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The Mire

RIP Rolf Julius

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="460" caption="photo by Jens Schumann"] [/caption] The artist Rolf Julius has died. According to the label Western Vinyl, "Julius had a chronic illness, which we were aware of, but his sudden passing on Friday 21 January was unexpected." Julius was born in Germany in 1939 and studied fine art in Bremen. In the mid 1970s he began using sound alongside his visual practice. Later he moved to Berlin and became an important figure in that city's budding sound art scene, participating in Für Augen Und Ohren (1980), one of Europe's first major sound art exhibitions. Over the course of a 30 year career Julius's performances and low-volume, minimal sonic sculptures and installations developed an approach highly influential on a younger generation of sound artists.

The Portal

Portal 14/01/2011

January 2011

A transcript of an interview with Ornette Coleman by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida...

Essay

Quiet storms: Toshiya Tsunoda

January 2011

Read an extended version of Will Montgomery's Cross Platform article on Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda, master of the art of field recording.

The Portal

Portal 12/01/2010

January 2011

The comprehensive survey also includes sections focusing on historical sounds of the city, its wildlife, and travels further afield up the Thames estuary to the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.

The Portal

Andrew Nosnitsky's Portal

December 2010

Try and follow whatever bits and pieces of Lil B's sprawling mindspray actually proves intelligible, be that "rare and secrete [sic]" links to new songs or cat care tips.

The Portal

Joseph Stannard's Horror Portal

December 2010

In addition to its atmosphere of ‘backwoods horror’ BMT’s recent album Black Goat Of The Woods (Aurora Borealis) exudes an air of cosmic menace which can be traced back to the Weird Fiction of Arthur Machen and HP Lovecraft, conjecturing an aesthetic located on the membranous threshold between Shub Niggurath and Gunnar Hansen.

The Portal

Portal 15/12/2010

December 2010

Lukatoyboy is Luka Ivanovic, who was featured in Global Ear: Budapest & Pécs in The Wire 322

The Mire

50 Records of the Year on air

The German radio show Borderline: Musik Für Grenzgänger (which seems to roughly translate as 'Music For Border-crossers') will once again be playlisting selections from our 50 Records of the Year chart in a series of dedicated shows to be broadcast over the Christmas and New Year period. The shows will be broadcast between 5-6pm (WET) on five consecutive Fridays beginning on 17 December. If you live in Northesse, Germany you can tune in on 105.8FM. Otherwise, the shows are streamed live at http://www.borderline-extra.de , where you will also find full details of all the broadcast dates and times.

The Portal

Portal 07/12/2010

December 2010

Footage of a performance by Ken Vandermark, Andy Moor, Terrie Hessels and Paal Nilssen-Love at Rotterdam's Worm, 28 November, 2009.

The Portal

Portal 06/12/2010

December 2010

"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."

The Portal

Unofficial Channels Portal

November 2010

"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