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

If the world's only Tandy Deskmate computer music specialist Ben Zimmerman didn't exist, would nerds like Dan Lopatin have to invent him?

"I’m in hell now. Welcome to hell if you love it too." Yan Jun reports from the Land Of The Dragon on Makoto Kawabata, the Chinese Bureau of Culture and doomsday cults

Derek Walmsley journeys through the new worlds sketched out by jazz from the mid-1950s onwards

"In the very early days, when all film came from the US, benshi could explain the projection technology and also mediate strange western customs to the Japanese audience." Clive Bell on the narration of silent cinema in Japan, the Burmese record industry and Ugandan Video Jokers

The Argentinian guitarist on performing with musicians with learning difficulties and what they bring to the experimental music scene

Copenhagen's experimental online radio station The Lake points to some sources of adventurous sound emissions

"Is there some synergistic link between UK improv and comedy? To the headphone-clad listener deeply immersed in an AMM album, the answer might be no. To the audience chuckling at an Alan Tomlinson trombone solo, it’s clearly yes."

"When artists bring underground musical subcultures into seemingly more legitimate spaces, whatever their intentions, those subcultures are easily reduced to the merely symbolic."