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Bruce Russell documentary: 27 Minutes With Mr Noisy

Bruce Russell's high school age daughter has filmed a documentary on her dad, titled 27 Minutes With Mr Noisy. The video was made for her English class, and takes a tour of Russell's old haunts, his studio, and discusses Russell's development of his non-technique, plus some archive footage of the group. Watch it below:

Russell and the Dead C were interviewed by David Keenan for the cover of The Wire 353 (an ad for which can just be seen behind Russell's head in the video - thanks for the product placement Olive!).

Harold Budd reissued and collected by All Saints

An anthology of releases by Harold Budd is being released by All Saints Records in November. Buddbox collects seven albums from the 1980s and 90s: The Serpent (In Quicksilver) (1981), Abandoned Cities (1984), The White Arcades (1987), By The Dawn's Early Light (1991), Music For 3 Pianos (1992), Through The Hill (1994, recorded with XTC's Andy Partridge) and Luxa (1996). All Saints are also issuing a 2CD retrospective, plus vinyl represses of The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities and Through The Hill in editions of 500.

Unsound festival bans photography and filming for 2013

Unsound, which takes place in October in Krakow, has banned all photography and filming of the festival. No photo passes will be issued, and the audience will not be policed, instead being asked to work with one another, in an attempt to disrupt expected conventions and to anchor the audience's experiences of performances. A clutch of names were also added to the line up this morning. Full details here.

John Fahey biography to be published next year

An early heads up on a biography of John Fahey by Vin Du Select Qualitite label head Steve Lowenthal, slated for publication next year. Dance Of Death: The Life Of John Fahey – American Guitarist will be published by Chicago Review Press im June 2014. It includes interviews with all three of Fahey's wives, plus Michael Chapman, Leo Kottke, Byron Coley, Glenn Jones, Jim O'Rourke, The No Neck Blues Band, Dean Blackwell and many others. More details to be announced at chicagoreviewpress.com

Atom TM Audio Archive launched by Uwe Schmidt to house entire back catalogue

Atom TM (aka Uwe Schmidt) is launching an archive for all of his work. Atom TM Audio Archive will bring together the whole of Atom TM's catalogue, and will also be the imprint under which he releases new music.

"Those approximately 2000 compositions are all the musical works I have done between 1990 and today," says Schmidt. "The initial step will be to make them available digitally, delivering to a vast quantity of digital download portals."

The debut release on Atom TM Audio Archive, remastered and restored from the original tapes, is Schmidt's first album, recorded under the moniker Lassigue Bendthaus. The album Matter (also as Bendthaus) was released as a CD album in 1991, preceded by a 12" single the year before. The reissued version contains extended 12" edits of many of the tracks, and alternative versions.

AAA01 will be released on 4 October.

Rhys Chatham scores French brass band documentary

Rhys Chatham has composed a soundtrack for French documentary L'Harmonie, on a community band from Pontarlier, in eastern France. Chatham's original score was developed alongside the bandleader Patrick Erard. More info (in French) at filmsdupoisson.com

Nonclassical hosting festival on pioneers of percussion

The Nonclassicalclub night begins a new series of events in November, on the pioneers of percussion. Performances of Japanese Taiko drumming will be included, alongside Xenakis's Psappha, Ionisation by Edgard Varese, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta by Bela Bartok, Steve Reich and John Cage. The festival will run 6–22 November. Full details not yet announced.

Radio Arts open call for work

Radio Arts has an open call for radio work on the theme of Dreamlands, for a series of 30 to 60 minute long commissions. Works will receive a fee of £500, and deadline for applications is 6 December. Successful applicants will be informed by January 2014. Radio Arts are also hosting a free workshop on 30 August, more details on both the open call and the workshop here.

Test Centre Autumn residency in North East London

Throughout October and November the Test Centre poetry and spoken word publishing house is taking up residency in North East London, at 110 Stoke Newington Church Street. They will be hosting exhibitions, peformances and film screenings of work by Mordant Music, Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit, Purge and Stewart Home. More details here.