For next month, THE WIRE magazine has made a special collaboration with the European project SHAPE (Sound, Heterogeneous Art And Performance In Europe), featuring their chosen artists for 2021. All Wire print subscribers will receive a copy of the latest SHAPE platform compilation CD with their February 2022 issue. Among the tracks to be heard on it are Austrian artists Black Pulse, Gischt and KOENIG.
The Wire x SHAPE
The brand new SHAPE CD in collaboration with The Wire is out now with their latest issue! With tracks from: SIKSA, Lukas Koenig, Audrey Chen, Apollo Noir, Hüma Utku, Pak Yan Lau, Gischt, Foldable Sounds Collective, julek ploski Premium, Heith, Avtomat, TERRINE, Grand River, Zoe Mc Pherson, Budokan Boys, Black Pulse, Loup Uberto, Thoom, Tomaga (Valentina Magaletti Drummer), Jiska Huizing & Rudi Valdersnes, ELVI, Riccardo La Foresta, Still House Plants and Sébastien Robert. Check it out: here.
ABOUT SHAPE
A 7-year initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the SHAPE project reunites 16 European non-profit organizations active within the ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound network to create a platform that aims to support, promote, and exchange innovative and aspiring emergent musicians and interdisciplinary artists with an interest in sound.
SHAPE stands for “Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe”.
SHAPE annually chooses 48 musicians and artists to participate in a mix of live performances, residencies, workshops and talks across member festivals and special events.
SHAPE ARTISTS 2021
Austrian artists Black Pulse, Gischt and KOENIG are all on the SHAPE 2021 roster, and are therefore featured on The Wire’s SHAPE compilation CD, among many other incredible European experimental artists.
Gischt (c) David Visnjic 
koenig (c) rania moslam Black Pulse (c) Flavien Prioreau
Check the full list of artists to preview their works, and don’t forget to keep visiting SHAPE‘s homepage where SHAPE artists are continuously featured!
Shape Artists 2021 is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
ABOUT THE WIRE
An independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics.
The Wire is a 100% independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics. The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronica, hiphop, new jazz, modern composition, traditional musics and beyond. Passionate, intelligent and provocative, The Wire wages war on the mundane and the mediocre. Its office is based in London, but it serves an international readership.
The magazine was founded in 1982, primarily as a jazz and New Music magazine, with a brief to “unravel the mysteries of music and musicians for those who look for fundamental answers about the nature of music…”. Between 1984-2000 it was owned by Naim Attallah’s Namara Group. In December 2000 it was purchased in a management buy-out organised by the magazine’s staff and has been run independently ever since.
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