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Portal 08/11/2010

November 2010

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.

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Portal 05/11/2010

November 2010

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.

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Adventures In Modern Music 4 November 2010

4 November 2010 on AIMM: New music brought to you by the team behind The Wire magazine, presented this week by Derek Walmsley. This week, to celebrate the forthcoming launch of his new label, we have two exclusive new tracks from former Skull Disco man Shackleton. Now based in Berlin, Shackleton's organic, ethnically tinged style of dubstep was one of the most original strains of electronic music to emerge from London in the late 2000s. His new label, entirely dedicated to his own work, is named Woe To The Septic, and we'll be airing its debut 12" release. Every Thursday 21:00-22:30 (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com for the rest of the world.

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Portal 04/11/2010

November 2010

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.

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Adventures In Modern Music: Theme tune competition

The Wire is launching a competition to write a new theme tune for Adventures In Modern Music , the zine’s weekly show on Resonance FM . The theme can be in whatever style you want, created however you want, involve any instrumentation whatsoever, with the only requirement being that it should be roughly two minutes long. The prize for the best entry: it'll be played at the beginning of the show each week, and if that isn't enough, the winner will be interviewed on air (in the studio or on the phone) about their piece, how they did it, what they were thinking, etc etc. The competition is open to anybody and everybody. Entries should be sent as MP3, AIFF or WAV file format to: Derek Walmsley derek@thewire.co.uk with 'AIMM Theme' in the subject line (no attachments over 5mb please – provide a download link if necessary) or in...

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Portal 02/11/2010

November 2010

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.

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Portal 29/10/2010

October 2010

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.

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Portal 28/10/2010

October 2010

Included are excerpts from orchestral, choral and electroacoustic works composed over the past three decades, including Kâmakalâ, Fluctuante-Immuable, Yo-In, Erkos and Galaxies.

Eloy's Shânti and Gaku-No-Michi, which have recently been released by the label hors territoires, was reviewed by Rob Young in The Wire 321

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Portal 27/10/2010

October 2010

Grand Junction by Charles Linehan and Exodus, choreographed by Robert Connor and Loretta Yurrick performed by Dance Theatre Of Ireland.

Charles Linehan will be presenting two new works in London tonight: one performed to a vintage electronic work by Delia Derbyshire, one with live music composed and performed by Richard Skelton (A Broken Consort, Harlassen). London Greenwich Dance, 27–29 October, 7:45pm, £15/£12. Supported by The Wire

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Portal 26/10/2010

October 2010

Contains excerpts from the forthcoming documentary Tom Zé: Liberated Astronaut which will be screened at London's ICA, 29 October, 8:30pm, supported by The Wire.

The Mire

Radio Art To Work By

[caption id="attachment_767" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="Noise In The Ether by Ben Drury & Ben Weaver"] [/caption] Knut Aufermann, author of the Radio Art feature in The Wire 320 has compiled, in his own words "a selection of radio streams to listen to whilst concentrating on other things, a kind of audible wallpaper that commercial radio aspires to, but much better." • Live VLF Natural Radio A collection of live streams of the VLF band. Beautiful sounds captured from the earth's natural radio signals: lightning strikes from near and far. The station in Todmorden, UK is my personal favourite. • Ham Radio Live: FM Repeater "Zugspitze" DB0ZU and "Bussen" DB0RZ An amateur radio repeater station based on the highest mountain in Germany for trans-alpine communications. Mainly silent with the odd morse code interjection this stream randomly offers insight into the Bavarian psyche, when human voices break in as a reminder that you...

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Exotic Pylon/The Outer Church

Quick (and late) notice for two gigs put on by friends and extended family of The Wire. Tonight (8 October) Jonny Mugwump's Resonance FM show Exotic Pylon holds its second live event at The Vortex in Dalston, with a rare UK performance from Black To Comm, plus Infinite Livez and much more. More details here Then on 10 November, Mordant Music will be playing live at Joseph Stannard's Outer Church in Brighton which moves to a new home at Komedia in Brighton. There'll be MM films and much more ...