The fourth Organ Reframed event will take place at London's Union Chapel next year. Aiming to change perceptions of this family of instruments, the two day event includes talks, masterclasses, interactive soundscapes, family-friendly workshops and a host of performances.

Announced so far are new works by Anna von Hausswolff, Abul Mogard and Ipek Gorgun, all of which are composed for organ and electronics and performed alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra. On the Saturday visitors can explore a free installation by Chris Watson and composer plus Organ Reframed founder Claire M Singer. Recorded in Scotland, audio snatches of wind, weather and animals will interact with organ music played by James McVinnie, Katherine Tinker and Jacob Lekkerkerker. Late afternoon will see Wire Editor Derek Walmsley in conversation with Watson and Singer, followed by a premiere of the pair's new work Voci Del Vento.

Tickets are available now.

Eavesdropping: A Reader addresses “the capture and control of our sonic world by state and corporate interests, alongside strategies of resistance”. Edited by James Parker of Melbourne Law School and Joel Stern of Liquid Architecture, the anthology follows a Melbourne exhibition of the same name that examined the rise of intrusive behaviour. “We cannot help but hear too much, more than we mean to. Eavesdropping is a condition of social life. And the question is not whether to eavesdrop, therefore, but how,” says the synopsis.

The book includes essays from James Parker, Joel Stern, Norie Neumark, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Susan Schuppli, Sean Dockray, Joel Spring, Fayen d’Evie and Jen Bervin, Samson Young and Manus Recording Project Collective.

The Australian sound art organisation Liquid Architecture has also launched a new online journal called Disclaimer containing commissioned essays, interviews and audio papers focussed on sonic art in Melbourne and around the world.

Shape (aka Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe) have made their 2020 artist announcement. The initiative, co-founded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, brings together 16 non-profit cultural organisations active within Europe’s International Cities of Advanced Sound network (ICAS) with artists working with sound for a year of performances, residencies, workshops and talks.

Artist for 2020 are: Afrodeutsche, Aloïs Yang, Animistic Beliefs, Aquarian, Ben Bertrand, c/a (cslaha), Cam Deas, Celine Gillain, Clara de Asis, Dekj/Hugo Esquinca, Dorota & Dávid Somló, Elina Waage, Mikalsen, Elvin Brandhi, Farida Amadou with Steve Noble, Fausto Mercier, FOQL, Frédéric Gies, Jay Glass Dubs, KӣR, Lawrence Lek, Lyra Valenza with VJ Camille Doussy, Lyzza, Ma’iwa, Marta De Pascalis, Moesha 13, Object Blue, Oktober Lieber, Oli XL, Oliver Torr, Peter Kutin, Piezo, Poly Chain, Rian Treanor, Richard Eigner, Rojin Sharafi, Rrill Bell aka The Preterite, Sacrifice Seul, Schacke, Simina Oprescu, Širom, Stellar Om Source, Svetlana Maraš, Tadleeh, upsammy, Virgen María, VTSS, xin and Yann Gourdon.

The member festivals for Shape 2020 are CTM in Berlin, CYNETART in Dresden, Festival Maintenant in Rennes, Insomnia in Tromsø, Les Siestes Électroniques in Toulouse, MeetFactory in Prague, MoTA in Ljubljana, Musikprotokoll Im Steirischen Herbst in Graz, RIAM in Marseilles, Rokolectiv in Bucharest, Schiev in Brussels, Skaņu Mežs in Riga, TodaysArt in The Hague, UH Fest in Budapest, Unsound Krakow, and, new to the list, Terraforma in Milan.

Amsterdam festival Sonic Acts has announced more artists for its 2020 edition. Running from 21–23 February, the event intends to reflect on the impact of changes caused to the planet by humans through a three day programme of concerts, club nights, live cinema and a conference.

New artists added to the line-up are Holly Herndon, AYA, bod [包家巷] + Schwestern Sisters, Bookworms, Debby Friday, Design Earth, Marjolijn Dijkman, Anja Kanngieser, Lag OS, Meuko! Meuko!, Rui Ho, S280F/011668/vvxxii, Tadleeh and Via App. They'll be joining previously announced artists Nabil Ahmed, Marja Ahti, Elvin Brandhi, Jonáš Gruska, Maika Garnica, Kali Malone, Maia Urstad, Roly Porter, SADAF, Speaker Music and others.

Meanwhile, a two-day conference will take place at De Brakke Grond with talks from Design Earth co-founders, architects Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, and theorist Lukáš Likavčan.

More information can be found on their website. Early bird festival passes are available until 31 December for €60. After that a regular ticket will set you back €70.

The London label Hyperdub has been working with US video game hardware company Analogue on a specially branded version of their Mega Sg, an aftermarket version of the Sega Mega Drive that plays all the old cartridges.

