In Conversation
Oral Histories: John 'Drumbo' French
June 2014

Magic Band drummer and musician John French talks about how he learned to sing like Captain Beefheart.
Magic Band drummer and musician John French talks about how he learned to sing like Captain Beefheart.
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith traces the development of his Ankhrasmastion language, from the first time he picked up a trumpet age 12, through to the present day.
Japanese artist and musician Yasunao Tone in conversation with The Wire's Jennifer Lucy Allan, recorded at the 2014 CTM festival in Berlin.
Listen to The Wire's Q&A with the Buchla Music Easel player and the Morphine label head (aka Morphosis), recorded during Berlin's CTM festival
Pete Swanson discusses how his experiences in a virtual reality hallucination simulator changed his appreciation of his own live performances.
Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to Keith Fullerton Whitman, Roly Porter, Lucy Benson and Marcel Weber about their audio visual work performed at Unsound in Krakow this year.
Listen to the electronic music composer and musician talk about his recent End Of Silence project and his changing relationship with One Pig.
Minimal Techno legend Robert Hood talks about religion, minimalism, performing live, and how Detroit will always be home, recorded at Mutek Montreal.
Steven Warwick, discusses self-replication, Joe Jones's self playing instruments, the films of Fred Halsted and unmanned aircraft, as part of The Wire's Q&As at the 2013 edition of CTM festival.
Holly Herndon speaks to The Wire's Jennifer Lucy Allan about armoured vehicles and amplifying electrical currents at Berlin's CTM festival.
Listen to a Q&A with Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel during Berlin's CTM festival, discussing the telepathy experiments they conducted as the basis of their most recent album and EP.
A panel discussion on the role of the music critic and writer in the digital age, with Mojo's Andrew Male, Simon Reynolds, and The Wire's Frances Morgan and Jennifer Lucy Allan, chaired by Anne Hilde Neset.