Benjamin Piekut - Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde And its Limits
The New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charl..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520268517
Author: Benjamin Piekut
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Fluxus, USA.
Alexi Kukuljevic - Liquidation World – The Art Of Living Absently
Liquidation World examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an o..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262534192
Author: Alexi Kukuljevic
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Humour, Surrealism.
David Toop - Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound
Brilliant new publication by the imprint of Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz. English musician and writer David Toop’s memoirs!
Publisher: Ecstatic Peace Library / 9781787601529
Author: David Toop
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Biography, Free Improvisation, UK.
John Cage / Christian Wolff - Untitled
Originally released in 1963 by Time Records in the US, this LP is perhaps best known to avant-garde and noise fiends for inclusion of Cage’s Cartridge Music [..(read more)
Label: Jeanne Dielman
Artist: John Cage / Christian Wolff
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Composers, USA, Vinyl.
Rolf Julius - “Lullaby For The Fishes”
Reissue of Rolf Julius’ first and only (and almost impossible to find) LP from 1985. Rolf Julius was the archetypal “sound artist”. He painted with sound,..(read more)
Label: Tochnit Aleph / TA133
Artist: Rolf Julius
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Germany, Sound Art, Vinyl.
Jonas Mekas - He Stands In A Desert Counting The Seconds Of His Life
124 sketches, each up to 2 minutes long. Portraits of people in Mekas’ life, places, seasons of the year, weather (storms, snow blizzards, etc.), many of ..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / 791
Artist: Jonas Mekas
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Cinema, USA.
Milk From Cheltenham - Triptych Of Poisoners
The first-time vinyl reissue of the sole album from UK DIY legends Milk From Cheltenham, originally released in 1983 on famed It’s War Boys imprint, is re..(read more)
Label: Superior Viaduct
Artist: Milk From Cheltenham
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '80s, 1983, Avant-Garde, New Wave and Post-Punk, UK, Vinyl.
Veryan Weston / Christine Duncan / Jean Martin - The Make Project
Collaborative composition based on fifty-two quotations by women writers, each sung on a five-note (pentatonic) scale.
Label: Barnyard / BR0344
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Canada, Composers, Vocal Art.
The Just Measurers - Flagellation
Jim Whelton (aka Xentos), Lepke (Milk from Cheltenham), and Chris Grey (Amos and Sara) originally released this on Jim’s Its War Boys Label in 1983.. one ..(read more)
Label: Emotional Response / ER73
Artist: The Just Measurers
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, New Wave and Post-Punk, UK, Vinyl.
