Inside The Wire 292 June 2008

Regulars

Features

The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8 Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net The Joined-up World of The Wire 9 PlusTrip Or Squeek Charts 40 Out There 86 The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces, radio and more Print & Digital Subscriptions 90

The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper Back Issues 92

Epiphanies 98 Traumatic encounters with giants of Improv and modern composition shake Mark Wastell out of his 80s jazz slumber

* Global Earhas taken a spring break and will be back soon

Machinefabriek 10 Rutger Zuydervelt tells Chris Sharp why 3" CD-Rs are the perfect medium for his electronic streams of consciousness

Dylan van der Schyff 12 Vancouver’s busiest drummer talks about his work with John Butcher, pianist Peggy Lee and more. By Dan Warburton

Cross Platform Anat Ben-David 14 Chicks On Speed’s Israeli recruit interrogates pop and politics in her performance art piece, Popaganda. By Owen Hatherley

Invisible Jukebox The RZA 16 The Wu-Tang producer enters the chamber with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Derek Walmsley

Yoshi Wada 20 Inspired by La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath, the Japanese Fluxus artist explores the “sympathetic resonances” of his homemade bagpipes and horns. By Jim Haynes

People Like Us 24 Adopting the motto ‘all things avant retard’, Vicki Bennett creates witty audio cut-ups and collages that slyly subvert heavily mediated images of Britain. By Phil England

Nihilist Spasm Band 28 The likes of Joe McPhee, Voice Crack and Jojo Hiroshige have all made the pilgrimage to London, Ontario to attend the Canadian noise veterans’ No Music nights. By David Keenan

Evangelista 34 Since covering Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger, Carla Bozulich has been shunting alt Country deeper into hardcore Improv territory with her new group. By David Stubbs

Evangelista photographed by Eva Vermandel

Reviews

Index 41 Soundcheck 42 This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Ryoji Ikeda, Riko, Trim, Mike Osborne and more, plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats The Inner Sleeve 67 Carsten Nicolai on Hanns Eisler Print Run 68 New books on the origins of jazz, cover art and cyberculture On Screen 70 A filmclash at Züürich’s revived Cabaret Voltaire, plus Sir Richard Bishop’s God Damn Religion and Pan Sonic on DVD On Site 71 Gallery and mixed media events, featuring new shows by Cééleste Boursier-Mougenot and Heiner Goebbels On Location 72 Concert, club and festival reviews, including Whitehouse, MaerzMusik, BLOC Weekend, Préésences Electronique and more