Inside The Wire 297 | November 2008

Cover image by Ben Weaver

The Masthead 4

Letters 6

Bitstream 8 News and more from below the radar

The Joined-up World of The Wire 10 What we are up to online and elsewhere

Trip Or Squeek 10 By Savage Pencil

Bites 12 Stockhausen’s Aus Den Sieben Tagen, Delia Derbyshire, Ecstatic Peace on the US presidential election

Charts 54

Out There 102 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Reviews Index 55

Soundcheck 56 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including new releases from Zeitkratzer, Ignatz, The Blue Notes and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 83 Robert Wyatt on a New York jazz poster

Print Run 84 New music books, including Chuck D’s lyrics, a biography of Clive Palmer and images of Norwegian Black Metal

On Screen 86 Fantomas and Patti Smith on DVD

On Site 87 Gallery and mixed media events, including John Wynne’s Transplant and Belgium’s Happy New Ears festival

On Location 88 Concert and festival reviews, including the Colour Out Of Space, Flow and Numusic festivals, Secret Chiefs 3 and more

Gino Robair 14 The San Francisco improvising percussionist tells Julian Cowley about his energised surfaces

Yo! Majesty 16 Matt Gorney on a flamboyant Florida rap duo with a penchant for royal bust-ups

Tristan Perich 18 Exploring the foundations of digital sound, from Loud Objects to 1-bit music. By Kurt Gottschalk

Global Ear 20 Gučča Robert Rigney reports from smalltown Serbia’s bustling brass band blowout

Cross Platform Ken Jacobs 22 Alan Licht rips up the presidential suite with the avant garde film maker

Invisible Jukebox Hal Willner 24

The Wire’s mystery record selection gives the producer, composer and tribute LP go-to guy a weird nightmare. Tested by John Kruth

Dick Raaijmakers 30

The Dutch electroacoustic theorist blinds Brian Morton with sonic science, from astronomy to anti-gravity

Luciano 32

Derek Walmsley meets the Swiss Techno architect and globe-trotting DJ making dance music for introspective types

Anthony Braxton 36

During the 1970s, one of jazz’s most avant garde figures plied his trade on one of the world’s biggest record labels. Bill Meyer on Braxton’s Arista years

Unofficial Channels 40

Sharity blogs, mixtapes, pirate radio, online archives and more: The Wire’s 14 page guide to all the right music that comes from all the wrong places

Epiphanies 114 Tony Herrington on Alterations’ Total Music meetings