Ahead of the release of her soundtrack for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's new film Evil Does Not Exist, Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about influential composer director partnerships and her own approaches to scoring film

Jez riley French remembers the Japanese sound sculptor, plus tributes from friends and colleagues

Irene Revell speaks with the founders of the Permanent Draft micropress about their new book Basta Now, which compiles the profiles of over 2000 women, trans and non-binary experimental musicians

The Scottish Danish musician maps out the texts, sounds and places that steered and informed the writing of her new album World Of Work

The Wire’s Caroline Whiteley speaks with the acclaimed sound artists ahead of a symposium around Aura Satz’s debut feature length film Preemptive Listening at Tate Modern

Following Shabaka Hutchings’ adoption of the shakuhachi flute, which features heavily in his new album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Clive Bell discusses other players and significant recordings featuring the instrument

Frank Sinatra’s atmospheric vocal classic finds an unlikely afterlife in reggae’s deepest nyabinghi cuts

Author Pat Thomas selects and annotates spreads from his new book built from the archive of American poet and writer Allen Ginsberg

Mike Barnes recalls his encounters with the experimental vocalist and instant composer who died on 8 February

Alan Tomlinson died on 13 February aged 76. As a tribute to the UK trombonist and improvisor we have made Mike Barnes's 2018 interview from The Wire 413 free to read in our online library.

Contributor Abi Bliss selects pieces of writing from The Wire’s back pages featuring Laurie Anderson, MF DOOM, Robert Wyatt, Matmos, Evan Parker, Iannis Xenakis, Annea Lockwood, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a Wire print or digital subscription.

Damo Suzuki died on 9 February aged 74. As a tribute we have made Mike Barnes’s 2004 interview with the experimental rock vocalist free to read in our online library.

To mark the recent reissue of FM3’s Buddha Machine, Steve Barker tells the story of its origins, a tale which takes in Chinese temples and a Hong Kong branch of McDonald’s, a Beijing foot massage parlour and dinner with Brian Eno.

As a tribute to writer Neil Kulkarni, who died on 22 January aged 51, we have made a selection of the many articles he wrote for The Wire free to read in our online library for one month

This chapter from the book about the Swedish psych rock band provides an oral history of the realisation of Gärdesfesten – the free music festival that took place in Stockholm, 1970

Petr Kotik, Susan Stenger, Ulrich Krieger, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Poss, Ellen Fullman, Oren Ambarchi, Thomas Ankersmit, and Loré Lixenberg share memories of composer and film maker Phill Niblock, who died on 8 January aged 90

The Wire is deeply saddened to hear of the death of writer Neil Kulkarni. Neil was one of the UK’s most original and distinctive music critics. He had been writing for The Wire since the early 2000s, and just last week filed this online essay, in which he picks his favourite writing from The Wire’s back pages. We publish it now as a tribute to Neil. RIP.

Editor-compiler Richard Johnson shares an excerpt from his book-length Q+A with musician, Alternative TV founder and Sniffin' Glue editor Mark Perry. Chapter eight recalls 1979, when Perry joined musicians Nag and Bendle in the British art punk band The Door And The Window.

Phill Niblock died on 8 January, aged 90. As a tribute to the American composer and film maker we have made Dan Warburton’s 2006 cover feature from The Wire 265 free to read online for one month