es gibt immer was zu tun in V9. ladies is trouble. a -> d. Popup Press.

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es gibt immer was zu tun in V9. ladies is trouble. a -> d. Popup Press.

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es gibt immer was zu tun in V9 2013
linus gerstner
daniel künzler
adrian kaeser
A5 48 pages
in an edition of 50

10 €
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ladies is trouble 2013
numi mousie
diana buraka
A5 24 pages
in an edition of 50

5 €
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a -> d 2013
adrian kaeser
diana buraka
A3 28 pages
in an edition of 50

15 €
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Gastronomica 13:2. Melissa L. Caldwell (Ed.). University of California Press.

Posted in food, magazines on August 20th, 2013

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Gastronomica 13:2. Melissa L. Caldwell (Ed.). University of California Press.

Summer 2013

Judith E. Fan Discovers Social Change in Peruvian Gastronomy

Kimberly Voss and Lance Speere Reveal Ethics in the Work of Female Food Journalists

Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis Examines the Landscape of American Food Allergies

Language: English
Pages: 86

16 €
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Zweikommasieben #7. Patrick Alexander, Guy Schwegler, Ezgi Polat (Eds.). Präsens Editionen.

Posted in magazines, music on August 20th, 2013

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Zweikommasieben #7. Patrick Alexander, Guy Schwegler, Ezgi Polat (Eds.). Präsens Editionen.

August 2013

Die Tanzfläche
Modeselektor
Tin Man
Lee Gamble
Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles
Jan Rohlf
Holy Other
Wie viele Clubs braucht eine Stadt?
Darkstar

German Language
48 Pages

8 €
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Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I. Rashad Becker. PAN Recordings.

Posted in music on August 15th, 2013
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Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I. Rashad Becker. PAN Recordings.

*Pressed on 140g vinyl, packaged in a pro-press color jacket and a silkscreened pvc sleeve* At long last PAN present the radical, revelatory debut album of sonic fictions by peerless mastering engineer, sound artist and composer, Rashad Becker. Via his day job as a cutting engineer at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering and his post-production studio, Clunk, the Syrian-born German-raised autodidact has in some respects contributed more to the shape and timbre of contemporary electronic and avant-garde music than anyone else. He’s blessed with a heightened sensitivity to frequency and a love of bass and subbass which has no doubt enhanced hundreds of recordings and provided him an invaluable, hawk-like view of modern sonic aesthetics. With this in mind, the inspired architecture, dynamics and feel of ‘Traditional Music Of Notional Species’ can be heard as a deliberate and hyper-conscious bypassing of staid conventions in melody, harmony and meter, searching out and inhabiting the microtonal spaces between sounds with an in-depth understanding of their complex relationships and structures. Yet, far from being an avant-garde academic exercise, it provides a breathtaking richness of ambiguous human expression and emotional triggers, albeit from the periphery of human experience. His multi-tiered layers of oily quacks, slyding tones, convulsive spurts and spatial displacements present an embarrassment of fictional sonic capital, setting out a new and idiosyncratic grammar of computer music language with an inimitably exotic ancient-futuristic accent. For us it’s something close to a waking dream rendered in sound, it’s sincerely one of the most phantastical, far out records we’ve heard in a while, at once lending a gridless, human/alien aspect to the harsher sounds of say, Florian Hecker or Andre Vida, with the guile and unswerving, syncretic avant-folk vision of Ghedalia Tazartes and even the soured sensation of Korean classical music. It’s one of the boldest musical statements on PAN yet, and, if like us you crave genuinely new sonic thrills, this album is an absolute must.

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Bulletins Of The Serving Library #5. Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.). Sternberg Press.

Posted in writing on August 15th, 2013
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Bulletins Of The Serving Library #5. Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.). Sternberg Press.

Contributions by Michael Bracewell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Isla Leaver-Yap, Philip Ording, Leila Peacock, David Reinfurt, Mike Sperlinger, Jan Verwoert

Conceived while in residency at the library of the Goethe-Institut New York, this issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library used the context of the hosting institution as a thematic starting point.

Contemplating this theme as both foreigners and German citizens, many of the contributors present theses that reach deep into the realm of the personal. Jan Verwoert, for example, discusses the communication within his family as a lexicon “somewhere between speech and speechlessness”; while Leila Peacock, as a native English speaker learning German, explores the liminal space between language and translation. Diedrich Diederichsen, together with a list of editors and translators, co-translates his essay “Hören, Wiederhören, Zitieren,” published in the 1997 January issue of Spex. Diederichsen’s discussion of the pop quotation in music highlights the genre’s proximity to language, as the pop quotation “refers to what is absent in the present, and therefore points towards the semiotic nature of any music.”

Language: English
Pages: 152
ISBN: 978-3-943365-85-6

15 €
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Sonidero City. Mirjam Wirz. Mirjam Wirz & Buzz Maeschi (Eds.).

Posted in music, photography, poster, writing on August 14th, 2013

Sonidero City. Mirjam Wirz. Mirjam Wirz & Buzz Maeschi (Eds.).

