THE CONDUIT 28.09.04
Welcome to THE WIRE's soon to be fortnightly newsletter. Once a month, as before, we'll update you on the new issue in our usual way as below. And in between we'll keep you updated with a shorter mail on what's new online and on-air.
We hope you'll enjoy the extra missives from WIRE HQ which will help you keep track of exclusives, streams and sneak previews of what lies ahead online and otherwise WIRE related. Suggestions and comments welcome.
Contents:
- Inside THE WIRE 248 (October 2004)
- Online www.thewire.co.uk
- THE WIRE on Resonance 104.4 FM
- Special Events
- Subscribe
- Limited Edition T-shirt
- The Office Ambience
1____________ INSIDE THE WIRE 248 (October 2004)
FEATURES
ON THE COVER: Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori. The musical genes of harpist, composer and Bjork collaborator Zeena Parkins were irreversibly altered by her encounter with drum programmer Ikue Mori's no wave group DNA...
PLUS: Henry Flynt, Mats Gustafsson, A User's Guide to Psychedelic Soul, Jennifer Herrema, Radian, Juana Molina, Comets On Fire and more
REVIEWS
SOUNDCHECK: Gilad Atzmon And The Orient House Ensemble, Devendra Banhart, Basic Channel, Quadrant, Bobby Beausoleil, Harrison Birtwistle, Bject, Raoul Bjorkenheim & Lukas Ligeti, BNSF, Anthony Braxton, Mira Calix, Carter Tutti, Corrupted, Andrew Cyrille & Anthony Braxton, Dreamtime, THF Drenching, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Ellen Fullman, Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger, Jonathan Harvey, Tim Hecker, Arve Henriksen, William Hooker, Islaja, Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith, Makoto Kawabata, Khonnor, Labcoats, Le Doigt De Galilee, Le Tigre, Lukas Ligeti, Mouse On Mars, Niobe, Pauline Oliveros, Isaiah Owens, Paivansade, Steve Reid, Boyd Rice/Non, Max Roach & Anthony Braxton, Henry Rollins, RTX, Bruce Russell, Schwimmer, Scott Smallwood, Upsilon Acrux, Various: Bush Taxi Mali: Field Recordings From, Mali, Various: Radio India: The Eternal Dream Of Sound, Tom Waits, Patty Waters, White North Atlantic, Wibutee, Brian Wilson, The Young Gods, Kemialliset Ystavat, Thalia Zadek and z'ev. Plus specialist review columns covering Avant Rock, Critical Beats, Dub, Electronica, HipHop, Jazz & Improv, Outer Limits, Soundtracks, compilations, reissues and more.
PRINT RUN: America Over The Water, by Shirley Collins; Making Beats: The Art Of Sample-Based HipHop, by Joseph G Schloss; For The End Of Time: The Story Of The Messiaen Quartet, by Rebecca Rischin; Audio Culture: Readings In Modern Music, edited by Christoph Cox & Daniel Warner; Highway 61 Revisited, by Gene Santoro.
CROSS PLATFORM: Michael J Schumacher integrates sound and architecture at his Diapason Gallery, while making over his apartment into a listening hotel. We also check the International Symposium Of Electronic Arts on the high seas; Per->SON in Cologne; Semiconductor in Brighton; making Heavy Conversation out of a mixed media box; Psychic TV and Warp Vision DVDs. Plus Tom Recchion's Inner Sleeve featuring John and Yoko's Unfinished Music No 1: Two Virgins and Go To, our monthly Net trawl.
ON LOCATION: Sonic Youth, Blurt and DKT/MC5 in London, plus the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and Oslo Jazz Festival.
2____________ ONLINE WWW.THEWIRE.CO.UK
NEWS: News and events listings are regularly updated and include additional information you may not get in the magazine.
Go to www.thewire.co.uk > NEWS
ARCHIVE UPDATES: Ken Holling's essay on Cabaret Voltaire from sold-out issue January 2002 (215) is now up online.
Go to www.thewire.co.uk > ARCHIVED ESSAYS
Our Le Tigre interview from January 2002 (215) is also now up online.
