John Cage’s Variations VII. Performed at 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, October 15 and 16, 1966. Sound sources: AM-FM Short Wave Radio, Geiger counter, sine wave generators, horn loudspeakers, contact microphones attached to houshold fans and kitchen appliances, open telephone lines in various locations…
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
10 Cities: Clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv, Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon 1960 – March 2020. Spector Books, 2020. Large softcover. 560 pages with black-white and colour illustrations. A retrospective testimony to the living spirit of Club Nights. With essays by: Rui Miguel Abreu, Vitalii Bard Bardetski, Vítor…
The lost masterpiece Les Éphémères by the self labeled ‘sound painter’ Knud Viktor (1924-2013) now sees its first ever release by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology – 40 years after it was conceived. Viktor’s pioneering work – his Images Sonores – are composed of field recordings of insects, animals and his surroundings. His only earlier releases, the much sought-after Images and Ambiances from 1972, were re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology in 2017 to great critical acclaim