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

An automatic composing machine, capable of inventing new tunes long before the age of autonomous artificial intelligence driven devices. Or was it? By Robert Barry

Val Wilmer remembers the cloaked coffee bar performer who took a new approach to poetry reading inspired by skiffle, jazz, rock ’n’ roll and the blues

US composer Kelly Moran releases her new Warp EP Origin on 17 May. She spoke to The Wire’s Deputy Editor Emily Bick before a performance at London's Southbank Centre on 5 April

US guitarist Davey Williams died from spinal cancer on 6 April at the age of 66. Writer and friend Lee Shook recalls how their friendship expanded his musical universe

The history of Western music is built upon the work of Indigenous musicians whose voices must be heard, says tanner menard

The Paris based improvising musician shares an interview with the Japanese sound artist originally undertaken for the Oscillation festival

Mike Barnes recalls meeting the singer whose music made his listeners get a bit too carried away

A resource of music orientated organisations that have been set up by and for people with learning disabilities

“This uneasy interface between Alan Lomax and the record team is also where some errors crept into Voyager’s liner notes, many of which would last for decades”

Pierre Crépon and Richard J Koloda speak to the bass player and poet who worked with Albert Ayler and Black Unity Trio, among others