The Wire

June 2008

Features:

• Machinefabriek 10 Rutger Zuydervelt tells Chris Sharp why 3" CD-Rs are the perfect medium for his electronic streams of consciousness
• Dylan van der Schyff 12 Vancouver’s busiest drummer talks about his work with John Butcher, pianist Peggy Lee and more. By Dan Warburton
• Anat Ben-David 14 Chicks On Speed’s Israeli recruit interrogates pop and politics in her performance art piece, Popaganda. By Owen Hatherley
• The RZA 16 The Wu-Tang producer enters the chamber with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Derek Walmsley
• Yoshi Wada 20 Inspired by La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath, the Japanese Fluxus artist explores the “sympathetic resonances” of his homemade bagpipes and horns. By Jim Haynes
• People Like Us 24 Adopting the motto ‘all things avant retard’, Vicki Bennett creates witty audio cut-ups and collages that slyly subvert heavily mediated images of Britain. By Phil England
• Nihilist Spasm Band 28 The likes of Joe McPhee, Voice Crack and Jojo Hiroshige have all made the pilgrimage to London, Ontario to attend the Canadian noise veterans’ No Music nights. By David Keenan
• Evangelista 34 Since covering Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger, Carla Bozulich has been shunting alt Country deeper into hardcore Improv territory with her new group. By David Stubbs
• Print Run 68 New books on the origins of jazz, cover art and cyberculture
• On Screen 70 A filmclash at Z̈rich’s revived Cabaret Voltaire, plus Sir Richard Bishop’s God Damn Religion and Pan Sonic on DVD
• On Site 71 Gallery and mixed media events, featuring new shows by Ćleste Boursier-Mougenot and Heiner Goebbels
• On Location 72 Concert, club and festival reviews, including Whitehouse, MaerzMusik, BLOC Weekend, Pŕsences Electronique and more
• Epiphanies 98 T raumatic encounters with giants of Improv and modern composition shake Mark Wastell out of his 80s jazz slumber
• The Inner Sleeve 67 Carsten Nicolai on Hanns Eisler