ANX N PVC - Broken Music a Catalunya, is a publication project that takes as its starting point the practice of collecting, research, documentation and countercultural preservation, from an amateur point of view.
Between the years 2022 and 2023, a collaborative route has been traced with the idea of developing and disclose a list that investigates around works close to the concept of an artist's book, but in sound format. Works made by cultural agents or artists from Catalonia -both born and from abroad who have worked within the Catalan territory-: audio editions (mainly in physical format and with a strong conceptual or editorial singularity, also compilations, exhibitions or meetings that have resulted in sound formats that in some way got diluted it's borders between the visual, sound, space and time worlds.
It uses the methodology of books that have tried to do something similar in a more international scope:
Block, U. and Glasmeier, M. Broken Music. DAAD 1989
Maffei, G. Records by artists 1950-1991. Viaindustriae 2013
This edition includes a booklet with the list, functioning as an annex (ANX) of the books cited above. At the same time, audio samples from the references in the list are used as raw material for a sonic composition pressed on vinyl (PVC).
Audio produced by Pau Magrané Figuera between 2022 and 2023.
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.
List compiled by Pau Magrané Figuera & Ignasi Molina Montasell.
Back cover text "REBORN TO DIE" by Marcel Pey.
Includes text by Carolina Jiménez, Ignasi Molina i Montasell and Xavier Theros.
Images of front cover, back cover (disc cover and booklet) and side B of the cookie by Pere Llobera.
Project produced with the support of Barcelona Production 2022-2023. La Capella, Institute of Culture of Barcelona.
For other shipping options contact:
paumagranefiguera@gmail.com
Check project expanding at:
radiorelativa.eu/resident/anx-n-pvc
released December 12, 2023