Philip Clark delves into the sounds of the Study Room and London's V&A museum to see how the recording space itself can “speak as eloquently as the musical notes”

Held in a cemetery in Sheffield, this first edition featured Nandini Muthuswamy, Oren Ambarchi, Clare Salaman and others. The Wire editor checks out the event's all-night performance schedule

What does it sound like when two black holes collide? Stefan Helmreich tunes in to how scientists listen to such cosmic cataclysms

Revisiting his 1989 Wire interview with Geri Allen, Urpeth salutes the composer, jazz pianist and educator

Derek Walmsley vists Ina GRM’s Paris festival to find the venerable institution branching out

To coincide with Kammer Klang's season finale at Cafe Oto, read an exclusive essay by the late Danish electronic music pioneer Else Marie Pade, courtesy of her estate, whose music is featured alongside Henning Christiansen’s at tonight’s show

Writer and musician John Pietaro on the “post-modern experimentalist embedded in the jazz tradition” who co-founded Ornette's Prime Time

Richard Thomas travels to the University of Plymouth for a rare audiovisual reunion of film maker Malcolm Le Grice and AMM stalwart Keith Rowe

A month after his death, the Sähkö founder and friend recalls a musician who “created a language of his own”

The Wire's Rob Young recalls the trouser-shaking subsonics of Pansonic’s “Nordic King Tubby”

The UK improvisor recalls his years with the young Roland UK company and his relationship with Ikutaro Kakehashi

“We would hear about the marching soldiers in Belgium, in France, in Italy, wherever, marching, marching, marching to Russia and of course it was a self-cancelling march.” In the wake of Metzger's death, the composer and harpist remembers their collaborations

Over the last four decades, New Zealand musician Richard Nunns has headed the revival of taonga pūoro, fusing the traditional Māori instrument with modern forms of improvisation

The author of This Is Memorial Device, a fictionalised account of post-punk in Lanarkshire, documents his ‘love letter’ to his hometown with a selection of annotated images

The Wire's Rob Young, author of the forthcoming biography of the legendary German rockers Can, remembers their late founder member

What’s to be learnt from Pauline Oliveros’s contribution to 1960s electronic music? Frances Morgan finds as many answers as questions in Important’s 2012 box set Reverberations

The Argentinian guitarist talks about telematic improvisations and Reynols’s noisy collaboration with the late composer

A series of playful postcards makes for a serious rethinking of women’s place in history

Hiphop prophets from Wu-Tang Clan to Jay Electronica use Five-Percent theology to reveal New York as a site of holy revelation. By Rob Turner

Disco historian Tim Lawrence, author of Love Saves The Day, remembers the late party purist's selection policy at parties in New York, London and Sapporo