"They return transformed into insects, examples of voices with the power to sever the link with their human bodies and appetites".

Writer Matthew Collin presents a selection of links based around his new book Pop Grenade: From Public Enemy To Pussy Riot: Dispatches From Musical Frontlines

"This foreigner has taken us to a beautiful place but he hasn’t bought us lunch yet". Clive Bell looks at the endangered music of southeast Asian hilltribes and John Moore's Indigenius label

Ian Maleney visits a new interactive sound installation in Dublin, with contributions by David Blamey, FM3, Mattin, Sarah Pierce, Steve Roden, Wolfgang Voigt, Mark Peter Wright, Miki Yui and others

"As Big As The Sky is essentially a 21st century comedy of errors, an ideal genre to portray such a grotesque reality." Marinus de Ruiter attends a premiere of an opera eight years in the making

Mike Barnes joins Boredoms and 87 other cymbal players on stage at London’s Barbican – but not before experiencing a symbolic crisis of choice

Stop six in Derek Walmsley's journeys through the new worlds sketched out by jazz from the mid-1950s onwards.

Robert Barry braves the unscheduled diversions of the London St Pancras to Margate line, upgrades his dumb-as-it-gets phone and listens to the composer's new app-based musical journey piece

Ceci Moss looks at an exhibition of the interdisciplinary art of Julia Heyward who came up in New York City’s thriving 1970s–80s downtown scene

The Royal Trux duo conclude our online tribute to Ornette Coleman

The bass virtuoso was still a teenager when he joined Prime Time and got a lesson in how ideas are more important than notes

The bass player recalls his encounters with Ornette across 30 years and three continents

The UK saxophonist first heard Ornette playing the music of tomorrow 55 years ago – but he remembers it just like yesterday

The Pop Group member joins our tribute to Ornette Coleman

The former Mars member recalls Ornette's Artists House loft and his impact on no wave

The Japanese omni-musician continues our online tribute to Ornette Coleman

As part of our online tribute to Ornette Coleman, who died on 11 June, Robert Wyatt explains why he loves the saxophonist’s earliest recordings so much

In the third of our series of posts shining a light into the darker recesses of The Wire's back issues archive, Tony Herrington continues our online tribute to Ornette Coleman by selecting seven articles that expand on the theories and music of the late saxophonist and composer

Brian Morton pays tribute to Ornette Coleman, who died on 11 June in New York of a heart attack aged 85

Chris Hladowski presents a wayward selection of some musical genres, instruments and regional characteristics of Pakistan and neighbouring areas, based largely on late-night YouTube sessions, web searches and the odd foray to the library