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This music chart was published in Issue #447 of The Wire Magazine, and it was inspired by works dealing with sounds sourced from commutes to work, public transportation, sonic interpretations of landscapes adjacent to roads or train tracks, and oral testimonies around transportation infrastructures.

Discontinued Commutes 15

Yara Mekawei & Mina Nasr – Shoubra Line (Atrellewa)

Claudia Molitor – Sonorama (Electra)

Ain Bailey – Five Car Train To Fremont (Resterecords)

Michelle Moeller – Spoke (Bandcamp)

Philip Perkins – Drive Time (Fun Music)

TAMTAM – A100 (Crónica)

Jean-Luc Guionnet, Dan Warburton, Eric La Casa – Metro Pré Saint-Gervais (Swarming)

Odland + Auinger – Rome: Traffic Mantra 1992 (Secrets of the Sun)

Janek Schaefer – Radio 104 FM (12k)

Luís Costa – Da serra para a fábrica: O meu mapa do bairro (Binaural Radio Rural/SoundCloud)

Christian Zanési – Grand Bruit (Recollection GRM)

Felicity Ford – Around the A4074 (BBC Radio Oxford)

Tamio Shiraishi – 2009・05・23 67Avenue (PSF)

Viv Corringham – The River Fleet Walk (Extracts) (The Diagram)

Marc Behrens – A Narrow Angle: Taipei Metro Easycard 500 NT$ (Entr’acte)

image: Yara Mekawei & Mina Nasr, Shoubra Line

February 9, 2020

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Waterfall as Metronome – The Wire Magazine

The February edition of The Wire magazine (issue 432) features the chart Waterfall as Metronome, composed of works inspired by the sight and sound of waterfalls including field recordings, on-site improvisation, sound installations, white noise, ethnographic work, and new-age interpretations of water, flow and the effects of negative ions. While putting together this list, I imagined a speculative history of music where compositions were not driven by metronome’s mechanical account of time, but by the continuous atemporal flow of a waterfall.

Waterfall as Metronome 15

Sarah Hennies – Gather (Category of manifestation)

Daniel Menche – Raw Fall (The Tapeworm)

Hafdis Bjarnadottir – North (Gruenrekorder)

Bill Fontana – Vertical Water (Whitney Museum)

Peter Ablinger – Weiss / Weisslich 7b (Peter Ablinger)

Olivia Wyatt – The Pierced Heart and The Machete (Sublime Frequencies)

Carlos Niño – Delightfulllll / Waterfall (feat. Iasos) (Leaving Records)

Francisco López – Tawhirimatea (No label)

John Butcher- Close by, a waterfall (Confront)

Annea Lockwood – Englewood Brook Falls, Palisades (Lovely)

Herman de Vries – Thema 1: bach (Artists Press Bern)

Micheal Pisaro – Still Life with Cicadas, Waterfall and Radu (Gravity Wave)

Ulahi and Eyo:bo – Sing At A Waterfall (Folkways)

Paul Lloyd Warner – Kipahulu Falls (MPI)

Steven Feld – Flow like a Waterfall: The Metaphors of Kaluli Musical Theory (Yearbook for Traditional Music)

Voices of the Rainforest: A day in the life of Bosavi (2019), directed and produced by Steven Feld

*Peter Ablinger at the Waterfalls of Krimml, Austria, recording Weiss/Weisslich 33, 1999*

August 12, 2017

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15 For The Log Lady – The Wire Magazine

The September edition of The Wire magazine (issue 403) features the chart “15 For The Log Lady“, inspired by the Twin Peaks Log Lady character portrayed by Catherine E. Coulson. This tracklist is made up of musical compositions that use logs, wood, timber, and trees as a primary source of sound.

15 For The Log Lady

Kate Carr – The creaking door of the abandoned concrete factory, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland (Helen Scarsdale Agency)

Anton Mobin – Floating Wood (Green Field)

Bartholomäus Traubeck – Years (Bandcamp)

Limpe Fuchs – Holztrauer (Play Loud!)

