Emily Bick feels the qualitative in the different approaches improvisors and composers take to the sonification of data sets

Kasper Opstrup cracks open the Third Mind and gets into the vibe with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Matmos, Jennifer Walshe, Tomomi Adachi, Kouhei Matsunaga and more

Clive Bell on the recent furore over Sam Callow's accompaniments to traditional British folk singers.

“We have, at the present time, a destruction taking place, in and of nature, unprecedented in history..."

The writer of the Sarkari shorts blog (featured in The Wire 366) Alexander Keefe takes us on a trip through Indian music documentaries.

Damon Krukowski imagines a different analogue metaphor for our digital music making tools

Composers who use crowdsourcing tools to generate musical material might be pushing technological boundaries, but this model of creative sharing is an illusion – and one that reinforces, rather than breaks down, hierarchies.

“That musician really gets up my nose”. Like a bloodhound, Mr Bell picks up on the scent of a new musical accompaniment and asks whether it's gesamtkunstwerk or gimmick.

Yan Jun chews over some spicy food and experimental music: What are these enlargements of bodily experience reacting to?

Sarah Angliss traces the vocal-throwing art's continued persistence in the face of obsolescence, and the peculiar relationship between performers and their knee pals.

Since the pirate stations shipped out, the FM radio spectrum is being repopulated by the people

Composer, percussionist and Q&A obsessive Eli Keszler guides us through his favourite artist interviews.

A&R time travellers and unnecessary reissues are stifling a new generation of artists, says Britt Brown. Where is our faith in art made by the living?

Bangkok based blogger Peter Doolan unravels the colourful mix of Thailand’s popular music scene. His blog Monrakplengthai is featured in The Wire 364.

Richard Thomas is left hungry for ideas by the consumer feeding frenzies unleashed by music festival programmers out to fill every seat at the table

Clive Bell wonders about the fate of the musician-instrument relationship in the age of the laptop.

Derek Walmsley traces the tracks that give their own spin on the history of not just reggae, but the entire existence of Jamaica, continuing on from his Compiler essay (The Wire 363).

"The end of the world has already happened and we are all living in that apocalypse together." Yan Jun takes the temperature of two of China's biggest cities and their music.

A new generation of field recordists is challenging the myth of the invisible figure with a microphone in work that celebrates presence rather than absence.

The author guides us through a selection of sound art compilations of uncurated sounds and words, based on her contribution to The Wire 363 Compiler issue.