



activeRat was founded in 1998 as an independent publisher for digital media based in Bern and Geneva. Initially, we produced interactive CD-ROMs with artists, artistic computer programs and web-art. As time went by, computers and their operating systems changed, and more or less all our productions didn’t work anymore… Our enthusiasm led us to ignore the media-related boundaries: now, we do printed books, cassettes, vinyls, posters, media works on SD-cards or DVDs. We do them all with love (and the precious help of talented specialists in the related fields) and we understood that it is this diversity and the physical aspect we appreciate.



We are creating and publishing strange and complicated editions and publications with younger & older friends and artists from here & there. Some are distributed in bookshops and art spaces, but you can directly order most of them directly from this site. So, drop by from time to time to see what we have added, or put you on our mailing list. (You can also be in touch via Facebook, but be aware that we are not too active in social media (because we like to control our information flow).
activeRat also distributes editions of other small publishers, labels and friends.
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You can reach us through the form on this website. And we still love to get snail mail:
activeRat
P.O. Box 515
3000 Bern 9
Switzerland
or: rue de Vermont 15, 1202 Geneva
New Stuff


Curious about minds – a series of square vinyl objects
Square Vinyl, 7 *7 inches, 33 RPM, Single Sided, Limited Edition, Picture Disc / app. 6min.
by
- Zoé Aubry – I am a sweet angel face who got into danger place [more…/buy]
- Giulia Essyad – Crying [more…/buy]
- Nathalie Rebholz – Omnisound [more…/buy]
- Caroline Schattling Villeval – Happy Narrative Song [more…/buy]

You Can’t Buy Me Love – Rudy Kanhye (LP 45 rpm)
Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single Sided, Limited Edition, 250 copies, coloured pink vinyl
A1 You Can’t Buy Me Love 3:22
The recording is a sonic trace of the performance “You can feel it but you can’t hear it” by the artist Rudy Kanhye.
The performance took place at Sou-Sou #4 at Kino REX, Bern on April 13, 2017; at the invitation of Mathieu Arbez Hermoso. [more…/buy]

Thick Kompakt (Cassette 2 x 28 min)
A radiophonic opera imagined and orchestrated by
Celine Aernoudt, Melanie Akeret, Zoé Aubry, Lorraine Baylac, Angélique Dalla-Torre, Aurélie Dubois, Marc Norbert Hörler, Arttu Palmio, Julie Sando, Bruno Schaub, Laurent Schmid, Sara da Silva Santos, Tristan Thévenoz and Vanessa Urben.
An intergalactic trip played live and broadcast by LapTopRadio from one gee in fog in Chêne-Bourg on September 6, 2018. [more…/buy]

Abacus – Radio Magic, various artists (LP and rainbow screen print)
black Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, a special edition of 250 copies comes with a silkscreen printed by Dasein Studio, Tesserete of a sketch Ugo La Pietra did for the LapTopRadio group, 2018. With: Ergo Phizmiz, Scanner, Delmore fx, Felix Kubin, Jealousy Party, Johnny Haway.
HEAD-Genève and Razoff – activeRat and Zonoff, 2018 [more…/buy]

