Pub Date:2/1/2017Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse Translated: Sho SugitaISBN978-1-937027-66-7Once called "the Marinetti of Japan" by David Burliuk, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry, criticism, and guerrilla performance. Contributing to the earliest productions of Japanese avant garde poetry, his aggressive experimentation with speed, spatialization, and performability would later influence what became a lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers in pre war Japan. Spiral Staircase is the first definitive volume of Renkichi's poems to appear in English.With an introduction by Sho Sugita and an afterword by Eric Selland.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9781472131034 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 265 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 32 mm Paperback: 304 Pages  Published: 04/03/2021What exactly is heavy metal music? How deep do its roots go?Long established as an undeniable force in culture, metal traces its roots back to leather-clad iron men like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, who imbued their music with a mysterious and raw undercurrent of power. Heavy unearths this elusive force, delving deep into the fertile culture that allowed a distinctive new sound to flourish and flaying the source material to get to the beating heart of the music. From the imminent threat of nuclear apocalypse that gave rise to Metallica's brand of volatile thrash metal to Bloodbath and Carcass, the death metal bands resurrecting the horror of medieval art.But there are always more lines to be drawn. Cradle of Filth and Ulver trade in the transgressive impulses of gothic literature; Pantera lay bare Nietzsche's 'superman'; getting high leads to the escapist sci-fi dirges of Sleep and Electric Wizard; while the recovery of long-buried urns in the seventeenth century holds the key to the drone of Sunn O)))Dissecting music that resonates with millions, Heavy sees Slipknot wrestling with the trauma of 9/11, Alice in Chains exposing the wounds of Vietnam and Iron Maiden conjuring visions of a heroic England. Powerful, evocative and sometimes sinister, it gives shape and meaning to the terrible beauty of metal. --- Little Brown Books, 2021

Publisher ‏ : ‎W. W. Norton & Company (12 July 1995)Language ‏ : ‎EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎192 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0393313018ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-0393313017Dimensions ‏ : ‎12.95 x 1.52 x 21.08 cmCollected here are selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene. Smith's work evokes the experimentation and the desire to break boundaries of those pre-punk days. Over one-quarter of the works selected are unpublished pieces from journals, performances, and Smith's personal papers. Heavily illustrated with photographs by Judy Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Maxey, and others, Early Work brings together all sides of Patti Smith, from the thoughtful intellectual to the explosive performer. --- W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Title 書名 | say, Listen 聽者言Series title 書系｜Pocket 2Contributing writers 作者｜Doris Lau Parry 劉群章, Edwin Lo 羅潤庭, Law Yukmui 羅玉梅, Steve Hui 許敖山, Wong Chun Kok 黃津珏, Anthony Yeung 楊我華, Wong Chun Hoi 王鎮海, Susi Law 羅偉珊, Akio Suzuki 鈴木昭男, Yat Niu 一鳥, Loretta Ho 何嘉妍, Carmi Lam 林嘉敏, Vik Lai, Grace Choi 蔡翠茵, Carlo FossatiEditor 編者｜Yeung Yang 楊陽Publisher 出版｜soundpocket 聲音掏腰包Language 語言｜English 英文, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文 In the book Hong Kong Story, Siu See speaks of ordinary sounds in teahouses and the streets of Hong Kong fading away. Words can never replace sounds. But they may be able to generate conditions for some serious listening. This collection of fiction and non-fiction writings intended for anyone who has ever wondered about listening. All contributing writers of say, Listen actively and critically listen. They listen with pleasure as much as in hardship. Over a span of three years, these traces of their listening made their way into this book: a writer listens to the gurgling water in the gutters; another listens to the politics silenced and sounded out, or to the memory of home, to distance, and to the inanimate – some dirt. The publisher soundpocket is an organization working on the understanding and exploration of sound as art. As the second book in the series Pocket, say, Listen explores the relation between words, sounds, and graphic design on paper. The voices and hands of many who contribute to this book reminds one of how Dawn Williams, curator of the durational sound performance Strange Attractor in the Crawford Gallery (Cork, Ireland) speaks of listening, “of the endless possibilities, given a little time and space, that can enhance our relationship with the changing environments we inhabit by just listening.”

