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

30 minute improvisation with Syd Barrett included on new box set The Early Years 1965–1972

Andy Hamilton visits St Johns Church in Seaham, County Durham, to watch the New York ensemble perform a new composition commissioned to mark the town's mining history

Edwin Pouncey recalls a walk in Manhattan with the Suicide vocalist

“It’s a strange thing, to wake in the morning and find yourself instantly severed from a collective ideal that has shaped your whole life in such a dramatic way,” reflects Unsound festival founder Mat Schulz, disconcerted to see Unsound autumn edition’s Dislocation theme politically derailed by UK Brexit’s victory

In the last in a series of articles on Prince, The Wire's Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard recalls five instances of Prince-related intensity

The songs Prince made under a female alias are the pinnacle of his career, says Derek Walmsley