NEW: Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction. Edited by Cindy Keefer and Jaap Guldemond. This new monograph explores the position of Fischinger's work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, the Lumigraph, visual music theories, and his influence on today's filmmakers, artists and animators. The book also contains previously unpublished documents including texts by Fischinger himself, and unshot animation drawings. Essays compiled and commissioned by editor Keefer include new research and texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours, Jeanpaul Goergen, Ilene Susan Fort, James Tobias, Cindy Keefer, Richard Brown, Joseph Hyde, Paul Hertz, Joerg Jewanski, and more.

PREVIEWS: Pages 186-87; pages 174-175; pages 170-71; pages 132-133; pages 50-51

The book also features texts by Fischinger, a new bibliography and filmography by CVM, and testimonials by international artists, scholars, historians and authors including David James, Giannalberto Bendazzi, John Canemaker, Suzanne Buchan, yann beauvais, Joost Rekveld, Robert Haller, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Scott Snibbe, Robert Seidel and more. 240 pages, paperback. Extensive color illustrations, including never published ornament sound experiments animation material. ISBN 978-9071338007. Original publication December 2012. Distributed by Thames & Hudson, April 2013 in Europe; Fall 2013 in the US (release date pushed back for the US). Advance copies now through CVM, $38.     (CVM members may purchase at a discount by contacting us)

 For orders shipped to North/South America only; inquire for shipping rates to Asia/Australia

Available in London at BFI Filmshop, Southbank; in Paris at Cinémathèque Française shop; in Germany through Walter Koenig shops; in Amsterdam at EYE Filmmuseum shop.

NOTE: An additional $10 shipping charge is required for orders shipped outside North America ($25 shipping to most regions). Purchase link coming soon, email us in the meantime to order if you are outside Europe or North America.

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NEW: Steve Roden, I listen to the wind that obliterates my traces: Music in vernacular photographs (1880-1955). 184 page hardback book with 2 CDs. Book contains 150 sepia photographs reproduced in full-color, the CDs feature 51 vintage recordings from 1925-1955, 2011. Review in The Wire.

Compiled by Steve Roden, … i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces brings together a collection of early photographs related to music, a group of 78rpm recordings, and short excerpts from various literary sources that are contemporary with the sound and images. It is a somewhat intuitive gathering, culled from artist Steve Roden’s collection of thousands of vernacular photographs related to music, sound, and listening. The images range from professional portraits to ethereal, accidental, double exposures – and include a range of photographic print processes, such as tintypes, ambrotypes, cdvs, cabinet cards, real photo postcards, albumen prints, and turn-of-the-century snapshots.

The two CDs display a variety of recordings, including one-off amateur recordings, regular commercial releases, and early sound effects records. there is no narrative structure to the book, but the collision of literary quotes (Hamsun, Lagarkvist, Wordsworth, Nabokov, etc.). Recordings and images conspire towards a consistent mood that is anchored by the book’s title, which binds such disparate things as an early recording of an American cowboy ballad, a poem by a Swedish Nobel laureate, a recording of crickets created artificially, and an image of an itinerant anonymous woman sitting in a field, playing a guitar. The book also contains an essay by Roden.

$35 - unsigned book

$30 - CVM Member's discount

SIGNED COPIES:

$40 - signed

$35 - CVM Members' discount

 

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The Academy of the Senses. Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education, by Frans Evers (2012). Edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Joost Rekveld, Eric Parren. The Hague: ArtScience Interfaculty Press 2012. 300 pages, English. This book was published posthumously in 2012.

REVIEW: Frans Evers’s The Academy of the Senses is a book wanting to be three books at once. A study of the scientific approaches to synesthesia, related to the psycho-physical research conducted by Evers during his studies at the university; an alternative art history of the twentieth century based on the double paradigm of Castel’s clavecin oculaire and Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk; and a full account of the genesis of the Interfaculty Image & Sound. To encompass this entire range of subject, Evers coined a new term, “synesthetics,” to denote the experience, creative force, and study of synesthesia...The Academy of the Senses is a “source book,” a work of inspiration, rather than a rigid account of historical facts. It provides anyone with an interest in the wondrous realm of multimedia arts and synesthesia as a creative force, whether student or professional, an introduction into the foundations and extensions of seeing sound and hearing colors throughout the centuries (www.vangervenoei.com). Of special interest from Part 2 are these chapters: Pythagoras, Kircher, Newton; Castel - Le Clavecin Oculaire, Paris, 1725; Lumia, New York 1922; Farbenlichtspiele, Weimer, 1923; Der Absolute Film, Berlin, 1925; Komposition in Blau, Berlin, 1935; Mysterium, Moscow, 1911; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916; Untitled Event, Black Mountain, 1952; 8 Happenings in 6 Parts, New York City, 1959; Loie Fuller's Electric Theatre, Paris, 1900, and so much more. Numerous illustrations.

    $20 SALE

 

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NEW: Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968-70. Artist Music Journal #11. This special journal is an account, with exclusive pictures, of the Joshua Light Show's legendary 2 years at Bill Graham's Fillmore East. Performing with the likes of The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, The Band, and many others, the Joshua Light Show created extravagant visual experiences to accompany the music. Here are photos and film stills from those performances, along with pleasant detours to the set of Midnight Cowboy and the Woodstock festival. Dan Nadel has interviewed Joshua White and scoured his archives to compile this mini-history. Softcover, edition of 1000, Published by Soundscreen Design. $10. Limited supply.

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Steven Woloshen's Recipes for Reconstruction. Book and DVD (2010). SIGNED First edition, limited supply available. This book introduces a variety of simple artistic strategies to create decay and to re-assemble damaged film prints into new experimental visions. Includes a special DVD with nine short films created especially for this do-it-yourself “hands on” manual. A MUST for those making or teaching direct, cameraless animation! Published by Scratchatopia, Montreal, 2010. $40 private home use, $80 institutions/libraries. SOLD OUT Second edition coming soon

 

   Private home use, $40                     Institutional use, $80

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Elfriede Fischinger: Textile Designs. Small art monograph, reproducing Elfriede's textile and jewelry designs from her art school sketchbooks, c. 1928-29, Offenbach, Germany. Los Angeles: CVM Press, 2010. Published in conjunction with the Fischinger Celebration: Benefit Art Exhibition in Los Angeles. $19.99.