Filming has started on the first feature length documentary about the US composer and philosopher Pauline Oliveros. Film maker Daniel Weintraub spent the last year filming the composer as she worked and travelled around the north east of America. He has now started an Indiegogo campaign to raise the funds to complete the filming and cover production costs. These include his plans to travel to Houston, Texas, where Oliveros was born, as well as interviewing the likes of Morton Subotnik and Ramon Sender, with whom she worked at the The San Francisco Tape Music Center. Weintraub also hopes to purchase the necessary equipment to recreate the tape machine based delay system that Oliveros developed and used during her time at The San Francisco Tape Music Center.

At the time of writing, the campaign has raised $9080 and has 19 days to go.

The electronic music festival MUTEK has put out a call for proposals for its 17th edition in Montreal, Quebec. The festival is looking for applications from artists working with new forms of digital creation or electronic music fields, and it’s open to Canadians at home or abroad, or anyone currently residing in Canada. Submissions can include live musical performances, audio-visual performances, multimedia projects, or simply “any projects that push boundaries and challenge conventions in the digital creation sphere”.

The festival will take place between 1–5 June 2016 at various venues in Montreal, Canada. The deadline for submissions is 15 December but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. More information can be found on their website.

A 1940s recording booth has been installed at Phonica Records in Soho, London. The vintage booth is apparently only one of two working originals. Built in 1947, the booth will record up to 65 seconds of audio, cutting it directly onto a 6" vinyl.

Phonica Records founder Simon Rigg said: “Vinyl as a format is seeing a massive resurgence – you can’t beat the warmth of the sound, the sensory experience of the record plus the nostalgia and romance around the format.”

You can use the booth for free until 2 November (after which it will continue its tour onward to Canada), and if you go between 5–7pm on 29–30 October, you will also receive a dram of 12 year old single malt.

This October the avant garde Japanese vocalist and theremin player Koichi Makigami will perform a solo voice set as part of Nick Waplington’s Battleship Island exhibition in London. In the 1980s Makigami formed the Japanese electro-pop outfit Higashu but he also works as an improvising vocalist. Called Koedarake Solo Voice, his rare London solo performance at Islington’s White Conduit Projects coincides with an exhibition of photos taken during the 1990s at the ex-coal mining island Hashima, known as Gunkanjima (meaning Battleship Island), an abandoned Island nine miles from the city of Nagasaki in southern Japan. Koedarake is also the title of Makigami’s 1992 solo album, produced by John Zorn, on which he reinterpreted old Japanese pop songs. At White Conduit Projects he’ll be joined by cellist Lucy Railton for the latter part of the concert.

Koedarake Solo Voice will take place on 29 October at 7:30pm. Tickets available via Eventbrite.

Drag City has announced the reissue of Portuguese composer Nuno Canavarro’s Plux Quba. Originally released in 1988 on the Ama Romanta label, the album became something of a cult item after it was discovered by Christoph Heemann. He subsequently shared his find with a circle of friends including Jim O’Rourke, Jan St Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and Georg Odijk at a 1991 get-together in Cologne, Germany. The album gained popularity when O’Rourke chose to make it the first record to come out on his Moikai label. O'Rourke reissued it again in 2005, but it has since been out of print.

Nuno Canavarro’s Plux Quba will be released on LP and MP3 by Drag City on 20 November.

A kickstarter campaign has been set up to help fund an international music festival in Cuba. Called Manana, it aims to create a dialogue between Afro-Cuban folkloric music and the international electronic music community. The festival is scheduled to take place in May 2016 at the five venue Heredia Complex in Cuba’s second largest city, Santiago de Cuba. Artists already confirmed include dubstep producer Mala and Puerto Rican group Grupo IFÉ. Alongside performances, Manana also aims to to deliver a programme of music workshops, seminars and talks covering a range of subjects such as recording, production, promotion and distribution. Manana is a non-profit organisation that grew out of a collaboration between UK born Harry Follett and Cuban hiphop artist Alain Garcia Artola. “Manana is about creating a musical legacy that lives long beyond the festival,” declare its co-founders. “With the end of the US embargo in sight, these are incredibly exciting but fragile times in Cuba’s history. Our goal is to provide Cubans with the necessary tools and technical knowledge to reconnect with the wider world on their own terms, while also giving the electronic music community the opportunity to learn from Cuban masters who have spent a lifetime refining their artistic skill.”

