RELEASES
coming soon :
JULIEN OTTAVI / JOACHIM MONTESSUIS - SNOW CRASH - LP - EM015

NEW RELEASE :


ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE - LP - EM016 - released 23rd Feb 2017

REALITY (realityfilm.co.uk) had the honour of working with pioneering electronic composer Zbigniew Karkowski on two occasions. In 2007, as part of the Recording Angel Ensemble's accompaniment to Wojciech Has' film "The Saragossa Manuscript" at the National Film Theatre and finally, for the last time on the 31st October 2013 when, already gravely ill after learning that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, Karkowski premiered his music to the BBC 1954 teleplay production of George Orwell's "1984 - The Last Man in Europe" at London's Horse Hospital. It was to be his last public performance.

Zbigniew died aged 55, just six weeks later on Thursday December 12th in the jungles of Peru where he had travelled seeking treatment with the Shaman healers of the Shipibo.

"Where language ends music begins" Zbigniew Karkowski March 14, 1958 - December 12, 2013

Recorded Live to Film at the Horse Hospital, London. October 31, 2013
Recording: Aleksander Kolkowski
Producer: Marek Pytel
REALITY www.realityfilm.co.uk
Special thanks: Atau Tanaka, Richard Whitelaw, Roger K. Burton.
Photo cover, taken at the Horse Hospital : Rufus Elliott
Artwork : Joachim Montessuis

LP + DOWNLOAD of the complete recording (110mn live performance)
15 Eur

ALICE KEMP - FILL MY BODY WITH FLOWERS AND RICE - EM018 co-released with Fragment Factory [FRAG39]
white vinyl - edition of 300- released on the winter solstice 2016

Alice Kemp creates a cryptic yet coherent body of work through drawing, painting, objects, sound, audio composition, performance, and beyond. She has performed in Japan, USA, UK & Europe, and her more recent musical output has been released by labels such as Fragment Factory and Harbinger Sound.
«Fill My Body With Flowers And Rice» is Kemp‘s first full-length release to vinyl - a compelling work of more than 40 minutes, including two collaborations with Rudolf Eb.er (Schimpfluch, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock). The album provides a stirring and intimate insight not only into AK‘s unique world of obscure, tense and delicate sounds, but also into one of the UK‘s most exceptional artists of today.

Recorded by AK, 2012-2015. 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, 2016.

15 Eur

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - CATHEDRALE DE STRASBOURG - EM010 - released February 2016
GATEFOLD DOUBLE VINYL 180g + DOWNLOAD
This 70min organ concert was recorded in 2012 in Strasbourg Cathedral during the «Transes» symposium at HEAR. This was a unique performance in the cathedral’s history and an important performance for Charlemagne Palestine, showing him at his best, slowly developing a wild crescendo and filling the gigantic space with his own ritual full of trance and ecstasy. 2015 marks the millennium of Strasbourg Cathedral.

Recorded in Strasbourg - 15/11/2012 at Cathédrale de Strasbourg, during TRANSE(S) symposium at Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, Strasbourg
Recorded by Philippe Lepeut, mastered and cut by Frederic Alstadt
500 copies
32 EUR - available at Metamkine.com

LE VERDOUBLE - EM013 - released September 2015
VINYL 180g + DOWNLOAD
YVAN ETIENNE + YANN GOURDON : Vielles à roue / Hurdy gurdy
French duet playing the minimal and maximal experimentations of the hurdy gurdy, breeding continuous waves, inducing the medieval "bourdon" (drone) into one of its finest achievements.
recorded at les 2 princesses, Besançon and Notre Dame des Anges, Ouhans, France - September 2014
mastered by Yvan Etienne
artwork: Le Verdouble
le Verdouble is a band of La Nòvia Collective: www.la-novia.fr
300 copies
15 EUR - available or metamkine.com

