, exhibition calendar and list of works. In Portuguese, French and English. POSTAGE PLEASE ADD £ 5 SHIPPING OUTSIDE EUROPE, £ 2 outside the UK.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU : Acousmatic Provoker Code:IDBOOK164pp Price: £9.99 Quantity in Basket: none
Interviews with Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana Maria Avram conducted by Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy, Jerome Noetinger, Tim Hodgkinson and Costin Cazaban. Plus a catalogue of works and full discography. This is serious meditation on the nature of making and receiving music, on the state of music in itself and on procedures and essences. This represents an important crystallisation of the thoughts and practices of two of today's unsung but indubitably important composers (unsung because they tread an unfashionable and deeply radical path - in disregarded Romania - and are therefore deemed 'outsiders to the official Western self declared 'mainstream'. From Phenomenology to Sampling, with a perspective that links deeply to a thread of uniquely Romanian orientation going back 80 years and is yet unquestionably contemporary and directed toward the future. A valuable collection. 164pp
	EGG: "The Metronomical Society" & Book Special Offer Code:eggSpecial Price: £18.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Get "The Metronomical Society" and the Egg Book together for one special price.
	EGG: Book Code:eggBook Price: £9.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Like the Henry Cow box books, this collects interviews and writing from all the members of the band (including crew) to give a highly useful and interesting account of how it was in these short glory days of reinvention. It also includes a long section on the Ottawa Music Company - the 26 piece Rock Composer's Orchestra set up by Chris Cutler and Dave Stewart in 1971.
	Earshot 5: The Journal of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community. Code:earshot5 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
78pp A5 flat-bound magazine with excellent articles about auscultation (medical listening) and touch; night listening, EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena - 'spirit voices' found on recordings) as well as essays on sound mapping cities, Dartmoor's bells, sonic shock and the unconscious (1890-1990) and other topics. The first 10 pieces on the accompanying CD accompany the essay on Dartmoor's Bells, the remaining 17 feature 'disappearing soundmarks'. A soundmark is the sonic analogue of a landmark; a sound of significance and importance to a given community in a given locality. Not available commercially.
	GAL, BERNHARD: Installations Code:bernhardInsallations Price: £19.39 Quantity in Basket: none
From the excellent Kehrer series, this an 80pp hardback, full colour, art book with CD by, and about, Austrian sound artist Bernhard Gal. The CD is composed as a self-contained, continuous piece, but track marks find and play those sections related to each installation. Materials are electronic sounds, voices, billiard balls, dot matrix printer, pure tones, kettles and other domestic appliances, spy recordings (in checked baggage), a phone quartet, ring-tones and environmental sound. 18 works are featured in the book, some with architect Yumi Kori, as well as an interview with Gal, a biography, an exhibition list and sonography.--- ADD £2.50 postage Europe, £4.50 rest of world - sorry: weight.
	GOTTSTEIN, BJORN: Musik als Ars Scientia. Die Edgar Varèse gastprofessoren des daad an der Tu Code:gottseinBookCD Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
Bilingual (English - German) documentation of the works and research highlights of the first ten "Edgard Varèse" visiting professors at TU Berlin: Travis Pope, Diemer de Vries, Gerhard Eckel, David Behrman, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Hans Tutschku, Trevor Wishart, Alberto de Campo, Daniel Teruggi and Kees Tazelaar. The book deals with the projects undertaken, each dealt with in a technical way with pictures and diagrams and mainly concerned with software design, speaker programming, interactivity, compositional methodology and occasionally aesthetics. Each has a different angle. There is an excellent CD with works by Daniel Teruggi , Hans Tutschku, Kees Tazelaar, Trevor Wishart and GM Koenig - this last particularly interesting, in that it is an orchestral score, played by an orchestra, but generated by a computer programme. It is not a crude systems piece or a random confection but has real subtlety and coherence. This is a rather specialised, but beautifully produced, hardback printed on fine paper, that flies under just about every public radar. It won't be in your local bookshop. But for those really interested in this field, a gem.