Manana will take place between 4–6 May 2016. International ticket sales will be capped at 500. You can buy a ticket, and/or pledge for T-shirts, records and Manana merch, at Manana’s Kickstarter page.

The Dracula inspired music drama I Burn For You returns this October for a spooky tour across the UK. Starring the Mayhem vocalist and Sunn O))) member Attila Csihar, it’s an experimental music theatre work composed by Ian Wilson. I Burn For You was first staged as a one-off show in 2012 at Aldeburgh featuring Elaine Mitchener and David Toop. Neither participates in this new version, but Csihar continues to play The Vampyr, alongside vocal improvisor Lauren Kinsella as The Woman and Phil Minton as The Doctor. I Burn For You will also feature a live score played by musician and Wire contributor Clive Bell on accordion and wind instruments, sound artist Lee Patterson on electroacoustics and improv saxophonist Cathal Roche.

I Burn For You tours four cities this Halloween, taking in London (27 October), Liverpool (28), Nottingham (29) and Gateshead (31). Supported by Sound And Music, the production is staged by the German opera director Christian Marten-Molnár, with visuals from artist Daniel Jewesbury. Ticket information can be found at Sound And Music website.

Belfast artist Kate Carr is set to release an album based on a series of recordings made in the flooded wetlands surrounding a nuclear power plant in Marnay-sur-Seine, France. Called I Had Myself A Nuclear Spring, the album will be released on an USB stick through her Sydney based label Flaming Pines. It’ll come inside a tin case designed to reflect the lead-lined carry cases used to dispose of nuclear waste. The project was inspired by Carr’s chance discovery of the site during a visit to Nogent-sur-Seine rail station. The release features recordings using hydrophones, which were affected by the electromagnetism of the electricity towers. Carr explains, “The first is a straight recording of wetlands under the massive power towers running from the nuclear plant to the town. “Mooring Chains” is a set of contact mic recordings of boat mooring chains scraping against the river bed, the final field recording is taken just outside the perimeter excluding the public from the nuclear plant, the hum is the sound of the plant itself.”

I Had Myself A Nuclear Spring will be released on 15 November. You can read the extensive sleevenotes and order the album on the Flaming Pines Bandcamp page.

The Leaf Label has announced a December release date for a limited edition box set containing ten landmark Leaf albums. Since it was founded in 1995 by Tony Morley, the label has been home to artists such as Efterklang, Melt Yourself Down, Murcof, Caribou and Polar Bear. Curated by Morley, the Leaf 20 set spreads the ten albums across 14 pieces of white vinyl and ten CDs, which along with memorabilia and sleevenotes by The Wire's Rob Young will come housed in handprinted artwork. Leaf 20 will include the late Susumu Yokota's Sakura (2000) and Murcof's 2002 release Martes (resequenced with the original tracks from 2004's Utopia), plus releases from Caribou, Efterklang, Asa-Chang & Junray, Colleen, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Polar Bear, Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Melt Yourself Down. Leaf 20 will only be available as a pre-order through Pledge Music, but Leaf will later reissue the ten albums individually in early 2016.

In other 20th anniversary news, Leaf has set up a series of tour dates including Panda Bear, Melt Yourself Down and others.

They have also put together a Youtube playlist to keep you going until then.

Dutch artists Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk have released a new electromagnetic field audio device. Called Mole Rat, it allows you to explore the electromagnetic fields in your direct surroundings. It’s the first product the two artists have created since they expanded into the field of pure sonics with their new platform Noizumashin. They started working together in 2006 on various audio/visual projects and are the makers behind the Synchronator series: audio/visual products that add colour coded signals to audio. The Mole Rat has volume and tone controls and output sound via internal speakers, an amp or headphones.

Check out a video of the Mole Rat or find more information on the Noizumashin website.