This is the first of four conversations to be uploaded in the lead up to Mutek 2011. Remaining Q&A's feature Matmos, Kevin Martin (aka The Bug/King Midas Sound) and The Caretaker.

Online radio series by Barcelona's museum of contemporary art, with programmes covering the history of collage and sampling in music to the German home recording tape scene and much more...

Free download of the second volume of Numero Group's Eccentric Breaks & Beats. Mix by Adam Calman from Parallel Thought.

"The many strands of BASCA's activity include the lobbying of politicians, civil servants and industry bodies; celebrating achievement through such events as The Ivors, the Gold Badge Awards and the British Composer Awards, and fostering a community in what is frequently a solitary freelance world."

"Blog of the electronautic duo based out of Tbilisi, Georgia"

The Archive Trails project – a twelve week residency at the School Of Scottish Studies Archives with Aileen Campbell, Alasdair Roberts, and Drew Wright – is featured in The Wire 325

"Activist, writer and filmmaker Jody McIntyre’s blog."

"Everything Synth"

Resource for music and sound enthusiasts with content focusing on the more experimental aspects of audio production.

Explorative audio lab and sound design studio, with examples of their experiments with contact mics and circuit bending alongside their commercial work.

"Archive site for Swedish Radio's web channel for sound and radio art."

Interview with NPRs Terry Gross, covering the legendary phonographer's life including the time spent in the American South with his father, John, in the 30s and 40s, recording thousands of songs for the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Song.

A transcript of an interview with Ornette Coleman by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida...

The comprehensive survey also includes sections focusing on historical sounds of the city, its wildlife, and travels further afield up the Thames estuary to the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.

Try and follow whatever bits and pieces of Lil B's sprawling mindspray actually proves intelligible, be that "rare and secrete [sic]" links to new songs or cat care tips.

In addition to its atmosphere of ‘backwoods horror’ BMT’s recent album Black Goat Of The Woods (Aurora Borealis) exudes an air of cosmic menace which can be traced back to the Weird Fiction of Arthur Machen and HP Lovecraft, conjecturing an aesthetic located on the membranous threshold between Shub Niggurath and Gunnar Hansen.

Lukatoyboy is Luka Ivanovic, who was featured in Global Ear: Budapest & Pécs in The Wire 322

A text about a series of electronic music workshops for children...

Video of Bruce McClure's modified projector performance Donostia

Footage of a performance by Ken Vandermark, Andy Moor, Terrie Hessels and Paal Nilssen-Love at Rotterdam's Worm, 28 November, 2009.

"Not Black Metal. Not theory. Not not Black Metal. Not not theory. Black Metal theory. Theoretical blackening of Metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia."

"Each album is made using free software at every stage of its production – that is, software which can be modified and freely redistributed, with the proviso that users must be able to continue to customise the code..." – from Keith Moliné's Unofficial Channels article in The Wire 322

Blog of the poet and writer Dennis Cooper...