Born in Oxford in the early 1960s, London based composer Laurence Crane is closely associated with British ensemble Apartment House, with who he's releasing a two disc set of minimalist chamber works ...

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the ...

In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet ...

On paper Edgar Guest’s poems don’t do much for me but the early recordings of his readings of his poems are fantastic. Guest’s homespun philosophising reminds me a bit of vaudeville performer Will ...

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 ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 486. Inside our brand new issue: David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20 ...

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

The 30 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Circuit Des Yeux ...

The Wire's Rob Young presents a lecture on Scott Walker, from his first release as Scott Engel at age 14, to his present day experiments in sound. Off The Page 2012 - Rob Young on Scott Walker 1:12:35 ...