Sound Live Tokyo festival will present the premiere of Keiji Haino's Miracle on 2 October. Touted as Haino's first proper composition, the piece has been 40 years in the making and works as a final response to John Cage’s 4′33″ (and all its subsequent variations). Composed and conducted by Haino and directed by Noriyuki Kiguchi, Miracle is designed for 88 performers to each play one note out of the 88 keys on a piano. Kiguchi has predicted that the success rate of this task will be at around 50 percent. Miracle will be performed at Sogetsu Hall, which became the historic centre of much Japanese and international avant garde activity after it opened in the late 1950s. Indeed, Cage's 0′00″ premiered there in 1962.

The festival, which has been running since 2012, describes itself as an event “that introduces unfashionably critical approaches to sound and music”. The programme also includes works by Giacinto Scelsi, Keizo Mizoiri, Masanori Oishi, Tamao Inano, Yoshiko Kanda, Sumihisa Arima, Ken Jacobs, Aki Onda, Terre Thaemlitz, Christine Sun Kim, Joe Morris, Tatsuhiko Asano, Takako Minekawa, Jim O’Rourke, Phew, and more.

Sound Live Tokyo will take place at various venues in Tokyo between 2 October–23 December. More information can be found here.

London’s BFI film festival kicks off next month featuring 238 films from across 72 countries. Once again it hosts the Sonic section devoted to films about music. These include: John Pirozzi’s Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock And Roll (2014), which looks at the country’s music scene before the Vietnam war; the kickstarter-backed Stretch and Bobbito film Stretch And Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives (2015); Amy Berg's film about Janis Joplin Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015); Johanna Schwartz’s They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian Music In Exile (2015), which looks at the effect of fundamentalism on Malian musicians, and more. The series also features Sound Mirrors, a selection of nine short films from producers such as Mariana Conde, Rubika Shah and Cecile Emeke.

The BFI film festival takes place between 7–18 October at various cinemas across London. More information can be found here.

The Peter Brötzmann Trio, Tetuzi Akiyama & Giovanni Di Domenico and Richard Galliano are among the musicians so far confirmed for the fifth OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival in Shenzhen, China, in October. Taking place at OCT-LOFT’s B10 Live venue, the festival runs for 16 days and will include workshops, screenings and exhibitions, as well as concerts. Other musicians lined up so far include Amazigh Kateb Trio, The Second Approach, Asaf Sirkis Trio, Yi Jialin, Wu Na, Jazzpospolita, Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN, Mark Lotz Meets Omar Ka, A Fula's Call, Anu Junnonen Trio, WorldService Project, and more.

B10 Live is a music and art space run by OCT-LOFT and curated by artist Teng Fei and music curator Tu Fei. Talking about the history of the festival, the curators state: "Slowly but firmly we have made our own way and hang on to it for the past five years. Back then, we were just trying to make some difference in the most original way: seating the audience. It’s more than just creating something out of the thin air; it’s mostly about the spirit and essentials brought by live shows. Comparing to the jazz music scene, those live shows happening in the old factory houses are just the tip of the iceberg, but they surely can shine down on some certain fans."

Shenzhen’s OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival will take place between 9–25 October. More information can be found on their website.

Light In The Attic will be releasing the original soundtrack to the documentary film Jodorowsky's Dune in November. Composed by Kurt Stenzel on analogue synthesizers like the Moog Source, CA-101a and Roland Juno 6, the soundtrack is said to be as cosmically futuristic and “as fantastic as Jodorowsky’s vision”. Directed by Frank Pavich, the 2013 documentary tells the story of the cult film maker and psycho-magic protagonist Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unsuccessful attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune for the screen. Describing his vision for the film, Jodorowsky said, “I wanted to make something sacred. A film that gives LSD hallucinations without LSD. To change the young minds of all the world.” His Dune screenplay was cast to a pretty majestic crowd including Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger and Orson Welles, and Pink Floyd and Magma were down to record its soundtrack. By the time the production ran out of funds and came to a halt in the mid-1970s, the script was long enough to make a film several hours long.

Jodorowsky's Dune: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, with sleevenotes by the composer Kurt Stenzel, will be released by Light In The Attic on 13 November in 2xLP, CD & digital formats. More information can be found here.

November will see the publication of a new biography of jazz bassist, violinist and poet Henry Grimes. Written by Frankfurt based historian and author Barbara Ina Frenz and featuring a foreword by Sonny Rollins, Music To Silence To Music is published by Northway Books. More information can be found here.