	HENDERSON, DOUG: Dukatenscheisser. Catalogue & CD Code:hendersonDukatenscheisser Price: £18.00 Quantity in Basket: none
24 x 18 cm. 40pp glossy full-colour exhibition catalogue from the Galerie Mario Mazzoli, in Berlin. Limited to 300 numbered copies. I had these copies signed by the artist too. There is a short , imaginative, accompanying text (in English and German) by Louise S. Milne, colour photographs of the pieces and their preparation; sketches and schematics. Nicely produced. The excellent 45 minute CD (sound content of the installations) is a fully articulated set of five autonomous and hi-fidelity compositions. You can equally think of this as a fine electroacoustic CD with a very elaborate book. Limited number of signed copies available. +Postage: UK and Europe £1, rest of world £.2.50
	HENDERSON, DOUGLAS: playback: no rewind button (with CD) Code:hendersonPlayback Price: £22.03 Quantity in Basket: none
American Sound artist and engineer, resident in Berlin. 48pp, 25 in colour. Hardback art edition in English and German. PLUS POSTAGE - waiting on weight... email to check
	HESS, FELIX : One of the essential Kehrer Soundart series. Code:felixHess Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
128 pp expanded A5 size hardback with a CD. The first compressive artist monogrph on Felix Hess, Dutch physicist turned sound artist. Texts in German and English. Many pictures, mostly in colour. Articles by and about Hess, interviews, a biography and exhibition/performance history. ADD £4 postage Europe, £7 rest of world - sorry: weight.
	INACTUELLES: PERCUSSION(S): (3-CDs plus DVD/video and book) Code:inactuellesPercussion Price: £52.88 Quantity in Basket: none
A collaboration between Mode and the Parisian art book store Tschann, combining CDs and DVDs of musical performances with an informative textbook. Volume 1 - a Euro-centric and very partial survey of C20 and C21 percussion music, performed by Roland Auzet and featuring 13 complete works (7 world premieres) for percussion solo (Xenakis, Taïra), percussion and voice (Xenakis, Pape), percussion and ensemble (Xenakis, Milhaud, Alsina) and percussion and electronics (Auzet, Bancquart, Campion, Jodlowski, Tanaka). Plus a DVD with Xenakis' Psappha and Rebonds and a 500+ page book in English and French written by musicologist Pierre-Albert CASTENE: Percussion(s): Gesture and Spirit, which discusses the history of percussion music and includes interviews with Auzet about the interpretation and performance of percussion music, especially the works and the composers recorded in this set. Preface by Pierre Boulez, postface by American percussionist Steven SCHICK. The book, though rather clunkily written (or translated) is the prize here, the 90 page essay on the history and use of percussion in 'serious' music in the C20 is extremely thorough, very well annotated and thoroughly documented. PLUS POSTAGE: UK £2.40, EUROPE £4.30, REST OF WORLD £5.50
	JAPANESE INDEPENDENT MUSIC: Title (book) Code:JIMBook Price: £26.00 Quantity in Basket: none
An encyclopaedia, with a short historical overview, several more specialised articles, A-Z entries on groups and artists with full discographies, label contacts, publications, venues and website indexe and a couple of maps. 360 pages and pretty comprehensive (of course one can think of missing entries - mainly earlier groups whose vinyl records have not been reissued on CD) but that's nitpicking; essentially, this is the only resource of it's kind and invaluable. Congratulations to Frank Stoffer and his team of 20. Comes with a CD of 18 previously unreleased tracks (inc. Haino Keiji, Acid Mothers Temple, KK Null, Hoppy Kamiyama, Haco, Ex Girl, Ruins, Harpy &c.).
	JENKINS, ALAN: How to be in a Pop Group (book) Code:POPGROUP Price: £7.05 Quantity in Basket: none
Alan Jenkins' classic guide, both absolutely accurate and very funny. This appeared in 2 parts in our quarterly; now you can own it as a free standing item (36pp A4) completely UPDATED and with lots of PICTURES.
	KEY, FRANK: Turps (book) Code:TURPS Price: £7.05 Quantity in Basket: none
A few copies of this turned up in our move. 35pp A5 pamphlet of classic Oulipoesque Keyiana. I guess that explains it pretty clearly. Illustrated by the author.
