One Love Books founder Al Fingers has put together a compilation of tracks in celebration of Jamaica's love affair with Clarks shoes. Clarks In Jamaica follows on from One Love's book of the same title that was published in 2012 by the London based independent publisher. Documenting this enduring relationship between Jamaica and the popular footwear brand, the compilation features 21 tracks from artists including Little John, Dillinger, Trinity, Ranking Joe and Supercat. Al Fingers, aka Al Newman, spoke at the V&A this summer about his fascination with the shoes' popularity: “Growing up in England I've always been fascinated by the Jamaican love of Clarks shoes and the way the brand is referenced within reggae and dancehall music. Vybz Kartel’s tune “Clarks” brought the phenomenon to many people’s attention in 2010, but the relationship goes back a lot longer, and I wanted to bring attention to that, highlighting the work of artists such as Dillinger and Little John who sang about Clarks many years before.”

Watch a video of Major Stitch AKA Jah Stitch tell the story of the Clarks Desert Boot.

Clarks In Jamaica is released by Greensleeves Records and available now via Spotify.

Borbetomagus docu-film A Pollock Of Sound is now screening across Europe. Made from footage shot in the Netherlands in 2010 and in the US and Canada in 2011, the film was put on hold after the cancellation of the group’s 2013 tour. Director Jef Merten shared a rough edit of part one with us back in December 2013, explaining, “after the cancellation of the Borbetomagus European tour – which would have allowed me to finish getting the footage I needed – this documentary was put on hold, though not given up in any way”. The full version of the film about the noise trio is now being screened at various venues throughout Europe this November. The first screening took place at Tusk Festival in early October, with future ones happening at Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (11 November); Les Aterliers Claus, Brussels (12); OCCII, Amsterdam (13); Cinepalace, Kortrijk (14) and Cave 12, Geneva (15). You can watch a trailer of the documentary at borbetomagusmovie.com.

Mute and Can specialists Spoon Records will release a box set of works by Can founding member and keyboard player, Irmin Schmidt. The 12 CD collection will cover the entirety of Schmidt's solo works from 1981 to present. Titled Electro Violet, the box kicks off with Schmidt's first post-Can release, Toy Planet (1981), which saw him work with the Swiss jazz musician Bruno Spoerri. The release also includes Schmidt's collaborations with novelist Duncan Fallowell on Musk At Dusk (1987), Impossible Holidays (1991) and the opera Gormenghast. Other works covered include his project with Jono Podmore as Irmin Schmidt & Kumo, represented by the albums Master Of Confusion (2001) and Axolotl Eyes (2008), along with six soundtrack CDs including the previously unreleased Film Musik Anthology Vol 6.

Electro Violet is set for release 20 November and will include sleevenotes from Electronic Beats Editor-In-Chief Max Dax and Irmin Schmidt himself.

The Creative Music Foundation are set to release the second volume of recordings made at the Creative Music Studio workshops in Woodstock, NY, between 1973–1984. This rare set of recordings, taken from the CMS archive, follow on from the first volume released in 2014. Artists featured on the record include Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, Paul Motian, Lee Konitz, Collin Walcott, Karl Berger, Baikida Carroll, Aiyb Dieng, Trilok Gurtu, Nana Vasconcelos and more. Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Vol. 2 is released as a 3-CD set and features small and large ensembles as well as world music recordings. CMF co-founder and artistic director Karl Berger says: “These recordings present a cross-section of the cross pollination that occurred regularly at CMS. We divided them up neatly for these CDs, but it was far from divided or neat at CMS! These gems show the free flow of creative energy at CMS.”

Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Vol. 2 will be released on Plant Arts Recordings on 16 October and will include full-length liner notes which cover the history of CMS and its archive project alongside photos from the CMS Archive.

You can also read the transcripts to interviews conducted with some of the artist on the compilation (including Marilyn Crispell, Lee Konitz, Steve Gorn and Frederic Rzewski) as part The Creative Music Foundations Oral History Project. According to the website, audio and video footage of the interviews will be made available pending funding.

This October London's Rich Mix cinema will host a day dedicated to the virtual vocalist Hatsune Miku. The singing synthesizer – which was launched in 2007 by Crypton Future Media – has been used by the noise group Hijokaidan, whose offshoot Hatsune Kaidan features Hatsune Miku materialised in human form singing alongside Japanese noise veterans Jojo Hiroshige and T Mikawa. The vocaloid was also subject/star of an opera called The End, composed by Keiichiro Shibuya. It is estimated that the programme has been used in over 500,000 songs across the globe.

