David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and encounters with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton and more

Edwin Pouncey pays tribute to the bass player who drove The Grateful Dead’s furthest out moments to infinity and back

In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium

Mark Wastell relates how he came to own one of the most famous pieces of kit in improvised music, 30 years after it disappeared

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

As the far right looks set to gain ground in France’s elections on 7 July, Pierre Crépon looks to the reissued catalogue of pianist François Tusques’s Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra of the 1970s as an example of multicultural resistance

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

Jez riley French remembers the Japanese sound sculptor, plus tributes from friends and colleagues

Mike Barnes recalls his encounters with the experimental vocalist and instant composer who died on 8 February

To mark the recent reissue of FM3’s Buddha Machine, Steve Barker tells the story of its origins, a tale which takes in Chinese temples and a Hong Kong branch of McDonald’s, a Beijing foot massage parlour and dinner with Brian Eno.

Petr Kotik, Susan Stenger, Ulrich Krieger, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Poss, Ellen Fullman, Oren Ambarchi, Thomas Ankersmit, and Loré Lixenberg share memories of composer and film maker Phill Niblock, who died on 8 January aged 90

One of free music’s most prolific pianists on the ideas and influences behind his playing

Una MacGlone details a new project that unites improvising musicians, machine learning, and the organic world in a dynamic sonic ecosystem.

The cover story of The Wire 475 contains 18 pages of essays on Don Cherry and his organic music family. In an adjunct to those essays, Harmony Holiday listens to the trumpeter’s 1971 elegy for his friend Albert Ayler.

William Parker, Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Shoji Hano, Sven-Åke Johansson, Heather Leigh, John Corbett, Marino Pliakas, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake share memories and impressions of the German saxophonist who died on 22 June aged 82.

Following Kenneth Anger's death on 11 May, Ryan Meehan explores the experimental occultist film maker's life and work, including his working relationship with sound and music

As vocalist Elaine Mitchener prepares to perform Peter Maxwell Davies’s explosive 1969 monodrama at London’s Wigmore Hall, David Grundy details past renditions and speaks with Mitchener about new intersectional perspectives on the piece