Sub Rosa is a record label based in

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specializing in avant-garde music,

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

, world music and noise music. Directed by Guy-Marc Hinant and Frédéric Walheer, Sub Rosa has released over 250 titles of experimental,

drone music Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harm ...

, noise music,

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ritual music Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Reli ...

and film music. The label has released archival material related to prominent twentieth-century avant-garde figures such as Marcel Duchamp, William S. Burroughs,

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the Modernism, modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important ...

, and Kurt Schwitters. Sub Rosa also releases material from a number of important electronic music composers, such as ( Luc Ferrari, Henri Pousseur, Tod Dockstader, Nam June Paik, Francisco López); and traditional music from around the world in anthologies of

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, ...

sound, the Master Musicians of Joujouka, Tibetan music and

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ese music, recorded by John Levy)

History

Sub Rosa was established at the end of the ‘80s, and expanded its catalogue in the mid-‘90s through the release of

. The soundtrack album by Laibach for the Neue Slowenische Kunst production ''Baptism'' was one of the labels' early releases. The name ''Sub Rosa'' was deduced from the first sentence of Gilles Deleuze and

Félix Guattari Pierre-Félix Guattari ( , ; 30 April 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and ecosophy with Arne Næs ...

's book '' A Thousand Plateaus'' and derives from the Latin expression sub rosa: literally translating as "under the rose," and figuratively meaning something secret or undercover. Over its three decades of operation Sub Rosa has gained cult status through its publishing of music that doubles as historical

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Anthology Series

Since 2001, Sub Rosa has been releasing Guy-Marc Hinant's ''

An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music ''An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music'' is a seven album compilation of 176 tracks of historic noise music and electronic music released on 15 CDs between the years 2001 and 2011. It was curated, noted and edited by Guy-Marc Hinant. Almost a ...

'' series, completed as the formidable seven double volume experimental compilation in 2012. The project curated noise music and

al recordings from the last hundred years by both obscure and leading sound artists like John Cage,

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble known as Th ...

Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Ce ...

Sun Ra Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific ou ...

, Ryoji Ikeda, Einstürzende Neubauten, Johanna M Beyer, Morton Subotnick, Sonic Youth, Stephen O' Malley, Francisco López, Steve Reich, Cabaret Voltaire, and Mika Vainio.

Electronic Music Observatory

Guy-Marc Hinant and Dominque Lohlé have also run a film production outfit since 2000, OME (Electronic Music Observatory, or Observatoire des musiques électroniques). OME produces documentaries on avant-garde music since World War II. A film on David Toop's record collection entitled ''I never Promised You A Rose Garden: A Portrait Of David Toop Through His Records Collection'' is one of a dozen completed projects. They also have made a documentary on noise music in China.

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Cargo Records
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History

Anthology Series

Electronic Music Observatory

See also

References

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