33-33 share an exclusive recording of Aki Onda's 2019 re-staging of José Maceda's Cassettes 100. Julian Cowley reflects on the performance and the Filipino ethnomusicologist's legacy
Julian Cowley talks to the surviving members of the pioneering avant garde ensemble, instrument builders and improvisors who between 1968–75 were equally at home performing Christian Wolff, premiering Karlheinz Stockhausen compositions, eating ice cream with John Cage or realising their own works anywhere in the world, be it at Glastonbury, London’s Sadler’s Wells or an arts festival in Shiraz, Iran
The Wire's Julian Cowley looks back at the life, work and unseen worlds of the experimental composer, who has died at the age of 75
Julian Cowley pays tribute to the Romanian avant garde composer
Julian Cowley on the life of the UK bassist and composer who died on 28 June
“Throughout the 80 year span of his life Kosugi followed an independently minded course with luminous clarity of intent”
Julian Cowley on the enduring pre-digital
cassettes issued on Vonna-Michell’s South London imprint