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Portal 08/12/2010
December 2010

Video of Bruce McClure's modified projector performance Donostia
Video of Bruce McClure's modified projector performance Donostia
Footage of a performance by Ken Vandermark, Andy Moor, Terrie Hessels and Paal Nilssen-Love at Rotterdam's Worm, 28 November, 2009.
"Not Black Metal. Not theory. Not not Black Metal. Not not theory. Black Metal theory. Theoretical blackening of Metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia."
"Each album is made using free software at every stage of its production – that is, software which can be modified and freely redistributed, with the proviso that users must be able to continue to customise the code..." – from Keith Moliné's Unofficial Channels article in The Wire 322
Blog of the poet and writer Dennis Cooper...
"When I read Seth I feel possibility"
"Monkey World assists governments around the world to stop the smuggling of primates from the wild."
Blog of the Whitehouse founder, featured in The Wire 322 Invisible Jukebox...
"Under No Enchantment (But My Own)" taken from Roberts's 2009 album Spoils, filmed around Glasgow and Callander, Scotland.
Curated and hosted by musician Jon Leidecker and commissioned by Barcelona's MACBA. Also, click here to read Leidecker's essay "Radio Music" on different uses of the radio receiver as musical instrument.
The artist's rendition of "New Oysters" by the 17th century composer and folk archivist Thomas Ravenscroft was made as part of a series of installations in the square mile, Surround Me: A Song Cycle For The City Of London. The installation itself can be visited/heard at London's Change Alley every weekend until 2 January 2011. Philipsz is currently shortlisted for the 2010 Turner Prize.
Read the full transcript of Daniel Spicer's interview with Kommissar Hjuler, featured in The Wire 321...
The composer will be performing his only UK date this year as part of the London International Festival Of Exploratory Music on 6 November. LIFEM takes place at London Kings Place & St Etheldreda’s Church, 3–7 November and is supported by The Wire. Click here for more information.
Recorded at Paper Tiger Studios, Lafayette Street, New York and later broadcast on public access television.
Tetsuo Kogawa will be performing at Cut & Splice festival tonight with Nicolas Collins, Resonance Radio Orchestra and Keith Rowe. London Wilton's Music Hall, 4 November, doors 6:30pm.
Video starring Chris Poolman, Suzanne Purkis, Steve Shaw, Keir Williams and Michael Wolters. Chris Poolman and Keir Williams will be leading the Rhythm Section Family Workshop (7 November) during the London ICA's Rhythm Section celebration of percussion, (3–7 November).
A collection of online sound maps compiled by the blog Weird Vibrations. The first post categorises the maps under the themes Collaborative Documentary, Composition/Artwork, Preservation and Policy Data. The second post presents a selection of maps recommended by readers.
In The Dark aims to question the way people think about story telling through sound. To this end, they've recently started a "Sound Bank", which offers funding of £500–£1500 towards the production of new audio pieces of 3 to 15 minutes. They're also hosting an evening of audio works at London's Whitechapel Gallery, 18 November, 8pm.