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Supernormal takes a break
Braziers Park's family friendly experimental music and art festival will assess its current financial position during its year off
Braziers Park's family friendly experimental music and art festival will assess its current financial position during its year off
44 ½ features 12 CDs and 2 DVDs presenting live and unrecorded material from the archive
Records Ruin The Landscape author turns to poetry in order to explore live performance and improvisation
LCFM 2017 premieres Pauline Oliveros's feminist porn film The Sluts And Goddesses Video Workshop – Or How To Be A Sex Goddess In 101 Easy Steps, among other UK firsts
The second album from Hollywood Babylon author and underground film maker Anger’s music duo comes in a limited edition of 666 tapes
Henrik Schwarz’s !K7 imprint Between Buttons presents a new LP by the Syrian collaborators
Watch The Best Of Risky Roadz via the music TV app from 2 November
Artists lined up to play in The Hague in April 2018 include Laurie Anderson, Deena Abdelwahed, Ellen Arkbro, Nina Kraviz, Umfang and others
New York based composer, drummer and bandleader takes up residency, performing with four separate acts
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 19 October 2017 and featured music from Otaco, Phew, Yukihiro Takahashi and more
The Bristol label celebrates five years in action with a double cassette
Exit Stance EP sees the Godflesh founder return to his fellow Midlands label for his first original solo release proper
The Florida duo release a new cassette via Deathbomb Arc and share a home video
KQED has reported that Krause and his wife escaped the fire unharmed
Happening during Contemporary Art Week in Turin, artists include Kraftwerk, Jlin, Mura Masa, Yves Tumor, Actress and others
Following its 2017 Night Of Surprise, Stadtgarten will host a festival of electronic music from Africa and the African diaspora
The South African producer talks about his first solo record released by Gqom-Oh!
The Konono No 1 bandleader’s death linked to diabetes
Oxford’s Audioscope festival in aid of Shelter takes place in November
The limited edition vinyl only anthology will also feature seven Badu essays about Fela
The Japanese artist and musician documents her performance based work on a new record
The punk dub music of photographer Dennis Morris's group is once again available
Repeater Books are working with Darren Ambrose on the book set for publication in late 2018
Human Ear Music founder collaborates with the poet Annelyse Gelman for this sound piece
Red Note Ensemble will open this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with two world premieres – one by Maja SK Ratkje and Kathy Hinde, the other by James Dillon
Lag to release the 1980s record companion to Akimi Yoshida’s manga comic of the same name
Forthcoming at Cafe Oto, the artist-run collective curates a night showcasing four artists from Taiwan
Another instalment of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 12 October 2017 and featured tracks by László Hortobágyi, Peter Jefferies, Mary Jane Leach, and others
The Canadian guitarist and vocalist shares a selection of instrumental tracks recorded in various locations
This November the once major transatlantic port premieres Mitchener’s Sweet Tooth
Hyperdub announces upcoming opera by Dean Blunt and Mika Levi
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 5 October and featured a special guest mix by avant folk musician Mike Cooper
Haley Fohr says her new album Reaching For Indigo should be listened to as a whole
Ikeda's test pattern [N°12] will be exhibited alongside Jafa's video installation Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death and Jeremy Shaw’s 20-minute sci-fi pseudo-documentary Liminals
The North American composer explores new recording methods on Body Consonance
Ableton Loop returns in November with Ben Frost set to undergo The Wire test where musicians are asked to comment on tracks with no prior knowledge of what they're about to hear
Musicians from across Europe will descend on the Rhineland city to pay their respects to the Can drummer
The UK improv pioneer co-founded AMM in the mid-1960s
Check out the Neuzeit Tarot of Swiss painter Walter Wegmüller, as featured in The Wire 404
The soundtrack is Deacon’s first full record devoted to modern composition. He shares the single “Redlining”
Festival events in Wrocław and Warsaw run until 13 October
After a four year partnership with Adelaide Festival, Unsound returns to Australia as a standalone event
Shane Woolman hosts another edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. The show took place on 28 September 2017 and featured tracks by Masma Dream World, Tomoko Sauvage, Sarah Webster Fabio and more
Launched to coincide with Black History Month, portraiture and interviews will shine a light on the new generation of operators with a special focus on female run systems
Morphine Records prepares a showcase of Indonesian music at Berghain and new record by one of the acts
A new mix from Iranian multi-disciplinary artist, Sadaf
The online station will feature shows by The Wire’s Shane Woolman, Upset The Rhythm, Touch, Ashtray Navigations and others
