The Laboratory Planet, 1-4 (2007-2011) [English/French]

“The Laboratory Planet is a periodic journal of philosophy, science and critical writing on technology. It is published in two versions, English and French, both as print and internet editions. Ewen Chardronnet, Michel Tibon-Cornillot and Bureau d’études, produce Laboratory Planet with a team of artistic researchers, philosophers, scientists and activists. As a journalistic multimedia piece, its online platform discusses geostrategic and tactical media as well as speculative issues lurking behind the ambiguous headlines of the mainstream press.”

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Issue 1: Why are we working to our own obsolescence? (2007, English, updated on 2017-12-4)
Issue 1: Pourquoi travaillons nous à notre obsolescence? (2007, French, updated on 2017-12-4)
Issue 2: Hope is not needed to act (July 2008, English, added on 2017-12-4)
Issue 2: Il n’est nul besoin d’espérer pour entreprendre (July 2008, French, updated on 2017-12-4)
Issue 3: The laboratory planet or the terminal phase of nihilism (September 2008, English, updated on 2017-12-4)
Issue 3: La planète laboratoire ou la phase terminale du nihilisme (September 2008, French, updated on 2017-12-4)
Issue 4: La conquète de la Terre par les ordinateurs (October 2011, French, added on 2013-8-1, updated on 2017-12-4)
See also Issue 5.

Gordon Mumma: Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music (2015)

“A candid account of a broad artistic community by an active participant and observer

Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark on the American contemporary music scene. A prolific composer and innovative French horn player, Mumma is recognized for integrating advanced electronic processes into musical structures, an approach he has termed “Cybersonics.”

Musicologist Michelle Fillion curates a collection of Mumma’s writings, presenting revised versions of his classic pieces as well as many unpublished works from every stage of his storied career. Here, through words and astonishing photos, is Mumma’s chronicle of seminal events in the musical world of the twentieth century: his cofounding the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music; his role in organizing the historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music; performances with the Sonic Arts Union; and working alongside John Cage and David Tudor as a composer-musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In addition, Mumma describes his collaborations with composers, performers, dancers, and visual artists ranging from Robert Ashley and Pauline Oliveros to Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg.”

Edited with Commentary by Michelle Fillion
Foreword by Christian Wolff
Publisher University of Illinois Press, November 2015
ISBN 9780252039430, 0252039432
xxxiv+339 pages

Reviews: Eric Smigel (Intersections, 2015), Daniel Barbiero (Avant Music News, 2016), Aurelio Cianciotta (Neural, 2016).

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Over Borders (2021)

“This collection began as an idea to share some of our own scores* connected to the act or effects of borders, which we then expanded to include work by others in our creative communities. Artists / composers were asked to send scores that, in some way, referenced borders; social, political, virtual, perceptual, environmental or between species.”

Curated by Jez riley French and Pheobe riley Law
Self-published, April 2021
[52] pages

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