Minneapolis promoter Crow With No Mouth is hosting a festival of Wandelweiser music, featuring nine new pieces by Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder, Eva-Maria Houben, Stefan Thut, Dante Boon, Johnny Chang and Michael Pisaro. The festival takes place 27 & 28 September.

On 13 June, the promoters host Olivia Block and Maria Chavez, with Aaron DIlloway, Daniel Menche, Nate Wooley and more lined up in the coming months. All shows take place at Lowertown St Paul Studio Z. More info here.

Wysing Arts Centre's annual music and arts festival Space Time will this year focus on female artists. Included on the bill are Nik Colk Void, Hannah Sawtell, Karen Gwyer, Lucy Railton, a commission from visual artist Keren Cytter with musicians from Vindicatrix and Maria & The Mirrors, plus Cally Spooner's work for 20 female singers, developed while in residency at Wysing last year.

The festival takes place in the rural outskirts of Cambridge on 30 August, 12pm-12am. More details and tickets here.

In the run up to Tusk's main event later this year, the Newcastle festival is holding Tusk Mini, a one dayer on 12 July at Newcastle's Star & Shadow. Confirmed for the day are Swedish underground group No Balls, Italo-Belgian duo Lumisokea, and Nick Mitchell's guitar seven piece, Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura.

It'll be the first time some of these groups have played in the UK, and there's the possibility that London dates will be confirmed in the coming weeks. More artists to be confirmed. Info and tickets on the Tusk site.

Space is the place, but what does it smell like? Norton Records's books arm Kicks has expanded its offering recently, with two Sun Ra perfumes called Prophetika and Saturnia, following in the footsteps of Heatsick's Chanel-fragranced Extended Play project, and Unsound's more recent audio and scent commissions with Kode9, Ben Frost and Tim Hecker.

For $13 you can travel the spaceways doused in the aphrodisiac Saturnia, or Prophetika, a scent that "invokes a mirage of memories and mysteries and incites a call to action", with hints of Cairo, Chicago and Casseopia. The perfumes coincide with the launch of volume one of Prophetika, a book of Sun Ra's unpublished end times poetry and prose. More details on the book here.

The Whitstable Biennale takes place 31 May–15 June, an will include a large scale closing concert on the beach by sculptor Richard Wilson with artists Zatorski + Zatorski and their historic sailing ship The Cultureship. The 45 minute piece, Whitstable Sounding, is a concerto of ships's steam whistles, bells, hooters, flares and sirens, with the horns modified to play in tune with each other, and will take place on 21 June.

More details here, and full listing here.

Nova Cinema in Brussels is hosting an evening of screenings of audiovisual artist Roberto Opalio's short films. The programme for the evening includes films made from 2005 onwards, including two new works from this year, and My Cat Is An Alien will perform a live soundtrack to Light_Earth_Blue_Silver. Brussels Nova Cinema, 31 May, 8pm.

Chicago footwork pioneer DJ Rashad was found dead on Saturday 26 April, a few days before the release date of his next record. At time of writing, the cause of his death remained inconclusive following an autopsy.

Rashad Harden began dancing in the Chicago footwork and juke scene as a pre-teen before learning to DJ and making his own tracks, becoming one of footwork's best known artists. He was particularly active in bringing footwork to an international audience, both as part of Planet Mu's influential Bangs & Works compilations and via releases on Hyperdub, including last year's Double Cup, listed in many end of year charts (including The Wire's). He was a regular performer at club nights and festival bills internationally, often performing with close collaborator and childhood friend DJ Spinn, and was one of the co-founders of the Teklife crew, which started life as Ghettoteknitianz.

Read a full statement on the Hyperdub site here.

Important Records has produced the first vinyl pressing of John Oswald’s 1994 plunderphonics album Grayfolded, a record which uses over 100 performances of the Grateful Dead jam track “Dark Star”, recorded between 1968 and 1993, and reconstructs them all into one single extended piece. Important’s version comes as a 3LP set, with sleevenotes by Rob Bowman and interviews with members of the Dead, plus time maps of the when’s and where’s of Grayfolded’s sources.

A book of conversations between Peter Brötzmann and Gérard Rouy, titled We Thought We Could Change The World, has been published by German imprint Wolke Verlag. The book includes Brötzmann holding forth on city rats, his art processes, the early years of FMP and his collection of horns, and is illustrated with 58 photos and artworks.

More details here.

Morton Underwood’s If Wet series of salons for hand built instrument demos, discussions and performances sets off on tour this month, heading to a village hall near you. The series stops off at village halls in West Sussex, Somerset and Cumbria with a final date at its original home, Callow End Village Hall, Worcestershire. Lined up to talk, play and/or perform so far are Sarah Angliss, Phil Powell and Paddy Steer, with more to be announced.

More details and dates over in Listings.