The Wire 451 cover star Liz Harris selects films, books and art responding to water

Rob Young pays tribute to the Mego man, laptop pioneer and bon viveur, who died on 22 July 2021

In a special animal edition of The Wire’s regular record test, Japanese duo Reiko and Tori Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz play each other the sounds of some of their favourite creatures

John Morrison speaks with the US producer, DJ and teacher about the ideas and structure behind his new UCSD course Blacktronika: Afrofuturism In Electronic Music

A new biography maps the life of the Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer through stories, poems, music charts, photos and illustrations

A new book from Strange Attractor includes the screenplay for “a horror film that never was” plus transcripts of its authors Mark E Smith and Graham Duff in conversation. In this extract the pair discuss British director Lindsay Anderson and German group Can

The field recordist and cassette musician on late night listening and his own radio collaborations

To mark The Wire's Radio Activity special issue, the Room40 label head examines the uncanny sonic properties of high frequency transmission

Jez riley French remembers the musician, artist, recordist and researcher known as Embla Quickbeam

As 1999's We Are DMX gains an expanded reissue, the UK electro producer revisits vintage visions of tomorrow with Joe Muggs

The French composer and computer scientist discusses his new role as an engineer developing compositional tools for GRM, and how he wants to create music that makes “life emerge from an inert thing”. Plus, stream Puech's brand new album A Geography Of Absence in full

Writer, curator and performer David Ellis pays tribute to the rebellious Romanian tape loop experimentalist, who died on 27 March 2021, aged 67

Tony Herrington researches the sources of the saxophonist’s recent outspoken pronouncements on the pandemic and Brexit.

When the Nigerian saxophonist Chris Ajilo died in February he was hailed at home as a legend of Nigerian music. Here Val Wilmer fills in the details of his formative experiences in the UK’s 1950s jazz clubs and dance halls

As Feed Me Weird Things is released in a 25th anniversary edition, Tom Jenkinson recalls the gadgets that made it tick

The US composer recalls his pivotal meeting with the pioneering dancer and choreographer who has died aged 100

Teresa Winter talks to Spenser Tomson about her new seaside themed album and presents an exclusive soggysleazysublimeseasidemix

As a complement to the cover story of The Wire 448, a two-part special on Van Der Graaf Generator, Edwin Pouncey surveys the surreal designs that adorned the covers of the early albums by the UK art rock outliers and their singer Peter Hammill

As the first guitar group on Warp receive a deluxe edition of their mid-1990s recordings their vocalist reflects on their work with Chal Ravens

Tom Tidnam talks to the long-lost cult Brazilian musician about the reappearance of his little-heard second album