JUNKO - THE VOID - EM011 - released april 2015
VINYL 180g + DOWNLOAD
After "Sleeping Beauty" in 2002, here is the second SOLO album from the ultimate japanese voice! Very rare. The scream beyond all screams, the most incredible intensity within its simplest aspect. Two years in the making, here it is finally, "THE VOID", a minimal masterwork with two tracks recorded in Paris : the first one with a raw direct naked voice approach - yet very clear and unheard as JUNKO has never recorded her full voice this way, and a second track with all of JUNKO's voice frequencies pushed to extremes for a wild excessive vocal trance.
Minimal, repetitive, obsessional : this is one of the keys to enter THE VOID.
recorded, mixed and mastered by Joachim Montessuis in Paris between may 2013 and august 2014 at MDE studios
photos of Junko by Alex Woodward, taken at Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness @ Tramway, Glasgow on Saturday 25th February 2012
300 copies
15 EUR - available here or metamkine.com

Rudolf Eb.er has released more than 100 CD's and albums internationally, and is considered as one of the leading artists in the noise and experimental vocal scene. Born austrian and grew swiss, he is expert in scientific illustration, martial and therapeutic arts, and is founder of the audio-artists and aktionist collective 'SCHIMPFLUCH' in 1987. Early sonic studies examined the importance of timing, the power of silence, and developed shocking and confusing-precise cut-up compositions, 'aural alchemism', of documented extreme-situations, psycho-field-recordings, and direct actionism - an actionism of the unexpected. Regarded as 'art-brut shamanist', Eb.er's path leads down thru the unconscious, deepest regions of human psyche and animal instinct. Abreactive outbursts arranged in the high art of timing, as mediated in disciplines such as kung-fu, confront all senses with existence - and open up the way to the higher being.
'RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTØCK' is another name for Eb.er's psycho-active audio-art and 'psycho-physical tests and trainings', performed and produced global. Eb.er, currently living in Japan, increasingly focus his 'purification rituals' on breathing exercices, concentrated chi-energy and shifting psycho-magic to enter the super-consciousness, the nondualist awareness of 'ultimate reality'.
EXTREME RITUALS contains two raw surgical wild tracks of 17 minutes, masterworks of intensity.

Recorded and decomposed by Rudolf Eb.er in Osaka in 2011
Mastered by Fred Alstadt @ Angstrom - Brussels
Cut by Yann Dub @ Reverse - Barcelone

Rudolf Eb.er a sorti plus de 100 CD's et albums sur toutes sortes de labels internationaux et est considéré comme l'un des plus importants artistes actuels de la scène noise et vocale expérimentale. Rudolf Eb.er est autrichien et a grandi en suisse, il est expert en illustration scientifique, arts martiaux et thérapeutiques, et a fondé le collectif d'artistes-actionnistes sonores 'SCHIMPFLUCH' en 1987. Ses premières recherches soniques examinaient l'importance de la durée, la puissance du silence, et ont développé des compositions cut-up choquantes et paniquantes, 'alchimie auditive', documentations de situations extrêmes, psycho-field-recordings, et actionnisme direct - un actionnisme de l'inattendu.
Considéré comme 'shaman-art-brut', la voie d'Eb.er se forge au travers de l'inconscient, dans les régions les plus profondes de la psyché humaine et de l'instinct animal. Des éruptions abréactives arrangées dans des temporalités précises, canalisées dans des disciplines comme le kung-fu, confrontent tous les sens avec l'existence - et ouvre la voie à l'éveil.
'RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTØCK' est un autre nom pour l'audio art psycho-actif de Rudolf Eb.er' et ses 'tests et entraînements psycho-physiques', performés et produits partout. Eb.er, vit actuellement au japon, focalise graduellement ses 'rituels de purification' par des exercices de respiration, de concentration d'energie-chi et shifting psycho-magic pour entrer dans la super-conscience, l'éveil non-dualiste de la 'réalité ultime'.
EXTREME RITUALS contient deux pièces sauvages, brutales et chirugicales de 17 minutes, concentrés d'intensité.

