New Music

Books on new music, contemporary composition, sound theory, music aesthetics, and perspectives from the 20th and 21st centuries.

I welcome whatever happens next

Klaus Reichert Remembers John Cage – a book about music, listening, and collaboration. Told with precision and calm, it opens up new perspectives on sound, language, and the art of listening.

14,99 € – 28,00 €

Der neue wilde Wohlklang

On the 100th anniversary of Hans Werner Henze’s birth: A multifaceted volume on one of the most contradictory and influential composers of the 20th century—spanning the avant-garde, politics, and his personal musical language.

18,00 €

Śabdagatitāra

With *Śabdagatitāra*, Sandeep Bhagwati presents a radically new way of thinking about music across cultures—one that goes beyond cultural appropriation, exoticism, and Eurocentric assumptions.

26,00 €

con tutta forza: Bernd Alois Zimmermann

The Intimate Biography of Bernd Alois Zimmermann, as told by his daughter: a multifaceted portrait spanning the avant-garde, postwar culture, and artistic radicalism.

39,00 €

Die Welt strukturieren queeren [?]

Structuring the world queerly — an essay on compositional thinking beyond music. Eloain Lovis Hübner understands composition as a transdisciplinary practice of structuring, opening and queering the world.

16,00 €

Wo hört die Musik auf?

Peter Kraut explores in 100 paired reflections the limits of music — between listening experience, theory and philosophical irritation.

14,00 €

Der objektive Geist

A radical manifesto on art as an autonomous form of thought — propositions in verse of striking clarity.

18,00 €

This is not music

Magdalena Zorn examines why sound has become the great metaphor of late modernity — between resonance, spirituality and the desire to hear the world as unity.

12,00 €

„Ich höre die Steine, sehe den Klang und lese das Wasser“

Maierhofer-Lischka's study takes us on an analytically precise journey into the fascinating world of contemporary audio-visual theater, where sound becomes visible space and architecture becomes an audible experience.

44,00 €

Mikrotonalität in Mexiko

A microtonal revolution in Mexico: Julián Carrillo wanted to break down the tonal system with his "Sonido 13." Jonas Reichert reconstructs for the first time, based on primary sources, the origins, works, and innovative power of this early avant-garde project (1921–1925).

48,00 €

Opera where it doesn’t exist

Opera beyond the big cities: this book explores the spaces in between, questions established centers, and highlights the innovative potential of musical theater in the periphery—a new perspective on the future of opera.

48,00 €