The Russian producer Vladimir Karpov is well on his way towards a lasting legacy as a modern synthesizer wizard in the grandiose vein of Vangelis and Jarre. With a propensity for concept albums he has built a sturdy discography during this past decade that echoes the progressive ideas of the psychedelic generation as it moved into adulthood with Moog in hand.

The 24th issue of zweikommasieben focuses on an aspect of experimental electronic music that might be rather obvious. Nevertheless, this aspect is integral to the type of discerning perspective adopted in the pages of this magazine:

The Ring Orchestra is an eight-person effort, a collective coming together to tackle opera and one of the genre’s controversial poster boys.

Mouse on Mars take over the Kunstbau of Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany with a sound installation for which they developed a site-specific composition. Working with and responding to the exhibition space, the installation transforms the Kunstbau itself into a gigantic stereophonic acoustic instrument.

Trance has been the flagship for electronic music across the globe during the nineties and early zeroes.

It creates expanded and stratified performances which also include the implementation and dissemination of design collections, audio-visual formats and editorial products.

The research of Mariateresa Sartori revolves around three thematic fulcrums: empirical scientific method; behavioural dynamics, often in relation to neurosciences; music and sound in relation to language.

The Danish label/imprint arbitrary announces the release of Framework 3 (arbitrary11) by Mads Emil Nielsen. Framework 3 is the latest instalment in Nielsen’s sequence of graphic scores and recordings.

Impulse Interviews consists of over 60 interviews with some of the 20th Century’s most engaging and important cultural creators.

Music has been just as central as art, film and architecture in the formation of the German capital’s unique identity, although too often neglected by Berlin’s historians and biographers.

Dance and musical improvisation are ephemeral expressions urging us to embrace the moment in thoughtful joy. Devon Fornelli’s improvisations documented here are two performances:

“Arc” by award-winning author Paul Savoie is a poem which captures the pensive impressions of a moment and is suffused with a quiet musicality.

Heavy metal is a cultural phenomenon that unites its fans across borders, generations, genders, religions, and social classes. Metalheads is a journey into the heavy metal underground around the world that documents the lives and passion of these fans.

Following its German publication, Marc Schwegler’s essay Über das Potenzial begrenzter Ordnungen now appears in an English translation by N. Cyril Fischer and a completely re-worked design by Dorothee Dähler and Kaj Lehmann.

Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of Free Jazz Communism, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962.

Die Musik spielt im künstlerischen Werk von Dieter Roth eine zentrale Rolle.

Fourth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series. Two CDs packaged in illustrated 12“ LP gatefold-sleeve. Edition of 500 copies.

Digital Album Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Bretterkellers Auftritte oszillieren zwischen Noisemusik, Elektropunk und dem jeweiligen Pathos von Doom Metal und Techno.

Tape by Good Cop

Texts by Johanna Billing, Christian Nae, Christian Jendreiko, William Tyler, and James Merle Thomas. Photos by Jörg Koopmann. Collages by Martin Fengel

Musik für die 35 mm Filminstallation „Expressive Rhythm“ von Florian Pumhösl. Veröffentlich im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Florian Pumhösl. 6 7 8“ im Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien vom 3.März – 29. Mai 2011.

Es gab eine Zeit, da war Düsseldorf für ein paar Jahre das Zentrum der deutschen Popmusik. Hier entstand der deutsche Punk, der die NDW nach sich zog. Eine Schlüsselrolle in dieser Zeit des musikalischen Aufbruchs spielte Fehlfarben.

Die Secession gibt eine CD-Rom heraus, die erstmals in einem zeitgemäßen Medium die Geschichte der Künstlervereinigung vermittelt.

Exploring the infra-spaces between images, sound, and voice in the work of artist Marcelline Delbecq, in conversation with art historian Pascale Cassagnau (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).

This interview with Romain Kronenberg by curator Anne-Laure Chamboissier traces the filmmaker's progression, from his first projects to the most recent, including some currently in development. It reveals the complexity of a body of work where the relationship between image and sound is constantly reinvented with each new creation. (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).

Wo entdeckt Parov Stelar in Öberrösterreich spannende Sounds? Was zeigt Patrick Pulsinger seinen Freunden aus dem Ausland, wenn sie nach Wien kommen? Welche Radiosendungen empfiehlt uns Gustav? Auf welchem Friedhof möchte der Austrofred einmal begraben werden? Mit Austrian Heartbeats präsentieren wir den ersten Reiseführer zum Thema aktuelle Musik in Österreich!

Wo entdeckt Parov Stelar in Öberrösterreich spannende Sounds? Was zeigt Patrick Pulsinger seinen Freunden aus dem Ausland, wenn sie nach Wien kommen? Welche Radiosendungen empfiehlt uns Gustav? Auf welchem Friedhof möchte der Austrofred einmal begraben werden? Mit Austrian Heartbeats präsentieren wir den ersten Reiseführer zum Thema aktuelle Musik in Österreich!

A “politics of listening” is an intervention into and a reorganization of forms that listening takes rather than a call for free speech or for a platform for voices to be heard.

„... eine listige Geburtstagsgabe ... Für alle, die Spaß haben am Denken, an seiner Sinnlichkeit.“ (Fritz Göttler, SZ)

Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix zeigt die enge Beziehung dieser 1981 gegründeten Formation zu bildenden Künstlern, Filmemachern, Designern, Schriftstellern und Musikern.

Limited edition of 300 vinyl pressings of a sound work by Ben Cain. Commissioned by the Zagreb Museum of Modern Art for a public art festival in 2005 this 7” holds two audio tracks featuring location and spoken word recordings.