May 2010
BRYAN LEWIS SAUNDERS - NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE - EM006
VINYL GATEFOLD 180g + DOWNLOAD
10 tracks on vinyl + 9 bonus tracks to download (total of 19 tracks available in AIFF, MP3, FLAC) + texts PDF
Produced, mixed, mastered and edited in 2010 by Joachim Montessuis.
Artwork by Felix Rosier
Cut by Rashad Becker
Pressed at Eldorado, Berlin
LP gatefold, 500 copies

15 EUR
available here or metamkine.com

"The bastard son of William S. Burroughs, Antonin Artaud and Crispin Glover. Hilarious, awful, heartbreaking and brutally honest, his Stand Up Tragedy is some of the best shit I've heard in a decade - if "OYSTER" doesn't break your heart-while laughing your ass off - you're dead.." - Lydia Lunch

Metamkine review : "Bryan Lewis saunders is a performer and sound poet. He works here with different musicians. Extreme sound poetry ! With music from Joachim Montessuis, Marcelo Aguirre, Christopher Fleeger, M. Peck, John Duncan, Spastic Dementia, Kaontrol Kontraos, Murmurists.

"Bryan Lewis saunders, né à Washington en 1969, est poète, vidéaste, peintre, performer et boss du label Stand-up tragedy records. Ici à la voix dans une poésie sonore intense, corporelle et radicale. Excellent ! Avec la participation musicale selon les morceaux de Joachim Montessuis, Marcelo Aguirre, Christopher Fleeger, M. Peck, John Duncan, Spastic Dementia, Kaontrol Kontraos, Murmurists. Mixage, production et mastering de Joachim Montessuis. Artwork de Felix Rosier. Couverture gatefold, 500 exemplaires + lien pour télécharger une version numérique de l'album avec neuf morceaux en bonus et tous les textes en pdf."





1- The Social Masochist - Music by Christopher Fleeger
2- Hide And Play Dead - Music by Michael Peck
3- PCP Poetry - Music by Joachim Montessuis
4- Subject In Question - Music by John Duncan
5- The Store - Music by Christopher Fleeger
6- If My Mother And I Were Monkeys - Bryan Lewis Saunders
7- Promethazine - Music by Joachim Montessuis
8- If I Was A Cat - Music by Christopher Fleeger
9- I Quit – Bryan Lewis Saunders
10- My Deepest Darkest Fears - Music by Kaontrol Kontraos
11- Near Death Experience - Music by Spastic Dementia
12- Methanol - Music by Kaontrol Kontraos
13- Brain Death - Music by Murmurists
14- Mercury - Music by Kaontrol Kontraos
15- The Meaning Of Life - Music by Tracy Lee Summers
16- Death Of A Loser - Bryan Lewis Saunders
17- TV Poetry - Bryan Lewis Saunders
18- Gibberish - Music by Joachim Montessuis
19- I Am A Vulture - Music by Joachim Montessuis

2009
EUROPEAN SOUND DELTA - USB stick 4GB limited edition - EM008
containing approximately 600 sounds and field recordings under creative commons licenses + 41 compositions (mp3/320kbps) + 43 pages PDF document
OUT OF STOCK
available here for free download

European Sound Delta is an travelling artistic residency that took place during summer 2008 : two boats simultaneously navigated upstream on the Rhine and Danube rivers from the North Sea and the Black Sea to finally meet in Strasbourg. On board and in each of the stopover cities, thirty international artists were invited to record their sound environment (field recordings, interviews, electromagnetic and sub-aquatic spheres...) and to use the shared sound materials to compose pieces and produce live concerts along the itinerary.
At the end of this trip, a floating listening lounge is unfolding as an Archipelago of creations : embarked on a specially fitted sightseeing boat (under the boat transparent ’bubble’ roof : a 3000 Watts and a quadriphonic sound system !), one will discover there the sound pieces created on board by the residents but also the imaginary audio landscapes from some ten guest composers. These seven cruises along the Strasbourg canals will each be punctuated by a live per- formance taking place in a different background each time. At the same time, on the «Nuits Electroniques de l’Ososphère»’ site, the Mirror Ball installation will display visual documentation of the two parallel journeys.
A long vibratory cruise of nearly 3 month, ESD is closing as a final resonance of the sonic and aquatic waves of Strasbourg : Ososphère upon Ill.

