From The Wire Sent Thu, Feb 18th 1999, 16:27
From The Wire Sent Thu, Feb 18th 1999, 16:27
The Wire Magazine presents........ >>THE CONDUIT 99.1<< This is The Conduit - the first in a semi-regular series of news bulletins keeping you updated on the hyperlinked musical world of the UK music magazine The Wire. You have been added to this list because we think you have an interest in the music and culture we feature, but if you'd like to be removed, feel free to mail us back and tell us you're getting enough unsolicited mail already. >>NEWS<< THE WIRE 181 (March 99) Hitting the streets Tuesday 23 February, with an exclusive cover story on Nick Cave, interviews with Pan Sonic, Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine (his first interview in eight years), Fennesz, Joe Morris, Maryanne Amacher, Shiv Kumar Sharma, and Dorgon. Plus: a Beginner's Guide to Ornette Coleman on Record, and the latest in our Undercurrents series, looking at the hidden wiring of 20th century music with an investigation into the Music of the Spheres THE WIRE 182 (April 99) + FREE CD Now in production, the April issue comes complete The Wire Tapper 3: the third in our series of exclusive free cover mounted compilation CDs. Running time over 60 minutes and featuring tracks from To Rococo Rot, Gas, We, Model 500, Rothko, Supersilent, Thurston Moore & Evan Parker, Robert Ashley and more. *The April issue will be on sale Tuesday 30 March >>WIRE EVENTS<< CURRENT March sees the launch of The Wire's new regular space for live experimental, electronic-slanted musics and vanguard sounds on record, hosted each month by Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young of The Wire Sound System. RHYS CHATHAM previews his forthcoming album, Hard Edge, which will be released in April on The Wire's relaunched Wire Editions label, in a trio with guitarist GARY SMITH and keyboardist/samplist PAT THOMAS. Plus a DJ set of crackling electronic dub from Berlin's POLE *The Wire presents Current RHYS CHATHAM + GARY SMITH + PAT THOMAS POLE THE WIRE SOUND SYSTEM Venue: London Crossbar, Pentonville Road (next to King's Cross Thameslink) Date: Wednesday 24 March Time: 8pm-1am Tickets: 6/4 pounds Booking: 0171 837 6900 Info: 0171 439 6422 E-mail: xxx_xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xx.xx INTERFERENCE: Tweaking The Envelope A software stocktake with: MATT BLACK (Coldcut) KINGSUK BISWAS (Bedouin Ascent) ANDREW DEAKIN (Sonic Arts, Middlesex University) Discussion chaired by Wire Deputy Editor ROB YOUNG The sound of today's (and tomorrow's) electronic music is increasingly dictated by the nature of computer software packages used to assemble, distort and sequence sound. This is as true for hardboiled electroacoustic composition as it is for homemade blipvert Techno tracks. The versatility of software such as Cubase, SuperCollider, Logic and MetaSynth certainly allows strange and wonderful music to appear, but poses problems for performance and accessibility, while questioning the function of music itself. In this, the latest in The Wire and Lux Centre's audiovisual examinations of musical issues, there's the chance to go behind the screens and find out how software works, what it does, who's using it, and what its limits are *Interference Venue: London Lux Centre, 2-4 Hoxton Square, N1 Date: Thursday 25 February Time: 8pm Tickets: 6/3 pounds Bookings: 0171 684 0201 Info: 0171 684 2787 >>THE WIRE EDITIONS<< RHYS CHATHAM: Hard Edge CD The Wire Editions releases its second CD in early April (the first was David Toop's Screen Ceremonies, back in 1995). For this project, we hooked legendary American Minimalist composer Rhys Chatham up with some of the UK's finest improvisors and captured the results over a period of several months. After writing symphonies for electric guitars, Chatham has turned to the electric trumpet, and the CD showcases his blowing alongside all-out group Improv and breakbeats featuring samplist Pat Thomas, guitarist Gary Smith, bassist Gary Jeff and drummer Lou Ciccotelli. The CD will be available before the release date, at the Rhys Chatham concert at CURRENT (see above). For more information on The Wire Editions label, contact: Tel: +44 171 439 6422 Fax: +44 171 287 4767 E-mail: xxx_xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xx.xx The Wire Editions is distributed by Harmonia Mundi xxxx.xx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Tel: +44 171 253 0863 Fax: +44 171 253 3237 >>MERCHANDISE<< T-SHIRT The Wire t-shirt is coming! Any colour you like as long as it's black, Large or Medium size, and featuring Headphone Man: The Wire Tapper/Editions logo, plus the magazine logo on the back. Available from early April: check the magazine for details >>THE WIRE WEBSITE<< http://www.dfuse.com/the-wire SITE IMPROVEMENTS Apologies to anyone who experienced problems subscribing or ordering back issues through our online subscriptions form in January. This was caused by server problems, but has now been fixed. We are working on making it possible to renew subscriptions online, too. The Links pages are undergoing a major overhaul right now: with the next (March) update you'll find the links properly alphabetized, dead links removed, and regularly updated month by month from now on. We're also working on adding some sound files: beginning with extracts from each month's free subscription CD, we aim to grow the presence of audio content on the site >>THE WIRE NEWSGROUP<< Several hundred readers and music aficionados are now subscribed to xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx, a discussion group set up by moderator Davis Ford, independently from the magazine, where all kinds of issues relating to non-mainstream music covered in The Wire can be discussed, records reviewed and offered for trade, opinions shared and disputed, etc etc. To join, simply point your Web browser to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/thewire Fill in the form, and you'll be onstream in no time. The list can also be received in digest format >>THE WIRE SOUND SYSTEM [WSS]<< Plug into the office ambience in the presence of The Wire's imaginatively named DJ team! WSS SCHEDULE Wednesday 24 March hosting CURRENT, London Crossbar Friday 9 April @ Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway Saturday 29 May @ Sonic Mook Experiment, London Scala WSS HOTLIST (w/b 15 February 99) Supersilent - Supersilent 4 (Rune Grammofon) Various - Electronic Music From Buenos Aires (Traum) Novisad - Novisad (Tom) Matmos - The West (Vague Terrain) Freiland - Orange Red (Freiland/Kompakt) Yves Daoust - Musiques Naives (empreintes Digitales) PFN - Akasa Fur Cleo (Quiet Artworks) Fennesz - Plays (Moikai/Mego) Sturm - Sturm (Mille Plateaux) Monolake - Interstate (Imbalance) Autechre - Peel Session (Warp) Rob Swift - The Ablist (Asphodel) Prince Charming - Fantastic Voyage (Wordsound) Rhys Chatham - Hard Edge (The Wire Editions) Derek Bailey - Playbacks (Bingo) Enquiries about all of the above c/o The Wire: details below... >>ends<< THE WIRE Magazine: Adventures In Modern Music 45-46 Poland Street London W1V 3DF UK Tel: +44 (0)171 439 6422 Fax: +44 (0)171 287 4767 Subscriptions: +44 (0)171 734 3555 Ads: +44 (0)171 494 1340 E-mail: xxx_xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xx.xx Web: http://www.dfuse.com/the-wire