***Created and co-produced by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill, Hearts of Space began airing on Sunday nights from 11pm to 2am on Berkeley, California's KPFA radio beginning in 1973. Nearly a decade into the program's run, Turner and Hill self-published The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music, an annotated introduction to the generous international sampling of music featured weekly on the program. The book's structure brings the nocturnal radio project into clear view, divided as it is into such "flexible/organic" categories as "ambient," "new age," "electronic space music," "cosmic rock," and many more. Shortly after the release of this guide, Hearts of Space was syndicated to 35 public radio stations through NPR; to date, there have been over 1,100 broadcasts of the program.Height: 8 3/4” (22.225 cm)Length: 8 1/8” (20.637 cm)Width: 5/16” (.793 cm)Weight: 10 oz (1.53kg)116 pagesPerfect Bound SoftcoverCover: Four color offsetInterior: One color PMS offsetShrink-wrappedEdition size: 1000
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06/27/2025
***Credited as one of the pioneers of ‘harsh noise wall’; influential artist Sam McKinlay (b. 1974, CA) has been operating under the alias The Rita for over 25 years. Having performed extensively and credited with over 200 releases, the project has grown into a laser focused multidisciplinary venture and is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of ‘harsh noise’. Accompanying The Rita’s singular and often unpredictable sonic output is an inseparable and distinct visual language. By combining McKinlay’s fine arts education, research, experimentation, and collaboration; the project visually and texturally unites the artist’s interests in minimalist design, noise, ballet, sharks, choreography, and film. Correlations presents some of the images and documents McKinlay finds most definitive in his practice The monograph is designed to provide a cohesive understanding of the artist’s creative trajectory, as well as illuminate The Rita’s uncanny process that visually, conceptually, and historically ‘connects’ seemingly unrelated subjects. Published by Amaya Productions; the monograph includes essays by the author and Centre Pompidou art historian Nicolas Ballet (Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music), associate Professor and harsh noise artist Lexi Turner (Cornell University), and author, writer, producer Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women).
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03/01/2024
***Since the late 1970s, Nigel Ayers (b. 1957, UK) has cut a bracing, subversive path through the contemporary underground, bridging DIY industrial enthusiasms with multimedia experimentation to form a singular body of work. Co-founder of the groups The Pump and Nocturnal Emissions (along with brother Daniel Ayers and then-partner Caroline Kaye), Ayers has been a contributor to and proponent of industrial music’s high-water marks, his Sterile Records imprint disseminating not only NE sides but also defining work from Lustmord, SPK, Maurizio Bianchi, and others between 1979 and 1986. In 1987, Ayers inaugurated the Earthly Delights label with the now-canonical Caroline K recording Now Wait For Last Year, and the imprint has since served as Ayers’s primary outlet for releasing new work, whether as Magnetizdat, Spanner Thru Ma Beatbox, or Nocturnal Emissions, a going concern to this day. Published, designed, and produced by Ross Waitman and Amaya Productions in collaboration with the artist, ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE compiles mail-art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, record and tape covers to present an arresting cross-section of the genre-sundering art Nigel Ayers created between 1980 and 1992. It features an introductory reflection from Ayers, as well as an essay entitled “Bleeding Images: Antipsychiatry, Death, and Mind Control” by art historian and critic Nicholas Ballet (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), contextualizing Ayers’s work and extensive career. ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE is 9.25" x 12.25", 160 pages, full color offset, quarterbound wrap hardcover. Printed by Edition One (Oakland, CA). Limited edition of 750 copies. (STREET DATE - 10/15/2021)
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10/15/2021