European Sound Delta est une résidence artistique itinérante qui s’est déroulée pendant l’été 2008 : deux bateaux ont remonté simultanément le Rhin et le Danube depuis la Mer du Nord et la Mer Noire pour finir par se rejoindre à Strasbourg. A bord et dans chacune des villes-étapes, trente artistes internationaux ont été invités à enregistrer leur environnement sonore (field recordings, interviews, sphère électromagnétique, subaquatique...) et à se servir de ces matériaux mis en commun pour composer et produire des concerts tout au long des parcours.
A l’arrivée de ce périple, un salon d’écoute flottant explore cet archipel de créations : embarqué sur un bateau-mouche spécialement aménagé (la bulle abritte 3000Watts en quadriphonie), on découvre les pièces réalisées à bord par les résidents mais aussi les paysages imaginés par une dizaine de composi- teurs invités. Chacune de ces sept croisières sonores panoramiques est ponctuée par un live. Au même moment, sur le site des Nuits Electroniques de l’Osos- phère, l’installation Mirror Ball dévoile les images de la double traversée...
Longue croisière vibratoire de près de 3 mois, ESD s’achève en résonance finale avec les ondes soniques et aquatiques de Strasbourg : L’Ososphère sur L’Ill.

Alejandra & Aeron - Aymeric de Tapol - Brandon LaBelle - Carl Stone - CarlY - Chris Watson - Christian Dergarabedian - Claudia Wegener - Dinahbird - Francisco Lopez - François Martig - Frederik de Wilde - Gaël Segalen - Igor Stangliczky - Jean Philippe Renoult - Jérôme Dumais - Joachim Montessuis - Jodi Rose - Kassel Jaeger - Kevin Logan - Knut Aufermann - Ludger Hennig - Maria Balabas - Paul Panhuysen - Phill Niblock - Katherine Liberovskaya - Piotr Talmachou - Robert Hampson - Rodolphe Alexis - Sarah Washington - Sillyconductor - S.I.C. : Spectral Investigations Collective - Aljosa Abrahamsberg - Horia Cosmin Samoila - Ewen Chardronnet - Tanakan/Christophe Rault - Tamara Albaitis - Tô - Vincent Epplay - WPMG - Mabuseki

http://www.sound-delta.eu

CD's available on METAMKINE.COM



JOACHIM MONTESSUIS - Errances 1993-2005 - EM023
book + CD
compilation of different tracks and projects, from 1993 to 2005.
co-edition with Galerie Lara Vincy, during exhibition "La Mer Dangereuse"- 2005
10 Eur

2004
HENRI CHOPIN - La danse des tonneaux roulants et brisés - EM005
The legendary sound pioneer Henri Chopin performs his latest work (nov 2003) created in his studio with a microphone and a Revox. This 51 minutes three-part piece demonstrates the astonishing vitality of the 82-year old artist, who remains as forceful and passionate as ever.

Le pionnier légendaire de la poésie sonore Henri Chopin (1922 - 2008) livre ici sa dernière composition datant de novembre 2003, réalisée chez lui à Dereham en Angleterre avec son micro et son Revox stéréo. Cette pièce de 51 minutes en trois volets témoigne de la vitalité et de la créativité dont faisait preuve Henri Chopin qui travaillait encore à plus de 82 ans !, avec acharnement et passion.
10 Eur

1997>2005
ERRATUM# series : an errant and irregular noise/art/poetry CD compilation




