I wrote the series of essays titled “The Secret History of Film Music” in the long gone epoch of the late 1990s for The Wire ...

Juan San Cristóbal Lizama compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Tijuana’s Static Discos label in The Wire ...

The 20 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Tori Kudo, SBR, Cheng Daoyuan, Sophia Djebel Rose, Crystal Axis and others ...

Dennis Johnson's newly recorded piece November, which inspired La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano, rewrites the history of minimalism. Clive Bell talks to the elusive mathematician. Dennis Johnson ...

In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who ...

The 27 February edition of The Wire ’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, Q Lazzarus, ...

Read an extended version of Will Montgomery's Cross Platform article on Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda, master of the art of field recording. For 15 years, the Yokohama based artist Toshiya ...

Moğollar keyboard player, Murat Ses, coined the term Anadolu Pop for the hybrid of Western pop and local folk popular in 1960s Turkey. By the time Moğollar recorded their debut album (from which this ...

This is another shepherd's melody from the Balkans adapted to the violin of Alexis Zoumbas. Probably the saddest 78 that I own. Recorded in New York City in 1928.