In the summer of 2012 my friend Stuart offered me a ticket for a
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Dennis Johnson's newly recorded piece November, which
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the history of minimalism. Clive Bell talks to the elusive
mathematician.
Clive Bell on the recent glut of monumentally proportioned
music, and imagining the person who forks out hard-earned cash for
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In the first of a new series of columns written for
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Westerners who rewired World Music as if they were saving the
whale.
On the cover: Josephine Foster: After tracing
a path through opera, lieder, folk and psych, the nomadic US singer
finds her musical home in the charged landscape of Cádiz, Spain. By
Clive Bell. Plus: a visit with Crass's Penny Rimbaud and Gee
Vaucher, Detroit Techno pioneer Robert Hood, Terror Danjah's
Invisible Jukebox, Steve Beresford remembers Lol Coxhill, and
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On the cover: The Wire’s essential
review of the year’s best music, including the Top 50 Releases of
the Year, writers’ and musicians’ reflections, and essays on 2011’s
key developments, including Mark Fisher on the crackle of dissent,
David Keenan on the sedition of song and Philip Clark on the
liberation of sounds, and views from the office. Plus Michael
Chapman's Invisible Jukebox, Spencer Clark & James Ferraro,
Gonjasufi, Kouhei Matsunaga, Claudia Molitor and more.
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Ravi Shankar spearheaded the meeting of
Eastern and Western musics via collaborations with Philip Glass,
George Harrison and others. Clive Bell speaks to the sitarist in
his 76th year. This article was originally published in The
Wire 148 (June 1996).
On The Cover: The Wire's essential review of
the year's best music, including Top 50 Records of the Year,
writers' and musicians' reflections, and discussions of the state
of the art in sound. Plus: Monolake, Janek Schaefer, Josephine
Foster's Invisible Jukebox, Position Normal, The Village Orchestra,
Yan Jun, Paul Rooney in Cross Platform, Jad Fair, Kodwo Eshun on
sonic warfare, Cathi Unsworth on Gallon Drunk and more...
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On The Cover: The Samadhisound proprietor
tells Biba Kopf about his latest song collection which features
input from improvisors Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and more. Plus:
Aki Onda, Julie Tippetts, William Basinski's Jukebox, Joker,
Caroliner, John Wynne, 20 years of Warp, Philip Jeck on recycled
sleeves, Matt Thorne on Viking Moses and others...
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On The Cover: Kode9 - Celebrating five years of
the Hyperdub label, the philosophy don of dubstep invites Derek
Walmsley to a seminar on sonic warfare and futurist dance moves.
Plus: Sublime Frequencies tour report, The Primer on the Roland
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audio activists. Other features include interviews with Trevor
Watts, Ghédalia Tazartès, Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair's Invisible
Jukebox, Dusk & Blackdown, Aleks Kolkowski, Allora &
Calzadilla in Cross Platform, Global Ear from Beijing, Sonic Youth
and Brian Eno biographies reviewed in Print Run, Venn Festival, My
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On The Cover: Wolfgang Voigt: With the
rerelease of his classic, controversial GAS series, the
Kompakt/Profan/Studio 1 founder and Cologne minimal architect talks
psychedelic forestry with Rob Young. Plus: Interviews with Max
Eastley, Kan Mikami, Dean Roberts, Jon Hassell, Dexplicit and Frans
de Waard, Carl Craig's Invisible Jukebox, AV Festival in Cross
Platform, Underground Resistance artist Abdul Quadim Haqq's Inner
Sleeve, Lawrence English's Epiphany and more
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On The Cover: John Butcher. This key player in the
second wave of British Improv reinvents the saxophone via digital
transformation, acoustic science and a heightened sense of
space.
Plus interviews with Michael Hurley, Autechre,
Valet, Brendan Murray, Baby Dee, with Andrew WK's Invisible Jukebox
and Stephen Malkmus's Inner Sleeve. Jed Speare features in Cross
Platform while Jon Dale heads to Queensland for Global Ear. And
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Exotic Easy Listening, analogue Techno,
martial arts movies, Bollywood soundtracks, Tex Avery cartoons,
cult TV, New York Improv - David Shea samples the lot. Report by
Clive Bell. This article originally appeared in The Wire
144 (February 1996).