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

Writer and musician David Toop pays tribute to his friend and collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died on 28 March

David Grundy pays tribute to the late saxophonist whose uncontainable experimental artistry expanded the realm of mainstream music into the outer limits

The Pennsylvania born composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist discusses how her artistic practice has evolved to centre her disability and explore it as a creative source

Pierre Crépon pays tribute to the US saxophonist by looking at his career-defining years on the Impulse! label