Directed by Reto Caduff and Plank's son Stephan Plank, the documentary looks at the heritage of the producer and sound engineer behind 1970s krautrock, 1980s neue deutsche welle, and much more

Iranian producer and DJ Kasra Vaseghi selects tracks for a cinematic mix

Core member of the post-punk outfit unexpectedly passed away in Brussels on 17 July

Held in a cemetery in Sheffield, this first edition featured Nandini Muthuswamy, Oren Ambarchi, Clare Salaman and others. The Wire editor checks out the event's all-night performance schedule

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, this time following a downtempo theme. The show was first broadcast on 20 July and featured music from Bark Psychosis, Ben Vince, DSR Lines, Popol Vuh, Pan Sonic and more

In February 2010, Japanese percussionist Ikuro Takahashi performed at Akebono Art and Community Centre in Sapporo, capital city of Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido. Film maker Mikio Saito was there to capture it

Film London and The Wapping Project announce shortlist for prize awarding female creative technicians

Ilse Kayn and Jim O’Rourke discuss A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound

What does it sound like when two black holes collide? Stefan Helmreich tunes in to how scientists listen to such cosmic cataclysms

Little Doorways To Paths Not Yet Taken is a bite-sized insight into the US composer's studio work and processes

For his Wire 400 special, deputy editor Joseph Stannard delved deep into the first edition of the magazine he bought, issue 127. The show was first broadcast on 29 June and includes tracks by Goldie, Massive Attack, Stereolab and more

The veteran producer and engineer (New Kingdom, Gravediggaz, Wu-Tang Clan) presents an exclusive mix featuring Public Enemy, Ornette Coleman, Rammellzee and more

Never before reissued on CD, Real Gone Music will release 1969's Ornette At 12 and 1972's Crisis

The Wire Presents series continues this August with Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids at London’s The Old Queens Head. We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway

Swedish film maker Kasper Collin's acclaimed documentary about the star-crossed relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common law wife Helen is screened in London this week.

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, featuring 90 minutes of all new discs hitting The Wire office from the likes of Jon Collin, Maya Dunietz, Jürg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben, Jimmy Giuffre, and more. The show was first broadcast on 13 July

Following a series of reissues, Laraaji prepares two sets of new music for the All Saints label

The Irish composer and conceptual artist conjures up a cassette of lost avant garde music as part of her Aisteach project

Unsound’s London Barbican dislocation includes The Caretaker, Liz Harris and Felicità in its line-up

Artists this year include This Is Not This Heat, Simon Crabb and others

The London trio release their second full length record

Recorded in Berlin, the Turkish drummer shares footage of extracts from hours of improvised davul playing

EMMA shares a 45 minute mix of her own productions on the day of her latest release

Filmed in India and Nepal, the experimental documentary Kalinga Utkal follows Picco's journeys to the heart of the subcontinent’s Buddhist and Hindu cities

V/Vm and Boomkat pay tribute to a rarely celebrated strand of Manchester's rave folklore

The Art Of Sound: A Visual History For Audiophiles documents the evolution from acoustic to digital recording during the last 160 years

The newly formed group featuring Charles Hayward played a trigger happy set at Salford’s Islington Mill in April 2017

The 19th edition of CTM will run from 26 January–4 February 2018. It’s already open to submissions for its fifth Radio Lab Call

The festival has announced its line-up and the addition of three new stages in the city of Eupen

The Finnish band share a recording of their live set at their hometown Pori’s Jungle Jane

The duo have teamed up with the artist platform Metal on the new project that works with young adults aged 13–19

New Zealand's DIY singer-songwriter looks back at his 30 year career in Time Flowing Backwards

Film maker Robert Mugge's 1986 documentary about the legendary jazz saxophonist will be released on Blu-ray and DVD

In 1968 Oliveira became the sole Latin American contributor to Source: Music Of The Avant Garde

Ben Graham’s Scatological Alchemy: A Gnostic Biography Of The Butthole Surfers is in its final stages – now funds are needed for editing, type setting and more

Having notched up more than 100 releases, the US based label will mark their anniversary with two specials featuring Drew McDowall and guests

The last in our Wire 400 series on Resonance FM. Chris Bohn presents The Ones That Got Away, focusing on underheard or undervalued music that slipped through the net.