The central hole of Catalan traditional music discs found in second-hand stores has been moved. This ready-made action offers new sounds when listening to the original recording.

Stimmbänder und Abstimmungen. Pop und Parlamentarismus. Voice Definition Verstimmungen zwischen Kultur und Politik. Sprechen von und Sprechen für. Data Corrupter. Die Stimme, die du selbst erhebst und die Stimmen, für die du eintrittst.

Paul McCarthy: Hammer Oranges Apple was published in 2003 by Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst and

Sound Pages is a publishing project that shows how the complexity of John Cage’s thought, but also its disarming simplicity, added "beauty" to the printed page to prevent sound space from dissipating at the moment the sound is interrupted and fixing in time its translation into visual space.

Astrid Seme (* 1985) beschäftigt sich in ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit verstärkt mit dem Verhältnis aus gesprochener und geschriebener Sprache. Die grafische Notation von gesprochner Sprache und die akustische Interpretation von grafischenen Notationen bilden dabei ein zentrales Thema.

Astrid Seme (*1985) is studying graphic design in the masters program Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Her main artistic interest is the investigation of the relation between oral and written speech. In this respect, her central theme is the graphic notations of oral speech and the acoustic interpretation of graphic notations.

Werkverzeichnis und Veröffentlichungen von 176-1983

In seinem Buch “Heller als die Sonne. Abenteuer in der Sonic Fiction” (1998) postuliert der afro-britische Theoretiker Kodwo Eshun den Begriff “Fission” (Teilung, Spaltung, Zertrümmerung) als Gegenposition zur Praxis der “Fusion”.

The first installment of The Social Life of the Record, a series of original texts by musicians, fans, critics, collectors, dealers, label owners etc. - reflecting on recording, releasing, listening to, filing, flipping and DJing records today.

Hip-hop was never a musical movement, but rather an expression of youth culture. Its adaptability, the inventiveness of its protagonists, and its continuing relevance have revealed its true potential over the course of the last 40 years.

Following the 2015 exhibition “Florian Hecker/John McCracken” at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien Graz, this publication probes the experimental capacity of the white-cube space of the gallery.

In einem virtuosen Essay lotet Jean-Luc Nancy das Verhältnis zwischen Klang, menschlichem Körper und dessen Gespanntheit auf diesen Sinn und den Sinn überhaupt aus, ist der Körper – so Nancy – doch selbst eine Echo-Kammer, deren innere Schwingungen und äußere Gespanntheit sich einander verschränken.

Koproduktion mit der Kunsthalle Wien

Behutsam dokumentarisch nähert sich Kerstin von Gabain der Free-Party-Szene an. Als teilnehmende Beobachterin hat sie jahrelang illegale Raves besucht, war Teil eines Ereignisses geworden, aus dem sie nachträglich zwei Ebenen herausfiltert.

Das Projekt „Chicago Recordings“ beinhaltet eine Sammlung von Interviews in Textform, die in ihrem Entstehungsprozess dem Prinzip einer Audioaufnahme folgen.

„But, there are always people who do, kind of, die, in sort of part of a creative process, and we need to, kind of, cherish and appreciate those people. That was a bit of a downer wasn’t it!“ Peter Sleazy Christopherson.

The »Sounding Museum« fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and trans-cultural communication inside the context of museum education.

GODSTAR – Über Genesis P-Orridge, eine Geheimgeschichte der Popkultur erzählt vom verqueren Lebensweg des Neil Andrew Megson.

Ein ruhig gelesener Vortrag, ein lebhaftes Zwiegespräch und ein expressives Stück Sprechtheater deklinieren die Möglichkeiten einer rein auf Sprache basierenden imaginären Musik.

CD (32' 39) in cardboard box with booklet, 100 copies.

There has never been a full agreement as to what were the key influences on Kurt Schwitters when he was preparing the Ursonate.

Utopia of Sound explores the growing significance of sound as a distinct aesthetic and cultural phenomenon in contemporary art, film, and visual culture.

Kim Feser, Matthias Pasdzierny: „… and a musicologist present at all times“ – elektronische Tanzmusik im Fokus populärer Diskurse und akademischer Forschung.

NO ONES BOX - eine Box voll Poesie, voll bewegter Bilder für Auge und Ohr, eine Büchse, Schachtel für Pandora, Eva oder Pavlovs Hund.

"Subetage" is an English-language non-fiction work featuring interviews with and about Sabotage comrades-in-arms. For the first time, strategies in the music sector, nasal perspectives, design and fashion tactics, future operational objectives, and free-land zones are discussed in interview-like conversations.

Bruce Russell is like, the granddaddy of new music. If you think the dings and tings you're hearing in low lit performance spaces are out of this world, imagine what he's been up to for the past few decades. From the Dead C to Handful of Dust, he's made his mark by refining (and redefining) sound art from his hometown in Dunedin.

“Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories” evolves around memory, voice and the body – more specifically around instances where our habitual abilities to sense, remember, and speak are somehow disrupted or suspended. Such shifts and ruptures may occur through experiences such as living under an oppressive regime, migration, trying to make oneself understood in a foreign language, or through physical inhibitions like aphasia or stuttering.

Designed as a stroll along the different tracks of an album, Genius Loci is a cross between the experience of listening to a museum audio guide and listening to songs on an iPod or an MP3 player.

»Das Wetter« verbindet Zeitgeist mit Zeitlosigkeit, sowie Diskurs-Punk mit Straßenrap, Pop mit Literatur und ein stilvolles Design mit qualitativ hochwertigen Texten, Fotos und Illustrationen.