Called Konsolation, this Hyperdub branded version of the console comes with an exclusive compilation album on a cartridge and a little third ear cat mascot. On the album are exclusive tracks by Burial, Scratcha Dva, Ikonika, Jessy Lanza & Jeremy Greenspan, Proc Fiskal, Lee Gamble, Mana, Cooly G, Nazar, DJ Taye and Kode9.

The Hyperdub remake is limited to 1000 units worldwide, 150 of which are available in the UK via the label's store.

Nomadic commissioners Abandon Normal Devices aka AND and Somerset House Studios are working together to commission a new live audiovisual performance. They’ve jointly put out a call for pitches from artists responding to AND's 2020 festival theme, which explores the global trade gateway of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey, and will be on show at its ninth edition in May and at London’s Somerset House Studios as part of a programme exploring image, sound and digital art in June.

AND and Somerset House Studios have joined forces before. In 2017 they co-commissioned Taut Line, a multi-channel sound installation created by Beatrice Dillon.

More information is available on Somerset House’s website. Deadline for pitches is midday on 11 December.

In what has become a festive season tradition, a countdown of The Wire’s Top 50 releases of the year for 2019 will be broadcast over the Christmas period during three special editions of the Borderline: Musik Für Grenzgänger show on Germany’s Freies Radio Kassel. The shows will be broadcast at 7pm local time on 13, 20 and 27 December, with each show repeated at 11am the following day. If you live in the North Hesse region of Germany you can tune in on 105.8FM. For everyone else, the shows are streamed live at borderline-extra.de

University of Huddersfield have launched cageconcert.org, a new website plus two apps exploring John Cage’s Concert For Piano And Orchestra. The site features interviews, films, performances, text and images that focus on the concert and issues relating to instrumental technique, notation and performance.

Of the apps, Solo For Piano was developed by Dr Christopher Melen and examines Cage’s 63 page graphic score. It allows users to select notations and generate randomised and manual realisations that can be saved and printed. Developed by Stuart Mellor, the Concert Player app allows users to create both randomised and tailored performances of Concert For Piano And Orchestra. Sounds on the app were recorded by Apartment House and can be manipulated by instrument types, silences, durations and sequences. Also included is a download of the full 189 minute performance of Solo For Piano by Philip Thomas.

Funded by AHRC, the project kicked off in 2017 with a recording of CC by Philip Thomas and Apartment House released by Huddersfield Contemporary Records. Forthcoming is a book by Martin Iddon and Philip Thomas to be published by OUP in May 2020.

The Hague’s Rewire festival celebrates its tenth birthday in 2020 with a programme based around the concept of (re)setting: looking into the ways humans and sound relate to changing environments. “In an era defined by man's interaction with nature and advancing technological developments,” declares the festival manifesto, “(Re)setting considers new listening experiences, urbanisation, the changing rural landscape and the ecological crisis.”

Artists so far confirmed include Hildur Guðnadóttir presenting her score to Chernobyl, Jon Hopkins offering the Dutch debut of Polarity, The Caretaker & Weirdcore, Leo Svirsky & The River Without Banks, OOIOO, Ex Eye, James Ferraro, Ami Dang, Anna Meredith, Ben LaMar Gay, Blacks' Myths, Cucina Povera, Dis Fig, Gabber Modus Operandi, Galya Bisengalieva, Hiro Kone, HTRK, Ian William Craig, John T. Gast, Juana Molina, Katie Gately, Loraine James, Lorenzo Senni, Pelada, Rafael Anton Irisarri & Oliver Coates, Rafiq Bhatia, and YATTA.

Happening across more than 15 venues throughout the city, Rewire 2020 will run from 3–5 April. Tickets are on sale now with an early bird discount of €10.

Partisan and Knitting Factory have launched a new website: felakuti.com. Lauded as the first-ever official website and historical resource for the life and music of Fela, it was developed in partnership with the Kuti family, with much of its central text written by Afrobeat historian Chris May. The site includes rare photos, live footage and a detailed discography. It'll be updated with news about reissues, projects and events.

“Bringing together such a gifted team of creators to build this ultimate, all-singing, all-dancing tribute to my friend is a source of immense pride and satisfaction,” says Kuti's former manager Rikki Stein. “As is always the case with any enterprise involving Fela, it goes above and beyond people simply exercising their professions and becomes a labour of love for all involved. 22 years after his passing, this testament illustrates and illuminates the myriad reasons for which Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his works are, ever-increasingly, respected and admired throughout the world. Everybody say: yeah yeah!”

Also on the books is a reissue of Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70's Music Of Many Colours. The album features Roy Ayers who toured Nigeria with the band as an opening act in the early 1980s.