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Essay from Issue 284

Richard Cook Tributes

November 2012

A collection of tributes to the late former editor of The Wire, who died August 2007

Essay from Issue 96

Metal Machine Musings: Composing With Machines

October 2011

Brian Morton examines the history of composition by computer. This article was originally published in The Wire 96 (February 1992).

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Great Recordings: Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch

May 2011

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This article originally appeared in The Wire 11 (January 1995).

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Current 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.

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