Film maker and composer John Carpenter is releasing his first solo album on 3 February 2015. Quoting his collaborator on the album – his son Cody Carpenter – John Carpenter says: "The best way I can describe what we’ve done is that it’s a ‘soundtrack sampler’, which is what Cody calls it. They’re little moments of scores from movies made in our imaginations."

The horror director has directed and composed the scores for films including: Prince of Darkness, The Thing, Halloween, The Fog and Escape From New York. His new album, titled Lost Themes, will be released on Sacred Bones Records. Listen to the album’s first track, “Vortex” below.

Cambridge’s Wysing Arts Centre has opened applications for its 2015 artist residencies. Applicants are being asked to respond to Wysing's overarching theme for 2015: the multiverse, something will run through its music festival, workshops and artist masterclasses.

Successful artists will be in residence at the centre in Cambridgeshire across two periods next year: 23 March–10 May, and 9 November–20 December. The fee and production budget is £4,000, and deadline for applications is 22 December. All details on how to apply are online at the Wysing site.

Eiko Ishibashi, featured in this month’s Bites section (The Wire 370), has released her album of music for the Japanese production of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Der Müll, Die Stadt Und Der Tod, which was the first ever production of a Fassbinder play in Japan. The album is available on Bandcamp as of 14 November on a pay what you want price of around £4 and up. The music was made by Ishibashi and mixed by Jim O’Rourke.

The controversial play was performed in Japan for the first time in 2013. It contains over 20 pieces of music. Ishibashi said: “I decided that, although the play is set in the 1940s–50s, it would be better to arrange the music in a way that evoked Germany in the 1970s, somewhat like Fassbinder’s film The Third Generation. So I used old rhythm machines and arranged Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde for synthesizers, leaning towards a sound that evoked construction and machinery.”

Listen below, or via Ishibashi’s Bandcamp.

Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, pianist and composer Pat Thomas, and accordionist Martin Green are the musicians awarded £50,000 grants by the Paul Hamlyn Award for composers this year. Hutchings, Thomas and Green are awarded alongside five visual artists, all of whom will receive £50,000 spread across a three year period. As usual with the Paul Hamlyn Award, there are no obligations or conditions on how the money must be spent.

Previous recipients have included Steve Beresford, Chris Watson, John Butcher, and Evan Parker, among others. More details here.

To celebrate 20 years since Detroit techno producer Robert Hood founded his M-Plant label, a 33 track compilation, M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music is set for release in December.

The three disc compilation contains a selection of tracks by Hood released via the M-Plant imprint, including ones made under his Floorplan and Monobox aliases. The first disc documents M-Plant’s early life, including tracks from 1994's Minimal Nation, 1995's Moveable Parts Chapter 1 and 1997's Moveable Parts Chapter 2 while the second disc covers releases from the last 5 years of the label, including 2010's Power To Prophet and 2011's Sanctified. The third disc contains new and unreleased tracks as well as re-edits and remixes. “M-Plant is more than a compilation,” says Hood “It represents the unfolding of a dream, it represents passion and determination to make something out of nothing.”

M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music will be released 8 December. More information here.

Charlemagne Palestine is releasing his first full length cassette on 30 November on Close/Far. Musician Nathan Cook, who runs the St Louis based label and curates its annual Rhizomatic St Louis compilations, met Palestine during his concert series in Chicago earlier this year. "I asked [Palestine] if he had ever done a cassette release," says Cook. "He said only for a few compilations in the 1980s and that he really likes cassettes and listens to them at home."

Palestine's Chicago series included Schlingen-Blängen, performed on the organ of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in the University of Chicago. For Close/Far Palestine unearthed a previously unreleased recording of Schlingen-Blängen from 1977, which he believes to be the first ever recording of this signature work. The 90 minute recording, which he has dubbed SchlingenCassettenBlängen, will be released in a cassette edition of 369 (Palestine's three favourite numbers), featuring new and archival artwork by the composer.

More details here.

Hot on the heels of its 2014 edition, Tusk festival has begun fund raising for next year’s festival. First up is a batch of prints donated by Hull-based musician and artist Andrew Chalk. Chalk, who has worked with The New Blockaders, Christoph Heeman, and is a member of Elodie, Colin Potter’s Ora, has painted a collection of 17 dark and windy squares as part of a collection titled A Light At The End Of The World

The 17 prints are priced at £75 each, and all are up on Flickr here.

An exhibition of work by Christian Marclay will open at London’s White Cube gallery in January 2015. The show, which runs until April 2015, will include a series of performances by the London Sinfonietta, who will be in residence at White Cube's Bermondsey space, performing on weekends throughout the exhibition

A vinyl record pressing machine will also be installed in the space too (via The Vinyl Factory), which will press records on the spot, in a nod back to Marclay’s early days in the New York no wave scene.

More details incoming.

Cesura // Acceso, a new journal for music, politics and poetics has been published after reaching its crowdfunding goal last summer. Edited and run by Gabriel Humberstone and Paul Abbot, Cesura // Acceso contains essays on Bay Area punk, DJ Rashad and the ghetto thermodynamics of juke, the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill, dole autonomy and rave, an essay on Don Cherry's time in London, a history of happy hardcore and an interview with Joe McPhee among other writing and poetry.

If you backed the Kickstarter project your copy will be posted imminently, and the journal will also be published online in the coming months. Cesura // Acceso is distributed by Anagram Books. A launch party is planned for the near future. More details and updates here.

A crowdfunded documentary film about the New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU premieres at DOC NYC Film Festival on 15 November.

Starting life as a kickstarter campaign, the documentary, original titled Freeform Or Death, raised $81,639 by the end of its campaign on 11 July 2012. Produced by film maker Tim K Smith, Sex And Broadcasting follows WFMU's station manager Ken Freedman in his bid to keep the outfit running during times of financial crisis, and features in-studio performances by artists including: Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Joanna Newsom.

Sex And Broadcasting will screen at New York's IFC Center on 15 & 17 November.