The Necks, Annette Peacock, Anthony Braxton and Thundercat have been announced as artists appearing at Big Ears 2020. Hundreds of concerts, films and literary events are promised for the Tennessee event that’s now over a decade old.

Also taking part will be Devendra Banhart, Peter Brötzmann, Andrew Cyrille, Joe Henry, Kronos Quartet, Meredith Monk & Bang On A Can All-Stars, Jason Moran, Múm, Marc Ribot, Terry Riley, Caroline Shaw & So Percussion, Damo Suzuki Network, Sons Of Chipotle aka John Paul Jones & Anssi Karttunen, Tindersticks, plus Sound For Andy Warhol's Kiss, a quartet comprising Kim Gordon, Steve Gunn, Bill Nace & John Truscinski.

In addition, they promise jazz groups led by Jaimie Branch, Myra Melford, Jeff Parker and Dan Weiss. Mdou Moctar, Moonlight Benjamin, Caterina Barbieri, Sarah Davachi, Maurice Louca, Nadah El Shazly and Shabaka Hutchins will also be making an appearance.

Tickets go on sale on 10 October at 12pm EST.

Dedicated to the memories of Robert Dellar, who founded Mad Pride, the direct action mental health protest movement, in London in 1999, and “bipolar exploring subversive visionary hooligan sound composer” John Jah Several, aka John Everall, who also ran the post-industrial Sentrax label and was a former contributor to The Wire, Enragés Fou Noix features music and spoken word pieces by many of the performers who appeared at the 2019 Manchester Mad Pride event.

Produced by Dave O’Wark, the compilation includes tracks by Jowe Head, The Homosexuals, Guttersnipe, Danielle Dax, and performance/cabaret artist David Hoyle. John Everall features on a number of tracks, including one by Hawksmoor Brood, his duo with Jowe Head, and a cover of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” by Disco Mental, with vocals by Ceramic Hobs’ Simon Morris.

The CD and download are available on Bandcamp. For more information on the Mental Health Resistance Network visit their website.

Responding to a line from Leslie Thornton's 1984 film Peggy And Fred In Hell: The Prologue, The Pitch Sisters aims to question fixed notions of gender. It's one of two extended electronic works sound artist and DJ Ain Bailey will be presenting in London next month. The other, called Super JR, was commissioned by Supernormal and Jupiter Rising festivals, and it’s Bailey’s electroacoustic response to the spaces that played host to her.

Both performances happen at City University of London on 19 November.

Ben Holman’s Bird Dogs Of Paradise documents US trumpeter Jaimie Branch’s visit to EFG London Jazz Festival in 2018, as well as the making of her new album Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise. The 13 minute short was mostly filmed by director Holman and Gui Bailey, but it also contains footage of Branch’s studio sessions at London music venue Total Refreshment Centre, and at her residency at Cafe Oto, shot by Fabrice Bourgelle and Charles Prest respectively. The album itself is released on 11 October via International Anthem.

A listening party for the new album will take place on 10 October at New York Brooklyn’s Red Hook. And Branch returns to the UK for a show at St James The Great Church in Clapton, East London on 22 November.

The South London label Hyperdub marks 15 years in action with a party at East London’s Village Underground on 18 October. The event brings together some of the key players in the label's history, including founder Kode9 who will DJ back to back with an unannounced “old friend of the label and South London legend”. Other confirmed artists include Teklife co-founder DJ Spinn – his appearance coinciding with the release date of his new Da Life EP – Scratchclart with Lady Lykez, Cooly G back to back with Okzharp, Lee Gamble, Proc Fiskal, Loraine James and Nazar.

Tickets are on sale from Resident Advisor.

Once again the BBC and Jazz FM will collaborate during the EFG London Jazz Festival. The BBC's programme will include a six hour overnight jazz takeover on BBC Radio 3 and a jazz collection on BBC Sounds, while a broadcast swap between the BBC and Jazz FM will see both stations air each other’s key recordings. On 16 November, the festival will screen the BBC Two documentary Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool, directed by Stanley Nelson. The festival itself happens from 15–24 November at various venues across London.

Meanwhile, on 2 November BBC Radio 3 launches the Saturday night show Freeness, an improvised music programme presented by vibraphone player and composer Corey Mwamba.

Also recently announced, The Wire’s Jennifer Lucy Allan has joined BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction team alongside presenter Verity Sharp.

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago saxophonist and poet Joseph Jarman’s anthology Black Case Volume I And II: Return From Exile covers his writings from 1960–75, including his manifesto for Great Black Music, notated songs, concert programme notes, a selection of photos and his thoughts on a play by Muhal Richard Abrams, the founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, of which Jarman was also a member. Originally published in 1977 by The Art Ensemble Of Chicago’s self-publishing wing, the new edition is available for pre-order now.

Read Howard Mandel's recollections of encounters with Jarman, who died in January this year at the age of 81, in an essay published earlier this year.

“It would be easy to assume Now That’s What I Call Silence was inspired by John Cage’s 4’33”,” declares Silber Records about its new compilation. “But the truer impetus is Blank Tapes by Reynols back in 2000.

“It was not meant to be shocking or innovative as much as an invitation to experimentation,” continues the label’s release, adding that some of the contributions had been previously rejected by Spotify for being “too silent”. Featured artists include X-Bax, Small Life Form, High Tunnels, Heavy for the Vintage, Ben Link Collins, Toni Dimitrov, Charles De Mar, Electric Bird Noise, Can Can Heads, Bodies That Matter, Subscape Annex, Heavy for the Vintage, Remora, Baptizer, Premature Burial, Goddakk, LoveyDove and Konbanwa.

The North Carolina based label has also recently released a new edition of their August field recording series.

New recordings have emerged of Sun Ra and his Arkestra performing at the 13th International Jazz Piano Festival in the Polish city of Kalisz in 1986. It’s compiled from recently rediscovered recordings of the concert, which were apparently lost in a basement for the last three decades. Remastered by Marcin Cichy of Ninja Tune, they're being released by Lanquidity Records as a limited edition yellow vinyl LP on 26 October.

Live In Kalisz is available for pre-order on Bandcamp now. You can listen to the album track “Improvised” below.

For this year’s edition, No Bounds festival in Sheffield has commissioned Mark Fell and Pedro Rocha to curate a day of performances at Kelham Island Museum. The resulting programme, named Tactical Contact, will include collaborations between Goat & Collectif Nominoë, Rian Treanor & Jan Hendrikse, Okkyung Lee & Liz Kosack, and Nakul Krishnamurty & Ryoko Akama; plus, a performance installation by Angharad Williams & Other Words For Anger Collective, a light and sound performance by Caty Olive & Ellen Arkbro, Antonija Livingstone dancing with a working steam engine, Sote & Sandro Mussida, Will Guthrie, Sofia Jernberg, and Alex Mclean with New Noveta.

Another festival partnership, No Bounds and Site Gallery, commissioned a new AV sound installation called The Skin Of Time by Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi. Other confirmed artists include Aurora Halal, Caterina Barbieri & Ruben Spini, Clara!, dBridge, Deadbeat UK, Graham Dunning, JASSS, Juan Atkins, Lanark Artefax, Lee Gamble, Memory Dance, rRoxymore B2B Violet, Shannen SP, SHYGIRL, Zed Bias, Ziúr and ZULI, plus The Wire contributors Joe Muggs and Ifeoluwa hosting talks, a film programme and the usual No Bounds rave at Hope Works on Friday and Saturday night

No Bounds runs from 11–13 October. Full line-up can be found on their website and tickets are available from Resident Advisor.