Sonic Pieces

21/12/2023

As this year is closing in, we want to give a peek into what´s coming in 2024. Sonic Pieces will start next year with two releases by Sylvain Chauveau : a new album called ultra-minimal, which was recorded live at Cafe Oto in London, plus a reissue of his debut album Le livre noir du capitalisme from 2000.

The records are already available from Mi - So Berlin (in-store). Online pre-order starts in January.

Design by Studio Torsten Posselt as usual.
Official release date : 2nd February, 2024.

13/12/2023

From next year Spotify will stop paying for songs that won´t reach a minimum of 1000 plays a year. That´s approximately 2/3 of their repertoire. Do you also think this is unfair? Then you might consider signing this petition :

Statement zu angekündigten Vergütungsänderungen bei Spotify: Wir fordern sofortigen Stopp!

07/12/2023

Third and last part in a series of short videos, documenting the making of Sonic Pieces 035 LPs, coming early 2024.

28/11/2023

"A masterful record, soberly, darkly sublime, from start to finish. One of the best albums of 2023!"

Thanks so much to Inactuelles Musiques Singulières for the great review of Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin´s new album "Nothing left but silence".

Full review (in French): https://inactuelles.over-blog.com/2023/11/erik-k-skodvin-nothing-left-but-silence.html

21/11/2023

Things might not be as black & white as they seem 🙃

09/11/2023

mi - so editions #02 :
Tim Tetzner - A slow painful read
https://www.mi-so-store.com/products/tim-tetzner-a-slow-painful-read-art-book

Art book, numbered edition of 45 copies
28 pages, 13.9 x 19.7cm. Hand bound with recycled cardboard and bookcloth,
embossed logo on the back. Risoprint by in Berlin on uncoated paper, plus Japanese end paper

“A slow painful read” comes as a complement to our current exhibition at mi - so, “Affordance and Feedback Withdrawal” by , and shows a series of analogue / digital drawings, taking their origin in microscopic details extracted from the xeroxed cover artwork of Punk and Hardcore releases. Via collaging, redrawing and digitizing, the source material – mostly random fragments of counterculture folklore – leaves the realm of the physical drawing. And context, meaning, significance and attribution dissolve in a monochromatic abstraction of ruin-like beauty.

As a reference to D.I.Y publishing culture of the pre-digital era and paper aesthetic in general, Berlin visual artist Tim Tetzner pays tribute to the immersive drawing styles of Savage Pencil, Raymond Pettibon and Nick Blinko – but transfers their gestural outline into textural abstractions of zen-like formlessness, reminescent of Japanese Sumi-e drawing.

The book is printed with Risograph technique and comes hand bound in the typical Sonic Pieces style, using the same materials as on the record covers.

07/11/2023

Working on covers for the next Sonic Pieces release (Part 2)

03/11/2023

Autumn colours 🍂

26/10/2023

The next edition of our new art book series comes in connection with the upcoming exhibition at our Mi - So Berlin store by visual artist Tim Tetzner (known from his design for Jan Jelinek´s Faitiche label). It will already be available tomorrow for the vernissage and in-store this weekend before going online for sale internationally through our mi - so webshop next week. LTD to 45 copies. More info and photos coming soon!

mi - so editions #2 : Tim Tetzner - "A slow painful read".

Exhibition page : https://www.mi-so-store.com/affordance-and-feedback-withdrawal-tim-tetzner

21/09/2023

"Is the lack of something still an entity within itself? Is the void an object that exists, although it’s full of empty space? And does the silence still contain a sound? These [along with other] questions are evoked through music and, of course, the title of Erik K Skodvin‘s third release for Sonic Pieces" - Headphone Commute

Sound Bytes Erik K Skodvin Nothing left but silence Is the lack of something still an entity within itself? Is the void an object that exists, although it’s full of empty space? And does the silence still contain a sound? These [along with other] questions are evoked through music and, of course, ...

15/09/2023

Out today!

listen :
https://erikkskodvin.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/album/7EpfRR9cnTR3WAYxWopTiT

14/09/2023

"A silent moment in the periphery", video by Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin from "Nothing left but silence". After talking about this record for months, it´s finally out tomorrow, Sept. 15th!

The art exhibition with the same name still stands one more month until October 14th at our Berlin store.

13/09/2023

Subjectivisten writes about “Nothing left but silence” by Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin and by chance gives a little hint of what’s next on Sonic Pieces : https://subjectivisten.nl/het-schaduwkabinet-week-37-2023/

04/09/2023

Over the years I rejected several requests to use black book cloth for my handmade covers based on the fact that Sonic Pieces is all about colour. But perhaps I was just waiting for the perfect occasion..