	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: Klangraumlichtzeit Code:Klangraumlichtzeit Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
One of the essential Kehrer Soundart series.134 pp shortened A4 size hardback with a CD. A comprehensive document of Christina's work between 1980-2000, with facing texts in German and English and many pictures (mostly in colour). Kubisch is one of the first generation of German sound artists and this excellent art book is a good introduction to her work. ADD £4 postage Europe, £7 rest of world - sorry: weight
	KUBITSCH, CHRISTINA: Electrical Drawings Code:kubitschDrawing Price: £27.03 Quantity in Basket: none
Hardback art edition. 164pp -60 colour, 40 b/w. In English and German PLUS POSTAGE - waiting on weight... email to check
	KUHN, HANS PETER : S/T Code:hansPeterKuhn Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
From the great series of Soundart publications. Serious weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry 3.00 UK, 4.50 Europe, 8.5 World. Blame the postal services! That's the cheapest...
	KUHN, HANS PETER: Odense CD & Book Code:kuhnOdense Price: £31.73 Quantity in Basket: none
Slightly larger than A4 sized, hardback, full colour 144 page art book with CD. Parallel text in English and German. This art publication documents Kuhn's sound and light installations at various sites in Odense, lavishly illustrated, with articles on Kuhn's work by Thorsten Thadowsky and Helga De La Motte-Haber; dramatic pictures and commentary on many of Kuhn's other recent installations by Markus Steffen; a historical and theoretical article on 'acoustic atmospheres' by Gernot Bohme and an artist's biography and catalogue of works. The CD contains three very abstract electronic sound pieces Kuhn wrote for dance. Serious weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry 3.00 UK, 4.50 Europe, 8.5 World. Blame the postal services! That's the cheapest...
	LEPAGE, ROBERT: Illustre de la clarinette Code:LEPAGE,ROBERT:Illustredelaclarinette Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Book of clarinet cartoons by Lepage with accompanying CD. The cartoons are well drawn and whimsical, the CD an amazing tour around the world of styles and clarinets, beautifully arranged and recorded. A monument to the clarinet and the geographical neutrality of the recording studio.
	LICHT, ALAN: Sound Art (book + CD) Code:lichSoundArt Price: £29.38 Quantity in Basket: none
A high quality 300pp hardback art publication, 16 x 23.5 cm, printed on glossy paper with lots of white space, and lavishly illustrated with (mostly) full colour photographs of artworks and installations. The text is wide-ranging, taking a descriptive and very selective lightening tour through the byways and connections between visual arts, recording arts, radio arts, pop music, avant- gardes of all stripes, alongside sound experiments both within and beyond the discipline of music, to try to construct a narrative about the emergence - and an account of the forms taken by - what is now lumped together under the rubric 'sound art' - meaning for this author, mostly, sound beyond 'music' often with a visual counterpart, whose natural home seems to be event, gallery or installation. As such it's a useful resource, a nice compendium, a name-checked reference, handy for further research; and it ranges wide, though it's focus on the Sound Art field itself is very sketchy. Coming from a quasi-internationalist American perspective, inevitably much is missing and much that is there, if Sound Art really is the topic, is there rather mysteriously. It may be that the book just has the wrong title. Its subtitle: beyond music, between categories sums up the discursive nature of the project better. This book is wholly non-analytical and its connectivities are all sympathetic, speculative and superficial; there are no theoretical insights - or even propositions made; in fact, it's a bit of a ragbag. A perfectly untilitarian ragbag, full of references, information and usefully assembled documentation of diverse - if rather arbitrarily selected - works, nicely presented (though it must be said, the pictures are not adequately captioned; you want to know more about the works depicted, and explanations are not forthcoming). The research and breadth of approach is useful, and there is insider knowledge. Included are 34pp of artist biographies which, depending on your perspective, feature many unaccountable omissions - or strange inclusions - but are, nevertheless both informed and informative about their subjects. If you take it as a personal essay by an alert practitioner, it's impossible to complain, but for a clarification of the field and the questions that vex it, you will have to look elsewhere. A mixed blessing, then. Worth having because it contains much raw data, if partial, scattershot and curiously uncritical. The CD contains pieces by Bill Fontana (Harmonic bridge), Steve Roden, Jean Dubuffet, Destroy All Monsters (?!), Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis (Alvin Lucier) and Bernhard Gal, which are interesting enough in their own right but not terribly informative on the topic of the book, and - like most of the photographs - they remain unaccountably unexplained and uncontextualised. PLUS POSTAGE: UK £4.25, EUROPE £6, REST OF WORLD £11. SORRY!