12 concerts and four workshops spread over four days and seven venues. With Nina Garcia, Neil Charles' James Baldwin project Dark Days, Alister Spence & Tony Buck and Xhosa Cole's FreeMonk project.

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Modernist prom with a new cello concerto by Icelandic composer Thorvaldsdottir, alongside Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, Varèse's Intégrales and Ravel's Boléro. London Royal Albert Hall, 13 August, ...

The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...

A listening post has been installed in the Lady Chapel of the 975-year old cathedral relaying a live internet transmission of Jem Finer's 1000-year composition from its home in London's Lighthouse at ...

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature on Lynch that appeared in The Wire 486 free to read in our online library. The feature includes a cover ...

The Japanese paramedia artist and digital composer has died. By way of tribute, we have made Alan Licht’s 2002 interview with Tone free to read in our online library ...

As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, as well as Daniel Spicer’s Primer guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, ...

Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.

Drummer Sunny Murray died on 7 December 2017 in Paris. He was 81 years old and had lived in the city since the mid-1990s. Obituary by Phil Freeman Born in Idabel, Oklahoma in 1936, Murray grew up in ...

Issue 498 August 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 498. Inside our brand new issue: Bill Orcutt: The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy ...