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Calling Out Of Context

The full programme for the ICA's Calling Out Of Context festival, which is sponsored by The Wire , is now available to download . It includes excerpts of iconic texts by/on David Toop, Cornelius Cardew, Arthur Russell, Jacques Attali, Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman, as well as full details of all the events in the festival,, including AGF and Mira Calix on 20 Nov, a night curated by The Wire

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Tori & Reiko Kudo London residency

The first couple of faux-naif pop, Tori and Reiko Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, land up in London next week for a three day residency, with two solo shows at Cafe OTO on 6 and 7 November, and a final duo show at Kings Place on 8 November. Cafe Oto: Tori solo Cafe Oto: Reiko solo Kings Place: Tori & Reiko duo

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Supercollider 140

I first witnessed live coding when a pioneering trio of the scene, known as Slub , composed/recomposed an ever-changing rabid techno beast at London's underground toilet venue Public Life. Almost ten years later there's a bona fide 'live coding' scene. Many are now members of umbrella collective Toplap , including Dan Stowell, who has recently curated a curious little project, which can now be downloaded freely under the Creative Commons licence. When Dan started tweeting snippets of SuperCollider code he expected a lot of "throwaway waffle" but collated also a bunch of really interesting things. "Not wanting this stuff to vanish into the ether", he's now collected the best pieces into a special download here . Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.

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LCD Soundsystem free download

There's 20 000 free downloads of their upcoming single "Bye Bye Bayou" available on www.lcdsoundsystem.com on a first come first serve basis. It will be available for purchase in shops on 12" 9 November and digitally for purchase on 24 November. According to the publicist "Bye Bye Bayou" is not going to appear on their new album, which comes out early 2010.

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RIP Maryanne Amacher

The great composer and installation artist died yesterday October 22. "A sound artist with a reputation for overwhelming volume, precise speaker placement, and site-specific environmental and architectural installations" wrote Alan Licht in his interview with her in March 1999. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Curran and others, she has been dubbed New Music's best kept secret. Thurston Moore made a fascinating documentary on Amacher called Daytrip Maryanne , clips are available here: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/daytrip/ . Alan Licht's personal piece on listening to her work Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) from The Wire issue 181 is now uploaded here http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3220/ .

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The Wire on Stack

You can now buy The Wire as part of a bundle of independent magazines from Stack, which describes itself as “a unique service that brings together the best independent English language magazines from around the world and delivers them direct to your home. Beautifully made and offering an intelligent, alternative view of films, music, culture, current affairs and whatever else crosses their pages, they guarantee to bring a fresh perspective on the world.” stackmagazines.com And if you want to find out a little bit more about The Wire , where it came from, where it’s at, and maybe even where it’s heading, the Stack blog has just posted the transcript of an interview with the magazine’s publisher, Tony Herrington stackmagazines.com/blog/slightly-strange

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Calling Out Of Context

The full bill for the ICA's Calling Out Of Context festival is now online, including info on an event on 20 November that has been programmed by The Wire and features live performances by AGF and Mira Calix: Calling Out Of Context

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Orcutt acoustic

Fantastic new video clip of Bill Orcutt playing acoustic guitar – Edwin Pouncey's review of Orcutt's new solo disc can be found in The Wire 309, the November issue, which has just come out...