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The Wire Issue 495

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Francis Gooding |Abi Bliss |Daniel Spicer |Misha Farrant

May 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding Ailie Ormston: The Glasgow composer moves away from the conservatoire to conduct the sounds of the city.
‘Lacan: L’Exposition’

May 1, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Francis Gooding

Culebras, or ‘snakes’, come in a twist of three, tightly plaited and bound by ribbon. Their history is obscure: perhaps the style arose because parsimonious cigar-factory bosses wanted to restrict the cigar-rolling torcedores to an allotment of three cigars a day; perhaps it was an innovation from the tobacco plantations of the Philippines, intended to yield a moderately faster curing time.
At the Imperial War Museum

Feb 14, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Francis Gooding

The Imperial War Museum was established in 1917, while the fighting was still going on, ‘as a record of the toil and sacrifice of those who had served in uniform’ during the Great War. It was first called the National War Museum; the change to ‘Imperial’ was made after India and the Dominions complained that the name did not reflect their sacrifices. Today it describes itself as a ‘global authority on conflict’.
From Its Myriad Tips

Jan 29, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Francis Gooding

Try to imagine what it is like to be a fungus. Not a mushroom, pushing up through damp soil overnight or delicately forcing itself out through the bark of a rotting log: that would be like imagining the grape rather than the vine. Instead try to think your way into the main part of a fungus, the mycelium, a proliferating network of tiny white threads known as hyphae. Decentralised, inquisitive, exploratory and voracious, a mycelial network ranges through soil in search of food.
Francis Gooding · Slimed It: On N.K. Jemisin

Nov 22, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | N.K. Jemisin |Francis Gooding

MC Shan really shouldn’t have done it. By common consent, hip-hop didn’t start in Queens, it started in the Bronx. So when Shan, on his 1986 track ‘The Bridge’, put Queensbridge Houses at the centre of his potted history of rap without so much as mentioning the Bronx, there was going to be pushback.
Francis Gooding · The Leaflet

Oct 25, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Francis Gooding

In the archives of the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, held in Bristol, you can find a neatly closing polished wooden box, inside which are half a dozen 8 mm film reels, with about fourteen minutes of footage per reel. The films were shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman, DFC CBE (1899-1974). They show something you almost never see: candid images of colonial warfare, shot during military action.
Julian Bahula obituary

Oct 12, 2023 | theguardian.com | Francis Gooding

The musician and activist Julian Bahula, who has died aged 85, was the first player to introduce indigenous African drums to South African jazz, an innovation that was crucial to the music of the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s. In political exile in the UK from 1973, he was a tireless activist for the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the African National Congress, gigging at rallies and benefits with his group Jabula.
Francis Gooding · Short Cuts: Orca Life

Sep 13, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Francis Gooding

Since summer 2020, orcas near the Strait of Gibraltar and around the Iberian Peninsula have been interfering with boats. Sailing boats are the most common target, and the whales use significant force on them: approaching from the stern, a group of orcas will inspect the boat carefully, swimming alongside it and turning upside down to look at the hull and steering gear, before starting to push the craft around. Sometimes they ram the hull with their heads.
The Wire Issue 475

Aug 8, 2023 | thewire.co.uk | Frances Morgan |David Grundy |Neil Kulkarni |Francis Gooding

September 2023 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 475.
On Richard Mosse

Aug 2, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Francis Gooding

There have been two recent opportunities to see Richard Mosse’s remarkable work in London. Broken Spectre (2022), a film and series of photographs, was displayed earlier this year in an echoing, pseudo-industrial basement space at 180 the Strand; the Hayward Gallery’s ecologically themed group show Dear Earth, which runs until 3 September, includes the related but more austere multiscreen Grid (Palimi-ú) and photographs taken on the Rio Tigre in the Peruvian Amazon.