Pauline Oliveros's much sought-after 1984 publication Software For People: Collected Writings 1963–80 is back in print. Originally published in 1984, it’s an anthology of essays that covers a broad range of the US composer, philosopher and accordionist’s interests. “I am publishing this collection of twenty-six articles partly to show the growth and change in my attitudes, interests and perceptions over the seventeen year period presented,” explains Oliveros in her introduction. “Software For People,” she continues, “is an attempt to make a contribution not only to music theory and technique but also to contemporary musical issues and thought.” Her selections range from the technical focus of pieces such as “Karl Kohn: Concerto Mutabile” and “Tape Delay Technique For Electronic Music Composition”, to philosophical essays like “The Noetics Of Music” and “On Sonic Meditations”; from the poetic musings of “Sonic Images” and “Dialogue With Basho”, to discussions about gender and education in “The Contributions Of Women Composers” and “Modes Of Attention And Awareness In The Teaching Of Musicianship”.

Rare copies of the original Smith Publications edition have sold for up to £176 on Amazon. This time round the book is self-published through the CreateSpace independent publishing platform and it costs $35 via Oliveros's website and Amazon.

As reported in October 2015, film maker Daniel Weintraub is currently working on a documentary about Oliveros.

Not in Oslo this weekend? Don't fret! This year's Off The Page Oslo, presented by nyMusikk and The Wire, will be streaming live and direct from Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. The one day literary festival devoted to music criticism and audio culture brings together a host of international musicians, critics, theorists and composers. The programme includes Sidsel Endresen being interviewed by Audun Vinger; a panel discussion with Synne Øverland Knudsen, Lars Petter Hagen, Morten Jørgensen and Audun Lindholm on music in magazines; Pop Grenade author Matthew Collin in conversation with Anne Hilde Neset; talks from David Keenan, Tanja Orning, Tore Stavlund, Sue Harding and Ánde Somby giving a performative lecture plus film screening titled The Animals Inside The Man And The Man Outside The Animals. To mark The Wire's recent publication of Epiphanies: Life Changing Encounters With Music, Derek Walmsley will host an epiphanic tell-all with Paal Nilssen-Love, Lina Lapelyte and Gylve Fenris Nagell. Film screenings include Nathan Budzinski and Theo Cook's 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting (2015), Stéphane Jourdain and Anaïs Prosaïc's Virtuoso Listening (2013) and Mike Todd's Hustlers Convention (2015). Finally, The Wire bookshop will be manning a stall at the festival’s all day independent record fair.

Off The Page Oslo 2016 starts at 11am CET (10am GMT) on 23 January. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. You can download the full programme over at nyMusikk; the live stream’s hosted by morgenbladet.no

Following The Wire's stream of Anna Homler and Steve Moshier’s forthcoming Breadwoman & Other Tales, it has been announced that Homler will be touring the project with Steven Warwick, otherwise known as Heatsick.

Originally recorded in 1985, Breadwoman & Other Tales saw Homler in musical dialogue with electroacoustic composer and LA avant garde contemporary Steve Moshier on a set of otherworldly spirituals sung in an invented language.

This live incarnation will feature the US vocalist and performance artist Homler practicing this divining speech with Warwick acting as her modern-day accomplice.

The project will debut on 5 February at this year's CTM festival, with following performances at London Cafe Oto (9), Glasgow The Glad Cafe (11) and Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre (13). Breadwoman & Other Tales is released on 5 February via ReRVNG.

Subscribers to The Wire can read Laura Snapes's article on Anna Homler's revived Breadwoman persona in The Wire 382

nyMusikk’s annual festival of adventurous music Only Connect will in 2016 feature an exciting collaboration between Tectonics director/conductor Ilan Volkov and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Over the course of two days, a renovated bank building in Oslo will be home to symphonic music, sound installations, ensemble works, electronics, improvisation, brass bands and noise in a polyphonic encounter between the contemporary classical tradition and free improvised expression. More information can be found at nyMusikk’s website.

Following last month’s announcement that former This Heat members Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen would take up a two day residency at London’s Cafe Oto to perform songs by the legendary art rock unit, full details of the event, titled This Is Not This Heat, have now been revealed. Sets will include a performance 
of Hayward’s solo project Begin Anywhere, Bullen’s group Ground, and some DJ interludes courtesy of Nick Name (WFMU/care in the community recordings). For 
the main event, Bullen and Hayward will
 be joined by a large selection of guest musicians including Frank Byng, Chris Cutler, Merlin Nova, Thurston Moore, Daniel O’Sullivan and others. Also available on both nights will be a limited edition reissue of the 1982 cassette Tago Mago that featured a This Heat session with Ghanaian musician Mario Boyer Diekuuroh.

As well as reissuing the only three records This Heat produced in the group’s lifetime, Light In The Attic will also reissue For A Reason by Bullen’s post-This Heat project Lifetones.

This Is Not This Heat will take place at Cafe Oto, London, on 12–13 February. But please note tickets reportedly sold out in less than 24 hours of going on sale. Subscribers to The Wire can read Mike Barnes's This Heat Primer in The Wire 384.

The second edition of the field recording app FoundSounds has just been published. The on the hoof field recording and collage project run by Canadian artist David Jensenius was originally released in November 2014. The recent update adds additional functions such as an elongated recording time and compatibility with various other Apple products including the Apple watch and Apple TV. Jensenius states, “The app allows users to record and share sounds they find intriguing, surprising, or even disruptive. Recordings are geotagged, so users can browse sounds by scrolling through a timeline or exploring a map. Additional avenues of exploration include the ability to construct a geographically specific sound collage or to go for a sound walk, taking in nearby sounds as one passes them.”

The app can record up to two minutes of sound, and it’s available as a free download.