Loren Connors’s Airs is being reissued by Sean McCann’s Recital label, 15 years after the record was first released on cassette. The 1999 record is a series of short guitar compositions, and has been transferred from the original four track cassettes, with one extra track included, that did not appear on the original release.

Airs is being reissued in an edition of 520 LPs with free digital download on 3 February. Liner notes are by Wire contributor Matt Krefting, and it also includes a print by Loren Connors from his Sea Storm series. Listen to a track below.

More details here.

Hemlock label head Untold (aka Jack Dunning) is starting a sub label called Hemlock Black. The first release on his new dance music label (for "futuristic" club music) is a two track 12” by Dunning as Untold, out on 19 January.

The original Hemlock label started in 2008 and has released much of Dunning's output as Untold, among others including Joe, Pangaea and Ramadanman. More details incoming here.

Former Swans member Jarboe is releasing a six track album with cellist Helen Money, who has played with Mono, Anthrax and others. Jarboe plays piano and sings vocals with the cellist on compositions which were recorded both together and in separate locations. Money and Jarboe will also be touring the record, with Danielle de Picciotto and Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke guesting at some shows. Full listings for that tour here.

Jarboe And Helen Money is released via Aurora Borealis on 2 March on vinyl, CD and digita formats.

In case you missed it: Aphex Twin has released a new EP. The 14-track recording, titled Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2, suggests that last year’s Syro has kickstarted a new productive phase for the Warp musician.

The EP will be available from 23 January. More scant info via Warp.

Byron Coley and Thurston Moore’s Bull Tongue column has morphed and reanimated into the Bull Tongue Review, a quarterly journal of writing, volume one of which is published this month.

The full cast of contributors looks like this: Todd Abramson, Steve Albini, Alan Bishop, Bree, Rej T. Broth, Joe Carducci, Lisa Carver, Benoit Chaput, Sharon Cheslow, Byron Coley, Karen Constance, Nigel Cross, Chris D, Irene Dogmatic, Lili Dwight, Ray Farrell, Andrea Feldman, Tom Givan Tom Greenwood, Mats Gustafsson, Angela Jaeger, Elaine Kahn, Ira Kaplan, Maria Kozic, Matt Krefting, Ted Lee, Donna Lethal, Owen Maercks, Marc Masters, Hisham Mayet, Richard Meltzer, Thurston Moore, Dylan Nyoukis, Gary Panter, Tony Rettman, Bruce Russell, Suzy Rust, Andy Schwartz, Brian Turner, Naomi Yang.

Bull Tongue began life as a column by Bryon Coley and Thurston Moore in the early noughties, published in Arthur magazine. Bull Tongue Review is edited by Coley, and distributed by Forced Exposure.

Manchester International Festival is getting a permanent home in the form of a £78million theatre and arts venue, which is to be built on the former site of Granada TV studios. The building is due to be completed by 2019, with a capacity of 5,000 standing, and will be called The Factory (for obvious reasons).

More information via BBC.

Artist, writer and film maker Danielle de Picciotto has released a documentary about New York artist Lary 7 titled Not Junk Yet - The Art Of Lary 7. The film includes interviews with Tony Conrad, Jarboe, Lydia Lunch, Jimi Tenor, Matthew Barney, JG Thirlwell and others including Lary, along with archival footage, images and performances. De Picciotto directed the film herself, with sound production by her husband and collaborator, Einstürzende Neubauten member Alexander Hacke.

Asked about her reasons for making the film, she says: “His way of working reminded me what art really is – a magic moment which only happens every so often, and usually unexpectedly... Lary treats art like a entity of its own: basically, he prepares for it to be able to happen in his performances. Often nothing happens, but when it does it is really unbelievable.”

The film covers Lary’s beginnings in the New York scene in the late 1970s and early 80s, and then making music with group The Jickets, which became a vehicle for other projects including video collaborations with Fabio Roberti and commercial slots, one of which was a beat poet spoof featuring Michael Gira wearing a fake goatee beard and reading a piece called “Furniture Of Sorrow”.

The film also covers his fascination with old instruments, from tubular bells to toy organs and obsolete technology, which began as a child when his mother would take him to the junk yard and allow him to fill the car with old machinery and toys which he'd use to build things. He does not use digital technology. “The reason why he is so steadfast in his refusal of digital medias is because it is premeditated,” de Picciotto explains.

