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The Mire: Tangents, threads and opinions from The Wire HQ

Black Metal Theory

Anne Hilde Neset


A 6 hour Black Metal theory symposium, called "Hideous Gnosis: A gathering dedicated to the mutual blackening of metal and theory", happened 12 December in Brooklyn. Ben Ratliff, who wrote a Primer article on Tropicalia for us – recently reprinted in The Wire Primers book (Verso) – has this summary in New York Times. Meanwhile, Dominic Fox's Cold World, The Aesthetics Of Dejection and The Politics Of Militant Dysphoria, examining, among other things the music of Burzum and Xasthur, has just been released on Zero Books. Burzum's first new release in 11 years will be released in March 2010, called Belus. Varg "The Count" Vikernes, the group's leader, was released from Norwegian jail this summer after serving 16 years for murder. He now lives in rural Telemark, Norway.

Anne Hilde Neset

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Sensational cover party (NYC)

Derek Walmsley




Attention New York City crew. To celebrate Sensational's appearance on the cover of The Wire 310, the Wordsound people and Sens himself are throwing a bash in NYC tonight. Expect music, drinks and a bite to eat.

Here's the details:

Please join us as we celebrate Sensational’s December Wire Cover with drinks and
hors d’ oeuvres.

Wednesday, December 16th
6-8 PM (Open Bar)
Planet Thai
30 W. 24th St. (near 6th Ave.)
212-727-7026

RSVP to wordsound@aol.com or 410-733-0566

Derek Walmsley

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Parallel Voices: Carsten Nicolai

Nathan Budzinski

News just in that Raster Noton label boss Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has been invited by the Siobhan Davies Dance studio in London to curate their 2010 edition of Parallel Voices.

The event, subtitled "Missing Link" will feature talks, performances and installations, bringing together practitioners from the worlds of visual art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and science and will feature a new, large scale light installation by Nicolai.

Further information will be released closer to the event, which is set to take place 17, 18 & 19 March 2010 at London's Siobhan Davies Studio space.

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Wave of the Wand

Derek Walmsley

Word reaches me that [Wooden] Wand has just confirmed a fairly rare performance in London tomorrow. How's about that for short notice, spur of the moment gig news?

(wooden) WAND (rare uk show)
HUSH ARBORS
RICK TOMLINSON (voice of the seven woods solo show)

at THE BETSEY TROTWOOD, FARRINGDON
DOORS 8PM, £5 ADM.

Derek Walmsley

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Macro mix doubleheader


Finn Johannsen and Stefan Goldmann of Berlin's Macro Recordings label have provided two excellent mixes for Wire readers. Finn's mix formed part of the latest Adventures In Modern Music mix presented by myself (and also featuring music by Cluster, Ben Frost, Lindstrøm And Christabelle, Gemmy and more) and is available here. Stefan's, meanwhile, has been offered to The Wire as an exclusive download and is available here. Enjoy!

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Calling Out Of Context

Nathan Budzinski


The full programme for the ICA's Calling Out Of Context festival, which is sponsored by The Wire, is now available to download. It includes excerpts of iconic texts by/on David Toop, Cornelius Cardew, Arthur Russell, Jacques Attali, Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman, as well as full details of all the events in the festival,, including AGF and Mira Calix on 20 Nov, a night curated by The Wire

Nathan Budzinski

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Supercollider 140


I first witnessed live coding when a pioneering trio of the scene, known as Slub, composed/recomposed an ever-changing rabid techno beast at London's underground toilet venue Public Life. Almost ten years later there's a bona fide 'live coding' scene. Many are now members of umbrella collective Toplap, including Dan Stowell, who has recently curated a curious little project, which can now be downloaded freely under the Creative Commons licence. When Dan started tweeting snippets of SuperCollider code he expected a lot of "throwaway waffle" but collated also a bunch of really interesting things. "Not wanting this stuff to vanish into the ether", he's now collected the best pieces into a special download here. Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.

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LCD Soundsystem free download

Anne Hilde Neset

There's 20 000 free downloads of their upcoming single "Bye Bye Bayou" available on www.lcdsoundsystem.com on a first come first serve basis. It will be available for purchase in shops on 12" 9 November and digitally for purchase on 24 November. According to the publicist "Bye Bye Bayou" is not going to appear on their new album, which comes out early 2010.

Anne Hilde Neset

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