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Fifth edition of Atonal to be held this August
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Held at Berlin's Kraftwerk venue, the line-up includes Roly Porter, Puce Mary, Abul Mogard and more
Held at Berlin's Kraftwerk venue, the line-up includes Roly Porter, Puce Mary, Abul Mogard and more
Warp to rerelease B12's Electro-Soma this August
The release features Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and more
Opaque Poetics will take place on 2 September and promises “immersive and intense soundscapes”.
Dragoș Rusu, organiser of Romania's Outernational Days festival, has recorded a mix exclusively for The Wire
The groundbreaking text has long been out of print, with copies selling online for anything up to £100 and beyond
Ahead of the memorial concert in Tokyo, Japan's online TV channel streams talks and performances to mark the passing of PSF Records founder Hideo Ikeezumi
Card series includes designs by C Spencer Yeh and Christine Sun Kim
Online Editor Daisy Hyde continues the Wire 400 series with The Wire Bass Heads playing some music from a selection of cover stars that work at the lower end of the audio spectrum
This August will mark the fifth edition of A L‘arme! festival in Berlin
Rob Young discusses Pauline Oliveros with Emily Manzo and Alvin Curran, and talks to Jace Clayton and Hans-Joachim Roedelius at the 2017 edition of Knoxville's Big Ears festival
For this edition of Rewired on NTS radio, Shane Woolman and Daisy Hyde are joined in the studio by Bristol based producer Peverelist. The show took place on 15 June
After performing 109.47 degrees at London's Iklectik, Electric Indigo was interviewed by The Wire's Deputy Editor Emily Bick and took questions from the floor
Academic journal of hip hop is asking for submissions of new essays. Deadline is mid-September
Taking place in a field in Oxfordshire, the 3-day event will also feature a live edition of Invisible Jukebox with Zoviet*France
Listen to a track taken from the venue's latest digital download release
Artists will create site-specific sound pieces as part of Manchester Festival
The South London musician has penned a musical as her response to a request to open up for Darkstar
Paradox will be the theme of the 7th edition of Portugal's Jardins Efémeros festival
The German dub techno duo are releasing their first album in seventeen years
Listen to The Wire's Robert Barry talk with Peter Zinovieff at Rewire 2017
Renowned Ocora recordist talks to Hisham Mayet about his extensive work in Africa, South East Asia and beyond
The Otolith Group's gallery film featuring the music and words of composer Julius Eastman will be screened at London's Corsica Studios on 22 June.
After a four year hiatus, The Wire Salon returns to Cafe Oto on 16 July for a talk with photographer, author and black music historian Val Wilmer.
Continuing the series of Wire 400 radio specials on Resonance FM, deputy editor Emily Bick presented a themed show playing music mentioned in the magazine in 1997–98, when she first started reading it. The show took place on 8 June and featured artists such as Robert Ashley, Stereolab, Arto Lindsay and more
The violinist and vocalist presents a visual accompaniment to music from her new album, Pools Of Light
The London promoters will host Melt-Banana at The Garage followed by Zu at London Fields Brewhouse
Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the July issue #401
French author, composer and artistic director of the Groupe De Recherches Musicales shares three pieces from a forthcoming album
The annual festival will stage its seventh edition with another diverse line-up
Directed by Jalo Nuñez Del Prado, the project seeks the “rescue, comeback and re-appreciation” of the Discos Horóscopo catalogue
Closing our Wire 400 mix series, Irish collective No Place Like Drone share a set of ambient music
Musician Anton Nikkilä and filmmaker Mika Taanila talk to Jennifer Lucy Allan about archive recordings by their high school six piece, Swissair
The dance tracks feature archival material from the major Hugh Tracey archive collection at ILAM
Ascetic House share music from a new USB package featuring eight separate works
Musicians will perform the audio visual thriller in their own separate section for the duration of the event taking place at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex
NYC curator and promoter launches new publication following its first year of operations
In celebration of 400 issues of The Wire, we've teamed up with Bleep to design a limited edition T-shirt, on sale now
In another Wire 400 show on Resonance FM, editor Derek Walmsley invited David Toop and Kirk Degiorgio into the studio to discuss black music and its innovators. The show took place on 1 June and featured music by Innerzone Orchestra, Mr Fingers and others
To coincide with Kammer Klang's season finale at Cafe Oto, read an exclusive essay by the late Danish electronic music pioneer Else Marie Pade, courtesy of her estate, whose music is featured alongside Henning Christiansen’s at tonight’s show
Two week event in Hamburg is currently underway with Maria Chavez, Dominic Lash, Oval and others
Writer and musician John Pietaro on the “post-modern experimentalist embedded in the jazz tradition” who co-founded Ornette's Prime Time
Renowned composition piece Longplayer and the university's music department are celebrating their recently established partnership