She began making the documentary shortly after meeting Lary 7 in New York in 2001, when her husband was working on Sanctuary with Lary. Picciotto became fascinated with Lary and his history and began to film interviews with some of the people he mentioned. But she struggled to find backers to help release the film as many of those she approached thought her subject was too obscure, at which point she and Hacke decided to release the film themselves.

“It was quite a rocky trip,” she says, “because it is expensive to finance something for such a long time and we did so out of our own pockets – three cameras died on the way, the sound was very difficult because we usually had a lot of noise around us, and we were inexperienced in recording interviews. Some of the older material was complicated to transfer.”

As well as his various musical projects and experiments, Lary 7 also photographs work for many artists including Matthew Barney, and is known for being adept at lighting his images, shooting only on film. Last year he performed at New York's MOMA, released an album with Jimi Tenor, and is currently finishing an album with Tom Verlaine, and also working with Stooges drummer Larry Mullins. Lary, Hacke and de Picciottio also released an album together towards the end of last year, titled Needle At Sea Bottom.

Not Junk Yet - The Art Of Lary 7 is released on DVD via neubauten.org. Watch a short clip below.

EDIT: The original version of this piece referred to Lary 7's solo record Sanctuary, which is in fact a record by Alexander Hacke which Lary worked on.

Colour Out Of Space, the Brighton festival curated by Chocolate Monk (aka Dylan Nyoukis) is set to return for its seventh edition from 24–26 April.

First additions to the line up include performances and collaborations with Stockholm’s Fylkingen, Sheffield’s TV series Peak Signal 2 Noise, radio station WFMU and talks from The Wire’s Derek Walmsley.

The festival will also be hosting Open Colour – an open film programme, which is now accepting submissions (see the site for details). The full line up will be announced in the coming months at colouroutofspace.org.

Cargo In The Blood | Now Then is the title of a major new exhibition of work by the UK visual and sound artist Russell Mills. The show, which opens next month at Halifax’s Artworks 1830 gallery, will include the artwork Mills produced for Nine Inch Nails' 2013 Hesitation Marks project, as well as a number of new mixedmedia series, including one made in response to the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

In addition to his work with Nine Inch Nails, since the early 1980s Mills has produced album covers and set and lighting designs for the likes of Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Toru Takemitsu, Michael Nyman, Harold Budd, Nils Petter Molvaer, John Surman, Arvo Pärt, The Necks, Jan Garbarek, Wire, Jon Hassell, Sidsel Endressen, Michael Brook and The Hilliard Ensemble; he has also illustrated numerous book covers including David Toop’s Ocean Of Sound, Exotica and Haunted Weather. Some of this work will be included in the exhibition, alongside films of his various multimedia installations and a new installation produced in collaboration with musician Mike Fearon. In addition to his work as a visual artist, Mills has been releasing music under the name Undark since the mid-90s, and the show will also house a new aleotory soundwork.

Cargo In The Blood | Now Then runs between 21 February–19 April. More details here.

Following the announcement of Richard Skelton’s forthcoming Landscapes live music project comes news of a new exhibition by the UK musician and small press publisher that will further explore his interest in the relationship between art and landscape.

Hosted by the Abbot Hall gallery in Kendal in Cumbria, where Skelton now lives, Memorious Earth: A Longitudinal Study has been co-curated by Skelton and his partner Autumn Richardson and will contain material published by the couple’s Corbel Stone Press, including audio, books and prints, as well as objects and artefacts drawn from the collection of the Museum of Lakeland Life & History, which will be assembled into a new work titled Ferae Naturae. Skelton’s latest solo album, Nimrod Is Lost In Orion And Osyris In The Doggestarre, has just been released by Corbel Stone Press as a book and CD package.

In parallel with Memorious Earth, the Abbot Hall gallery is hosting an exhibition by Boyle Family, the UK art collective which became known in the 1960s for their pioneering psychedelic light shows which were projected during performances by the likes of Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix, most notably at London’s UFO club. Also addressing the links between art and landscape, Contemporary Archaeology will feature a number of Boyle Family’s Earth Studies – 3D casts of random areas of the earth’s surface which they have been producing since the late 60s.

Both exhibitions run from 16 January–14 March. More info via Abbot Hall.