30/08/2023

Exactly 10 years ago we released “Lavandula” by Takeshi Nishimoto, a perfect listen for “Late Summer Early Autumn” days. The album is still available as standard CD edition as well as in digital form.

21/08/2023

"Quiet states of anxiousness", the 4th video by Erik K Skodvin for his album "Nothing left but silence", officially out on Sonic Pieces in September 2023. Pre-order through our webshop.
Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin

11/08/2023

"Nothing left but silence" by Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin is now up for pre-order at our webshop, available as LP, CD + art book. Listen to the single "The slow harvest" on Bandcamp :

https://www.mi-so-store.com/
https://erikkskodvin.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-left-but-silence

07/08/2023

Erik K Skodvin´s new album for Sonic Pieces is accompanied by a series of minimal photographs inspired by the music. The full selection is shown in a limited art book which will be available online by the end of this week. The photographs are printed with Risograph technique, and the book comes hand bound in the typical Sonic Pieces style, using the same materials as on the record covers. We’re excited to share with you this first edition in a new series of publications.

mi - so editions #01
Erik K Skodvin - Nothing left but silence
https://www.mi-so-store.com/nothing-left-but-silence-by-erik-k-skodvin

Art book, edition of 45 copies
40 pages, 13.9 x 19.7cm
Hand bound with recycled cardboard and bookcloth,
embossed logo on the back
Risoprint by Colorama in Berlin on uncoated paper,
plus Japanese end paper

03/08/2023

Working on covers for an early 2024 release. To be continued...

21/07/2023

Sonic Pieces 027 - 030

Deaf Center Midori Hirano F.S.BLUMM

11/07/2023

"The slow harvest", taken from the album "Nothing left but silence" by Erik K Skodvin, coming 15th September 2023 on Sonic Pieces (video by Erik K Skodvin)
Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin

06/07/2023

A peek into what Monique has been working on these past days. Keep an eye out : )

04/07/2023

Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin´s upcoming album "Nothing left but silence” inspired a visual counterpart of minimal photographs subtitled “visual improvisations from the subconscious", 8 of which we will present at our Berlin store from this Friday, 7th July as risoprinted and framed editions. Additionally the full set of images will be released as a limited art book, handbound in the Sonic Pieces style. This also marks the start of a new series of publications called “mi - so editions”. Both the art book and the album will be available at our physical shop from this week, online sales start in August. The exhibition will stand until October 14th.

ERIK K SKODVIN - NOTHING LEFT BUT SILENCE. Photographs 2023. VERNISSAGE, JULY 7th, 18-21h at Mi - So Berlin.
https://www.mi-so-store.com/berlin-store

03/07/2023

Thanks to Arctic Circle Radio for featuring "Oslo-Bergen" by Cisser Mæhl in their latest edition, stream it here..

Arctic Circle published a post on Ko-fi

26/06/2023

"Awaiting", taken from the album "Nothing left but silence" by Erik K Skodvin, coming 15th September 2023 on Sonic Pieces (video by Erik K Skodvin)
Svarte Greiner / Erik K Skodvin

"Awaiting"Teaser 1 from the album "Nothing left but silence" by Erik K Skodvincoming September 2023 on Sonic Pieces

09/06/2023

"Nothing left but silence" coming late summer

05/06/2023

Sonic Pieces 031 - 034

18/05/2023

Otto A Totland with his trilogy of solo piano compositions : Pinô, The Lost, Companion (Sonic Pieces 2014 - 2021)

25/04/2023

When Anna Rose Carter and Alex Kozobolis first met many years ago they started improvising together on the piano, and in 2015 they released a single which was called “To Move” and accompanied by this video of people dancing, a moving document of the projects origins :

Video edited by Alex Kozobolis and processed by Dan Tombs.

Anna Rose Carter and Alex Kozobolis (shared piano, improvised) To MoveFootage compiled from across the online realm by Anna Rose Carter and Alex KozobolisEdi...

07/04/2023

We are taking a spring break for the next two weeks. Orders coming in through our webshop during this time ship the last week of April. Enjoy the blossom season :)

31/03/2023

Thank you Initiative Neue Musik Berlin / field notes for featuring Cisser Mæhl´s - Innemuseum in their "releases of the month" column. Read the review here: https://www.field-notes.berlin/en/festivals/58524/releases-of-the-month/58526/releases-of-the-month/200047/cisser-maehl-innemuseum-sonic-pieces-lp-digital

29/03/2023

Otto A Totland appears with a previously unreleased track on this years Piano Day compilation on LEITER. Stream it online here : https://leiter.bandcamp.com/album/piano-day-compilation-vol-2

13 track album

27/03/2023

Work in progress..

21/03/2023

We prefer to produce as local as possible and always love to meet the people we work with. Here´s Monique in front of intakt! pressing plant in Berlin.