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Mira Calix (1970–2022)

March 2022

“There is movement in everything, even in those things that appear to be still.” Read The Wire 340's Epiphanies column written by DJ, composer and sound artist Mira Calix, who died on 26 March

Essay

Rebooting Afrofuturism

March 2022

In the wake of the Afrofuturism festival of arts and music at New York’s Carnegie Hall, DeForrest Brown, Jr examines the liberating potential of the movement’s legacy

Interview

Constant rotation: an interview with Gurun Gurun

March 2022

Miloš Hroch speaks to the Prague based quartet’s Tomáš Procházka and Jára Tarnovski about their collaborations with Japanese musicians, junkyard instruments and the improv scene in Czech Republic. Plus, Buh Records shares an advance stream of two tracks from their upcoming album Uzu Oto

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Music By Any Means

December 2021

Films of two Wire events, featuring O YAMA O and Elaine Mitchener, plus a podcast of a third, featuring Vicki Bennett aka People like Us, have been posted online by Somerset House Studios