Sonidero City – Sound system and DJ Culture in Mexico and Colombia, by Mirjam Wirz

“DJs as messengers delivering greetings between friends and communiques between rival gangs: Cumbia-rhythms slowed down to accomodate traditional dance styles. Low tones and ludicrously distorted voices. The Sonidero-culture of Mexico’s neighbourhoods is impossible to ignore.” – Jonathan Fischer on Sonidero City, DU Magazine 819 / 2011

The long-term photographic reportage of Sonidero City is an homage to the Cumbia DJs / Sonideros of Mexico City, who from the 60s to today have stood behind their sound systems’ mics, sending music as well as greetings across the capital’s streets. While some stack loudspeakers into massive towers, others stick to a modest set-up, spinning their own LP collections on 70s-era record players. They go by names such as Sonido Sensación Tropical, Sonido África, Sonido La Conga.

In contrast, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, giant flourescent- painted speakers called “Picó” spill afro-colombian Champeta music through local communities, where the accompanying dance of choice is called “polishing the belt buckle.”

Over the course of three years Swiss photographer Mirjam Wirz visited the living rooms, courtyards and dance events of Mexico City, Monterrey and Barranquilla. The result is her book Sonidero City, a lively visual collection tracing the paths Mexico and Colombia’s sound system culture have forged.

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Sonidero City – Soundsystem und DJ-Kultur in Mexiko und Kolumbien
von Mirjam Wirz

“DJ’s als Vermittler von Liebesgrüssen und Botschaften für rivalisierende Gangs: Cumbia-
Rhythmen, die auf den landestypischen Tanzstil heruntergebremst sind. Tiefe Töne und
aberwitzig verzerrte Stimmen. Die Sonidero-Kultur ist aus den Nachbarschaften Mexikos
nicht mehr wegzudenken.”
Jonathan Fischer über Sonidero City, DU Magazin 819 / 2011

Die fotografische Langzeitreportage Sonidero City ist eine Hommage an die Cumbia DJ’s/
Sonideros von Mexico City, die seit den sechziger Jahren und bis heute am Mikrophon ihres
Soundsystems stehen und Musik sowie Grussbotschaften in die Strassen der Hauptstadt
hinaus senden.Einige bauen riesige Türme von Lautsprechern auf, andere spielen mit kleiner Anlage aus ihrer LP-Sammlung auf den Plattenspielern der siebziger Jahre. Sie tragen Namen wie Sonido
Sensación Tropical, Sonido África, Sonido La Conga.

An der Karibikküste Kolumbien hingegen dröhnt aus in fluoreszierenden Farben angemalten,
gigantischen Lautsprechern die afrokolumbianische Champeta-Musik durch die Nachbarschaften. Das Soundsystem heisst Picó und den Tanz dazu nennt man sich gegenseitig die Gürtelschnalle
polieren.

Die Schweizer Fotografin Mirjam Wirz hat während drei Jahren mit ihrer Kamera Wohnzimmer,
Innenhöfe und Tanzveranstaltungen in Mexico City, Monterrey und Barranquilla besucht, daraus ist das Buch Sonidero City entstanden, eine lebendige visuelle Sammlung, die den Spuren dieser Soundsystem Kultur folgt.

Language: Spanisch / English
Pages: 224
Size: 19.9 x 26.5 cm

31 €
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VOR DER HOUR VII. zweikommasieben @ Motto Berlin. 17.08.2013

Posted in Events on August 13th, 2013

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Returning to Berlin. Kim Schoen (Ed.).

Posted in photography, writing on August 13th, 2013

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Returning to Berlin. Kim Schoen (Ed.). Material Press.

RETURNING TO BERLIN:
A PUBLICATION ON REPETITION AND PHOTOGRAPHY.

Becky Beasley
Zoe Crosher
Leslie Dick
Ulrich Gebert
Christian Hagemann
Marc KatzSarah
Lehrer-Graiwer
Olga Fernández-López
Rosell Meseguer
Rosalind Nashashibi
Vanessa Place
Jonathan Rée
Olivier Richon
Kim Schoen
Duncan Wooldridge

Edition of 50

Language: English
Pages: 14 booklets
Size: 14.9 x 21 cm

40 €
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Motto presents ‘Making Worlds’ book launch and temporary store @ IMA, Brisbane. 15.08.2013.

Posted in Events, graphic design, literature, magazines, Motto Melbourne event, Stores, writing on August 8th, 2013
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Motto presents MAKING WORLDS: Publication launch & temporary store

Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction is a collection of new texts by artists, curators, art historians and writers who are self-confessed science fiction fans. The linking point is the idea of science fiction as a platform for the building of alternate art histories. This collection is concerned with the ways in which science fiction might be performed, materialised or enacted within a contemporary context. Published by Surpllus.

Motto will also present a temporary bookshop within the IMA during the event, offering a selection of books, magazines, artists’ publications and editions.

Thursday 15th August, from 6pm

Institute of Modern Art
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley
Brisbane QLD 4006

DIENACHT #13. Calin Kruse (Ed.). dienacht publishing.

Posted in magazines, photography on August 7th, 2013
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DIENACHT #13. Calin Kruse (Ed.). dienacht publishing.

Photography by Chad Moore, Ingar Krauss, Daisuke Yokota, Johan Bävman, Sylvia Ballhause, Verena Brandt, Francesco Merlini, … Illustration by Poste Aérienne, an article about the underground filmmaker Shirley Clarke, a Graphic-Design Portfolio by Xavi Garcia, book and photozine reviews…

Language: Deutsch – English
Pages: 128
Size: 15 x 18cm
D 7€
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