Apart from each project forming an edition of sorts, there are also editions available commissioned as part of other projects.

COLONY Publication - 'As if something once mentioned, now plain to see'.

More information available on the COLONY website, this publication documented this short-lived but important gallery series of commissions in Birmingham UK, curated by Mona Casey and Paul McAree.

200 pages + featuring Terry Atkinson, Simon Bedwell, Amanda Beech, Vincent Honore, Andy Hunt, Mark Hutchinson, Ryan McClelland, Juneau Projects, Flavia Muller Medeiros, Paul O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly, David Osbaldeston, Michael Schwab, Claire Shallcross, and many many more...

Publication is available for Euro 12 including postage. A 'special edition' version is also available, which includes a specially commissioned DVD by Flavia Muller Medeiros, each litho printed leaflet which accompanied each project, and a special litho and screenprinted poster wrap. Each one numbered in an edition of 100. Price Euro 20. Please email for availability.

COLONY PUBLICATION - NORMAL VERSION - EURO €12

COLONY PUBLICATION - SPECIAL EDITION - EURO €20

CROW'S NEST: 12" VINYL + CD

Crow's Nest' is a 12" vinyl record by 'To Blacken the Pages' a musical project by Paul McAree. Crow's Nest was produced to coincide with McAree's participation in 'sounds like art', an exhibition in Draiocht, Dublin, in 2009, exploring the context of sound in contemporary art.

The record comes with a CDR of the audio, but is different, the 2nd track presenting a much longer version of the B-side track, 'Crow Sun'. Version of this on the 12" is 12'25", version on the cd is 15'31". CD version is also mastered differently.

12" in black disco sleeve with handmade wide obi-strip style wrap around the release, all within clear pvc sleeve. Black-bottomed CDR with info on charcoal card within black envelope.

12 Euro including postage to Europe, 16 Euro worldwide. Prices include shipping.

CROW'S NEST - EURO €12 (EUROPE)

CROW'S NEST - EURO €16 (WORLDWIDE)

NOISE & CAPITALISM: THE BOOK

Title: Noise & Capitalism

Publisher: Arteleku Audiolab (Kritika saila), Donostia-S.Sebastia, Spain.

Publication date: September 2009

Language: English (Spanish and Basque editions will be published in 2010)

ISBN: 978-84-7908-622-1

Contributors: Ray Brassier, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Hyland, Anthony Iles, Sara Kaaman, Mattin, Nina Power, Edwin Prevost, Bruce Russell, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater, Csaba Toth, Ben Watson. Editors: Mattin & Anthony Iles

PRESENTATION: 'Noise' not only designates the no-man's-land between electro-acoustic investigation, free improvisation, avant-garde experiment, and sound art; more interestingly, it refers to anomalous zones of interference between genres: between post-punk and free jazz; between musique concrete and folk; between stochastic composition and art brut. - Ray Brassier

This book, Noise & Capitalism, is a tool for understanding the situation we are living through, the way our practices and our subjectivities are determined by capitalism. It explores contemporary alienation in order to discover whether the practices of improvisation and noise contain or can produce emancipatory moments and how these practices point towards social relations which can extend these moments. If the conditions in which we produce our music affects our playing then let's try to feel through them, understand them as much as possible and, then, change these conditions. If our senses are appropriated by capitalism and put to work in an 'attention economy', let's, then, reappropriate our senses, our capacity to feel, our receptive powers; let's start the war at the membrane! Alienated language is noise, but noise contains possibilities that may, who knows, be more affective than discursive, more enigmatic than dogmatic. Noise and improvisation are practices of risk, a 'going fragile'. Yet these risks imply a social responsibility that could take us beyond 'phoney freedom' and into unities of differing. We find ourselves poised between vicariously florid academic criticism, overspecialised niche markets and basements full of anti-intellectual escapists. There is, afterall, 'a Franco, Churchill, Roosevelt, inside all of us...' but this book is written neither by chiefs nor generals. Here the non-appointed, not yet disinterested, practitioners in one way or another, autotheorise ways of thinking through the contemporary conditions for making difficult music and opening up to the willfully perverse satisfactions of the auricular drives.

HOW TO GET A BOOK

The distribution of this book is going to be done by trading: If you are an artist, musician, writer or engage in any creative activity, we would very much appreciate that you send a sample of your work as a form of exchange for the book. If you are a distributor or a label or a publisher and you want to get copies of the book for distribution, you can send single copies of different books, zines or records in exchange and FLOOD will send you copies of the book in return.

Please email us at the FLOOD email address at the bottom of this page with your offer. Note we have limited quantities of the book available.

For further information on Noise & Capitalism, see Arteleku's website

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All previous FLOOD projects still available, please email us for copies.