An open call for works is out via ECAS (European Cities Of Advanced Sound), for ideas for radio works which involve live performance or installation. One successful work will be commissioned around the theme 'ubiquitous art and sound', and will be broadcast on German radio station Deutschlandradio Kultur in 2014, and included in Berlin's 2014 CTM festival programme. Deadline for submissions is 30 August, full details on submitting work, plus fees and schedule here.

Light In The Attic is giving a trio of 1980s releases by Roky Erickson (of the 13th Floor Elevators) the reissue treatment. The Evil One was released in 1981, recorded after Erickson was released from Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the mid-70s, where he received electroshock therapy. The Evil One will be reissued along with 1986 album Don't Slander Me, and the anthology Gremlins Have Pictures. All will be out around the end of August on CD and LP. More details on the releases over at Light In The Attic.

Australian musician Ben Frost has composed and is directing a theatre adaptation of Iain Banks's novel The Wasp Factory about an isolated teenager on a remote Scottish island. The music involves his signature extreme volumes and includes a libretto by David Pountney. The Wasp Factory opens at Austria's Bregenz Festival 1 & 3 August, then plays at Berlin's HAU theatre 26–28 September, and London's Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre 2–8 October. More details here.

Berlin's recently resurrected Atonal festival has completed its line up for 2013. The festival programme includes Frieder Butzmann performing Kurt Schwitters's sound poem Ursonate, Cut Hands, Glenn Branca, Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald, Vladislav Delay, Russell Haswell, Actress and others. Added to that are commissioned works by AntiVJ and Grischa Lichtenberger, plus after parties with Powell, Thomas Fehlmann and Alec Empire, among others. Full line up here.

French music prize Qwartz has opened submissions for its 10th edition, with Blixa Bargeld taking up this year's honorary presidency. Six awards will be given out, with prizes of between €500 and €5,000, and winners are selected blind by the jury (ie, tracks are detagged and given just a number prior to the judging process). Only works published after 1 January 2012 can be submitted, deadline for applications 31 July. Full guidelines are here, and more details on the awards here.

Robert Hampson's supreme monoriffers Loop have reformed and will be headlining Holland's Roadburn festival. The group were founded in the mid-80s by Hampson, before he went on to form Main. The line up for Roadburn will be Hampson, John Wills, Neil Mackay and Scott Dawson. More shows are planned following Roadburn, keep an eye on the Facebook page for more details.

Belgian arts and music organisation Kraak (not to be confused with Manchester's venue of the same name) has an open call for proposals for 2014 and beyond. As open calls go, it's almost entirely unrestricted. They're looking for any themed concert series, festivals or other projects. Successful pitches will receive logistical, promotional and financial support, and a "high level of engagement" is expected of those taking part.

Email proposals and questions to niels@kraak.net. More details here.

The elusive Jandek has released a 9CD box set of solo piano works titled The Song Of Morgan. As per usual for Jandek, it's released on his own Corwood Industries private press, arranged in a numerical sequence of discs titled Nocturne (ie. Nocture One through to Nocturne Nine), each of which clocks in at about an hour. It's listed on the Corwood Industries site, and there's a few extra details over at Volcanic Tongue.

Portland, Oregon community radio station KBOO are releasing a 7" of a previously unreleased Elizabeth Cotten recording, made at the Euphoria Tavern in Portland in February 1975. Erin Yanke, the station's programme director says: "KBOO broadcast the show live, and the songs on this record are from that performance. We don't know the titles, as they were not announced, and are not released on any of her other recordings." The flip of the 7" is a recording by KBOO's first artist in residence, guitarist Marisa Anderson, and it is being produced in a run of 1000.

More details here, and the tracks are up on Bandcamp here, as a name your price download.

Brief bulletin: Hip-hop punks Death Grips have started their own imprint, Thirdworlds. The imprint will exist as a sub-label of Harvest Records (with distribution handled by Caroline). And they're slating up the release of the next album for some time next year. The group are retaining ownership of No Love Deep Web, and Thirdworlds also now hosts their album Ex Military. More here.