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	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!
	MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN Code:marclayBook Price: £30.55 Quantity in Basket: none
A large format 160 page full colour Phaidon Art book that summarises Marclay's visual work to date, as well as documenting much of his musical work. Accompanying texts: Christian interviewed by Kim Gordon, a detailed survey of his visual work, a close reading of his extraordinary Video Quartet, a meta interview assembled by Marclay himself from many other interviews, a Blaise Cedrars text selected by him and a pretty thorough chronology and bibliography. And a lot of pictures of his installations, objects, video works, photographs, and site work. Much needed compendium of a quietly substantial artist. Weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World.
	MENTER, WILL: Bits of wood (book + CD) Code:menterWood Price: £20.86 Quantity in Basket: none
128pp 20cm x 20 cm full colour book of photographs of wood - in its natural habitat, raw and manipulated, but mostly formed into artworks, installations and instruments by sculptor/musician Menter. There is also a handful of pages of accompanying text - an artist's statement expounding a particular way of being in the world and hence an approach to making work - and a CD of wood sculptures and instruments played variously by the wind, people and chance, as well as a few compositions assembled by Will for this CD. The first monograph on this consistent and serious artist. PLUS POSTAGE: UK £1.85, EUROPE £3.40, REST OF WORLD £5.00
	MINARD, ROBIN : S/T Code:mindardSoundArt Price: £16.45 Quantity in Basket: none
From the great series of Soundart publications.
	MINARD, ROBIN: 4 Code:RobinMinard Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
48 pp hardback artist monograph, thoroughly illustrated. In English and German.
	MUSICWORKS 52: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS52 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
This issue, a tribute to John Cage, includes a really indispensible and long talk he gave in 1948 'A Composer's Confessions', lucidly describing the genesis of his musical (and philosophical) ideas, his musical history, the early work with percussion (noise) and prepared piano etc, as well as prophetic glimpses into his future; this alone is worth the whole thing. There are also articles about Cage, texts, scores and pictures. The CD contains new recordings of Cage works and 3 musical tributes.
	MUSICWORKS 55: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS55 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Both CD dedicated to the Electroacoustic Music Festival, Canada, 1992 and 'Sound Ecology'. Specialists only. Few copies.
	MUSICWORKS 56: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS56 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Inc. interview, article about Iva Bittova and CD has 5 pieces by her + a great classic of James Tenney: 'Collage No.2: Viet Flakes', some new gamelan and others.
	MUSICWORKS 61: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS61 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Tuning/Africa. Canada's premiere new music magazine with aMUSICWORKS: Nother excellent issue. The accompanying CD is a gem. Studies in outrageous tuning, songs for tape, voice and radical guitar, African influenced works for chamber group and contemporary African, 2 great percussion pieces (one a classic for tape and percussion) and contemporary chamber music. Plus the - as usual - informative and interesting magazine itself.
	MUSICWORKS 63: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS63 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Anarchy, EcoMUSICWORKS: Nomy and New Music. Interesting window on new music in Canada. CD contains works by Peteris Vasks, the great Alison Cameron, Michael Longton (ensemble), Stephen Parkinson (for elec. gtr, pMUSICWORKS: No, Tape), Greg CurMUSICWORKS: Noe, Gordon Monahan PLUS a substantial and always interesting Magazine.
	MUSICWORKS 64: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS64 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
James Tenney, Paul Dolden...
	MUSICWORKS 65: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS65 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Ear ∓ Eye, Stan Brackhage etc
	MUSICWORKS 66: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS66 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Improvisation, Glenn Branca etc
	MUSICWORKS 67: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS67 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Instruments and Architectures etc.
	MUSICWORKS 68: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS68 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Tearing Down Borders, Ben Neill etc.