Prasens Editionen Switzerland

Review: Lucerne based Prasens Editionen was founded in 2011 to give home to Zweikommasieben Magazin. Ever since, a bunch of magazines, books, zines, records, tapes and oddities have been published. After digging deep into their vast archive, they found two gems that are particularly striking: a live recording from a collaborative project (on Side A) in the form of the the textural industrial/noise journey by Nilbog entitled "Liverecording 02/11/16". On the flip Mr Pena's "TMC" (The Markt Chronicles) is a three minute gabba onslught. Mr. Pena lets loose, aiming at hardcore dancefloors while balancing between fight-or-flight terror and pacifying joy. Edition of 300.

Notes: On the Potential Of Limited Order is the English translation of an essay written by former Zweikommasieben editor Marc Schwegler. The original German text, written as a companion piece to Andrea Taeggi's album
Nomeri-Tere now appears in an English translation by N. Cyril Fischer and a completely re-worked design by Dorothee Dahler and Kaj Lehmann.

On the Potential Of Limited Order begins with a consideration of the conceptual framework for Nomeri-Tere.

Schwegler then reflects on current tendencies in music and sound art concerned with romanticizing the selfexpression of a constructed Other, both of objects and sound itself. In a tour de force through the history of modern Western thought, the essay draws from structuralism and phenomenology to argue for a strictly antiessentialist ontology of sound.

riso-printed magazine, hand-bound with white thread
-20 pages
-size: 105 x 297 mm
-edition of 100
-includes a link to the digital version Andrea Taeggi's Nomeri-Tere

Notes: Zweikommasieben is a magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sound since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays, and columns as well as photography, illustration, and graphics. Issue #21 includes:

-interviews with Anthony Pateras, Asma Maroof, Ben Vince, MC Buzzz, Dasychira, East Man, Laila Sakini, Lung Dart, Lyra Pramuk, Mark Knekelhuis, Sicaria Sound, Sonia Calico, Stine Janvin, and VTSS

-essays on Nicolas Jaar as well as by Annie Garlid and Flora Yin-Wong

-contributions by A Flolder (aka Powell, Michael Amstad, and Marte Eknaes), Elg, and the Nihilist Spasm Band

-columns by Alex Rudolph (feat. poetry by Chirstof Szalay), George Gatsas (photos), and Michael Eby ("Art Review" on an exhibition by Graham Lambkin)

-144 pages
-size: 200 x 285mm
-edition of 2000