New solo presentation at the Bethnal Green project space uses music and film to explore the spaces between gender, sexuality and identity
Two events will take place in Rotterdam and Antwerp
Stream a selection of tracks played in Wire HQ during the making of the October 2017 issue
Following the recent rework of the legendary Black Ark album Super Ape, David Katz speaks to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Emch Subatomic about how 40 years on, the album holds weight with the youth of today
New albums on the Australian label run by composer Lawrence English
The American synth player had only recently been released from prison
The Cairo electronic music producer and sound artist has won a commission to produce a work based on the concept of turmoil
The New York City based sound and visual artist shares a video for a track from her forthcoming debut album
The Swedish musician and composer who died on 25 September was 81 years old
Blume have released two overlooked compositions rooted in 1980s New York minimalism
Ilpo Väisänen & Dirk Dresselhaus’s eighth LP is dedicated to Mika Vainio
The Jamaican sound engineer, musician and writer responsible for building the country’s first sound systems was 99 years old
Tomaga present an hour long mix for The Wire featuring tracks by Marc Barreca, Charles Hayward, Pancrace and more
Major London retrospective also includes unheard works from Mika Vainio and Erkki Kurenniemi, as well a special Taanila performance with Charles Hayward and Jussi Lehtisalo
Deputy editor Emily Bick hosts another edition of The Wire's weekly slot on Resonance FM. This show took place on 21 September 2017 and featured tracks by Carla dal Forno, Hanetration, The Trashies and more
In the aftermath of Mexico's 7.1 magnitude earthquake last Tuesday, Umor Rex will be donating all sales money to the rescue effort
Rhodri Davies is putting on four special events in Swansea this October, one of which will have Philip Corner perform in the Welsh city for the first time since the 1960s
William Hogan and David Titlow discuss the golden age of CB radio and their new book Eyeball Cards: The Art Of British CB Radio Culture with Deputy Editor Emily Bick
The biennial celebration of traditional and contemporary Indonesian culture is coming to the UK for the first time this year
The exhibition features an interior mural by The Wire’s Savage Pencil
A book of graphic scores has been released by Inpatient Press, featuring work by Lea Bertucci, Eli Keszler, Aki Onda, Zeena Parkins and others
UK premiere for Brooklyn based Devi Mambouka's collaboration with costume designer Tove Berglund and film maker Margret Seema Takyar
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM returns. This show took place 14 September 2017 and featured tracks by Hüsker Dü, Hypnobeat, Sadaf, and more
Harry Wright, one half of Giant Swan, presents his first solo release
The 24-hour video installation will be screened at the London gallery from 12 September 2018 – 27 January 2019
The film will document the New Zealand group's story through its ever changing line-up and founder Martin Phillipps’s battle with depression and addiction
Sound artist Kepla and music writer DeForrest Brown Jr collaborate on a record originally commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena
Following its second edition, the Romanian experimental music festival asks for retrospective financial help as they call for donations to fund their third edition
After many years of sharing a stage, the guitarist and violinist present their first release together
Black Zone Myth Chant presents a mix for The Wire featuring tracks by Ø, Wolf Eyes, Sun Ra and more
Negative reviews have been sidelined in an era of commercial pressures and microscenes that celebrate themselves, but criticism is sometimes the only way to reflect the full complexity of music. By Britt Brown
The next edition of The Wire Salon will feature David Keenan, Helm, Ian Rawes, and Elaine Mitchener
RVNG Intl compile hallucinatory synthesizer works composed by the Bay Area musician between 1982–1988
The series on Westbound Records features remixes by Underground Resistance, Moodymann, Amp Fiddler, Marcellus Pittman, Ectomorph and others
Annual Glaswegian FM and online broadcast Radiophrenia makes an open call for radio works, with its deadline coming up on 24 September
Following the release of a cassette album on Oliver and Laurie Pitt's label Akashic Records, the Glasgow based duo Vernon & Burns share a 16 minute sound piece
Taking place in the city of Utrecht this November, new additions to the line-up include Dälek, Steven Warwick, and the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers performing the Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Ghostnotes is hiphop photographer B+'s mid-career retrospective, featuring over 200 images of hiphop artists and those that influenced them. Check out a selection of images from the book
Clive Bell takes a look the unlikely musical partnership found in birdsong contests across the globe
An open call has been announced for new music made at a really slow tempo
Hear the Spanish sound artist and producer's first full length record via Swedish label iDEAL