Wire Magazine Issue 213 Nov 2001 [Jim O'Rourke] ON THE COVER: Jim O'Rourke - His recent appointment as Sonic Youth's fifth member hasn't cured avant music's most workaholic producer. David Keenan hears about O'Rourke's new LPs of Southern fried boogie and Mego electronica, and why Chicago sucks FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Lol Coxhill, Kaija Saariaho, The Soviet noise network, Bobby Conn, Nagisa Ni te, Blectum From Blechdom, Charley Patton, Dave Douglas, Manhattan Stories: Lee Ranaldo, Stephen Vitiello, Skiz Fernando, Alan Licht and more Jim O'Rourke  His recent appointment as Sonic Youth's fifth member hasn't cured avant music's most workaholic producer. David Keenan hears about O'Rourke's new LPs of Southern fried boogie and Mego electronica, and why Chicago sucks Invisible Jukebox: Lol Coxhill  The UK's most mobile saxophonist has played with Improv titans, ska kings and Canterbury scenesters, but can he identify tracks by Tommy McCook, The Damned, Matching Mole, Derek Bailey and more? Tested by Ben Watson Kaija Saariaho  Now signed to Sony Classical, this Finnish composer distorts the familiar range of orchestral instruments through a prism of ethereal electronics to conjure up her powerful spectral soundworlds. By Andy Hamilton Tangents: The Soviet noise network  After Sergei Kuryokhin swung to the right in the mid-80s, a new generation of Industrial and noise musicians - some with disturbing nationalistic sympathies - emerged to annex Russia's avant garde. By Anton Nikkilä The View From Downtown  New York's avant epicentre was caught up in the fallout from the 11 September atrocities. Lee Ranaldo, Stephen Vitiello, Simon Reynolds, Alan Licht, Wordsound's Skiz Fernando and others report back from Ground Zero Bobby Conn  Ken Hollings finds teenage dreams and mischievous pop exuberance in the suburbs of Chicago Nagisa Ni te  The Japanese duo make their beach-life a melodically personal and emotive place. By David Keenan Marina Rosenfeld  The American turntablist speaks to Christoph Cox about her female-inspired musical experimentation Satoko Fujii  The Japanese pianist and composer bridges an East/West divide with her Japanese quartet and American trio. By Andy Hamilton Global Ear  Jerry Hopkins gets out of Thailand alive Epiphanies  Edwin Pouncey finds poetry in Patti Smith Print Run  Western Music And Its Others: Difference, Representation And Appropriation In Music, edited by Georgina Born & David Hesmondhalgh; Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel: The Rise Of The Superstar DJs, by Dave Haslam; Random Precision: Recording The Music Of Syd Barrett 1965-1974, by David Parker Ether Talk  Chris Abbott's homages to 80s Commodore 64 game music preserve a breakthrough in sound chip science. By Peter Shapiro On Location  PJ Harvey, London Brixton Academy, UK; Louie Austen, London Great Eastern Hotel, UK; Sonic Youth + Tom Verlaine, New York Bowery Ballroom, USA; Karlheinz Stockhausen: Elektronic, London Barbican Hall, UK; Masada Quartet + Masada String Trio Feldman/ Friedlander/ Courvoisier/ Mori/ Ibarra + Matthew Shipp & Rob Brown, New York Tonic, USA; X-Tract Chicago, Berlin Podewil, Germany; DEG, Gothenburg Art Sounds Festiival, Sweden General Storage wear Sorry No Cover mounted CD's are included