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What a photograph of a sound sculpture can show—and what it cannot: This blog post describes the paradox. The book explores it. SOUND SCULPTURE. Works 1985–2025 brings together over 45 works spanning forty years in large-format photographs that engage precisely with this contradiction. Also included are texts such as the full text of Sistermanns’ KLANGPLASTIK manifesto, interviews, and an afterword that grapples with the impossibility of photographing sound art. Bilingual German/English. To be published in October 2026.

The book paints a portrait of Julián Carrillo, who sought to break the boundaries of the Western tonal system with his concept of “Sonido 13” in the early 20th century. Includes a video by the author accompanying the book.

Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka explores audio-musical theater as an experimental art form in which sound, space, and stage design merge. Includes a personal essay by the author about her book.

With *Vocal Adventures*, Lauren Newton—one of the great pioneers of vocal improvisation—presents a book about the voice that is as personal as it is practical.

In late modernity, sound has become a central concept: music and acoustics promise connection, meaning, and immersion. Magdalena Zorn explores this development through the lens of “acoustheology.” Includes a video about her book.

Nikolaus mind Objective mind is less a commentary than a statement—an uncompromising attempt to reveal art as a form of thought that exists beyond taste and opinion. Includes a short video accompanying his book.

In *Where Does the Music End?*, Peter Kraut explores the boundaries of music and its internal contradictions through 100 paired reflections. Drawing on music history, pop culture, and the philosophy of sound, he develops a line of thought that questions music.

The essay conceives of compositional thinking as a practice of opening up, queering, and rearranging the world—beyond traditional notions of authorship and control. With personal remarks by Eloain Lovis Hübner on the book.

SYNKOPEN marks the launch of a new series that tackles the radical contemporary issues facing music in the 21st century. Fast-paced, edgy, and fragmentary in its approach, it brings together voices from the fields of composition, philosophy, theory, and art.