TACET The Sound in The Arts Series # 4 published by Les Presses Du Reel, 2016. 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 560 p, ills in bw. French/English text. New copy.
Edited by Markus Mueller and Ulrike Groos with text by and about Diedrich Diederichsen, Mike Kelley, Hermann Nitsch, Raymond Pettibon, Dan Graham and more. Illustrated. The main text is only in German. Cologne: Oktagon Verlag, 1998. 8vo in wraps as issued. 360 pages, text mainly in German with a few…
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…
Ursula Block & Michael Glasmeier. Primary Information reissue, 2019 (1989). 4to in wraps as issued. 280 pages, illustrated. New copy. Facsimile edition of the definitive and legendary guide to records by artists. Comes with flexi 7 inch. Broken Music’ is a holy grail avant-garde music publication, a compendium of recordings,…