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

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, ...

Based out of Zurich, Dave Phillips has been performing and recording music for over two decades. Homo Animalis is his most recent release and is the first on the Swiss artist collective ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

When I began the feature I wrote about Mark Hollis for The Wire 167 in 1998 with the words, “Thrill is gone”, it was not just that a case of the November blues had appeared to hang like a pall over ...

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 ...