Publisher ‏ : ‎Strange Attractor Press Language ‏ : ‎EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎256 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎1907222677ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-1907222672A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Licorice McKechnie), morphing from English student to West Coast hippie and, finally, bassist in leathers. The band's image adorned psychedelic posters and its music was the theme song for an alternative lifestyle. Rose and partner Mike Heron believed in, and lived, a naive vision of utopia in Scotland. But they were also a band on tour, enjoying the thrills of that life. They were at the center of "Swinging London" and at the Chelsea Hotel with Andy Warhol's superstars. They shared stages with rock idols and played at Woodstock in 1969. Rose and fellow ISB member Licorice were hippie pin-ups, while Heron and Robin Williamson the seers and prophets of a new world. T hrough a haze of incense and marijuana, they played out their Arcadian dreams on stages brilliant with the colors of clothes, light-shows, rugs, cushions, and exotic instruments. Like most utopias, the ISB's imploded. Never seeing herself as a professional musician, Rose retained an outsider's detachment even while living the life of a hippie chick. Her memoir gives a voice to those flower-wreathed girls whose photographs have become symbols of the psychedelic sixties. --- Strange Attractor, 2021

Published: Amphetamine Sulphate Stapled booklet. 60 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 in.English pioneer of power electronics, who formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 at the age of 14. He joined the group Whitehouse, led by William Bennett, in 1983. After a nine-year hiatus starting in 1984, Best rejoined and remained with the group until departing again in 2008.Release Date: 15/06/2018

Gary Mundy is the founding member of Ramleh, and ran the legendary label Broken Flag. In this frank memoir, Mundy examines themes of alienation, depression, artistic practice and what it means to be alive. --- Amphetamine Sulphate, 2018

Publisher ‏ : ‎Minor Compositions (29 April 2021)Language ‏ : ‎EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎182 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎1570273782ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-1570273780Dimensions ‏ : ‎22.8 x 1.4 x 15.2 cm  Building on the ideas Harney and Moten developed in The Undercommons, All Incomplete extends the critical investigation of logistics, individuation and sovereignty. It reflects their chances to travel, listen and deepen their commitment to and claim upon partiality. All Incomplete studies the history of a preference for the force and ground and underground of social existence. Engaging a vibrant constellation of thought that includes the work of Amilcar Cabral, Erica Edwards, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, Hortense Spillers and many others, Harney and Moten seek to share and understand that preference. In so doing, Moten and Harney hope to have forged what Manolo Callahan, echoing Ivan Illich, calls a convivial tool that - despite the temptation to improve and demand, develop and govern, separate and grasp - helps us renew our habits of assembly. All Incomplete features the work of award winning photographer Zun Lee, exploring and celebrating the everyday spaces of Black sociality, intimacy, belonging, and insurgency, and a preface by Denise Ferreira da Silva. --- Minor Compositions, 2021

