We asked Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, the organisers of Glasgow's Instal 2010 (12–14 November), to give us an idea about what the forthcoming festival of experimental music will be like. Scroll down to listen, watch and read about the artists involved...

Listen to a selection of tracks from The Wire November 2010 Office Ambience

Watch and listen to work by artists who will be taking part in the forthcoming Cut & Splice festival, 4–6 November

Listen to an exclusive compilation by the Complainer (aka Wojciech Kucharczyk, founder of Poland's Mik.musik.!. label), with previously unreleased tracks

Listen to Tecnobrega tracks from the city of Belém in northern Brazil, as featured in Andy Cumming's article in The Wire 320

Listen to music from the anarchic Improv and noise collective

Listen to tracks from Marley Starskey Butler, EVOL, Lee Gamble and Haptic, courtesy of the Entr'acte label, covered in The Wire 320 by Derek Walmsley

Listen to a selection of work from the French sound poet Anne-James Chaton

Listen to a selection of tracks from The Wire October 2010 Office Ambience

Listen to a selection of tracks composed by Michael Finnissy, to accompany Philip Clark's discussion of modern composition in our Retro-Activity special

Listen to extracts from Sinister Resonance, read by the author

Hear exclusive music recorded in rehearsal sessions between 1971-3

Download a selection of Wierd label MP3s

Download two versions of Chris de Burgh's "Lady In Red"

Stream a short mix created especially for The Wire

Listen to an exclusive track from a forthcoming collaborative LP

Listen to this month's Office Ambience

Download Markus Popp's Ringtone II, a free EP exclusive to readers of The Wire

Download this track from the Power Grid EP on Planet Mu

Hear three exclusive recordings by Chris Watson