One day improv festival to take place in East London this September

The French composer, musique concrète and electroacoustic music innovator died in hospital on 5 July

11 years after making her debut on Dance Mania, the Chicago footwork producer and DJ delivers her first LP

Premiered last year, the film (English title: Tectonic Plate) features a score by the late Mika Vainio

Cafe Oto’s charity show for victims of the West London fire disaster features Aisha Orazbayeva, Beatrice Dillon, Adam Bohman and many others

The Brooklyn based trio announce the swift follow-up to their latest release The Narrows

Editor Derek Walmsley and contributor Sukhdev Sandhu guested on Daniel Blumin’s WFMU show this month to celebrate The Wire’s 400th issue

Revisiting his 1989 Wire interview with Geri Allen, Urpeth salutes the composer, jazz pianist and educator

The Chicago bandleader and composer has passed away aged 90

Resistance will be performed alongside John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra

Label founders Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard present their own productions on Great Many Arrows to mark 8 years of their imprint

1970s DIY culture journal will be subject of the showcase at Red Gallery in London

The festival celebrating sound will run at various venues in south London from 2–9 July

Following their performance at Manana festival in 2016, the UK producer duo and Cuban band release a full length album together

We continue our partnership with London venue The Jazz Cafe with a series of forthcoming shows

In another Wire 400 special edition of Adventures In Sound And Music on Resonance FM, Shane Woolman plays a selection of tracks from The Wire Tapper compilation series. The show took place on 22 June and featured This Heat, Pan Sonic, Bonaventure and more

Held at Berlin's Kraftwerk venue, this “fifth edition of the modern era” has a line-up that includes Roly Porter, Puce Mary, Abul Mogard and more

Warp to rerelease B12's Electro-Soma this August

The release features Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and more

Opaque Poetics will take place on 2 September and promises “immersive and intense soundscapes”.

Dragoș Rusu, organiser of Romania's Outernational Days festival, has recorded a mix exclusively for The Wire

The groundbreaking text has long been out of print, with copies selling online for anything up to £100 and beyond

Ahead of the memorial concert in Tokyo, Japan's online TV channel streams talks and performances to mark the passing of PSF Records founder Hideo Ikeezumi

Card series includes designs by C Spencer Yeh and Christine Sun Kim

Online Editor Daisy Hyde continues the Wire 400 series with The Wire Bass Heads playing some music from a selection of cover stars that work at the lower end of the audio spectrum

This August will mark the fifth edition of A L‘arme! festival in Berlin

Rob Young discusses Pauline Oliveros with Emily Manzo and Alvin Curran, and talks to Jace Clayton and Hans-Joachim Roedelius at the 2017 edition of Knoxville's Big Ears festival

For this edition of Rewired on NTS radio, Shane Woolman and Daisy Hyde are joined in the studio by Bristol based producer Peverelist. The show took place on 15 June

After performing 109.47 degrees at London's Iklectik, Electric Indigo was interviewed by The Wire's Deputy Editor Emily Bick and took questions from the floor

Academic journal of hip hop is asking for submissions of new essays. Deadline is mid-September

Taking place in a field in Oxfordshire, the 3-day event will also feature a live edition of Invisible Jukebox with Zoviet*France

Listen to a track taken from the venue's latest digital download release

Artists will create site-specific sound pieces as part of Manchester Festival

The South London musician has penned a musical as her response to a request to open up for Darkstar

Paradox will be the theme of the 7th edition of Portugal's Jardins Efémeros festival

The German dub techno duo are releasing their first album in seventeen years

Listen to The Wire's Robert Barry talk with Peter Zinovieff at Rewire 2017

Renowned Ocora recordist talks to Hisham Mayet about his extensive work in Africa, South East Asia and beyond

The Otolith Group's gallery film featuring the music and words of composer Julius Eastman will be screened at London's Corsica Studios on 22 June.

After a four year hiatus, The Wire Salon returns to Cafe Oto on 16 July for a talk with photographer, author and black music historian Val Wilmer.

Continuing the series of Wire 400 radio specials on Resonance FM, deputy editor Emily Bick presented a themed show playing music mentioned in the magazine in 1997–98, when she first started reading it. The show took place on 8 June and featured artists such as Robert Ashley, Stereolab, Arto Lindsay and more

The violinist and vocalist presents a visual accompaniment to music from her new album, Pools Of Light

The London promoters will host Melt-Banana at The Garage followed by Zu at London Fields Brewhouse

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the July issue #401

French author, composer and artistic director of the Groupe De Recherches Musicales shares three pieces from a forthcoming album

The annual festival will stage its seventh edition with another diverse line-up

Directed by Jalo Nuñez Del Prado, the project seeks the “rescue, comeback and re-appreciation” of the Discos Horóscopo catalogue

Closing our Wire 400 mix series, Irish collective No Place Like Drone share a set of ambient music

Musician Anton Nikkilä and filmmaker Mika Taanila talk to Jennifer Lucy Allan about archive recordings by their high school six piece, Swissair

The dance tracks feature archival material from the major Hugh Tracey archive collection at ILAM

Ascetic House share music from a new USB package featuring eight separate works

Musicians will perform the audio visual thriller in their own separate section for the duration of the event taking place at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex

NYC curator and promoter launches new publication following its first year of operations

In celebration of 400 issues of The Wire, we've teamed up with Bleep to design a limited edition T-shirt, on sale now