Detroit's noise art scene and the UFO Factory featured in the UK's The Wire magazine

In the August issue of the UK-based magazine The Wire, which dedicates itself to adventures in modern music around the world, FilterD editor Walter Wasacz contributes a Global Ear: Detroit piece that focuses on Eastern Market's UFO Factory and the local noise art and music scenes. 

In the late 1920s, competing with New York and Chicago over design, architecture and engineering innovations, (Detroit) planted the seeds for the raw and intuitive cultural energy that has vibrated through the city over multiple generations. Those vibrations have been the primary tools in building one of the strangest, most varied regional sound libraries anywhere on the planet.

The article isn't available on the Web but hard copies of the magazine are available at: Car City Records, 21918 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; Stormy Records 13210 Michigan Ave. in Dearborn; various Borders Books locations; or by ordering online from Forced Exposure.

In the same issue of The Wire there is a feature on the Detroit-based noise artist Heath Moerland, who performs under the name Sick Llama on his own Fag Tapes label.