Independent photobook and fanzine publisher Cafe Royal Books's newest release is a black and white zine, Notting Hill Sound Systems. The images were taken by photographer Brian David Stevens as part of a 2004 project, and now are published as a 36 page A5 photo zine.

Stevens has also shot images of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Christian Vogel, Billy Childish and others, as well as a number of other documentary projects. The fanzine is published in an edition of 150, but is looking to publish a second edition. More information plus images from the book here, and on Stevens's site here.

Over the next three years the Sonic Acts festival will be undertaking an arts research and commissioning programme in the Barents Region – the industrial borderland between Northern Norway and Russia, around the Arctic Circle.

The first journey to the region will take place between 9–12 October, and the project will involve new artworks which will be shown in the region, plus lectures, presentations, concerts and workshops.

For more information email darkecology[at]sonicacts[dot]com, or follow the project on Facebook.

Portuguese art institution Serralves is holding a sleep concert in its Casa De Serralves villa in Porto this October. At 11pm on 1 October, the audience is invited to arrive dressed in pyjamas for a night of performances by Christoph Heeman and Timo Van Luyck, plus Adam Basanta. Canadian composer Basanta will open the series with a performance titled Room Dynamics, which uses sound and 12 computer controlled lightbulbs, followed by Heeman performing with Van Luyck. The concert starts at 11pm, and breakfast will be served in the morning.

More details here.

Costs for an exhibition of work by the collagist and musician Adam Bohman has been funded via Cafe Oto's crowdfunding campaign, which fell short of its target amount but raised £1895. The exhibition will open on 26 September in Cafe Oto's Project Space, and will run until 12 October. It brings together Bohman's enormous body of collage works and graphic scores, which use found imagery, biro and ink.

The crowdfunding has finished, but prints of Bohman's work are available in the Oto shop. Watch a film on Bohman here.

We’ve added more items to the programme of our literary festival for sound and music, which happens at Bristol's Arnolfini space between 26–28 September.

On the Saturday of the festival, Richard King, author of How Soon Is Now? The Madmen & Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975–2005, will give a talk revealing how Bristol’s Revolver record shop served as a focus for the city’s roots music community; the talk will be followed by a discussion with producer Pinch and Mike Darby of Bristol Archive Records. Continuing the roots theme, also on the Saturday, Bristol sound system operator David Fisher will bring his Papa Roots set up into the Arnolfini as part of Julian Henriques's talk on the mechanics and aesthetics of sound systems. Finally on the Saturday, there will be an aftershow party at the Cube Cinema, with DJs from The Wire's Rewired show on NTS Radio.

Meanwhile, kicking off the Sunday afternoon events at the Arnolfini, there will be a screening of Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness film starring Robert AA Lowe of Lichens.

Details of the full Off The Page programme, including audiences with Robert Wyatt and Carla Bozulich, and talks by Dean Blunt and Mark Fisher, are available here.

New York's Issue Project Room is raising money to start its own imprint, Distributed Objects, which will publish and release recorded and written material by emerging artists. The first two releases will be by Sabisha Friedberg and Sergei Tcherepnin, both double 12" sets.

Friedberg's The Hant Variance is recorded with American musician Peter Edwards, and was inspired by British academic Vic Tandy's writings about whether low frequencies can make psychic phenomena (eg ghosts) occur. Brooklyn based Tcherepnin's Quasar ⇔ Lanterns is based on an 8-channel installation he created for Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, mixed down to stereo.

Rewards for backing the project include CC Hennix and Cecil Taylor poetry posters, plus copies of cassettes and lathes by the artists. Issue Project Room are looking to raise $8,500. More details here.

Gabriel Prokofiev's Nonclassical label and event series is marking its 10th anniversary with an invitation to remix one of four tracks by Tansy Davies, Mark Simpson, Gary Carpenter and Prokofiev. The competition is open to all and free to enter. The stems for all tracks can be downloaded via Soundcloud, and all remixes must only use the original sounds.

The winning entry will be released by Nonclassical, and showcased on a forthcoming UK tour. Deadline for entries is 21 August. More details here.

Jem Finer's 1000 year long piece of music, Longplayer, has a Kickstarter campaign running to fund a choral version of the piece which will be performed by 240 singers and will last over 16 hours. The piece has been playing since 1999 and five years ago a fragment of the work was performed at The Roundhouse London on 234 Tibetan singing bowls. Early try outs for the choir took place earlier this year in Manchester and last month the piece was staged as a work in progress in London.

There currently exists a 1000 second vocal version of Longplayer, and the Kickstarter will go towards developing the score, recruiting singers and rehearsing the 1000 minute long piece.

[Please note: the Longplayer Twitter feed reports that they have now funded the project]

Oslo venue Sound Of Mu has announced that it is closing cancelling all scheduled autumn shows after they found they could not plug the deficit left by a third party managing the bar. The venue lost its alcohol license last year, and an outside manager came in to take over the running of the restaurant and bar, but a year later quit, leaving debts as the venture had been runing at a loss. Sound Of Mu are unable to bridge the gap, and so the venue is closing.

Barry Kavanagh, an original member of the collective which ran Sound Of Mu, managing the venue from 2007–2012, says he's philosophical about its demise: "Everything has its time, he says, "and to have an idealistic project run by a collective who are not interested in money last eight and a half years is quite an accomplishment. We've lost our venue now, but we still have our artistic connections, both in and outside Norway."

As of September, the venue will morph into a sporadic event programmer, putting on approximately six or seven shows a year (rather than the 300+ they had been programming). They have been received some funding from the Norwegian Arts Council for their first batch of Oslo shows to fund the continuation of the concert series Vinduet.

Since Mu opened, Kavanagh says he's seen a growth in small venues programming events. "Mu is a reminder that collective action is possible. There is a tradition in Norwegian culture of this, and I'm optimistic that the next generation will come up with something exciting."

What won't be able to coninue are Mu's exhibitions, which were integrated into the performance space: "It was not only customers, but other artforms, that had to interact with the art," says Kavanagh, "so for example there'd be some madly oversized sculpture of a cardboard box, and a band would turn up and be told "You'll be playing inside this tonight!' So musicians were forced to deal with art, and vice versa," he explains. "We were being creative, and although this was not always understood in Oslo, by the local government, etc, our aims were purely artistic. So something unique has gone."

Sound Of Mu want to begin putting together a book about the venue, and anyone with contributions of photos or texts can email abangsteinsvik@gmail.com. A full statement from the venue is online here.

Music and art space Islington Mill, Salford, is moving two scheduled shows after noise complaints resulted in the Council putting its license under a seven day assessment period. Two shows this weekend – Dopplereffekt (8 August) and Daniel Avery, A Love From Outer Space, and Craig Bratley (9 August) – will both be moved to alternative venue Antwerp Mansion, an arts space in Rusholme.

In a statement, the venue said: "There is a high possibility that the outcome of our review will include some kind of revision to our 24-hour license. We are sensitive to the needs of our neighbours and keen to avoid animosity and upset, and to that end we have submitted an extensive proposal of short term and longer term methods to limit the impact of sound and outdoor activity on our neighbours."

The venue, which recently secured Arts Council Funding, has volunteered to add soundproof doors, on site sound monitoring, plus internal and external alterations, and are trying to work with the council to maintain their current 24-hour license. For updates follow @IslingtonMill.