FEW LAST COPIES ! : 30 Eur

2004
ERRATUM#4, 3 CD's, 53 artists - EM004
Poetry of sound / sound of poetry. Erratum brings together personalities both atypical and unclassifiable : outriders, stalkers, survivors of the sonic crash zone, those transgressing the strictures and clichés of unimaginative sound habits. Visual and sonic artists, bards, iconoclastic noise makers come together to create a subtle, hybrid, ever-changing, disseminated collective sonic psyche. From the time of Marcel Duchamp's Musical Erratum and Luigi Russolo's Art of Noises in 1913 to the latterday recuperation of software bugs, crashes, along with the eclectic array of contemporary poetical noise praxis, there is a rich, complex and poorly understood history. Erratum's aim is not so much to associate poetry and music as to seek out their potential to merge : the crossovers, the openings, the interzones, meetings and fault lines, the ineffable yet tangible open fusion, that blends the different vibrations of voice, noise and electronics. Erratum weaves a lively and diagonal concretion, an alternative to restrictive and mechanical technological visions and it stands out as a realm of a possible Utopia of the indivisible that leads towards active questioning.

Poésie du son / son de la poésie, Erratum conjugue des personnalités atypiques et inclassables : passeurs-stalkers, accidentés du sonique et transgresseurs de pratiques sonores formatées. Plasticiens, poètes et expérimentateurs du bruit s’articulent et forment un égrégore sonore hybride, mouvant, diffus et discret. Depuis l’Erratum Musical de Duchamp (1913) et le manifeste futuriste de l’art des bruits de Russolo (1913) jusqu’aux erreurs informatiques détournées et autres bruits poétiques contemporains, le parcours est riche, complexe, historiquement confus.
Erratum ne recherche pas les juxtapositions entre poésie et musique mais leurs potentiels fusionnels : les croisements, les glissements, les interzones et autres interstices rares, l’indicible alliage ouvert et sensible entre les différentes vibrations vocales, bruitistes et électroniques. Erratum tend à créer du lien entre des pratiques parfois opposées dans un esprit d’ouverture, de mixage, d’impureté et de distance critique face aux grappes tendancieuses et consanguines. Erratum dessine une concrétion vivante et transversale, une alternative aux strictes visions mécanistes et technoïdes et s’affirme comme un territoire de l’utopie possible de l’indivisible et du glissement vers le doute actif.

with : AGF - Pierre André Arcand - Llorenç Barber - Stéphane Bérard - Xavier Boussiron - Raoul Beckman - Christophe Charles - Henning Christiansen - Chlorgeschlecht - Ira Cohen - Doc. Courbe - Jacques Demarcq - Le Dépeupleur - Fréderic Dumond - Yvan Etienne - EHB - Vincent Epplay - Joana Preiss - Arno Fabre - Giovanni Fontana - Michel Giroud - Guillermo G.Peña - Guillermo Galindo - Tommi Grönlund - Petteri Nisunen - Charles E.Henry - Gary Hill - Joël Hubaut - José Iges - Jil Keita - Christina Kubisch - Brandon LaBelle - laboiteblanche - David Larcher - Rainier Lericolais - Francisco López - Robin Minard - Joachim Montessuis - Phill Niblock - Julien Ottavi - Charles Pennequin - Finnbogi Pétursson - Cédric Pigot - Jörg Piringer - Lee Ranaldo - Jean Philippe Roux - Erik Samakh - Samon Takahashi - Atau Tanaka - Alexandre Yterce - Randy H.Yau

ERRATUM#1, #2, #3 CD'S (OUT OF PRINT) AVAILABLE IN FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS (320 KBPS)
Erratum : an errant and irregular publication, dedicated to sound arts.
Erratum, parution errante, irrégulière dédiée aux arts sonores. Apparue fin 1997, cette revue rassemble différentes pratiques transversales de la plastique sonore actuelle, au croisement des sphères poétiques et musicales ainsi que des arts plastiques (art audio, installations, performances, poésie sonore, poésie-action, bruitisme, électronique). 

ERRATUM#1 - released in 1997 - EM001



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ERRATUM#2 - released in 1999 - EM002