Jay-Dea Lopez – One tree in a forest: A field recording (soundslikenoise.org)

Junko & Thomas Tilly – Wild Protest N 48 54.339´/e 005 23.224´ (Vent Des Forêts)

Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink – Aufen Nr. 4 (FMP)

Owl Project – Iloger (Soundcloud)

Bob Verschueren – Sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) (Fuga Libera)

Laurie Anderson – Handphone table. Remembering Sound (MOMA)

Hazard – The Logfires (Ash International)

Greg Davis & Jeph Jerman – Matinee, New Plymouth (Autumn)

Wilmot MacDonald – The Lumberman’s Aphabet (Smithsonian Folkways)

Annea Lockwood – Buoyant (Recital)

Mladen Kovacevic – Anplagd (Horopter Film Production)

May 15, 2014

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History of Balloon Music 15

This chart features 15 compositions that show different ways of appropriation of the balloon as an instrument.

# The Wire Magazine, May 2014

February 26, 2014

Misophonia 15 – Chart for The Wire Magazine

Zepelim’s chart included in The Wire Magazine, issue #348 explores musical compositions made of trigger sounds for Misophonia, a chronic condition in which specific sounds provoke intense emotional experiences and autonomic responses of fight or flight within an individual. These triggers are usually comprised of subtle, repetitive sounds such as mouth sounds, lip smacking sounds, chewing sounds, body sounds and breathing sounds. This chart presents musical compositions containing Misophonic triggers, with the aim of re-contextualizing these pieces and pointing to a new way of hearing them. If you suffer from Misophonia, approach this mix with caution. Is it possible to redefine Misophonic trigger sounds as Misophonic music?

Philip Corner
Carrot Chew Performance (Tellus)
Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox
Olfactophobia (Editions Mego)
Henri Chopin
Le Corps Est Une Usine À Sons (Alga Marghen)
Christof Migone
Untitled (Track 4) (Locust Music)
Trevor Wishart
Anticredos, for 6 amplified vocalists (Electronic Music Foundation)
Paul Dutton
Lips Is (OHM éditions)
Walter Cianciusi
Chewing Gum (Vitaminic)
Die Elektrischen
Crunchy Frog (Dielectric Records)
Lauren Lesko
Thrist (Ubuweb)
Monique Rollin
Étude Vocale, 1952 (INA-GRM)
Zatumba
Natchung (Sonic Arts Network)
Gregory Whitehead
If a Voice Like, Then What? (Staalplaat)
Gil J. Wolman
La Mémoire (Alga Marghen)
Kenneth Gaburo
Mouth-Piece: Sextet for solo trumpet (New World Records)
Duke Ellington
Chew-Chew-Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum) (Mosaic Records)

April 19, 2012

Music to Grow Plants By 15 – The Wire Magazine #339

The May 2012 issue of The Wire Magazine #339 features a chart compiled by Zepelim. To celebrate the Springtime, a chart of “Music to Grow Plants”. This chart is the sum of sounds presented in Zepelim’s forthcoming episode dedicated to our connection to plants through bioelectronic punctuations of energy as well as in a more mystical/pseudo-scientific way. The tracklist is composed of music made by codification of plant DNA, talking to plants, bioelectronic sensorial music, field recordings with contact mics, solar powered music, plant comunication and music inspired by plants.

Music to Grow Plants By 15

Molly Roth
Plant Talk/Sound Advice (Plant Talk Productions)

Michael Prime
One Hour As Peyote (Mycophile Records)

Mileece
Fern Formations (Lo Recordings)

Mamoru Fujieda
Patterns of Plants (Tzadik)

Jeph Jerman
Contact mics affixed to plants in the rain connected to amps inside studio (AARC)

Miya Masaoka
Improv21: Plants Make Music! (via RadiOM.org)

Lily Greenham
Lingual Music (Paradigm Discs)

Michael Theroux
Plant Tones: Music From The World Of Plants
(Borderland Sciences Research Foundation)

Quayola/Mira Calix/Oliver Coates
Natures (via quayola.com)

Craig Colorusso
Sun Boxes (Paper Garden Records)

Mort Garson
Mother Earth’s Plantasia (Homewood Records)