Also coming up on 3 November in New York is an 80th birthday celebration for Grimes, held by the organisers of the Vision Festival, with the venue still to be confirmed.

Autograph ABP has announced a new book of photographer and designer Syd Shelton’s work for and about the UK’s Rock Against Racism movement that existed from the mid-1970s to the early 80s. RAR was a collective of musicians and political activists who united to fight fascism and racism through music. The full colour publication features a contextualising essay by author and academic Paul Gilroy, and is co-edited by Mark Sealy of Autograph ABP and Carol Tulloch of the University of the Arts London. An accompanying exhibition runs at London’s Rivington Place between 2 October–5 December. More information on the book can be found at the Autograph ABP website.

Following a five year hiatus, in which time she has moonlighted as an actress and voiceover narrator for film director Paul Thomas Anderson and appeared on the soundtrack to the 2011 film The Muppets, Joanna Newsom will release a new album this October. The album is titled Divers, was recorded by Steve Albini and Noah Georgeson, and features arrangements by Nico Muhly, Dave Longstreth, regular collaborator Ryan Francesconi, and Newsom herself. It follows 2010’s triple album Have One On Me. The 11 track album is available as a CD, double LP and download, and is released by Drag City 23 October.

Jacob Kirkegaard and the sound art collective Call & Response are launching a new installation this month based around London’s water and sewage system. Called London Subterraneous, their installation places microphones in hollow metal stink pipes constructed in the Victorian era to allow toxic gases to escape from the sewers. The idea was generated in part by the work of Athanasius Kircher, the 17th century German scientist whose visionary theories and designs for sound-making devices have inspired modern day artists such as Max Eastley, as well as Kirkegaard’s 2009 work Phonurgia Metallis. Kircher created “speaking trumpets” that transmitted the sounds of the street through the mouths of statues. In London Subterraneous, the stink pipes, which Kirkegaard describes as “poles of sound”, take on the role of Kircher’s trumpets, this time allowing the listener to hear the sounds beneath the streets.

London Subterraneous launches on 25 September and will take place at the Call & Response space every Saturday between 26 September–31 October from 12–6pm, with a special event on 30 October. More information can be found on their website.

The full list of acts to appear at this year's Semibreve festival in Portugal has been announced. Now in its fourth edition, the festival takes place at various venues in the city of Braga from 30 October – 1 November. Artists on the bill include Dopplereffekt, André Gonçalves, Luke Abbott, Vessel, Tim Hecker, Klara Lewis, Oren Ambarchi, Takami Nakamoto and Sebastien Benoits.

The Wire's Frances Morgan will also be at the festival hosting talks with Heatsick and Roedelius (both of whom are performing). As well as this, the festival line-up also includes installations by Phil Niblock, Ana Carvalho, Vitor Joaquim and more.

You can check out the full programme here.

The Rephlex and Clone labels will join forces on a tour of the Low Countries next month which will be themed around the esoteric ideas of the Colundi sequence, a custom musical scale cooked up by musician Aleksi Perälä and Rephlex’s Grant Wilson-Claridge. The tour, titled colundi everyOne, will touch down in four cities – or, as they like to call them, planetary vectors – beginning in Rotterdam on 22 October, moving through Antwerp and Amsterdam and ending in Nijmegen on 25 October. The dates were supposedly chosen to mark traditional celebrations, festivals or celestial events occurring at the same time, including the Ancient Greek festival Thesmophoria and the annual Taurid meteor show.

A central part of the live section of the bill is Perälä himself, who was the first to tinker with the Colundi scale, which dispenses with a conventional musical keyboard in favour of exploring microtones and extrapolations upon equal temperament. He'll be playing alongside Wisp, Dave Monolith, Soundmurderer aka Osborne, Krzysztof Oktalski and D'Arcangelo. DJ sets are promised by Maf*pHew, Serge of Clone plus DJ Rephlex Records. The tour follows an ambitious (and ultimately unsuccessful) Colundi Kickstarter to collectively purchase a piece of land in the UK for Colundi events, a "natural sanctuary for everyOne", that they referred to as "colundi sequence level 9".

Details on the tour can be found at the event’s Facebook page, with more information on Colundi miscellanea to be found at colundi.net. You can read more on the weird world of the Colundi sequence in The Wire 362.