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Archives contestataires

Nous ne nous tairons plus

Archives contestataires ed.

€16.00

La publication de l'inventaire des archives sonores de l'émission Remue-ménage marque la fin d'un long travail de numérisation, description et valorisation des émissions féministes diffusées sur Radio zones. En octobre 2023, nous avions organisé une journée d'étude sur les pratiques féministes de la radio. Devant l'intérêt des contributions proposées durant cette journée, nous avons décidé de les publier en un volume paru début 2025.

Le livre présente différentes expériences de radio-diffusion – d’abord pirates, puis sur les ondes des radios libres qui émergent au début des années 1980 en Europe. Par exemple, la radio Wellenhexen en 1976 à Zurich qui démontre de la vivacité de la scène contre-culturelle féministe et lesbienne. Ou encore les émissions Radio pleine lune et Remue-ménage, étroitement liées au Mouvement de libération des femmes genevois et diffusées pendant 20 ans sur les ondes de la station Radio Zones basée dans l’Ain.

L’ouvrage présente également la trajectoire de Nelly Trummel, fondatrice de l’émission anarcha-féministe Femmes libres sur Radio libertaire, et aborde la présence contrastée des femmes sur la radio de lutte Lorraine cœur d’acier qui émerge dans le cadre des mobilisations des sidérurgistes dans l’est de la France.

Comment la radio s’inscrit-elle dans les différents usages féministes des médias, pour constituer un outil de lutte politique ? La radio permet-elle l’expression et l’émancipation des femmes qui s’en emparent, ou au contraire, reproduit-elle des dominations ? Si ces appropriation féministe de la radio constitue l’exception dans la déferlante des radios libres, que cette exception nous apprend-elle sur la norme de médias dans lesquels les femmes sont dominées ?

Contributeur·ices : Juliette Volcler, Anne-Christine Schindler, Géraldine Beck, Fiona Prieur, Ingrid Hayes, Mathilde Leroy et Marc Colin.

Published in 2025 ┊ 176 pages ┊ Language: French

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Self-Published

Ductus

Paul Abbot

Performance €10.00

DUCTUS is the latest solo project by Paul Abbott, featuring 51 minutes of audio, across 12 tracks, and a 42 page booklet featuring new writing. DUCTUS was written and recorded in Edinburgh and Porto in 2019. 

DUCTUS presents a playful weave of collapsing time through a number of speculative elements and fictional characters. Abbott feels his way through learning drums, rhythm and writing as fleshy research technologies. DUCTUS is the latest stage in a process considering sound, the body, imagination, and language through music. This features as part of ongoing investigations using real and imaginary drums, synthetic sounds, performance and writing.

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Slimvolume Synthesis

Sudden Wealth with Roy Claire Potter

Chris Evans, Roy Claire Potter

Poetry €30.00

Proposed by Chris Evans, Sudden Wealth is a collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Graham Kelly and invited poets and artists who use spoken word as their medium. 

Sudden Wealth looks to how the flux of subjectivity in language can be shaped, agitated and re-imagined through a triangulation between written composition, intonation, and extrinsic sound composition. The latter spans analogue and digital instrumentation, foley recordings and algorithmically derived musical patterns. Divergent methods of composition work on and into a voice, modelling intonation, and affecting its sense and intent. 

This first iteration has been made with Roy Claire Potter, an artist who tells stories from fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings. A rapid vocal delivery, a sense of restricted or partial views of space, complex social and group dynamics and the aftermath of violent events are recurrent strands of Potter’s writing, which are often delivered with a dark and sometimes wilful humour. 

Chris Evans was the bassist with the now defunct Life Without Buildings and has previously produced musical compositions with Morten Norbye Halvorsen together with farmers and accountants for his ongoing series ‘Jingle’. Graham Kelly joins Evans and Halvorsen for this present series, Sudden Wealth.

Vocals: Roy Claire Potter.
Electronics: Morten Norbye Halvorsen.
Bass: Chris Evans.
Guitar: Graham Kelly.
Arranged and mixed by Morten Norbye Halvorsen.

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Silver Press

The Gender of Sound

Anne Carson

Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category. 

From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.

Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.

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Umland / Q-02

Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking

Elena Biserna

Going Out explores the relationship between walking, listening, and soundmaking in the arts – from the first soundwalks and itinerant performances in the 1960s to today’s manifold ambulatory projects. The book consists of an extensive essay by Elena Biserna followed by an anthology of 51 historical and contemporary contributions in the form of documentation, essays, interviews, manifestos, scores, narratives and reflections.

Essay by Elena Biserna.

Contributions by Max Neuhaus, Willem de Ridder, William Levy, Collective Actions Group, David Helbich, Janet Cardiff, Jacek Smolicki, Carolyn Chen, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Hildegard Westerkamp, Albert Mayr, Tim Ingold, Akio Suzuki, katrinem, Beatrice Ferrara & Leandro Pisano, Catherine Clover, AM Kanngieser, Gascia Ouzounian & Sarah Lappin, Ultra-red, Vivian Caccuri, Stefan Szczelkun, LIGNA, Edyta Jarząb, Oupa Sibeko, Brian Hioe, Brandon LaBelle, Adrian Piper, Andra McCartney & Sandra Gabriele, Amanda Gutiérrez, Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Stephanie Springgay, Carmen Papalia, Christine Sun Kim, Charles Eppley, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Viv Corringham, BNA-BBOT, Ella Parry-Davies & Ann, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Gwenola Wagon & Stéphane Degoutin, Eleni Ikoniadou, Justin Bennett, Christina Kubisch & Christoph Cox, RYBN, Alisa Oleva, Naomi Waltham-Smith, Anna Raimondo, Libby Harward.

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Spunk Editions

Stalled Death Train

Evan Kennedy

Fiction €20.00

A dark-humored poet’s novel of cruising, contempt, and database crawling, Stalled Death Train rumbles through the death of David Bowie in 2016 to shake apart its narrator’s sense of self. Nick, a burned out office worker and late-Bowie fanatic, spends his days mourning his fallen star, left to decipher the legacy and lyrics of a singular pop icon whose excesses did not cease, even after his greatest moments had passed. Meanwhile, Nick must solve the mystery of why his boyfriend has begun to self-amputate as a form of autonomously upgrading his dimensions—or at least call tech support before he uploads himself to the cloud.