CD 1 – Fred Van Howe - Evan Parker - Hamid Drake
Recorded by Michael Huon at deSingel, Antwerp 4 February 2017
Edited & Mixed by Michael Huon and Koen Vandenhoudt, Brussels 2018
Mastered by Michael Huon, Brussels 2018
Live concert produced by Sound in Motion & deSingel/Jerry Aerts CD 2 – Fred Van Howe - Solo Piano
Recorded by Michael Huon at NONA, Mechelen 1 April 2017
Edited & Mixed by Michael Huon and Koen Vandenhoudt, Brussels 2018
Mastered by Michael Huon, Brussels 2018
Live concert produced by NONA/Bart Vanvoorden CD 3 – Fred Van Howe - Solo Organ
Recorded by Michael Huon at BOZAR, Brussels 13 December 2017
Edited & Mixed by Michael Huon and Koen Vandenhoudt, Brussels 2018
Mastered by Michael Huon, Brussels 2018
Live concert produced by BOZAR/Roel VanhoeckPianist and composer Fred Van Hove (°1937) was involved in the Big Bang of European free improvisation (Machine Gun by the Peter Brötzmann Octet), but also became one of Europe’s finest and most underestimated improvisers. Mostly known for his 70’s trio with Brötzmann and Han Bennink, Van Hove’s trajectory over the past 4 decades has been one of the brilliant, but unsung stories of the music. The new Dropa Disc release Fred Van Hove At 80 is an effort to rectify this imbalance and give some credit where it’s due. Combining three sublime concerts that were recorded in 2017 with a 80-page hardcover book containing a rich, extended essay by Hugo de Craen and beautiful photos from the year in which the celebrations took place, Fred Van Hove At 80 is a much-needed document that no serious lover of the music can afford to miss.

Published: primary Infortmation Co-Published with Light Industry Managing Editor: James Hoff Managing Designer: Rick Myers 316 pages 7 x 9 inches Paperback Edition of 2500 October 2020 ISBN: 9781734489712For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow’s classic artist book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary Information. Never bound by discipline, Snow has remarked that his sculptures were made by a musician, his films by a painter. Flipping through Cover to Cover, which is composed entirely of photographs in narrative sequence, one might describe it as a book made by a filmmaker. Snow himself has called the piece “a quasi-movie,” structured around a precise recto-verso montage. Each page features a distinct moment, seen from one perspective on the front, and from a diametrically opposed angle on the back, occasionally pivoting, for instance, between interior and exterior spaces. This organizing principle is complicated by the fact that a given image might be a depiction of the physical environment surrounding the camera or, at other times, a photograph of a photograph. Midway through, the scene is inverted such that the volume must be turned upside-down to be looked at right-side up. The result is an elegant, disorienting study in simultaneity that allows the viewer to enter the work from either end. Cover to Cover was originally released by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1975. It was part of a now-legendary series of publications, overseen by Kasper König and later Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, that included titles by Michael Asher, Dara Birnbaum, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, Martha Rosler, and Yvonne Rainer, among others. Snow departed from the format of many of the press’ projects, however, producing not a collection of writings, but rather a book that constitutes an artwork in itself.

Publisher ‏ : ‎And Other Stories Language ‏ : ‎EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎192 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎160553045XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-1911508144Dimensions ‏ : ‎12.7 x 2.03 x 19.56 cmThis new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. --- Edited by Jennifer Hodgson --- And Other Stories, 2018

Publisher ‏ : ‎Faber & FaberLanguage ‏ : ‎EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎512 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0571350011ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-0571350018Dimensions ‏ : ‎15.3 x 3.7 x 23.4 cmThe real story of Nico is one of determination, self-destruction and belief in one's artistic vision, at any cost.Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition.Born Christa Päffgen, Nico grew up in war-torn Berlin before being scouted by a fashion photographer in her early teens. At age twenty-seven, she became Andy Warhol's newest Superstar, securing the position of chanteuse for the Velvet Underground. Though she is primarily remembered for contributions to their seminal debut album - and her relationships with Brian Jones, Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison - her own artistry and influence have often been overlooked.Nico spent most of her career as a solo artist on the road, enduring empty concert halls, abusive fans and the perilous reality of being a drug addict. Yet beneath the superficial denigrations and one-dimensional myths was a complicated visionary determined to make art that was truly her own.In You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone, defying the sexist casting of her life as the tragedy of a beautiful woman losing her looks, youth and fame, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike cements Nico's legacy as one of the most vital artists of her time, inspiring a generation of luminaries including Björk, Morrissey and Iggy Pop.Containing over a hundred new interviews and rare archival material, this is an empowering reappraisal of an underappreciated icon. --- 'Here is the Odyssey of Nico . . . a scholarly and detailed chronicle of this brilliant artist, who was spurned and tortured for her trouble.'IGGY POP'At last, a comprehensive and compelling book about Nico.'VIV ALBERTINE'[A] fantastic book.'COSEY FANNI TUTT --- Faber & Faber, 2021

