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RIP Maryanne Amacher

Anne Hilde Neset

The great composer and installation artist died yesterday October 22. "A sound artist with a reputation for overwhelming volume, precise speaker placement, and site-specific environmental and architectural installations" wrote Alan Licht in his interview with her in March 1999. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Curran and others, she has been dubbed New Music's best kept secret.
Thurston Moore made a fascinating documentary on Amacher called Daytrip Maryanne, clips are available here: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/daytrip/.
Alan Licht's personal piece on listening to her work Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) from The Wire issue 181 is now uploaded here http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3220/.

Anne Hilde Neset

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The Wire on Stack

Nathan Budzinski









You can now buy The Wire as part of a bundle of independent magazines from Stack, which describes itself as “a unique service that brings together the best independent English language magazines from around the world and delivers them direct to your home. Beautifully made and offering an intelligent, alternative view of films, music, culture, current affairs and whatever else crosses their pages, they guarantee to bring a fresh perspective on the world.”

stackmagazines.com

And if you want to find out a little bit more about The Wire, where it came from, where it’s at, and maybe even where it’s heading, the Stack blog has just posted the transcript of an interview with the magazine’s publisher, Tony Herrington

stackmagazines.com/blog/slightly-strange

Nathan Budzinski

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Adventures In Modern Music Thursday 15 October

Derek Walmsley

Adventures In Modern Music tonight is part two of our The Wire Primers special. Derek Walmsley will be playing another selection of tracks discussed in The Wire's brand new book, our guide to the core recordings of the most exciting musicians of the past century, from Fela Kuti to AMM, Tropicália to Grime. On Resonance FM, 104.4FM from 21:00 tonight, streaming on www.resonancefm.com on the web.

Derek Walmsley

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Sun Ra: talk, film, music

Nathan Budzinski



To coincide with the Sun Ra Arkestra’s forthcoming two-day residency at East London’s Café Oto, on Monday 19 October The Wire will host a special discussion at the venue on Ra’s music with Kodwo Eshun, Edwin Pouncey and Pat Thomas chaired by The Wire’s editor-in-chief and publisher, Tony Herrington. The night will also feature a screening of Phill Niblock’s film on Ra, Magic Sun, plus customised cosmic jazz DJ sets courtesy of Soul Jazz Records.

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Nathan Budzinski

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Into The Vortex: Extra Sunday show

Nathan Budzinski

Due to overwhelming demand, Broadcast, The Caretaker and Thomas Ankersmit will be doing an extra performance on the final day of The Wire's Into The Vortex festival.
The extra show will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 11 October at East London's Vortex venue. Doors: 2pm. Tickets: £12 from wegottickets

wegottickets.com/event/60882

or direct from The Vortex on 020 7254 4097.

NB Festival passes are NOT valid for the afternoon show. Also there are no discounts on tickets for Wire subscribers for the afternoon show.

Nathan Budzinski

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Sun Ra Arkestra touches down in East London

Nathan Budzinski



On 20 and 21 October saxophonist Marshall Allen returns to London’s Café Oto with the full Sun Ra Arkestra in tow to play two exclusive UK shows. And readers of The Wire can get special discounts on tickets to both performances.

Full details on the shows are available here:

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Readers of The Wire can buy discounted tickets here:

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Nathan Budzinski

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