Chicago footwork producer DJ Spinn will return to Hyperdub in October. Co-founder of the legendary Teklife crew–alongside former collaborator and friend, the late DJ Rashad–the EP follows 2015's Off That Loud, and marks his first release in four years. It also features Teklife member DJ Manny.

Da Life is out digitally and on vinyl on 18 October. Listen to “U Ain't Really Bout Dat Life”.

The team behind Portugal’s OUT.FEST festival will be taking their Unearthing The Music: Creative Sound And Experimentation In Non-Democratic Europe project back to the source in the coming weeks.

On 29 September Budapest’s UH Fest will host an evening honouring computer music pioneer Tamas Ungvary, featuring appearances by Ungvary himself, as well as Ákos Nagy, Bálint Baráth and Kristóf Siklósi. A week later on 5 October Unearthing The Music present the work of Soviet era Russian avant garde composer Edison Denisov, plus Portuguese composer Cândido Lima live, at Riga’s Skaņu Mežs festival. There will also be a panel discussion about underground and experimental music in pre-1989 communist Eastern Europe featuring Leipzig based writer/researcher Alexander Pehlemann, Soviet underground rock critic and author Artemy Troitsky, Latvian musicologist Boriss Avramecs and The Wire's Editor-in-Chief Chris Bohn, who wrote about underground music in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and non-aligned Yugoslavia in the UK music press during the late 1970s and 80s.

The first edition of LEV Matadero festival will take place between 17–20 October.

Artists already confirmed to appear include Morton Subotnick with Lillevan & Alec Empire, Aïsha Devi, Plaid and Ryochi Kurokawa. The programme has since expanded to include James Ferraro presenting the premiere of his latest project Requiem For Recycled Earth – the first part in his new epic Four Pieces Of Mirai featuring visuals from digital artist Maotik. Other additions include Mr Mitch, Djrum, Ikonika, Skygaze, Babii and Madrid based artist Hidden Jayeem,

LEV has also announced the Vortex project. Inspired by the Lumière Brothers, the series is dedicated to works that join the dots between cinema, arts, technology and video gaming, including contributions from Myriam Bleau with digital avatar LaTurbo Avedon, Push 1 stop & Wiklow with new piece Membrane, and Maxim Corbeil-Perron with Imaginary Optics I & II.

Happening across the city of Madrid, festival venues include the Centre of Contemporary Creation: Nave 16 (with its immersive Soundscape sound system, as designed by d&b audiotechnick), Plaza Matadero and Cineteca Madrid.

LEV Matadero’s full line-up and ticket information can be found on the festival’s website.

Ina GRM have announced the death in late August of composer, conductor and educator Ivo Malec.

Born in Zagreb in 1925, Malec was a classically trained musician who dedicated his musical efforts to electroacoustic composition, working with orchestras throughout Europe and North America. In 1955 he visited Paris and discovered the work of Pierre Schaeffer at the studios of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française. As Robert Barry notes in his review of U Potrazi Za Novim Zvukom 1956–1984 (The Wire 390), the first piece Malec produced in those studios was Malena, a work the composer himself later dismissed as "naive". Schaeffer did not agree however, and cited the piece – which featured manipulated texts by surrealist poet Radovan Ivšić – for bringing a “poetic tone” to musique concrète. Malec became an important figure in Groupe De Recherches Musicales and later taught at Paris Conservatoire from 1972–90. In 1992 he was awarded the National Music Grand Prix and made Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2006.

Byron Coley and Joanne Robertson have penned another book of review poems. Following 2018's 1971 (A Year In Record Review Poems), this new edition looks to the year 1979 for inspiration.

Celebrated releases from that year include works from artists such as Germs, Loretta Lynn, Meredith Monk and Cecil Taylor.

“The idea for doing books of poems functioning as reviews of records released in a certain year was originally hatched as a transatlantic jape,” say the collaborators. “But upon further consideration, it seemed like a pretty fine way to investigate the culture of a specific year.

“As with the earlier volume, records are dealt with as both the hard coinage of accrued knowledge as well as wisps of forgotten magic, discovered by sheer happenstance.”

