New Music

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

Parsifal’s Seduction

Bibliophile collector's edition of the novel with mounted illustrations by artist Alexander Polzin

38,00 € – 48,00 €

Die Soldaten von Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Standard work for understanding one of the most important operas of the 20th century and Zimmermann's compositional thinking as a whole.

48,00 €

Musik im Prisma von Kulturgeschichte

A look at the interplay between sound and culture.

44,00 €

ZUSCHREIBUNG

This book is the second monograph on the composer Peter Ruzicka.

36,00 €

Schalten Sie ab! Neue Musik im Radio

On the productive relationship between radio and new music as a motor of modernity.

29,00 €

Sándor Veress – Aufsätze, Vorträge, Briefe

In addition to the composer, the book aims to reveal Veress as a researcher and thinker. Illustrations from sketches and scores as well as letters round off the picture.

15,00 €

Kranichsteiner Gespenster / Specters of Kranichstein

This volume evokes the repressed mind criticism in Darmstadt.

8,99 € – 12,00 €

„Jedenfalls werden wir uns alle dort treffen…“

An engaging book about a time of cultural awakening - and about structural oblivion.

26,99 € – 36,00 €

Musiktheatralität im Schaffen von Georges Aperghis

First comprehensive German-language dissertation on Georges Aperghis, one of Europe's most important contemporary music theater composers.

49,00 €

Monheim Papers II

The Monheim Papers II provides a multi-layered insight into the artistic universe of the Monheim Triennale 2025.

20,00 €

Water Me. Exhibition catalogue

*Water Me* brings together the voices, works and reflections of a transnational collective of artists, performers and thinkers who have come together in ZIRKA's aquarium to imagine alternative futures.

12,00 €

Begriffliches Hören

Welcome to the Institute for Institutional Critique. "I have three or four good ideas a year."

26,00 €

Dynamic Vibrations. Played with Hands and Feet

A cross-genre artist's book with compositions, texts, drawings and insights into his radical approach to music and art.

29,00 €

REWORK: EMBEDDING CREATIVE PROCESSES OF REMIX IN THE CHAMBER OPERA LA LUNA

This thesis uses methods of artistic research to create a theoretical framework for examining Lorenzo Romano's compositional practice.