Watch a video of Aura Satz's multi-channel installation The Trembling Line, on show at John Hansard Gallery until 23 January ...

Textually hyperdense and accelerated for the televisual age, the multimedia music theatre of composer Robert Ashley has been called the future of opera, as well as the first to exploit the unique ...

In her memoir of the great US jazz drummer, educator and pharmacist, Val Wilmer recalls her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights ...

A new generation of field recordists is challenging the myth of the invisible figure with a microphone in work that celebrates presence rather than absence. In the first half of the 20th century, ...

To accompany his report on the aims and activity of Nashazphone in The Wire 488, Louis Pattison compiles a playlist of ...

The Bristol trio premiere a reflective track from their forthcoming album A Soft And Gatherable Star ...

From newly independent nations of Africa to locations in the Far East and remote cosmos, jazz from the mid-1950s onwards imagined liberation through distant places and spaces. In a new series, Derek ...

The former Skater’s soundtrack to a life of online entertainment, consumerism, iPads and instant communication was the first album he had put together on a computer, and its piercing preset sounds ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

The 19 September edition of The Wire 's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Bedouin Ascent, ...

Ergot Records label head Adrian Rew finds readymade plunderphonics and corporate mind control on the gambling floor. I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor in Cleveland, Ohio, last March.

Clipping: Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson pool their combined experience in noise, modern composition, film scoring and performance to create abrasive mutant hiphop, as demonstrated ...