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Listen to the music we played to Alvin Curran during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 495

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Unlimited Editions: Bead

January 2024

To accompany his report on the London based experimental label as it celebrates its 50th year, Julian Cowley selects tracks from Bead's back catalogue

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Natural cycles: watch José Maceda's Cassettes 100 reimagined by Aki Onda

December 2021

33-33 share an exclusive recording of Aki Onda's 2019 re-staging of José Maceda's Cassettes 100. Julian Cowley reflects on the performance and the Filipino ethnomusicologist's legacy

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Flame on: Gentle Fire revisited

January 2021

Julian Cowley talks to the surviving members of the pioneering avant garde ensemble, instrument builders and improvisors who between 1968–75 were equally at home performing Christian Wolff, premiering Karlheinz Stockhausen compositions, eating ice cream with John Cage or realising their own works anywhere in the world, be it at Glastonbury, London’s Sadler’s Wells or an arts festival in Shiraz, Iran

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“Music is my way of being in the world”: remembering “Blue” Gene Tyranny

December 2020

The Wire's Julian Cowley looks back at the life, work and unseen worlds of the experimental composer, who has died at the age of 75

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Octavian Nemescu 1940–2020

November 2020

Julian Cowley pays tribute to the Romanian avant garde composer

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September 2020

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Simon H Fell 1959–2020

July 2020

Julian Cowley on the life of the UK bassist and composer who died on 28 June