June 2013

"Retail is retail, whether it’s a cup of coffee or an Eliane Radigue CD" says Mark Wastell to Mr Bell.

Columns

Bell Labs: Requiem For Musical Instruments

May 2013

Clive Bell looks at the threatened ecology of instruments and the people who still play them.

Column

Bell Labs: Total Immersion: The Inside Dope

April 2013

In the summer of 2012 my friend Stuart offered me a ticket for a concert of Japanese music at London’s Barbican. The concert was scheduled for a...

Interview

Dennis Johnson: Maths, Mars landings and minimalism

March 2013

Dennis Johnson's newly recorded piece November, which inspired La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano, rewrites the history of minimalism. Clive Bell talks to the elusive mathematician.

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March 2013

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Columns

Bell Labs: For Monument, Change At Bank

February 2013

Clive Bell on the recent glut of monumentally proportioned music, and imagining the person who forks out hard-earned cash for an "obese release"

Column

Bell Labs: Other Folks' Business

January 2013

In the first of a new series of columns written for thewire.co.uk, Clive Bell pitches an imaginary book about Westerners who rewired World Music as if they were saving the whale.