Jakob Ullmann
Stasi interrogation methods and transcendent world religions inform the austere minimalism of this German composer. By Nick Cain.

Storyboard P
Greg Tate meets the New York street dancer and Flying Lotus collaborator whose animatronic motion-blur is a choreographed form of bullet time.

Invisible Jukebox Mika Vainio
The Wire’s mystery record selection... it eats you up, as the Pan Sonic founder discovers. Tested by Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Ashley Paul
The jazz-trained New Yorker breathes delicate life into skeletal, digitally distressed song forms. By Nick Southgate.

Bites
Red Snapper’s African road movie; Metasplice’s spontaneous Techno; DRAM and Sound American’s US music archive; Liberez’s coastal noise rock; plus Unofficial Channels.

Global Ear Tuscaloosa
Kevin Nutt reports from Alabama’s Sonic Frontiers series, where Improv meets homegrown pataphysics.

Cross Platform Vicky Langan
Daniel Spicer follows the visceral trail leading to this Irish artist’s extreme rituals and actions.

Epiphanies
Patrick Lundborg finds Blakeian overtones in children’s songs by psychedelic pied piper Donovan.

The Inner Sleeve
A Hawk And A Hacksaw’s Jeremy Barnes on Dumitru Fărcaș.

Print Run
New music books: Almost Nothing With Luc Ferrari by Jacqueline Caux & Luc Ferrari; Black Sabbath & Philosophy: Mastering Reality edited by William Irwin; We Got Power! Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California by David Markey & Jordan Schwartz; Robert Ashley by Kyle Gann; Read & Burn: A Book About Wire by Wilson Neate.

On Screen
Films & DVDs: unearthed Bert Jansch documentary Acoustic Routes; plus Franck Vigroux’s audienceless performance.

On Site
Exhibitions, installations, etc: Susan Hiller in London; Linder in Paris.

On Location
Festival and concert reviews: Caboladies + Robert Beatty + Darin Gray St Louis, USA; NOW now Sydney, Australia; Kraftwerk London, UK; Holly Herndon London, UK; Actress + Lone London, UK; The Residents New York, USA.