Founded by LeRoy Stevens, the Los Angeles-based Small World label is focused on sound works by artists: field recordings (a waterway, an aquarium, a textile factory), performance documentation, and the legacy of musique concrète, often playfully blurring the distinctions between those categories. Exquisitely designed objects, these records are also frequently hypnotic, sometimes jarring, and always intensely present. -Michael Ned Holte
Website: Dain Blodorn-Kim
Design: Alfredo Ruiz
Stockists
After 8 Books, Paris
Art into Life, Japan
Ergot Records, New York
THE GREEN EAR: The Henning Christiansen Archive shop, Møn
Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin
ICA, Los Angeles
Jacknife Records and Tapes, Los Angeles
Kunsthalle Zürich
Les press du reel, Dijon
Ooga Booga, Los Angeles
Penultimate Press, Berlin
Printed Matter, New York
Rumpsti Pumsti, Copenhagen
Soundohm, Milan
Ulises, Philadelphia
Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
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