The 2 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Kee Avil, Fatboi Sharif x Steel Tipped Dove, Bernie Worrell, Conrad Schnitzler, Mary Ocher, and more Kee Avil “Croak” From Spine (Constellation) Fatboi Sharif x Steel Tipped Dove “Brandon Lee” From Decay (Backwoodz Studioz) Malconfort “Rage (Indulgence)” From Humanism (Transcending Obscurity) Christer Bothén featuring Bolon Bata “Moving Pictures For The Ear” From Trancedance (Black Truffle) The Aggrovators “Breaking Up Dubwise” From Dubbing At King Tubby's Vol 1 (VP) Darkthrone “The Heavy H ..read more

The New Jersey rapper with a cinematic take on hiphop compiles an extensive playlist showcasing his many producer partnerships and shares an exclusive new track “Ever since I was a small child I’ve always been attracted to more experimental styles of filmmaking and that comes across in the music for sure,” New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif aka The Garden State Gargoyle tells Joseph Stannard in The Wire 483. “1970s and 80s horror movies, arthouse cinema of the 90s into the 2000s and certain historical documentaries have all played a huge part in my upbringing. "When I create musically,” he cont ..read more

Ahead of the release of her soundtrack for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's new film Evil Does Not Exist, Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about influential composer director partnerships and her own approaches to scoring film Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s award winning meditation on nature and our role in its custodianship, originated from a collaborative music led project with the Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi. Requiring visuals for a live performance, Ishibashi presented the director with a few demos of electronic compositions. The result was the short silent fi ..read more

Jez riley French remembers the Japanese sound sculptor, plus tributes from friends and colleagues In the high grass of an empty camping ground in Niigata Prefecture – not far from Matsudai – Sawako Kato and I stood, listening. Later we climbed a hill to listen to a metal sign resonating. Sounds washed with cicadas. Nagoya born artist Sawako passed away in March, after a short illness. She preferred the term sound sculptor, and her work spanned electronic and computer music, field recording, performance and installation. Generous as a friend and collaborator, multifaceted as an artist, she pl ..read more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our May 2024 issue Full chart Andrea & Mud Institutionalized (Guest Wifi) Aseethe The Cost (Thrill Jockey) Cheer-Accident A New Ear: 2024 (Bandcamp) DNA? AND? + NU Unruh + Reynols Seele Brennt (Sanntidsmusikk) For Gaza: Sounds Of The Korean Underground In Solidarity With The People Of Palestine Various (Planet Turbo) Grackles Grackles (Bandcamp) Heavee Unleash (Hyperdub) Jlin Akoma (Planet Mu) Megalithic Transport Network Engine Vein (Crooked Acres) Jessica Pratt Here In The Pitch (Mexican Summer) Scam Style ..read more

The 25 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Einstürzende Neubauten, Senyawa, Sunik Kim, bela, Jeff Mills & Jun Togawa, Diamanda Galás, New Dangerfield, and more Wukir Suryadi “Meyakini Sebuah Jawaban” From Siklus Dan Doa (Cycle & Prayer) (Discrepant) Senyawa “Istana” From Various Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Far East (Unexplained Sounds Group) Sunik Kim “Beautiful As The Moon” From Tears Of Rage (Rope Editions) bela “Deathwill” From Noise And Cries (Unsound/Subtext) Minimum Wage Immanence Unit “Between Mountains” F ..read more

The Japanese sound artist gathers tracks by composers working with low end frequencies In his recent interview in The Wire 483, sound artist Yosuke Fujita tells Antonio Poscic how the principles of ancient Japanese classical music have influenced his approach to sound design and composition: “According to the philosophy of gagaku there is no distinction between visuals and sound,” he explains. “The placement of the instruments, colours, their presence, the overall appearance and smell of the stage, all exist in a state of being mixed together. And the sound comes from there. The sound contain ..read more

The 18 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Rafael Toral, Rhodri Davies, Keeley Forsyth, Mazz Swift, and more I Made Subandi “Urip Gumi” From Sanggar Ceraken: Bibit Volume 3 (Insitu) Rhodri Davies “Cildraeth Sienco” From Telyn Wrachïod (Amgen) Rafael Toral “Intro + Changes” From Spectral Evolution (Moikai) Splitter Orchester “Imagine Splitter” From Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia) Ergo & Depresstival starring Ariadne “Do They Owe Us A Living?” (Ergo Phizmiz) E ..read more

The US trumpeter shares a supernatural LA noir created with the help of generative AI for a track from her latest album Power Vibe Steph Richards often experiments with environmental factors and pre-decided systems in her improvising projects. In 2020, the US trumpeter released Supersense, for which she collaborated with Detroit based artist Sean Raspet to create a series of scents that Richards and her fellow players surrounded themselves with and responded to in the studio. Wire subscribers can read an interview with Richards discussing the album in The Wire 441 via the online library of ba ..read more

Musician and researcher Alejandra Cardenas aka Ale Hop selects and annotates music by some of the Latin American women composers of electronic music profiled in her new book Switched On: The Dawn Of Electronic Sound By Latin American Women Jocy De Oliveira “Wave Song”From Estórias Para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos E Eletrônicos (Fif) 1981 (Blume) 2017 In 1961, Jocy De Oliveira presented her piece “Apague Meu Spotlight” (“Turn Off My Spotlight”) in partnership with Luciano Berio, which became the first electronic music concert ever held in Brazil, making De Oliveira a fundamental figure in the ..read more