1979 Songbook is co-published by Tenderbooks & Bad Taste Press and is available to buy now.

The ninth edition of Novas Frequências Brazil will take place between 1–8 December. This year's Out Of Stage theme is intended as a statement saying that music should be heard by everyone. “Stop the stage, the music hall and the acoustic insulation dictatorship!” declare Novas Frequências’s organisers.

So far confirmed is percussionist Enrico Malatesta’s performance of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean – Occam XXVI; Lawrence English’s presentation of a new field recording work; plus Oren Ambarchi, Sarah Davachi, Martina Lussi, Lea Bertucci, Schtum, and Rie Nakajima and Keiko Yamamoto as O Yama O, and more.

Novas Frequências will happen at various venues in Rio de Janeiro.

Tusk have announced the final line-up for this year’s festival running from 11–13 October in Gateshead, North East England. Newly confirmed acts include Jandek, The Rolling Calf, Ernie K Fegg, Ka Baird, Luke Poot, Swiss Barns, Farmer Glitch and Shunyata Improvisation Group. They join the already announced line-up of Magma, Moor Mother x LCO, Eleh, The Necks, Ellen Arkbro, and many others.

The Wire Editor Derek Walmsley will also be there hosting a range of talks.

South London artist Klein will drop her new LP Lifetime next month. Written over three years, it follows her previous self–released works Lagata, Only and CC, as well as 2017's Hyperdub LP Tommy. She describes Lifetime as a more personal release, however. It also marks the launch of her new label IJN Inc – IJN being short for In Jesus’ Name. “My mum always sends me a text just saying ijn,” Klein reveals in a voice message to The Wire.

But what's the album about? “I probably won’t be able to connect the dots until five or ten years from now,” she replies. “I wanted to pay homage to my own lineage. The song “We Are Almost There” is solely made for my grandma and paying homage to her era.”

The album's fifth track “For What Worth” features US saxophonist Matana Roberts, while “Honour” features recordings of one of Klein's family members talking to her and her cousin.

Lifetime, declares Klein, is “like a puzzle”. Its thick sonic palette is built, in part, by chord structures that repeat across the album. She herself plays autoharp, harmonica, violin and xylophone, as well as a load of manipulated kitchen appliances. “I always like the idea of playing around with what’s real and what’s not. On the album there are some tracks where you’re like, oh wait, is that a real drum or is that just me running down the stairs? A lot of this album is about me pushing myself to say how I feel without necessarily using vocals.

“It is about accepting your own faults and realising it is OK,” she continues. “You know when you look at yourself in the mirror and you’re like, woah, shit, these are all your flaws, but it's also OK? Elements of this album have a lot of that where it is me looking at the grim stuff; things I have experienced.

The record’s artwork was a collaboration between the artist and mutual friend Lacra. “He was able to say everything in a photo,” concludes Klein. “It was really cool to have something that sums up the record.”

Lifetime is released on 6 September. That day Klein will debut a new live performance (also called Lifetime) at Serpentine Pavilion.

Listen to the Lifetime track “Claim It”.

Two album reissues of Kath Bloom and Loren Connors’s 1980s music have been announced. Chapter Music will be releasing vinyl LP versions of the duo’s Sand In My Shoe (1983) and Moonlight (1984). Both reissues come with bonus material: Sand In My Shoe has extra tunes from the 1982 live EP Pushin’ Up Daisies, and Moonlight features a selection of rare 1984 live recordings.

Featuring regular Connor collaborator Robert Crotty, Moonlight currently has an average resale value of £164 on discogs. The Australian label Chapter Music have previously reissued various Bloom/Connors recordings on CD.

Pre-order both LPs on Bandcamp.

Hosted by The Engine Room, Morley College London’s annual international sound art competition has put a call out for submissions for audio and audiovisual pieces, interactive works and performances, installations, sound sculptures and graphic scores. The competition is organised in collaboration with South London art space Iklectik, and an exhibition of chosen works will be on display throughout October.

Deadline for submissions is 15 September. Judges are: Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, Kate Carr and Iklectik’s Eduard Solaz.