Special Events

A sound art symposium with Max Eastley, Ray Lee, Jana Winderen and Mike Harding/Touch, plus a performance from Eastley & Peter Cusack and installations (including Chris Watson’s surround sound piece). Bracknell South Hill Park, 1 November, £38/£32

A major exhibition of the influential artist’s work which will include 19 of his films, screen tests of artists such as Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, John Cale and Salvador Dalí, Factory diaries, all 42 episodes of his 80s cable TV serials and more. London Hayward, 7 October–18 January

Exhibition curated by Oren Ambarchi and Marco Fusinato of 100 works by 100 sound artists produced in the 21st century, with contributions from Scott Walker, Jandek, Sunn O))), Fennesz, John Zorn, Akio Suzuki, Sun City Girls, Charlemagne Palestine, Merzbow, Sonic Youth, Pita, Yasunao Tone, Phill Niblock, Alan Lamb, Whitehouse, Jim O’Rourke, Voice Crack, Annea Lockwood, Taku Sugimoto, Chris Watson, Alastair Galbraith, Francisco López, Hecker, Tom Recchion, Philip Jeck and more. Melbourne Gertrude Contemporary Artists Spaces, 11 October–8 November

A collaboration of traditional local arts from the tiny Japanese island of Sado and an outside sound artist. This year invites Cyro Baptista’s Banquet Of The Spirits. Sado-Gashima Aikawa Kitazawa Senkouba Ato-Chi, 26 October, 4pm

A multimedia chamber opera composed by Yannis Kyriakides in collaboration with librettist Daniel Danis. Glasgow Tramway (9–11 October), Amsterdam Muzikgebouw aan’t IJ (15), Rotterdam Schouwburg (17–18)

A Halloween screening of FW Murnau’s 1922 film with live accompaniment by Reflektor (Jan Kopinski & Steve Iliffe). Leeds Seven Arts, 31 October, 8:30pm, £12/£10

Solo exhibition Anti Reflex for the artist, musician and member of the Raster-Noton triumvirate. Hamburg Hamburger Kunsthalle, to 31 October

Sound works including five new site-specific commissions in the host gallery and embedded within the public spaces and private corners of this West Texas town. Featured artists include Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello and more. Marfa Ballroom, 27 September–1 February (opening performance by Roden & Vitiello, 26 September; David Toop & Joshua Kun in conversation, 27)

Paintings, installations, sculpture and prints from the artist responsible for MF Doom and Madlib sleeves (and writer of this month’s Inner Sleeve). The exhibition launches Jägel’s monograph 73 Funshine, which includes a Madlib 10". San Francisco Electric Works, to 17 October

Finale event of a project transforming a gallery into an online radio station where the artists Matt & Ross, guests and visitors to the space determine the playlist. For this last evening, the artists invite members of the public to join a live audience. Sheffield Site Gallery, 17 October, 9pm