Published by Fence Books 165x215mm, 96 pages, full colour printing, perfect bound, 2017Holiday curates poems-as-text and image-as-impression, lyricism and activism. The "legacies" of Miles Davis and MLK and Billie Holiday and other icons collide, harnessing taboos they upheld triumphantly. Layers of a story coalesce in restricted space producing ghettos, or a mythological advertising omniverse wherein shadow and light integrate, complicating our fantasies

Publisher ‏ : ‎Penguin (8 Sept. 2020)Language ‏ : ‎EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎320 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0141990856ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-0141990859Dimensions ‏ : ‎12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cmA week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness.In The Undying - at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag.Genre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane, The Undying is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary life. --- 'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney'A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' Patricia Lockwood'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique' Ben Lerner'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' Hari KunzruBlending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world --- Penguin, 2020

Edited by Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen, Julia Eckhardt.Contributions by Enrico Malatesta, Séverine Janssen, Tomoko Sauvage & Akio Suzuki, Lila Athanasiadou, Carolyn Chen, Justin Bennett, Brandon LaBelle, Anna Raimondo & Edyta Jarząb, Jennifer Walshe, Gary Schultz, Salomé Voegelin, Marc Matter, Franziska Windisch, David Toop, Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima, Mark Fell, interviews with Jonathan Frigeri, ooooo, Paulo Dantas, Melissa E. Logan, Isabelle Stragliati, Alice Pamuk, Klaas Hübner, Wederik De Backer, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Lucie Vítková. Published with umland. Graphic design: Ward Heirwegh. published in November 2019English edition15 x 26,5 cm (softcover)200 pages (color & b/w ill.) --- Introduction—Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen, and Julia EckhardtAnnotations—Enrico MalatestaSonic Harbour—Séverine JanssenMagical stones, echoes, and music for animals and atmosphere: An interview with Akio Suzuki—Tomoko SauvageFrom the Mechanism of Speech to the Mechanism of Meaning—Lila AthanasiadouPlaying Guqin—Carolyn ChenSiren Song—Justin BennettTogethering, of the open body—Brandon LaBelleTowards a Vaginal Listening—Anna Raimondo and Edyta JarząbINTERFACES RESIDENTSJonathan FrigerioooooPaulo DantasMelissa E. LoganIsabelle StragliatiAlice PamukKlaas HübnerWederik De BackerBenny Nemerofsky RamsayLucie VítkováGhosts of the Hidden Layer—Jennifer WalsheWhat is Performative Distribution?—Gary SchultzThe Sound is Breathing: An interview with Beatriz Ferreyra—Caroline ProfanterHearing is the Only Thing that Works: An interview with Annette Vande Gorne—Caroline ProfanterUnstable Contacts—Salomé Voegelin100 Questions about Sound and Language—Marc MatterPeripheries—Franziska WindischFlutter Echoes—David ToopTouching Sound—Pierre Berthet and Rie Nakajima?reversE in thinkinG — sounD — Mark FellThis reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies. The Middle Matter is a reader which brings together thoughts on the nature of sound; its substance, specific qualities, and potential—with a specific curiosity to its propensity to occupy the spaces in-between, the instertitial gaps between different spaces, times, cultures, and world views, between the interior body and the exterior space. Through a number of artistic and theoretical contributions, observations are made around the notion of “audience” and the attendant questions of format, on the effects of old and new technologies, of communal working processes, and the complexity of language, the contributors reveal sound to be a material particularly apt at negotiating these zones of and between contact. It is a large field of in-betweenness, sound travels, hops borders, passes through walls, its messages for a large part being transported involuntarily and even unconsciously. In this sense sound is extensively participative, entangled in the complicated gaps between bodies, minds and objects through and against which it resonates. Published following the Oscillation festival, Brussels, from April 25 to May 5, 2019.