Go to www.thewire.co.uk > ARCHIVED > INTERVIEWS
STREAMS: You can now recreate the WIRE 'office ambience' at your workplace with our MP3 stream.
Go to www.thewire.co.uk > ABOUT US
With copies of the October issue, subscribers to the magazine will receive the complimentary compilation 'Exploratory Music From Portugal 04'.
Streams and full tracklisting available online here: www.thewire.co.uk > SUBSCRIBE
3____________ SPECIAL EVENTS
SOUND AND THE 20th CENTURY AVANT GARDE - LONDON
From the noises of Futurism and Dada to the Silence of John Cage, a new course at the Tate Modern presents an opportunity to explore key acoustic moments of the twentieth-century avant-garde.
Lectures, listening sessions, screenings and artists' interviews will be used to explore the different ways artists have exploited the materiality of sound, with an emphasis on sound as a political tool and on the confluence between sound, film and performance.
The course will finish by considering contemporary plunderphonic outputs, effects of sampling and 'copyleft' strategies of the 'Creative Commons'.
Led by Lina Dzuverovic-Russell, Rob Young and Anne Hilde Neset from The Wire and Electra
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Mondays, 18 October - 6 December 2004 6.30 - 8.30 Duration: 8 weeks £80 (£50 concessions), booking required Price includes drinks afterwards
INSTAL.04: BRAVE NEW MUSIC - GLASGOW
Scottish weekender featuring the only UK performance this year from Current 93 plus Six Organs Of Admittance, Charlemagne Palestine, William Basinski, Chie Mukai and Richard Youngs (16 October); and Keiji Haino's Vajra featuring Kan Mikami & Toshi Ishizuka in their first ever show outside of Japan, plus Derek Bailey & Ingar Zach, Steffen Basho-Junghans, EXIAS-J, Masayoshi Urabe and Kan Mikami solo (17). Supported by The Wire. Glasgow The Arches, 16-17 October.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC NETWORK - UK
The Wire is sponsoring a number of tours in the UK Contemporary Music Network's 2004/5 programme, including Streetmusic Arabe with DJ /Rupture, Nettle and others (October 2004); and Sam Rivers (November 2004). More information on these and all the other tours in the programme is available direct from the Contemporary Music Network.
4____________ THE WIRE ON RESONANCE 104.4 FM
Since January 2003, The Wire has been hosting a weekly show of new music on London's arts/community access station, Resonance 104.4 FM. The show is broadcast across central London on 104.4 FM every Thursday, 9:30-11pm GMT, and repeated every Wednesday, 7-8:30am GMT, with simultaneous web streaming and full listings at www.resonancefm.com. Email adventures@thewire.co.uk if you'd like a weekly update on the show sent directly to your inbox.
Downloadable mp3 files of recent shows are available on The Wire website: WEB EXCLUSIVE > ON AIR
5____________ SUBSCRIBE!
With the October issue of the magazine, all subscribers will receive a free and exclusive copy of a new anthology of experimental music from Portugal. Sound samples and full tracklisting available online here: www.thewire.co.uk > SUBSCRIBE
6____________ LIMITED EDITION T-SHIRT
Our ongoing series of specially commissioned, limited edition T-shirts continues. Sunburned Hand Of the Man's "Can't Get Enough Of Your LOVE" design is on sale now in the SHOP section of www.thewire.co.uk
7____________ THE OFFICE AMBIENCE
As mentioned above, you can now recreate the WIRE 'office ambience' at your own workplace with our MP3 stream.
Go to www.thewire.co.uk > ABOUT US for the link
Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost (Revenant)
Can: Ege Bamyasi (Remastered) (Spoon/Mute)
Le Tigre: This Island (Island)
Subtle: A New White (Lex)
Wasteland: October (Transparent)
Wolf Eyes: From Burned Mind (Sub Pop)
DJ/rupture: Special Gunpowder (Very Friendly)
Masaki Batoh: Collected Works 95-96 (Drag City)
Various: 267 Purkkia Liimaa (267 Lattajjaa)
Cul De Sac/Damo Suzuki: Aba Aya Udra (Strange Attractors Audio House)
