PRE-ORDER, SHIPS MAY 26th
It is with great pleasure that Accidental Editions presents ‘Hearing The Impossible’, a physical booklet of collected new sound works that are to be imagined rather than heard.
A rotten tomato from space on a collision course with the Antarctic. An elephant’s heartbeat juxtaposed with the cracking of a glacier. A device that can release the acoustic memory stored in the fabric of a building. These and other wonders are brought to us by 10 creators commissioned to produce works which exist in those rarely charted realms - the impossible.
Developed at workshops at campfr.com, these “compositions” have antecedents in Dadaism, Surrealism, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, as well as the sampled works of Matthew Herbert, curator of this volume. This, however, is a form of conceptual art in which there are no tangible outcomes, except in the ear-magination. These are dreamworks, boldly spanning billions of years, all things in their entirety, the embedded sounds in our environment which there are no known means of retrieving, only wishing that it might be so. These might take in the untold history of labour, or the everyday accumulation of micro-digitalia and algorithms in our surveillance society.
Realised in blocks of text at right angles, or in shimmering waves, or overlaid on white and grey to encourage active engagement rather than passivity on the reader’s part, these works, for works they are, blur traditional distinctions between subject and audience, creator, listener. To read these pieces is to be a participant in the creative process. When all is impossible, everything is possible.
Ireti –
Limited Edition Colored Cassette Tape
NikNak
£12.99 GBP
Stonework: 1000 metres down remixes –
Wishmountain Boxset
Wishmountain
Sold Out
The Horse –
Black Double Vinyl
Matthew Herbert
£27.99 GBP
The Horse –
Bone Colour Double
Matthew Herbert
£29.99 GBP
The Horse –
Compact Disc
Matthew Herbert
£13.99 GBP
Intraface –
12" Vinyl
Berk Offset
£13.50 GBP
The Wonder OST –
The Wonder - Original Soundtrack
Matthew Herbert
£25 GBP
Muscle Beach –
Limited Edition Cassette Tape
Sonic Hawkins
£8.99 GBP
Muscle Beach Screen Prints
£75 GBP
Antechamber Music 2 –
Antechamber Music Limited Edition Colored Cassette Bundle
Various Artists
£14.99 GBP
Antechamber Music 2 –
Limited Edition Cassette Tape
Various Artists
£8.99 GBP
Muramuke Artwork Print - hand numbered, limited to 50
Matthew Herbert
£10 GBP
Right to the City –
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl Pale Blue Sparkle
Dominic Voz
£21.99 GBP
Stonework: 1000 metres down –
12" Standard Black Vinyl
Wishmountain
£18.99 GBP
Musca Remixes –
Musca Remixes 12"
Herbert
£15 GBP
The Swan –
Limited Edition Cassette Tape
Nwando Ebizie
£8.99 GBP
EP3 –
12" Vinyl
Ola Szmidt
£10 GBP
Rites For Crossing Water: book
Crewdson & Cevanne
£6 GBP
A Pair Of Remixes –
12" Vinyl
Matthew Herbert
Sold Out
Musca –
Black Double Vinyl
Herbert
£21.99 GBP
Musca –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Herbert
£10.99 GBP
Musca –
Limited Edition Double Yellow Vinyl
Herbert
£23.99 GBP
Potatoland –
12" Standard Black Vinyl
Jerome Hill
£9.50 GBP
Accidental 21st anniv. t-shirt
£25 GBP
Antechamber Music –
Antechamber Music
Various Artists
£8.99 GBP
Around The House –
Black Triple Vinyl - Special Anniversary Reissue
Matthew Herbert
Sold Out
Bodily Functions –
Black Triple Vinyl - Special Anniversary Reissue
Matthew Herbert
Sold Out
Bodily Functions –
Transparent Grey Triple Vinyl - Special Anniversary Reissue
Matthew Herbert
Sold Out
Around The House –
Transparent Sky Blue Triple Vinyl - Special Anniversary Reissue
Matthew Herbert
£27.99 GBP
Archives 2008 - 2014 –
Limited Edition 10" Vinyl
Brother May and Micachu
£10 GBP
Thanet House EP –
12" Vinyl
Yuri Suzuki
£9 GBP
Wobbler / Yassassin –
12" Vinyl
Party Nails
£9 GBP
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