The day includes a lecture by the Hatsune Miku creator, Hiroyuki Itoh, and a Hatsune Miku performance. There will also be a Hatsune Miku workshop, although note that the description of this seems to imply a four hour session of origami and colouring in. The programme takes place at Rich Mix, London, on 24 October, and you need to book your place for both the concert and the lecture.

The two winning projects for Radio Lab’s open call for the CTM 2016 Festival in Berlin have been announced. The winners are Tunisian musician Deena Abdelwahed and Macedonia born artist Marija Bozinovska Jones. The Radio Lab’s call “sought unusual ideas for pairing the specific artistic possibilities of radio with the potentials of live performance or installation, that also explore the CTM 2016 Festival theme: New Geographies”. The callout brought in a total of 145 submissions from 34 countries. The two winning proposals both look at “collective and decentralised futures”, working with ideas of utopia and dystopia in an increasingly networked society. Called All Hail Mother Internet, electronic artist Deena Abdelwahed’s proposal ponders how life might have been different had she not had access to the internet as a teenager. Marija Bozinovska Jones aka MBJ Wetware proposes a collaboration with Lithuanian producer JG Biberkopf (whose recent Ecologies EP was released in June by Kuedo’s Knives label). The judging panel consisted of Marcus Gammel, Elisabeth Zimmerman, Jan Rohlf, Antye Greie-Ripatti and The Wire contributor Richard Thomas. You can read the full announcement on the CTM website.

Next month will mark the 15th anniversary of Oxford’s Audioscope festival. Founded in 2001, the festival was set up to raise money for the housing and homelessness charity Shelter. So far it has donated £29,000, with this year’s event aiming to round that total up to £30,000.

Plaid, Gazelle Twin and Part Chimp are among those playing at the one day event this November. Talking about Audioscope, Gazelle Twin says, “Shelter's work is especially vital today – with the cut throat economics of the current government and with homelessness on the rise in every corner of the UK. No one should have to face sleeping rough in this country [...] I genuinely hope this gig raises awareness further and a lot of cash for this amazing charity as we approach winter.”

Other artists in the line-up include Arbouretum, Guapo, Marconi Union, Kogumaza, Taman Shud, Demian Castellanos (The Oscillation) and Kone. The festival will take place on 21 November at The Bullingdon in Oxford.

SUNN O))) have announced details of their new album Kannon, to be released by Southern Lord on 4 December. Kannon follows the group’s collaborations with Scott Walker on Soused and Ulver on Terrestrials (both 2014), but it’s their first standalone studio release since 2009’s Monoliths & Dimensions. The album was recorded and mixed with Randall Dunn in Seattle and includes contributions from Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Rex Ritter and Steve Moore, among others. Critical theorist Aliza Shvartz contributes sleevenotes while Swiss designer/artist Angela LaFont Bollinger created the cover artwork and French photographer Estelle Hanania shot the core trio – Csihar, Anderson and O’Malley – for the package.

Kannon will be available in gatefold LP, CD and digital formats. A limited number of clear vinyl LPs will be released for Black Friday Record Store Day on 27 November. More information can be found at SUNN O)))’s website.

The Creative City Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee has appointed Otomo Yoshihide as guest director for SIAF 2017. Talking of the appointment, Otomo said, “Maybe everyone was a little surprised by the news, but no one was more surprised than me. But I’ve decided to take this on faith, as I believe this is a strong message from Sapporo that I should help to realise the art festival to become something that exceeds the imagination.” The Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF) is a triennial international art festival held in the capital city of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. SIAF 2017 will take place in the summer of 2017.

Otomo’s full statement can be read online at the Sapporo International Festival website.

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise is to be reissued on DVD and Blu-ray via MVD Entertainment. Robert Mugge’s 1980 documentary on Sun Ra and his Arkestra was the result of two years spent shooting the ensemble and their leader. He filmed live performances at Baltimore’s Famous Ballroom, Danny’s Hollywood Palace in Philadelphia, and on the roof of Philadelphia’s International House. Sun Ra’s poetry and mythological pronouncements were filmed in the Egyptian Room of the University of Pennsylvania’s anthropology museum, in a sculpture garden in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and in and around the house he shared with band members in Germantown, Philadelphia. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film, songs performed include “Astro Black”, “Mister Mystery”, “We Travel The Spaceways”, “Along Came Ra/The Living Myth”, “Spaceship Earth (Destination Unknown)”, among others. Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise will be released on 11 December by MVD Entertainment.