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To mark her interview in The Wire 452, Austin based sound collagist More Eaze gives examples of her hyper intimate work
The North East England label presents a selection of its DIY wares
Returning after the 2021 summer break, the 9 September edition of The Wire's weekly Resonance FM show featured music from the back catalogue of Brooklyn based avant garde label Pi Recordings
The Liverpool based artist and musician shares a video from his forthcoming album themed around service industry jobs
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our September 2021 issue
The New York based percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire collaborate with composer Lockwood on a work responding to collapsing insect populations
The Wire’s dub columnist and host of On The Wire recalls his numerous encounters with the late great reggae producer across four decades
Reynols member Alan Courtis channels 20 years of involvement in music projects with and for people with diverse disabilities into a new playlist
As a tribute to the late visionary producer we have made two articles in our online arkive free to read
As the Anima-Sound sculptor and percussionist turns 80, Frances Morgan selects music from the experimental artist’s repertoire
The Wire 451 cover star Liz Harris selects films, books and art responding to water
Dave Mandl remembers the prolific US improvising drummer and collaborator from EasSide Percussion, God Is My Co-Pilot, Fulminate Trio, and more
Encounters and transformation inform the video for the duo’s collaborative track
The UK genre anarchist compiles a playlist spanning past and future releases
As Marina Rosenfeld prepares to release two albums including her Teenage Lontano choral composition for teenagers, the US composer shares exclusive footage of the latter’s 2008 live premiere
Veteran survivor of Chicago’s house and footwork scene marks her recent Wire interview and latest album with a new mix featuring unreleased tracks
Volume 37 includes tracks by Cevdet Erek, Ziúr, Mabe Fratti, Deng Boyu, Stiff Pap, Sial, Teresa Winter, Andrew Mbaruk, and more
As the UK imprint's Split Series draws to a close with its 24th release, Joe Muggs speaks with curator Dave Howell and shares a four-decks-and-effects live pile-up mix of series highlights
The former Ghost member and roving avant guitar-for-hire selects his favourite instrumental excursions
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our August 2021 issue
The 29 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Alan Vega, Ben Vaughn, Barb Dwyer & Palmyra Delran, Lawrence English, Nikki Giovanni, Rey Sapienz & The Congo Techno Ensemble, DJ Stingray 313, and more
In a special animal edition of The Wire’s regular record test, Japanese duo Reiko and Tori Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz play each other the sounds of some of their favourite creatures
Rob Young pays tribute to the Mego man, laptop pioneer and bon viveur, who died on 22 July 2021
After recently celebrating his 60th birthday at the London Cafe Oto event 0 To 60 In 3 Moves, UK artist Douglas Benford chooses and muses on various tracks from a career covering electronica, ambient, glitch, dub and acoustic improvisation
The post-rock group from Wuhan share three previously unheard tracks
The 22 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM featured tracks by L'Rain, Greta Eacott, Nexcyia, Lauren Duffus, Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt, Gudrun Gut & Mabe Fratti, and more
The Mexico City based Guatemalan cellist shares a new video from her latest album Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos
Australian field recordist Philip Samartzis and percussionist Eugene Ughetti collaborate on a new performance work exploring the sounds of katabatic winds in and around an Antarctic base
The New York noise musician and film maker shares a new mix, inspired by the English rock group Henry Cow
The latest Wire Tapper CD, free to all readers with The Wire 450 August 2021 issue
A new biography maps the life of the Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer through stories, poems, music charts, photos and illustrations
John Morrison speaks with the US producer, DJ and teacher about the ideas and structure behind his new UCSD course Blacktronika: Afrofuturism In Electronic Music
The 15 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Ya Tseen, Saint Abdullah featuring John Butcher, Antonina Nowacka, Laut Fragen, Jana Rush, and more
The London based experimental vocalist, composer and performer responds to “a world that increasingly makes less and less sense”
The 8 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Michael Marcus/Joe McPhee/Jay Rosen/Warren Smith, Lucy Railton & Kit Downes, Nene H, Pole and more
A new book from Strange Attractor includes the screenplay for “a horror film that never was” plus transcripts of its authors Mark E Smith and Graham Duff in conversation. In this extract the pair discuss British director Lindsay Anderson and German group Can
The field recordist and cassette musician on late night listening and his own radio collaborations
In accompaniment to her Unlimited Editions article in The Wire 449, Jennifer Lucy Allan selects tracks from the back catalogue of Zhu Wenbo's Beijing based cassette label
The 1 July edition of The Wire's weekly show featured a guest mix by British-Bahraini trumpet player Yazz Ahmed, plus tracks by Horace Andy, Dame Area, Ayumi Ishito, Aum Taeppers and more
To mark The Wire's Radio Activity special issue, Rob Turner selects some crucial times the AMM founder took to the radio dial
Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our July 2021 issue
To mark The Wire's Radio Activity special issue, the Room40 label head examines the uncanny sonic properties of high frequency transmission
The 24 June edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM featured tracks by Backxwash, Pamela Z, yeongrak, Dean Blunt, Stiff Pap, and more
Jez riley French remembers the musician, artist, recordist and researcher known as Embla Quickbeam
The Cleveland collective share a video for a track from their 2020 album The Cycle
The itinerant composer and field recordist shares a new audio work featuring the sounds of forests in the US, Japan, and Australia
The founder of Newcastle’s locked down TUSK festival compiles a playlist of tracks drawn from the festival’s pandemic initiative, TUSK Editions
As 1999's We Are DMX gains an expanded reissue, the UK electro producer revisits vintage visions of tomorrow with Joe Muggs
The French composer and computer scientist discusses his new role as an engineer developing compositional tools for GRM, and how he wants to create music that makes “life emerge from an inert thing”. Plus, stream Puech's brand new album A Geography Of Absence in full
The Wire 449 featured radio DJ, soprano and composer marks the release of her new solo album A Secret Code with an exclusive mix
The 17 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Archie Shepp, Juliana Hatfield, Jack O’ The Clock, Jason Nazary, Van Der Graaf Generator and more
Mick Harris shares an exclusive stream of a track from his new Scorn album The Only Place
The Estonian-Australian folk synthesist featured in The Wire 449 presents an audiovisual work based on Estonian song and round dance
Writer, curator and performer David Ellis pays tribute to the rebellious Romanian tape loop experimentalist, who died on 27 March 2021, aged 67
The artwork for the forthcoming album by the experimental collaborators gets animated
The 10 June edition of The Wire's weekly show is a record label special dedicated to Apron Records. Steven Julien’s electronic funk imprint celebrates its tenth anniversary, and host Derek Walmsley provides a cosmic survey of their retro-future visions
In accompaniment to his Unlimited Editions article in The Wire 448, Rob Turner selects tracks from the back catalogue of Jason Lescalleet's playful Maine based label
As Paris based label Souffle Continu begins a PALM Records reissue campaign, Pierre Crépon compiles a playlist spanning the musician-owned label's main series from the 1970s, plus a never heard before live recording of saxophonist Byard Lancaster
Tony Herrington researches the sources of the saxophonist’s recent outspoken pronouncements on the pandemic and Brexit.
When the Nigerian saxophonist Chris Ajilo died in February he was hailed at home as a legend of Nigerian music. Here Val Wilmer fills in the details of his formative experiences in the UK’s 1950s jazz clubs and dance halls
The 3 June edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance 104.4FM featured tracks by Wadada Leo Smith & Milford Graves, Phil Minton, Nwando Ebizie, and more
As Feed Me Weird Things is released in a 25th anniversary edition, Tom Jenkinson recalls the gadgets that made it tick
The US composer recalls his pivotal meeting with the pioneering dancer and choreographer who has died aged 100
Listen to a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our June 2021 issue
Teresa Winter talks to Spenser Tomson about her new seaside themed album and presents an exclusive soggysleazysublimeseasidemix
The 27 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by QOW, Loraine James, Sweepsculp and Piezo, plus a special guest mix by Frans Æmbient, founder of Berlin based experimental label Kashual Plastik
The Irish singer-songwriter's track about exile and shifting dimensions is accompanied with visual artist Locky Morris's meditative footage of intertidal mudflats
Naxi composer and electronics improvisor shares video project exploring the invisible wounds of a mountain village near her southwest China hometown of Lijiang
As a complement to the cover story of The Wire 448, a two-part special on Van Der Graaf Generator, Edwin Pouncey surveys the surreal designs that adorned the covers of the early albums by the UK art rock outliers and their singer Peter Hammill
The trumpeter and modular synthesist duo share their latest collaboration, recorded in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg's disused water tank
Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara aka Scotch Rolex shares work from his residency at Uganda's Nyege Nyege studios
The 20 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Chunyang Yao, Jeanne Lee, Eartheater, Mamer, Akio Suzuki, and more
Here are some of the many ways you can get hold of a copy of the current issue of the magazine, both online and IRL, direct from us or from your local magazine emporium
The Yorkshire based multidisciplinary artist will present the findings of a fictional anthropologist who came across an imagined matriarchal community as her first full length release
As Freedom To Spend reissue The Same’s 1981 album Sync Or Swim, multi-instrumentalist Robert Cox talks to Dave Mandl about his minimalist DIY recordings and his signature group Rimarimba
As the first guitar group on Warp receive a deluxe edition of their mid-1990s recordings their vocalist reflects on their work with Chal Ravens
Techno producer Dalibor Cruz brings a personal mix of raw noise and Honduran punto to Chicago’s underground
The outsider DJ from The Netherlands shares a selection of tracks from her next full length album