Evol starts new digital release series
Evol, aka Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, and Stephen Sharp, are starting a new digital release series from the Evol archive of pieces created in the last three years. The first release, Hyperobject-1 is an...
View ArticleMississippi Records starts subscription series
Portland, Oregon based label Mississippi Records has launched its own website and is starting a subscription series. Send Mississippi any amount of money between $68 and $300 and they tap your funds...
View ArticleThe Wire issue #349 out now
Our March 2013 issue is out now. Mats Gustafsson talks to Daniel Spicer about confrontational sounds and collective action with power trios and 30 piece groups. Plus, Clive Bell meets collagist and...
View ArticleLaurie Spiegel designs new Wire T-shirt
Laurie Spiegel has designed the latest Wire T-shirt. Spiegel says: "I'm tossing in a very nerdy idea, the little 'packed_structures.jpg' text image is left over from a coding project… There are plenty...
View ArticleUnsound festival expands to London and Adelaide
Unsound festival has announced that it will be holding events in London and Adelaide this year, as well as its annual Krakow edition (13–20 October). The New York edition will not be taking place in...
View ArticleFrançois Bayle playing London in April
Acousmatic composer and former GRM director François Bayle will be playing at London's Redsonic festival on 19 April. Bayle will be performing two multi-channel diffusion concerts, as the final two...
View ArticleRichard Skelton open call for water words sound work
Richard Skelton is looking for people to be involved in a new recording project exploring the language of rivers, lakes and other inland waterways. Whilst researching his latest book and CD,...
View ArticleNew Below The Radar 12 on the DL
The 12th volume in The Wire's series of download-only compilations is available to all subscribers now. All editions, including Below The Radar Volume 12, are available here. Below The Radar Volume 12...
View ArticleMississippi Records starts subscription series
Portland, Oregon based label Mississippi Records has launched its own website and is starting a subscription series. Send Mississippi any amount of money between $68 and $300 and they tap your funds...
View ArticleUnsound festival expands to London and Adelaide
Unsound festival has announced that it will be holding events in London and Adelaide this year, as well as its annual Krakow edition (13–20 October). The New York edition will not be taking place in...
View ArticleMississippi Records starts subscription series
Portland, Oregon based label Mississippi Records has launched its own website and is starting a subscription series. Send Mississippi any amount of money between $68 and $300 and they tap your funds...
View ArticleTrembling Bells new site, with exclusive Bonnie 'Prince' Billy live album
Wire contributor Alex Neilson's Trembling Bells have launched a new website, which includes an exclusive download of the group's live album recorded with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy in May last year....
View ArticleRed Snapper compose new score to Touki Bouki
UK group Red Snapper have composed a new soundtrack to 1970s Senegalese film Touki Bouki, directed by Djibril Diop Mambety and recently restored by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. The film,...
View ArticleSubscribe and receive 12 issues + digital access
Subscribe to The WIre for one year and receive: • 12 copies of the print magazine • Access to every digital issue since August 2006 • CDs and downloads • Discounts on back issues, books and Wire...
View ArticleSquarepusher launches remix competition
Squarepusher is holding a competition to remix the opening track from his Ufabulum album, "4001". The single winner will receive a vinyl box set of Ufabulum, a pair of AIAIAI's TMA-1 Studio...
View ArticleSaxophonist and Robert Wyatt collaborator Gary Windo biography published
Pamela Windo is publishing a portrait of her late husband, tenor saxophone player Gary Windo. Him Through Me is a 100 page ebook with an introduction by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Gary Windo, born in...
View ArticleClimate Radio series returns
Wire contributor Phil England's Climate Radio is starting up again. The show will be broadcast monthly on Resonance FM and is also available online. The first two shows are titled "An Arctic Wake Up...
View ArticleAaron Dilloway, Cut Hands, Teho Teardo, Skullflower play for centenary of...
Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto "The Art Of Noise" called for a "break at all cost from this restrictive circle of pure sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds". On Sunday 24...
View ArticleQwartz Music Awards announced on 4 April
French music awards Qwartz will be presented on 4 April. Among the nominations across a number of categories are Andrew Pekler's Sentimental Favourites, alva noto's Univrs, Oval, and Ursula Bogner,...
View ArticleDavid Tudor recordings collected and released as box set
David Tudor's output from 1963 through to 1992 has been collected and is being released as a seven disc set on New World records. The box set covers Tudor's transition from pianist to composer, and...
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