The first wave of artists to appear at next year's CTM festival in Berlin has been announced. CTM 2016 announced the theme of its 17th edition back in July 2015. Choosing the theme of New Geographies, the festival aims to explore the relationship between local and global practices. Co-curated by Morphine label founder Rabih Beaini, special projects include Pauline Oliveros with word artist Ione; performance from Keiji Haino and Kazuhisa Uchihashi with Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi of Senyawa; and an evening with Lebanese singer Abdel Karim Shaar. Commissioned works and premieres will also come from FIS & Rob Thorne, Peder Mannerfelt, Vincent Moon, Radio Lab winners winners Marija Bozinovska Jones and Deena Abdelwahed, Sharif Sehnaoui with Omar Rajeh and Malek Andary, Marcin Pietruszewski, Aïsha Devi featuring Tianzhou Chen, and more. Also confirmed: Jerusalem In My Heart, Group A, Lena Willikens, Maurice Louca, Kassem Mosse, The Dwarves of East Agouza, Sublime Frequencies, Mikael Seifu and more. An exhibition based on the new book published by Norient Seismographic Sounds. Visions Of A New World will run alongside the festival. You can read Derek Walmsley's essay from that book here.

CTM 2016 takes place at various venues across Berlin, 29 January – 7 February.

The 38th edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival opens on 20 November. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of AMM, it will be hosting a series of special events in celebration of the free improv group. These include a rare performance reuniting the AMM trio of John Tilbury, Keith Rowe and Eddie Prévost; The Wire contributor Philip Clark conducting an onstage conversation with Prévost; David Toop hosting a talk about the collective; and an improvisation workshop fronted by Prévost. In addition HCMF will also be mounting an exhibition of previously unseen photos and original posters from the AMM archive.

In other (non-AMM) festival news, the Swiss composer and sound artist Jürg Frey is this year’s composer in residence. His works will be performed by Quatour Bozzini (22 November), Konus Quartet (24) and by himself on clarinet alongside Ensemble Grizzana (27). The festival will open with Austrian group Klangforum Wien and The Riot Ensemble. Meanwhile, HCMF premieres include works by Pierluigi Billone, Agata Zubel and Peter Jakober, and the UK premieres of the American composer and trombonist George Lewis’s Afterword and Creative Construction SetTM; and La Monte Young’s 60 minute drone piece performed on eight muted trumpets, The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams Of China (1962). The Arditti Quartet will be performing John Zorn’s The Remedy Of Fortune. And Jakob Ullmann’s La Segunda Canción Del Angel Desaparecido is another highlight. HCMF runs from 20–29 November. Tickets are on sale now at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival website.

Chris Clark has scored the soundtrack to a new six part crime series based on a gang of Balkan jewel thieves known as the Pink Panthers. Written by Jack Thorne, The Last Panthers was directed by Breaking Bad director Johan Renck and co-produced by Warp Films. Renck approached Clark for the score following the latter’s world tour of his 2014 self-titled release Clark. “This is something I wrote the day after playing at Bloc. I remember feeling: I never want to hear another kick drum ever again. Which of course is nonsense,” says Clark. “Anyway, I did a laptop mic version, then hired a posh 80s valve mic to record it. I really like the tone, it’s stripped back, it doesn't kick off, that's sort of the point. Kick drums are for kicking off. It works really well for an intimate scene in Panthers, I can't give too much away though.” David Bowie and Swedish duo Roll The Dice have also contributed to the score.

The Last Panthers will air on Sky Atlantic from 12 November. In the meantime, listen to one of Clark's tracks from the score called “Omni Vignette”.

Following on from the heartbreaking and NSFW trail of greasy-keyboard squalor, molested stuffed animals and online hentai porn of their 2013 video, Still life (Beta Male), Canadian artist Jon Rafman and Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never are now back with another set of videos mining the slimy guts of the internet.

The new videos were co-produced by Warp and commissioned by the Zabludowicz Collection as part of Rafman's first solo UK exhibition. Rafman's work explores themes of digital loss and virtuality through video collages of text, images and all of the sparkling detritus that the internet can barf up.

Sticky Drama-Music Video, set to the track of the same name from 0PN's Garden of Delete album, follows a group of children as they chase, message, and maim each other within a multiplayer fantasy gaming world. Playing dungeonmaster is a sentient slimeball studded with a tamagotchi screen and a stream of LEDs that scrolls memento mori messages.

A second video, Sticky Drama-Prologue, sets out some of the first film's backstory in context: in her suburban bedroom, a girl wearing a dress made of CDs and a candy-raver hairstyle asks the slimeball (pulsating in a bell jar on her desk, like Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) to describe its earliest memories. These hark back to a teenage boy with an old-school brick phone, buried under Fangoria magazines – later shown blowing off a meeting with friends to make out with the slimeball in the bath. In both videos, day-glo chunky ooze, latex lesions and viscera spew from all surfaces, online and off: nowhere is safe from decay.

The exhibition also includes the interactive maze installation Sculpture Garden (Hedge Maze 2015), which visitors navigate using Oculus Rift headgear.

Jon Rafman is at the Zabludowicz Collection until 20 December.

