Selection 2025 - 2001
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HERMIT
Lot 8
Cassette
Documentation of a rare and recent Hermit performance in Victoria, BC.
A crescendo of gesticulation, voice, and minimal electronics.
Featuring cover art depicting a tattered mobile phone case, in reference to the recording medium and Hermit’s former Garbage Society label.
Side B repeats Side A.
Releassed in 2024. Edition of 30
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MICHAEL PLEIßNER
Wie ein Funken im All
Cassette
"A dialogue between two radios and two people" was played by Michael Pleißner, a fine artist based in Leipzig. Apart from a cassette produced in the 1990s which is now lost, this is the only recording he ever made since then.
Born 1951 in Leipzig, Michael Pleißner started to paint in the 1970's and later moved on to produce a large pile of paper collages as well as his "Dream Houses"-objects. Since 2010 he has solely been working on his artist books, using different art-, architecture- and other magazines concerning cultural issues, like "Vogue", in addition to nature-mags, like "Geo". Pleißner's books consist of collages dealing with the development of culture and the permanent change of human environment, while constantly producing relicts of itself. In this recording fragments of cultural information, which at the same time exists but has already passed, can be heard, "Like a Spark in Outer Space".
Released in 2017. Edition of 30
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MARCELLVS L.
Dreamlessness
Cassette
Alexander Kluge: The cosmos is cold.
Heiner Müller: Dreamless.
Alexander Kluge: Dreamlessly cold.
Binaural composition of a person sleeping with apnea and a panicking dog in a house during a storm.
A "Sleep apnea" is a sleep disorder interrupting an individual's breathing during sleep, sometimes hundreds of times in one night.
"Dreamlessness" was first presented as a two-channel installation
on headphones as part of Marcellvs L.'s exhibition "Slow Ontology" (2015)
and now it is available as an audio cassette release, with one side
of the cassette shell in black, the other in white.
Released in 2017. Edition of 50
JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBARDET
The Mourning Voice - Leipzig gig, 2017/04/11
Cassette
The Mourning Voice - Leipzig gig, 2017/04/11 is a live recording
that doesn't exist, that will never exist, of a concert that never
happened.
The object, as a compilation of incomplete documentation transformed
into an event that everyone missed, represents a concretion of time,
absence of time and words - as well as a modification, a silent gate
between past and future and an empty archive or catalog of lost
material.
Jean-François Robardet uses a large variety of media (drawing, poetry,
digital image, sculpture, perfume) to address memory, war and time,
and to research on the history of conflict and social and political
issues, gender inequalities, cultural norms and discrimination. With
"The Mourning Voice - Leipzig gig, 2017/04/11", Robardet's poetic,
allegorical methods reveal an aspect of his practice, through which
he edits setlists with titles of his visual body of work, to curate
the disappearance of unwritten songs and unheard voices.
Designed by Michael Barthel, the 19 tracks of the concert are printed
on a fold-out cover, placed in a cassette case.
Released in 2017. Edition of 30
THE OVAL LANGUAGE
Cassette
The Oval Language is the long time project by Leipzig artist Klaus-Peter John.
Released in 1987 as a free sound and performance project, nowadays output is using
the human voice as the main source and interest to its recordings.
Quote, Klaus-Peter John:
"The voice is the first and oldest human instrument. Communication and articulation becomes
most intense and direct when being used as an individual expression of pure phonetic language
beyond spoken words. The Oval Language forms a kind of voice-biotope which points out the
actual sound of the voice as such. Beyond the rational logic of our language it becomes an
instrument in a world full of sound. It`s tonal immediateness is being emphasized instead
of it`s ability to form word in order to communicate rationally."
"Stimme ist das erste und älteste Instrumentarium des Menschen. Die Verständigung und Artikulation
in Form der Lautsprache existiert außerhalb der geformten Worte als individueller Ausdruck
am intensivsten, ja am unmittelbarsten. The Oval Language verdeutlicht durch die Schaffung einer Art
von Stimmbiotop den Stimmklang außerhalb der rational funktionierenden Wortgebilde. Die Stimme als
Instrumentarium in der Welt der Geräusche. Hierbei geht es immer um die tonale Unmittelbarkeit außerhalb
der rationalen Vermittelbarkeit."
8 pieces for voice, recorded in 2012, with a cover layout and artwork by Michael Barthel.
Released in 2015. Edition of 30, numbered by Klaus-Peter John.
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MICHAEL BARTHEL
One Year
Cassette
Inspired by George Marcunias' installation, ONE YEAR. "The cassette contains two recordings. The only one i have made in 2008." Random Tapeplayer-Feedback, microcassette manipulation, microphone, dictaphone, four tracker.
Released in 2013. Edition of 21
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JEFF REHNLUND
Anthropophagus
Cassette
Private found sounds, recorded in 2008 on a trip through the Southeast of Asia. Transformed into ten quite different sound-collages.
Two paper collages by the artist include into the cover.
Released in 2012. Edition of 30
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MICHAEL BARTHEL
To cover: Land
Cassette
Released in 2010. Edition of 30
MICHAEL BARTHEL
Nachtstüücke
Cassette
Released in 2010. Edition of 30
MICHAEL BARTHEL
mitgeträge
Cassette
Released in 2010. Edition of 30
MICHAEL BARTHEL
Wo ist das: Zufluchtsort
Cassette
Released in 2009. Edition of 30
TO BE CONTINUE.
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