Hyper-constructions, neurotic representations, micro-compositions designed as counter-sonorities to specific locations or settings... - environments ingested and regurgitated as audible fantasies... * Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural fictions. Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies -Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear-, -Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language-, -Surface Tension: Problematics of Site- and Radio Territories". His installation work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including "Sampling Rage" (1999) Podewil Berlin, -Sound as Media- (2000) ICC Tokyo, "Bitstreams" (2001) Whitney Museum New York, -Pleasure of Language- (2002) Netherlands Media Institute Amsterdam, -Undercover-(2003) Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde, and -Cross Lake Atlantic- (2007) Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato, and his writings have been included in various books and journals, including -Experimental Sound and Radio- (MIT) and -Soundspace: Architecture for Sound and Vision- (Birkhäuser). He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, -Phantom Radio-, was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany and at Casa Vecina, Mexico City in 2008. He is the author of -Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art- (Continuum 2006)." -Errant Bodies
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
