Table of the Elements, the influential U.S. label that shut up shop in 2011, will relaunch this 12 months as a curatorial platform, interdisciplinary manufacturing group, and publishing home. A relaunch occasion on the Garden Cinema, in London, heralds its return, on Friday, June 13, with a screening and Q&A for the Tony Conrad documentary Utterly within the Current. Extra occasions around the globe will happen within the following month, the group mentioned, together with a membership drive to assist a docket of vinyl and digital audio releases, artist editions, podcasts, movies, and interdisciplinary dwell performances.
Between its 1993 launch and 2011 dissolution, Desk of the Parts put out information by the likes of Conrad, Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, Pauline Oliveros, Faust, John Cale, Gastr del Sol, and Fennesz. New tasks embrace a piece from composer Charlemagne Palestine, a podcast collection exploring the Desk of the Parts catalog, and an artist-led audio collection. An preliminary batch of vinyl releases contains David Grubbs’ Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange; Matthew Welch’s Library of Babel; and Everloving, an album described as “the debut from the NYC ‘star-studded’ Henry Flynt tribute band.”
