“There is a noise switch on the organ; when you first put it on you get a ‘Whurghssh!’”
Matthews talks to Bell about returning to solo recordings with her newfound ELKA 400, relaunching Annette Works and Berlin's community spirit
Stream the new live album by Garcia Peoples and read an interview with the taper who captured the gig for posterity
“I think the first ‘actual’ concert I attended was a piano recital. I was probably nine...I was in the first row and spent the entire concert frozen by fear of disturbing the pianist.” – Bonnet
The artist also known as Kassel Jaeger talks about the act of listening and what Radigue's music means to him
House DJ and Shoom founder Danny Rampling talks to Louise Gray about his long and deep friendship with the DJ, producer and musician Andrew Weatherall
The London DJ and producer died on 17 February. Culled from The Wire's archive, read two articles penned 20 years apart
The Gateshead DJ, composer and musical director of turntable ensemble NOISESTRA selects her top ten scratch records
In this extract, Cafe Oto founder Hamish Dunbar recalls an early email exchange with the saxophonist
The California based producer talks about films with interesting sounds
The longtime Wire contributor has penned a major study of UK progressive rock in the 1970s. Based on his own extensive research and interviews with musicians, journalists and insiders, it amounts to 608 pages long. In this extract, Barnes offers an account of an early King Crimson set that took place one sunny afternoon in 1969 at London's Hyde Park
Alan Courtis recalls an unforgettable night in Blackpool with the beaming Ceramic Hobs mastermind who died last month
Christopher DeLaurenti looks back at the work and career of the electronic music composer who died on 29 November
The Beijing based musician deploys unplugged electronic music in the struggle against bad sound systems
Writer, historian and deejay Lez Henry traces connections between poets and the dancehall, from Oku Onuora and Linton Kwesi Johnson to Nazamba and Roger Robinson
Pierre Crépon talks to author John Gray about amassing and processing the 12,000 references making up his jazz bibliographies Fire Music and Creative Improvised Music
In an essay to accompany our Excess All Areas feature in The Wire 427, Daniel Neofetou dissects the psychological and musical overload of Kanye West
Apartment House’s Anton Lukoszevieze sets the scene for a rediscovered Mingus composition that the ensemble will perform with Elaine Mitchener at September’s Totally Thames Festival
John Pietaro catches up with Ronnie Burrage to discuss his musical influences, St Louis's Black Artists Group, community outreach work and his most recent album Dance Of The Great Spirit
Following their first live performance with a full line-up since 2003, the Argentine trio of Alan Courtis, Rob Conlazo and Miguel Tomasín tell Hernan Muleiro about their latest CD box set, how they met Pauline Oliveros, and what they want for Christmas
Noisemakers are being used as guinea pigs to test new art spaces. It won’t last, predicts musician, artist and Wire contributor Yan Jun after a poorly attended gig in the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province
The Wire's Deputy Editor heads to Berlin to investigate the relationship between contemporary dance and avant garde composition