Brief news bulletin for interested parties: Jandek's Corwood Industries site has had a makeover. The new friendly face of Corwood Industries includes an online shop where you can buy all available titles direct from Jandek (with the usual discounts for buying in bulk), and the label/the man can now can be contacted via email, as well as the usual PO Box. Jandek is also adding listings and recent shows to the site.

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Glasgow based vocalist and composer Hanna Tuulikki is crowdfunding two performances of Air Falbh Leis Na H-eòin (Away With The Birds), her composition and choreography work which explores the vocal mimesis of birds in the Gaelic folk tradition.

The project was performed in Glasgow last year (watch a video here) and since then Tuulikki has been developing the piece, working with the archives of folklorists John Lorne Campbell and Margaret Fay Shaw on Canna, a small island south of Skye (population 14), plus choreographers and costume designers.

At the end of August Tuulikki wants to stage a performance of the piece in the harbour on Canna, and is looking to raise £5,000 for production costs including red-legged neoprene costumes, designed by artist Deirdre Nelson, so the piece can be staged in the water. "As the tide comes in, the performance will begin," she says, "blending together the natural surroundings with the culture of Canna and the Hebrides."

The score is the basis for the piece, a 2.75 meter long pen and ink work, made from weaving together fragments of songs and poems that imitate or emulate birds. "Each of the five movements represents a different habitat and bird community," says Tuulikki, "wader, sea bird, wildfowl, corvid, and cuckoo."

In the development of the choreography and vocal parts, she's begun to see new connections: "As well as imitating the birds, the songs carry symbolic and cultural meaning," she says. "One thing that I love about them, and it came as a surprise to me when I realised it, is that they are nearly all sung from a woman’s perspective: songs about the men out hunting the seabirds on the cliffs and waulking songs about love, to magico-religious songs such as "The Redshank" - a keening song to sing the departed safely over to the spirit world - or the song of the oystercatcher, who does St Bride’s work of caring for children. I see now that, as much as this project is about birds, and ancient traditional culture, it is also about women."

If the Kickstarter target is met two performances on Canna will take place on 29 and 30 August. "We are still using traditional funding routes, but were just shy of the total, says assistant project producer Emmie McKay. "The performance on Canna is a return to the heart of the project, and there are many people who cannot be there in person who want to keep supporting us. The Kickstarter allows people to do this by pledging money or sharing the information."

Tickets will cost £15 for adults and £10 for children, with a camping pitch for two costing £14. The island can be reached via a two and a half hour ferry ride from Mallaig, which runs each morning. A boat will also be chartered for the Friday evening. Rewards for backing the project include socks, recordings, workshops and more. Watch the crowdfunding video below, and read more here.

Late notice on a project by artist and writer Dena Yago and Laurie Spiegel, opening this Friday in London. A Caelo Usque Ad Centrum includes photographs, video and writing using the image of urban birds, including pigeons, ducks and geese. The exhibition also includes material from the group London Wildlife Protection, and a publication is to be released with writings by Yago and Spiegel, among others.

Dena Yago and Laurie Spiegel's exhibition opens at London's Cubitt Gallery this Friday, and runs until 20 July 2014. More details here.

Sonic Postcards, a radio programme currently broadcasting online and Audio Foundation's AFM, has an open call for suggestions and submissions for future shows. Previous editions of the show have focused on acoustic ecology and historical events from Rotterdam, Vancouver and Antarctica. For more info head to sonicpostcards.tumblr.com or email sonicpostcardsnz@gmail.com.

ESP-Disk is marking the anniversary of Albert Ayler's first recording sessions for the label with a 68 track digital-only compilation of interviews and music, tracing his career and detailing crucial recording sessions. It's compiled by Michael D Anderson, who also put together the Sun Ra Eternal Myth Revealed box set.

Ayler’s first session for ESP was Spiritual Unity, which was recorded on 10 July 1964. In the years following he recorded Bells, Spirits Rejoice and more for the label. The Albert Ayler Story is released on 24 June.

Listen to three tracks below:

The owners of the building currently housing London's Horse Hospital art and music venue are planning to put the space up for sale, priced at £2.5m. A contract which allows the Grade II listed building to remain operational until March 2015 has been agreed so all confirmed events will go ahead as planned. No solid plans for the future of the Horse Hospital are in place, but they're currently looking for ideas of how to raise funds to buy the building.

Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation are making the saxophonist and composer's scores available print on demand. Six of Braxton's scores are currently up for sale online, with more being added in the coming months.

They include Composition No. 358 for any instrumentation and Composition No. 134 for five saxophones (two alto, two tenor, one baritone), four trumpets, four trombones, piano, vibes, string bass, and percussion. All priced from $13.75 to $58.45.

Lisbon’s Jazz Em Agosto festival has announced the first names for its 2014 edition due to take place in August. Guitars are to the fore, as the line up includes James Blood Ulmer’s Memphis Blood Band with guest guitarist and former Black Rock Coalition member Vernon Reid, while Big Rain will feature Keiji Haino in a supergroup that also includes former Ornette Coleman and Blood Ulmer collaborator bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, drummer Hamid Drake and trumpeter Franz Hautzinger. Elsewhere on the bill, Marc Ribot will front his improv power trio Ceramic Dog, while Fred Frith will appear in three groups: as a member of Massacre, with Bill Laswell and Charles Hayward; in a new improvising trio with bassist Joëlle Léandre and Hamid Drake again; and in The MMM Quartet, with Léandre, Alvin Curran and Urs Leimgruber.

The festival will also include a programme of films, all with an experimental music component, including The Breath Courses Through Us, Alan Roth’s recent documentary on The New York Art Quartet; BasseContinue, Christine Baudillon’s 2008 portrait of Joëlle Léandre; and Step Across The Border, Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s acclaimed experimental 1990 documentary on Fred Frith.

Meanwhile, Portugal’s Clean Feed label is about to issue a recording made at Jazz Em Agosto’s 2013 edition by Pharoah & The Underground, which pairs saxophonist Pharoah Sanders with a group configured by trumpeter Rob Mazurek from the memberships of his Sao Paulo Underground and Chicago Underground units. The album will be issued on both CD and vinyl and follows earlier Clean Feed releases of Jazz Em Agosto performances by Julius Hemphill, Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet and The Peter Evans Quartet among others.

Jazz Em Agosto takes place in Lisbon between 1–10 August.

Ticket holders attending the 15th edition of Montreal's MUTEK Festival can access The Wire app for free. Full access to the app is available at three of the festival's host venues, including: Phi Centre, 407 Saint-Pierre Street; Trylon Apartments, 3463 Rue Sainte Famille, and Musée D'Art Contemporain De Montréal, 185 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest.

Simply go to the venue, log on to wifi, download The Wire app and when prompted, select the ByPlace tab. You'll be able to access the complete archive and sync any issue to your device whilst in the WiFi zone. For more information contact subscriptions here.

A Brussels based electronic music competition that is open to the public is offering a prize of €2,500 for acousmatic works. The winning piece will be performed live by the composer at L'Espace Du Son acoustmatic festival at Musiques & Recherches' acousmonium, which has 76 loudpseakers.

The maximum duration is 10 minutes, and deadline 15 June. Entrance is free. More details here.