Daniel Spicer
On Stage
Aural Detritus
Brighton Phoenix, United Kingdom
Sound art and improvised music concert series with Iris Garrelfs’s Traces in/of/with Sound, the premiere of Patrick Farmer’s A Tree Is As Complicated As Is A Word performed by Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis and Paul Khimasia Morgan. Plus performances by Neil Luck, Tony Bevan, Richard Scott, Nil, Dirar Kalash, David Birchall, Lama Dalai, Embla Quickbeam and Daniel Spicer. Brighton Phoenix, 21–23 June.
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Issue 352
June 2013
On The Cover: Babble On! – In a 20 page special, Wire contributors assess and rethink the relationship between underground music and words, text and language. Including Rob Young on songs about themselves, Ken Hollings on Cage’s pulverised language, Derek Walmsley on dread talk, Alasdair Roberts on verbal jousting, Daniel Spicer on hip semantics, David Toop on Improv words and gestures, Nina Power on female machine voices, Hua Hsu on vocalese, Marcus Boon on profane rappers, Rory Gibb on Footwork’s vocal science, and more.
Video from Issue 350
Watch: Vicky Langan's Dirt
April 2013
Watch Dirt, a portrait video of performance artist Vicky Langan. Langan is the subject of an article by Daniel Spicer in The Wire 350.
Issue 350
April 2013
+ The Wire Tapper 31
On the cover: Jakob Ullmann – Stasi interrogation methods and transcendent world religions inform the austere minimalism of this German composer. By Nick Cain. Plus: street dancer and Flying Lotus collaborator Storyboard P, Mika Vainio's Invisible Jukebox, Ashley Paul, Red Snapper, Metasplice, Liberez and more. Stuck to the cover: The Wire Tapper 31.
Issue 349
March 2013
On the cover: Mats Gustafsson – Behind the Swedish saxophonist’s confrontational sound is a musician committed to collective action, from power trios to 30 piece groups. By Daniel Spicer. Plus: Ergo Phizmiz, Little Annie's Jukebox, a Primer on US hardcore, Lonnie Holley and more.
Issue 345
November 2012
On the cover: Peter Brötzmann: A two-part special on the visionary improvisor and visual artist who is still shaking the foundations of free music half a century into his career. Interview by David Keenan, Primer by Daniel Spicer. Plus: roots producer Niney The Observer, Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille's Invisible Jukebox, Beatrice Gibson and more.
Issue 338
April 2012
+ The Wire Tapper 28
On the cover: Sun Araw: Cameron Stallones takes a trip through time, space and musical perception in his recent collaboration with The Congos. By Derek Walmsley. Stuck to the cover: The Wire Tapper 28. Plus: Tom Moulton's Invisible Jukebox, Conlon Nancarrow, Charles Gayle, Simon Reynolds on David Toop, Elizabeth Price, Nate Wooley and more.
In Conversation
Listen to a discussion with Seymour Glass and Lucian Tielens
January 2012
Stream a live interview hosted by The Wire's Daniel Spicer on 12 November, 2011 as part of the Colour Out Of Space festival in Brighton, UK.
Issue 335
January 2012
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.
Issue 334
December 2011
On the cover: Manuel Göttsching - The Ash Ra Tempel guitarist reveals how he made electronic masterpiece E2–E4, influencing 30 years of repetitive House and trance rock. By Keith Moliné. Plus Spinn & Rashad's Invisible Jukebox, Grouper, Sandwell District, a Turkish psychedelia Primer, Roger Reynolds, André Vida, Nathalie Djurberg and more.
Tracks from Issue 334
Listen to a Turkish psych compilation
November 2011
Compiled and annotated by Daniel Spicer, author of the Turkish psychedelia Primer in The Wire 334.
Issue 331
September 2011
On the cover: My Cat Is An Alien - Ken Hollings visits the Italian duo’s Alien Studios in Turin to hear how they harness the music of the spheres with rayguns and cosmic drones. Plus Alan Howarth's Invisible Jukebox, Prurient, Fela Kuti in London, Herb Diamante, Andy Stott and much more.
The Portal from Issue 329
Portal 13/07/2011
July 2011
Winebox Press is featured in an Unofficial Channels article by Daniel Spicer in The Wire 329.
Issue 328
June 2011
On the cover: The poster boys for the ATP generation tell Daniel Spicer about life after Tyondai Braxton, the Prog-pop equation, and working with Gary Numan. Plus Simon Reynolds on Retromania, Clive Bell on sea shanties, Demdike Stare's Invisible Jukebox, DVA, Mantana Roberts, Caroline Bergvall and much more
Interview
Kommissar Hjuler interview
November 2010
Read the full transcript of Daniel Spicer's interview with Kommissar Hjuler, featured in The Wire 321...
Issue 321
November 2010
On The Cover: Nothing is real, everything is permitted, says the Irish composer and sonic artist, from within a maze of aliases and false identities. By Philip Clark. Plus: Wim Mertens, a two part Drexciya special, John Tilbury's Invisible Jukebox, Global Ear: Beirut, Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer and much more
Interview from Issue 315
Daniel Carter unedited
May 2010
Read the full transcription from Daniel Spicer's interview with the quixotic New York saxophonist
Issue 315
May 2010
On The Cover: Excepter - Electronic body music and consciousness-altering improvised marathons collide in this Brooklyn sextet’s discordian disco noise. By Phil Freeman. Plus Daniel Carter, Sweet Seoul Music, August Darnell's Jukebox, Jahtari, Lil B, Toro Y Moi, Craig Baldwin in Cross Platform, Aaron Dilloway on Drunks With Guns, John Wiese on the Haters, Virgo and more
On Air
The Sound Of Colour Out Of Space
March 2010
Hear the sounds of Brighton's Colour Out Of Space festival
Issue 313
March 2010
+ Café Concrete
On the cover: Caledonia dreaming: How Glasgow has become the UK's experimental free folk capital, with Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells, The Family Elan and more. By Rob Young. Plus Marina Rosenfeld, The Thirteenth Assembly, The Moodies, Dylan Nyoukis's Invisible Jukebox, Geiom, Sebastian Lexer, Yabby You, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot in Cross Platform, Alan Moore on John Clare, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on Adam And The Ants and more...
WAITING FOR TONY from Issue 311
Rewind 2009: Contributors Charts
January 2010
Issue 304
June 2009
+ Exploratory Music From Poland 01
On The Cover: Ornette Coleman: Music as medicine, sound as universal grammar: Phil Freeman hears the philosophy of the free jazz legend. Plus: The Caretaker, Comus, Dan Graham, Andy Moor's Invisible Jukebox, Bora Yoon, Graham Lambkin, Arrington de Dionyso and more
Issue 302
April 2009
+ The Wire Tapper 21
On The Cover: Sunn O))): Stephen O'Malley & Greg Anderson's drone project opens Heavy Metal to the realms of cosmic jazz, experimental rock and spectral music. Joseph Stannard meets the meta-Metal masters.
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