Detroit DJ and producer Kelli Hand contributes to our Wire 400 mix series
Three day event in celebration of women's contribution to avant garde music
American jazz guitarist who recorded with Ornette Coleman has died
Actress and others work with artist platform Metal in a collaboration based on Steve Reich's Different Trains
London's Cafe Oto and The Wire’s Gustave Evrard to host Wire 400 event this Sunday
Continuing our Wire 400 series on Resonance FM, Gustave Evrard dedicated the show to some of his favourite Wire featured artists from 1986 archive issues
Plans are underway for Dutch festival Le Guess Who? including performances from Pharoah Sanders and Oumou Sangaré, and curatorial leadership from Grouper and Shabazz Palaces
The live music events series shares a video recording of the fifth instalment at London's Cafe Oto
The first wave of Unsound festival tickets all sold out moments after its line-up was announced
The Portuguese festival happening in October has added Beatriz Ferreyra, Gas and Rabih Beaini to the programme
Following on from Weasel Walter's appearance in The Wire 400, listen to some unreleased recordings of The Flying Luttenbachers performing live in 2005
Following the release of their fifth LP, the next in our series of Wire 400 mixes comes from sound architects Emptyset
Ex-Wire staffer Frances Morgan selects her favourite articles from just some of The Wire's themed issues
During this edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, Meg Woof read and played music from some of the Epiphanies essays contributed by artists and writers over the years
The experimental drone collaborators return with Impassable Fears
Made by the team behind I Dreamed Of Wires, the new documentary launches the same year Subotnick’s 1967 album Silver Apples Of The Moon celebrates its 50th anniversary
This will be the first time the memoirs of the Algerian-Jewish musician will be published
Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the June issue #400
Graham Thrower's online shop and label has announced it will close with immediate effect
Andy Hamilton picks five articles from The Wire archive that cast some light on the art of improvisation – pieces which, he says, have helped him “develop a view of improvisation that involves an 'aesthetics of imperfection', in dynamic opposition to composition but, as Rohan de Saram comments, ‘making its own laws’.”
Latest installment includes live broadcasts, panels and performances at Muziekgebouw concert hall with streaming online
Stream the drummer and composer's latest studio project ahead of its release on new label Float
London's Kings Place will host a night celebrating John Cage's Song Books
Recordings from the foundational UK improvisation label now available for download via London venue’s OTOroku label
Ahead of this year’s music and technology meeting in Berlin, watch The Wire’s Frances Morgan hosting a live Invisible Jukebox at the 2016 edition with Morton Subotnick
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story The Aleph, the fifth in our series of Wire 400 mixes comes from Mira Calix, with the title “Sunset In Queretaro, A Rose In Bengal”
Held at London's Morley Gallery, the competition was judged by The Wire's publisher Tony Herrington alongside sound artist/composers Annie Mahtani and Janek Schaefer
The multidisciplinary event series will create a “borderless network for understanding, exchange and collaboration” across the UK, Germany and South Africa
The pioneering electronic group release their first album of new material since 1985
Held at the artist run MACAO centre in Milan, the festival hopes to counter institutionalised art
Previously called The Happy Breed, this new opera sets to “poke fun at ourselves, our values, and our history”
The first in a series of special shows marking the publication of the magazine's 400th issue. The Wire's co-owners, Chris Bohn and Tony Herrington talk to Ilia Rogatchevski
Bristol lo-fi outfit Crescent share the video for “Impressions” from their first album in a decade
Ahead of this year's music and technology meeting in Berlin, watch The Wire's Frances Morgan hosting a live Invisible Jukebox at the 2016 edition with Gudrun Gut
The partnership between rastermusic and Noton will cease to exist as the label is restructured this month
A month after his death, the Sähkö founder and friend recalls a musician who “created a language of his own”
From Woofah co-founder and blogger John Eden, the fourth in our series of Wire 400 mixes is filled with “deathly dub, soundsystem seagulls and wrong-headed reggae”
Richard Thomas travels to the University of Plymouth for a rare audiovisual reunion of film maker Malcolm Le Grice and AMM stalwart Keith Rowe
Eskiboy will look at the veteran grime artist's life and career
The Burrow's residency at Manchester's Islington Mill ends in June, opening up space for newcomers
She developed her work as a sound poet and performer during her studies with Terry Riley and Robert Ashley
Sonata In Ш will be screened and performed as the new Viennese festival commences
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, this time hosted by Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard. The show took place on 4 May and featured music by Chino Amobi, The Heliocentrics, Dale Cornish, Moor Mother, Slugabed and others