This November, Copenhagen DOX Festival will screen a new documentary produced by Theo Cook and The Wire's Nathan Budzinski. Called 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting, the film looks at the music festival network European Cities Of Advanced Sound (aka ECAS), and how their ideas about the future of experimental music and festivals are interpreted by the artist communities involved. Over a period of six months between September 2014 and February 2015, Cook and Budzinzki travelled throughout Europe, visiting nine different festivals. These included TodaysArt in The Hague, Cimatics in Brussels, Musikprotokoll in Graz, Skanu Mezs in Riga, Unsound in Krakow, Insomnia in Tromsø, Cynetart in Dresden, CTM in Berlin and FutureEverything in Manchester. Talking about the project, Budzinski says, "Me and Theo tried to capture the in-betweens, the labour, the aftermath of each festival – sort of their own individual spirit. It's not really a documentary in the old fashioned sense, but more like fragments stitched together late at night with little sleep and in a less than sober state – something that we thought reflected the contingency, imagination and energy of all the festivals, and how they each harnessed all that in their own ways."

Screening will take place on 8 November at Copenhagen’s Dagmar Teatret and 11 November at Vester Vov Vov. More information can be found at their website.

Devon based label and party collective Bizarre Rituals, whose recent releases include hiphop duo Baconheads’ Cabin Fever LP and Brain Rays’ debut EP Music For Abandoned Beach Parties, have released a horror/sci-fi inspired trailer for their upcoming Enter The Fug mixtape by Brain Rays & Stoogie Houzer. The video was shot on location in Devon.

Speaking to The Wire, Bizarre Rituals co-founder Ben Hudson explains, “The concept of the mixtape was really an attempt to recreate epiphanal and disorientating experiences while listening to music in hotboxed cars. The video was a lot of fun to make on the Devon lanes. Glad we didn't get pulled by the police. We had one person shooting out of the boot of a car while me and Stoogie Houzer drove along behind with pretty poor visibility and fake registration plates.”

Hudson elaborates on the mixtape’s “stoner concept – not just something that is supposed to accompany or compliment the experience of being stoned, but rather something that is supposed to chart the psychological journey of a mind altering experience. Not to glamorise it either but to take the listener through the highs and lows, the confidence and confusion and to feel that by the end you are truly emerging and returning back to a reality of sorts. You should enjoy the mixtape but you should also feel somewhat relieved to reach the conclusion.”

The “mythology” behind the release draws on a number of sources that will no doubt be familiar to stoners everywhere: “The visual aspect and John Carpenter inspired imagery and characters have become really key to the mixtape,” says Hudson. “The idea that it's no longer just a selection of tracks, but there are clues to an otherworldly storyline being presented to the listener.

"It’s a mixtape/compilation in some of the most fundamental ways. Because it shifts between genres and tempos, and features interludes and abstract skits, I feel like it's definitely harking back to some of our early musical influences – compilations on cassette, put together by your weirdo mate, or something you picked out of a record store bin for 99p that has no notes or info on it. I guess we wanted it to feel both properly original but also nostalgic.”

Enter The Fug is released by Bizarre Rituals on 9 November

Chicago post-rockers Tortoise are releasing their first new album in seven years. Titled The Catastrophist, the album features several guest vocal spots – Yo La Tengo’s Georgia Humbley sings on “Yonder Blue”, and Todd Rittmann of US Maple tackles a cover of David Essex’s 1973 track “Rock On”. The Catastrophist will be released on 22 January by Thrill Jockey. To coincide with the release, the label will be reissuing the quintet’s six previous albums on limited edition coloured vinyl. Tortoise will embark on a European tour in February 2016.

Madeira’s artist collaboration project, MultiMadeira, is calling for participants to take part in its extensive 2015/16 artist residency programme. MultiMadeira has been running since 2013. It has played host to a total of 38 artists working in various media to stage concerts, performances, exhibitions and workshops. This year’s programme will run over a period of three months between 29 November–29 February, and artists can stay for as many weeks as desired. There is no fixed deadline for proposals but artists are encouraged to submit their ideas as soon as possible. Go to multimadeira.com for more information.

The Wire’s Off The Page literary festival will return to Oslo on 23 January 2016 for its third edition in the Norwegian capital. The one day event devoted to music criticism and audio culture will feature a host of international musicians, critics, theorists and composers. Confirmed speakers include David Keenan tracing the transgressive urge from Palaeolithic cave art through rock ’n’ roll up to contemporary noise music, Matthew Collin in conversation with Wire Contributing Editor Anne Hilde Neset, and Sami vocalist Ande Somby on the art of the wolf yoik. The event will also host an independent music fair offering vinyl, fanzines, books, cassettes, effect pedals and lots more. More information can be found at nymusikk.no. You can listen to Mark Fisher, Robert Wyatt, Sarah Angliss, Paul Gilroy and others In Conversation at The Wire's Off The Page in Bristol, UK, here.

The annual jazz and improvisation festival headed by the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra returns with its eighth edition this November. This year GIOFest have announced the central theme as New Directions And Old Friends, and will see the orchestra inviting back some of their favourite headline acts to perform collaborative new works. The line up features pianists Marilyn Crispell and Keith Tippet performing a new piece devised by Keith Burt, and Maggie Nicols and Corey Mwamba leading a public workshop. This edition will also see GIO's first music and dance collaboration conceived with Jer Reid, and a sculptural installation and film by artists Cath Keay and Graeme Wilson.

GIOFest will take place 26–28 November, at the Centre for Contemporary Arts.