Inside The Wire 313 | March 2010

Alasdair Roberts photographed by Tara Darby

The Masthead 4

Letters 6

Bitstream 8 News and more from under the radar

Trip Or Squeek 9 Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil

Bites 10 AV Festival, vocoders, Carsten Nicolai’s Parallel Voices and more

Charts 52

Out There 89 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Below The Radar + The Wire Tapper 96 Free downloads and CDs

Subscriptions 97

Reviews Index 53

Soundcheck 54 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Joanna Newsom, Fenn O’Berg, League Of Automatic Music Composers and more. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 75 Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on Adam And The Ants’ Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Print Run 76 New music books: Harry Smith’s legacy reexamined; Improvised Music From Japan 2009 annual and more

On Screen 78 Jack Rose & Glenn Jones, Leif Elggren, mellotrons and more on DVD

On Site 79 A Iannis Xenakis exhibition in New York City

On Location 80 Festival and concert reviews, including a fundraiser for The Fugs’ Tuli Kupferberg in New York City, Another Timbre Festival in London, CHOPPA Festival in Singapore and more

Geiom 14 Joe Muggs meets the Nottingham producer who is equally at ease with dubstep, Grime and UK Funky

Sebastian Lexer 16 The inventor of the piano+ tells Philip Clark why he has wired his ivories to a computer program

Yabby You RIP 18 Derek Walmsley pays tribute to a reggae artist, whose spirituals transcended the poverty of their creation

Global Ear Houston 20 Deep in the heart of Texan weirdness, David Keenan gets chopped and screwed by the legacy of DJ Screw

Cross Platform Céleste Boursier-Mougenot 22 The French sound artist tells Louise Gray why finches are the guitarists of choice for his London installation

Invisible Jukebox Dylan Nyoukis 24 The Blood Stereo vocal improvisor and Chocolate Monk founder mouths off about The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Daniel Spicer

The Thirteenth Assembly 28 Howard Mandel diagnoses the state of downtown jazz with the uncompromising quartet of Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone and Tomas Fujiwara

Marina Rosenfeld 32 Working with teenagers, amateurs and professionals, The New York composer and sound artist gives Ligeti the American Idol treatment. By Anne Hilde Neset

The Moodies 36 These British former art students scandalised the early 1970s with their burlesque, postmodern cabaret. By Adrian Whittaker with Michael Bracewell

Caledonia dreaming 44 How Glasgow has become the UK’s experimental free folk capital, with Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells, The Family Elan and more. By Rob Young

Epiphanies 98 Going to school next door to the madhouse where 19th century poet John Clare was incarcerated left its mark on writer Alan Moore