Books by Sol Nte

Sol Nte wrote " Experimental Music and Free Improvisation " to be conceived as a follow-up to " Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond " by Michael Nyman and " Experimental Music Since 1970 " by Jennie Gottschalk . Sol Nte visually proposes the idea of music on paper: Lists of names combining classical composers, pop musicians or contemporary artists together with graphic scores, traditional music notations, comments on improvisations, music software lists and musical drawings. Readers unfamiliar with any of the names or concepts can search online and instantlyconnect the dots for a variety of experimental music ideas. This is experimental music in its purest form, the free association in the musician's head with a nod to the perennial inspiration of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and The Wire magazine as champions of experimentalism across time and genres. An essential read for people interested in: Cornelius Cardew , John Cage , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Sun Ra , David Toop , David Byrne , Nurse with Wound , Michael Nyman , Experimental Music, Derek Bailey , Throbbing Gristle , Free Improvisation , Jennie Gottschalk , Thom Holmes , Electroacoustic Music , Pierre Schaeffer , The Wire Magazine , Eldritch Priest , Joanna DeMers , Steve Reich , The Velvet Underground , Terry Riley , Sonic Youth , La Monte Young , The Sex Pistols and Philip Glass etc. Sol Nte has been making art, music, and words for the "no-audience underground" since the late eighties. With the exception of being included in a handful of exhibitions, dalliances with Fluxus in the nineties, and an extremely modest streaming revenue for his Pharaoh Sol free jazz albums, he is a refreshingly obscure unknown artist.

"In Loving Memory of the Self" is Sol Nte's first work of experimental fiction: Consisting of a jarring blend of plagiarised victoriana, william burroughs style cut-ups, self-help texts, snippets of autobiography and lyrics and poetry from a variety of occult pop music projects created by Sol Nte; including work under the names Baron Meliadus, Hexbag, Avantgardism, Cagehausen and of course his live and studio work under the stage name Pharaoh Sol with incarnations such as " Pharaoh Sol and his Astro Nubian Dieselpunk Swing Orchestra ", " Pharaoh Sol and the Intergalactic Psychic Nubians " and the " Pharaoh Sol Noisejazz Quartet ". The fundamentally disjointed nature of the text makes it a challenging read that becomes increasingly intriguing and rewarding culminating in no conclusion or resolution whatsoever. This novel should appeal to fans of James Joyce , William Burroughs , Richard Brautigan , Harmony Korine and the generally weirder end of literary fiction.Sol Nte has been making art, music, and words for the "no-audience underground" since the late eighties. With the exception of being included in a handful of exhibitions, dalliances with Fluxus in the nineties, and an extremely modest streaming revenue for his Pharaoh Sol free jazz albums, he is a refreshingly obscure unknown artist.

Short artist''s book/comic/zine about creativity in everyday life, inspired by the zines of Mark Gonzales.