A Message to the International Hacker Community – Goodiepal (printed manifesto and audio cassette)
Audiocassette 23 min. 21 sec. with printed leaflet / message by Goodiepal (Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester)
Razoff #04 / 2017 Sound and leaflet by Goodiepal
HEAD – Genève and Razoff
(activeRat and Zonoff), 2018
last projects:
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straight up
(printed booklets / paperbacks and sounds on SD cards) by
Sarah Burger, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Lauren Huret, Laure Marville, Nastasia Meyrat and Yoan Mudry
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posters
(inkjet on blueback) by
Lucas Cantori, Adrien Chevalley, Chloé Delarue, Guillaume Denervaud, Camille Dumond, Thomas Koenig, Maya Rochat
The
Artists
Most older editions are not listed in the catalogue anymore, since you would need an old computer with an ancient operation system to enjoy the content… Some are still available, we even did some patches to grant access. You may ask us. The items listed here are all in stock.
The following artists contributed in these editions:
- Mathieu Arbez Hermoso dliss
- Liudvikas Buklys In Absent Places We Dwell
- Daniele Buetti SkinnerBoxMixes
- Elia Buletti / DelmoreFX My Kitchen vs. the Rest of the World, Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil The Conference of the Birds, Zonoff Café Abacus
- Sarah Burger straight up, In Absent Places We Dwell
- Lucas Cantori Hot Tat
- Adrien Chevalley Hot Tat
- Plinio-Natale Cemento-Müller Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Olivia Croce Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Ceel Mogami de Haas straight up
- Cholé Delarue: Hot Tat
- Guillaume Denervaud Hot Tat
- Camille Dumond: Hot Tat
- F.E.C. Zonoff Café
- F.T.W. Zonoff Café
- Sabrina Fernandez Casas It was a Pleasure to Burn
- Joëlle Flumet Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Sergio Gi Zonoff Café
- Goodiepal A Message to the International Hacker Community
- Hervé Graumann Zonoff Café
- Olmo Guadagnoli Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Romain Hamard In Absent Places We Dwell
- Johnny Haway / Jonathan Frigeri Field Recordings in Sardegna, Conference of the Birds, Zonoff Café Abacus
- Lauren Huret straight up
- Indias Indios Conference of the Birds
- Eleonora Polato Zonoff Café
- Juju & Piupiu Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Rudy Kanhye You Can’t Buy Me Love
- Thomas Koenig: Hot Tat, bliss
- Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin In Absent Places We Dwell
- Franticek Klossner SkinnerBoxMixes
- Knifeloop Conference of the Birds
- Aglaia Konrad In Absent Places We Dwell
- Victor Konwicky Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil
- Daniel Gustav Kramer In Absent Places We Dwell
- Susanne Kriemann In Absent Places We Dwell
- Felix Kubin Abacus – Radio Magic
- L / B (Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann) SkinnerBoxMixes
- Dominique Lämmli and Markus Bucher SkinnerBoxMixes
- Oheun Lee Zonoff Café
- Yeji Lee dliss
- Gary Leddington In Absent Places We Dwell
- Jealousy Party Abacus – Radio Magic
- Ergo Phizmiz Abacus – Radio Magic
- Jeanne Macheret In Absent Places We Dwell
- Raoul Marek (with Ute Wassermann) SkinnerBoxMixes
- Laure Marville straight up
- Angela Marzullo & Renaud Marchand Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Nastasia Meyrat straight up
- Florent Meng In Absent Places We Dwell
- Nicolas Momein In Absent Places We Dwell
- Yoan Mudry straight up
- Barbara Mühlefluh SkinnerBoxMixes
- Bessie Nager and Nicoletta Wartmann SkinnerBoxMixes
- Odilon Pain In Absent Places We Dwell
- Stéphanie Pfister Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil
- Eleonora Polato Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil
- Elena Radice dliss
- Scott Radnor Zonoff Café
- Kotscha Reist (with Simon Hostettler) SkinnerBoxMixes
- relax SkinnerBoxMixes
- Maya Rochat Hot Tat
- Pekka Ruuska Zonoff Café
- Caspar Sawyer, Zonoff Café
- Scanner Abacus – Radio Magic
- Laurent Schmid Rope Trick Effects, Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café, SkinnerBoxMixes
- Pascal Schwaighofer In Absent Places We Dwell
- Laura Solari Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Nika Spalinger SkinnerBoxMixes
- Héloïse Thibault Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil
- TRema (aka Jean-Pierre Peruki) Conference of the Birds
- Triphaze (aka Marek Brandt) Conference of the Birds
- Urged (aka Allis Permitted) Conference of the Birds
- Patrick Tschudi, Zonoff Café
- Emanuel Tschumi SkinnerBoxMixes
- Filippo Vannini Le Plus Beau Coucher de Soleil, Zonoff Café
- Camille Vanoye In Absent Places We Dwell
- Marie Velardi In Absent Places We Dwell, Zonoff Café
- Erik van der Weijde In Absent Places We Dwell
- Frank Westermeyer Zonoff Café
- Seyoung Yoon dliss
we’re doing stuff
Since 1998!

and we are still happy like foolish kids when a new edition comes out.
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activeRat
P.O. Box 515
3000 Bern 9
Switzerland
or: rue de Vermont 15, 1202 Geneva
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