The Portal
Heatsick's Portal
May 2013
Steven Warwick's quick stop tour of his favourite bits of reading, watching and listening online, taking in drone aircraft technology, hybridisation and queer actor and director Fred Halsted.
Steven Warwick's quick stop tour of his favourite bits of reading, watching and listening online, taking in drone aircraft technology, hybridisation and queer actor and director Fred Halsted.
Follow Ashley Paul's top choice picks of the web. The US multi-instrumentalist was featured in The Wire 350, in an interview with Nick Southgate.
Little Annie Bandez spreads the word about her top websites. Annie is in The Wire 349 featured in an Invisible Jukebox, tested by Dave Mandl.
Jazz organist, improviser and interlocutor Alexander Hawkins takes us on a web journey through the work of Henry Threadgill and his Zooid group.
Alex Neilson, author of The Wire 349 Collateral Damage article on the connections between folk music and the future promised by digital culture, chooses five highlights from the newly digitised Topic label.
The Wire Salon in February – The Way Of The Hacker – brought together contemporary experimental musicians to discuss the practice of designing and building new audio interfaces. Here, two of the panelists, Tom Bugs and Sam Underwood spread online knowledge for hackers in training.
Swedish power jazz dynamo and vinyl-addict Mats Gustafsson shares his six essential links for the burgeoning "discaholic". Gustafsson is on the cover of The Wire 349 in an article by Daniel Spicer.
Ergo Phizmiz's choice links of the web. The rogue collagist and radio artist is featured in an interview with Clive Bell for The Wire issue 349.
A selection of sonic impressions from the former Soviet republic of Georgia and its capital Tbilisi, selected by Matthew Collin, author of a Global Ear report on the city’s electronic music in The Wire 348.
Follow Cara Tolmie's choice picks of the web. Tolmie is featured in an article by Louise Gray in The Wire 348.
Follow the sound artist’s choice picks of the web. Farmer is featured in an article by Daniela Cascella in The Wire 348.
Follow Kemper Norton's choice picks of the web. Norton is featured in Matthew Ingram's article on West Country electronic music makers in The Wire 346.
Follow Loki aka IX Tab aka Saxon's choice picks of the web. Loki is featured in Matthew Ingram's article on West Country electronic music makers in The Wire 346.
Follow the musician Holly Herndon's top links of the web. Herndon is the subject of an article by Jennifer Lucy Allan in The Wire 345, her album, Movement is released by RVNG Intl on 15 November. She'll also be performing at the Unsound festival in Krakow, Poland on 18 October.
Browse the improvising sax player's top picks of the web. John Butcher is the subject of The Wire 344's Invisible Jukebox, tested by Clive Bell.
Follow Ex-Easter Island Head's choice links of the web. The Liverpool based minimalist group is featured in an article by Abi Bliss in The Wire 343.
Follow film maker Peter Strickland's top choice of the web, including sites devoted to favourite Soviet bus stops, visual music and more. Strickland and his film Berberian Sound Studio are the subjects of an article by Daniel Spicer in The Wire 343.
Kirkley, author of The Wire 342 Global Ear article on the 'Balani Show' sound system street parties of Bamako (capital of Mali) presents a short run down on internet based ethnography, music collecting and micro genres.
The author of Berlin Sampler curates a list of archival links on the history of Berlin's music scene.
Read Ian Rawes of the London Sound Survey sound map website's top picks of web links. Rawes and the London Sound Survey are featured in The Wire 341 in an article by Nathan Budzinski.
Follow the composer and Zeitkratzer founder's top picks of the web. Friedl is the subject of The Wire 341 Invisible Jukebox, tested by André Vida.
Find out about artist Ruth Ewan's top picks of the web. Ewan's work is featured in The Wire 340 in an article by Agata Pyzik.
Find out about Julian Henriques' choice picks of the web. Henriques is the author of The Wire 340 Global Ear: Kingston.
Follow Ralph Cumbers aka Bass Clef's top picks of the web. Cumbers is featured in The Wire 340 in an article by Joseph Stannard.