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

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

Anton Lukoszevieze surveys some key works by a Black American composer who was at the heart of the European avant garde

Michael A Gonzales looks back at the life and work of the uncategorisable songwriter, performer and producer

David Toop meditates on what happens when the performance of music is extended over long durations, from all night concerts to sacred rituals that last for weeks

Read Alan Licht’s full transcript of musician, author and critic Greg Tate’s Invisible Jukebox interview from January 2004 for The Wire 240

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

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

Robert Barry looks back at the work of Experiments in Art and Technology from art pavilions to discos with its veteran director

In an extract from a new compendium about West Berlin’s M bands, Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster discuss the formation of Mania D

Ahead of this month’s GIOfest, Una MacGlone of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra identifies five key factors in creating graphic scores for large groups of improvisors

The composer, musician and writer shares a preview of his new album The Clearing and speaks to Neil Kulkarni about the possibilities of stuttering and the politics of time

JR Moores shares his chapter describing the jinxes that followed the “heaviest and least celebrated grunge band” TAD

The On The Wire DJ and Wire dub columnist remembers the mercurial musician whose one world vision included collaborations with Prince Far I, Stanley Unwin and Muslimgauze

Miloš Hroch talks to the first riot grrrl in communist-era Czechoslovakia

The experimental vocalist shares some examples of radical approaches to creating and performing musical scores

Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.

The Australian duo find melody, structure and storytelling through folk and country. By Steph Kretowicz

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the founder of The Wire who has died in a road accident aged 73

Claire Biddles talks to Sparks about their experiences both behind and in front of the camera, with documentary The Sparks Brothers and musical Annette