A full discography and overview of the New Zealand underground label Flying Nun has been published by Canadian imprint Assembly House. Needles & Plastic: A Flying Nun Discography covers the years 1981–88 and includes images of most releases. It covers an overview of the label’s beginnings, includes an illustrated discography, and traces the label’s impact on the scene at the time.

Needles & Plastic is by Matthew Goody and Sean Elliott, and is available here.

Artist Janek Schafer is building an online portal of found sounds, which he wants to build into a large archive that will play a live collage of found sounds. So far contributions have been made by Chris Watson, Brian Eno, Phil Niblock, William Basinski, British Library Sound Archive and many others.

Schafer says the site was inspired by “the original digital radio station that simply played bird song, which has now gone. My desire is to present a live stream of calm, fabulous and curious ambient field recordings, which are randomly layered in pairs. Underscoring this will be a suite of subtle sonorities spun by me, sourced from stray space radio signals.”

Schafer has an open call out for audio, and is trying to collect a full 24 hours worth of material before the site's full launch in March. Anyone wishing to contribute can email Schafer via the site, which is under construction at foundsoundscape.com.

Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts has an open call out for its temporary radio station, Radiophrenia, which will be broadcasting from next April. Four types of submissions are welcome: live shows or prerecorded shows of 30–120 minutes long, short radio or sound pieces of 20 minutes or under, and experimental long form pieces over two hours long. Submissions should not be in formats already covered by mainstream broadcasting (eg DJ mixes) – alternative approaches to the medium are sought.

Submissions can take the form of proposals, or as completed pieces. For more information, or to share files, contact info@radiophrenia.scot. Deadline for submissions is 28 February 2015. More details here.

Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the electrical engineer Alfred Graham’s 1894 patent “A New or Improved Method and Means of Producing Sound” Resonance FM is hosting a night of feedback performances at London’s Café Oto.

Founder of British manufacturers Alfred Graham & Company, Graham is said to have discovered the feedback technique while he was experimenting with telephones. In his patent application, Graham outlined how to shift timbre and tone in the production of feedback – creating a sound that is potentially musical.

Working with Graham’s concept and using homemade electronics, artists on the lineup include Knut Aufermann, Xentos 'Fray' Bentos, Lu Edmonds, Moshi Honen, Hans W Koch, Sarah Washington and Daniel Wilson

Feedback – 120th Anniversary Concert will take place 8 December, 8pm, Café Oto. More information here.

Richard Skelton and artist Lauren Bon are performing three events in London, Manchester and Bexhill-on-Sea next year, and as part of the tour, will also be recording a show for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, for which they’re looking for musicians.

The recordings will take Lauren Bon’s durational sound sculpture Requiem For Water (which broadcasts live 24 hours a day) as a starting point. The recording sessions will take place in the first three weeks of January (dates TBC) and successful applicants will be paid £150. Deadline for applications is 11 December and directions for applying are here. The resulting piece will be broadcast by Late Junction on 29 January.

The series will continue later in the year with three springtime shows, headlined by Richard Skelton performing new pieces. On 20 March 2015, they perform at Manchester’s Islington Mill, followed by Bexhill-on-Sea’s De La Warr Pavillion the day after, finishing at St John at Hackney on 22 March. More info plus ticket links and information on applying here.

Marking 15 years in action, the Queensland, Australia based label has programmed a series of events that will take place throughout 2015. Contributing artists include label founder Lawrence English, as well as Room40 associated acts including John Chantler, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Grouper and Paul Clipson. The series aims to pay homage to the artists and musicians that have inspired the label which, since its inception a decade ago, has put out more than 150 editions of music, books and DVDs.

The first wave of events announced include dates in the US, Europe and Australia. More information here.

Former Ghost frontman Masaki Batoh has formed a new group, The Silence, with a debut performance in Tokyo on 28 November. Following this, The Silence will release their first record on 24 March 2015. Batoh announced that he would be disbanding Ghost in August, via the group’s Facebook page, at which point he also mentioned new group The Silence.

Batoh says: "The Silence is heavier than any sound pressure and the silence which thunders the ears can only be expressed by the silence in the subconscious mind of consciousness and unconsciousness."

More details incoming via Drag City.

RVNG Intl have released a 23 minute documentary on the spiritually inclined synthesizer musician, spoken word artist and free jazz keyboardist Ariel Kalma, whose 1970s recordings the label recently released. The film was shot by Matthew McGuigan in New South Wales, Australia, where Kalma lives.

Now in his 70s, Kalma learned circular breathing and sacred music traditions in India, and also worked as a technician at INA-GRM. Kalma uses two ReVox reel to reel tape players hooked together to form a primitive delay unit, which he describes in the film below. The record, An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972–1979) was released on RVNG Intl in November.

A 10-day exhibition of performing arts, spoken word, music, film and science has been organised by East London’s new community arts initiative: the Walthamstow Performing Arts Collective.

The event will take place in a disused shop unit at 38 Hoe Street in Walthamstow. It is the first performing arts showcase planned by WPAC, who want to create an educational public space for creative experimentation. One of the founders, Andi Studer says: “We started a series of public meetings with the aim of forming a cooperative to run an independent arts venue east of the Hackney marshes. The residency is our first step to see how the group can work together."

The programme includes workshops on field recording, circuit bending, a "Cymatics Family Workshop", nightly film screenings with films by artists including: Hilary Harris, Francis Alÿs, and Gordon Matta Clark; as well as live music from Raagnagrok (Mark Pilkington + Zali Krishna), Nurse With Wound’s Colin Potter and Resonance FM DJ Nana Nicol. Child friendly events and story-telling picnics will also take place. The events run from 4–14 December. For more information head here.

Tariq Goddard and a number of staff and writers from Zero books have left the company and have started a new imprint, Repeater. Goddard’s new imprint is run with Mark Fisher, Matteo Mandarini, Alex Niven and Tamar Shlaim.

A post on Facebook by Goddard reads: “I am resigning from the post of publisher of Zero books...Our decision has nothing to do with the content of Zero books or the authors that write them, both of which we are very proud to be associated with, but comes as a consequence of a long standing antagonism with the ownership of John Hunt Publishing, our parent company.”

The new imprint is accepting submissions and its manifesto reads: “Repeater is committed to bringing the periphery to the centre, taking the underground overground, and publishing books that will bring new ideas to a new public.”