The Wire 313. March 2010

Caledonia dreaming How Glasgow has become the UK's experimental free folk capital, with Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells, The Family Elan and more. By Rob Young Marina Rosenfeld Working with teenagers, amateurs and professionals, The New York composer and sound artist gives Ligeti the American Idol treatment. By Anne Hilde Neset The Thirteenth Assembly Howard Mandel diagnoses the state of downtown jazz with the uncompromising quartet of Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone and Tomas Fujiwara The Moodies These British former art students scandalised the early 1970s with their burlesque, postmodern cabaret. By Adrian Whittaker with Michael Bracewell Invisible Jukebox: Dylan Nyoukis The Blood Stereo vocal improvisor and Chocolate Monk founder mouths off about The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Daniel Spicer Geiom Joe Muggs meets the Nottingham producer who is equally at ease with dubstep, Grime and UK Funky Sebastian Lexer The inventor of the piano+ tells Philip Clark why he has wired his ivories to a computer program Yabby You RIP Derek Walmsley pays tribute to a reggae artist, whose spirituals transcended the poverty of their creation Cross Platform: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot The French sound artist tells Louise Gray why finches are the guitarists of choice for his London installation Global Ear: Houston Deep in the heart of Texan weirdness, David Keenan gets chopped and screwed by the legacy of DJ Screw Epiphanies Going to school next door to the madhouse where 19th century poet John Clare was incarcerated left its mark on writer Alan Moore The Inner Sleeve Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on Adam And The Ants' Kings Of The Wild Frontier Print Run Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde In The American Vernacular edited by Andrew Perchuk & Rani Singh Micro-Bionic: Radical Electronic Music And Sound Art In The 21st Century by Thomas Bey William Bailey Improvised Music From Japan 2009 edited by Yoshiyuki Suzuki On Screen Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie DVD Jack Rose & Glenn Jones The Things That We Used To Do DVD Grindstone Redux DVD Leif Elggren Death Travels Backwards DVD On Site Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Artist, Visionary New York City, USA On Location Tuli – Nothing, New York City, USA Another Timbre Festival, London, UK CHOPPA Festival, Singapore Gary War + Bird Names + Dam Mantle, London, UK