The Wire Salon is a talking shop for the multiple music subcultures covered by The Wire magazine. Programmed and hosted by The Wire's Tony Herrington, in its initial incarnation the Salon presented more than 25 events at Cafe Oto between 2010-13 that included talks, panel discussions, film screenings, quizzes, gear demos and more. Subjects covered included hauntology, graphic scores, field recordings, the vocoder, sound maps, circuit bending, sensory ethnography, the music of the black power movement, the visual aesthetics of black metal, the new age philosophies of Daphne Oram, as well as audiences with Robert Wyatt and Terry Riley. The Salon's roll call of more than 60 speakers and participants included Steve Goodman, Claudia Molitor, Salomé Voegelin, Peter Cusack, David Toop, Dave Tompkins, Mira Calix, John Akomfrah, Paul Gilroy, Ian Penman, Nina Power, Jonny Trunk, Leafcutter John, and the late Mark Fisher.