Published: Spector Books 96 pp. with black-white and colour illustrations, perfect bound softcover Published date: June, 2021 ISBN: 9783959054638 Edition Number: 1 Width:15 cm Length:23 cm Language(s):English  What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of world­making through gathering and holding. --- Text by: Season Butler,Federico Campagna,Dorothee Elmiger,Ursula K. Le Guin,Enis Maci,Nisha Ramayya,Sin Wai Kin fka Victoria Sin,Jenna Sutela,Anna Tsing & Himali Singh Soin Contributions: Sophia Al-Maria,Laurel Halo   Edited by   HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Sarah Shin,Mathias Zeiske   ---

Artist, writer and musician Dave Tomlin was a founder-member of the seminal free-form folk group Third Ear Band. A constant presence within the London underground scene, he founded the Guild of Transcultural Studies in 1976 and contributed to the International Times. Dave Tomlin Paperback 210 x 148 ISBN: 9781907222566Communiqués From The Guild of Transcultural Studies 1976 – 1991 One night in 1976, a group of squatters entered the Cambodian Embassy in London, an opulent building that had remained empty for two years following the bloody revolution of the Khmer Rouge. For the next  fifteen years, this peculiar residence would play host to the Guild of Transcultural Studies, an open platform for creative monomaniacs, radical metaphysicians, poets, prophets and exiles. These humorous, perceptive, and deftly crafted vignettes boast a thinly disguised cast of provocateurs, including John Michell, earth mysteries sage and fortean, Nicholas Carr-Saunders, author of Alternative London, beat poets Harry Fainlight and George Andrews, playwright of The WarpNeil Oram, countercultural photographer and journalist John “Hoppy” Hopkins, and Sir Mark Palmer, aristocrat-turned-gypsy-traveller and male model impresario. Through 220 short narratives, Dave Tomlin sketches many of the wild characters and memorable incidents of these years 1976 to 1991 (with vivid flashbacks to West Africa and the London Free School in Notting Hill in the 1960s). By setting up a ‘Guild of Transcultural Studies’ Dave and his fellow squatters invented an effective aura of respectability that was an object lesson in instant tradition, and enabled them to play host to musicians from Morocco to Pakistan, poets, prophets, exiles and refugees from many countries round the world from Chile to China. The descriptions of periodic encounters with various arms of the diplomatic service, both home-grown and oriental, are often hilarious. Above all, the Embassy provided space for creative monomaniacs and radical metaphysicians to act out their visions. A vivid portrait of a more leisured age which allowed eccentricity to flourish.

Published: Spector Books 80 pp.with numerous colour illustrations perfect bound softcover Publish Date: July, 2021 ISBN:9783959054928 Edition Number: 1 Width:15 cm Length:23 cm Language(s):English The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance has evolved into a format in which the audience stares at people staring at screens. Looking at Music examines the role that visibility plays in the experience of music. How important is the live quality to the future of musical performance? Screenshots of ”algoraves“ or virtual reality stars like Hatsune Miku reinsert visual stimuli on a variety of levels, in kuduro the musical focus is on the dance expertise—meanwhile, other musicians have long since abandoned the idea of the stage-centred spectacle. --- Editor: HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Lina Brion,Detlef Diederichsen Contributor: Stefanie Alisch,Peter Kirn,Mari Matsutoya,Adam Parkinson,Terre Thaemlitz,TOPLAP Design Concept: Olaf Nicolai,Hannes Drißner,Malin Gewinner Designer: Hannes Drißner,Malin Gewinner,Markus Dreßen   ---