Sähkö founder Tommi Grönlund has been awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci World Award Of Arts by the World Cultural Council, along with Petteri Nisunen. Grönlund will receive $10,000, to recognise the contribution of the label since its inception in 1993. More details on the awards here: consejoculturalmundial.org

The Sound And Music organisation has four open calls for composers to work on specific projects with a mentor to develop new work. Musarc is looking for up to four composers to work with the Musarc choir, to develop work to be performed in 2014. Steve Beresford is looking for up to six improvisors for a two week residency on the Cornish Coast followed by a performance in Cornwall and at The Vortex for Mopomoso. Three composers will work with the Ruthless Jabiru orchestra, and two composers will work with Newtoy on new work to be performed at Wet Sounds swimming pool concerts across the UK.

More details and application forms here. Deadline for applications 23 July.

Early heads up for the next in our series of Wire Primer talks at AB in Brussels. On 24 October Michael E Veal will present his primer on King Tubby, discussing Osbourne Ruddock's accident at the mixing desk which generated the genre, and its subsequent effect on soundsystem culture. The talk is part of a wider series of events at AB, called Dub Be Good To Me, celebrating dub's 45th birthday. More details and reservations for the free event here.

Alex Neilson, Genesis P Orridge, Wire contributor Adrian Whittaker and others have contributed to a new publication charting the impact of The Incredible String Band. Witches Hats & Painted Chariots includes assessments of each album, plus overviews of the group's side projects and solo works. Whittaker has also published a revised and updated edition of The Incredible String Band Compendium, which includes a foreword by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

Braziers Park in Oxfordshire hosts Supernormal festival again this year (9–11 August), which will include an appearance from recently reformed Noise rockers Terminal Cheesecake. Also on the bill are Clinic, Alex Neilson's Death Shanties, Bass Clef, a stage programmed by Bang The Bore, Michael Chapman, Dethscalator, Shit And Shine, Hugh Metcalfe performing with a drummer in front of his 8mm films, plus workshops screenings and loads more noise.

More details: supernormalfestival.co.uk

SoundFjord's Tottenham space is closing and the organisation will be going nomadic, staying temporarily at different collaborating venues and organisations. SoundFjord head Helen Frosi says she plans to take the organisation back to its roots, presenting works and live performances in domestic environments, and will be shutting up the Tottenham space when the current exhibition Postcards From Italy closes on 21 July.

This month Cafe Oto's label Oto Roku releases recordings made on the first night of Roscoe Mitchell's two day residency at the East London venue last year. The performance included Mitchell on saxophone and flute, John Edwards on double bass, and one of the final performances by drummer Tony Marsh. The record is dedicated to Marsh, who died a few weeks later. Also incoming on the label is a recording of Mats Gustafsson and Thurston Moore. More details here.

Mute is going hard on the Cabaret Voltaire back catalogue in the next 12 months, with three major reissues on the horizon, but amid their schedule Richard H Kirk is also releasing three Cabaret Voltaire live shows from the 1980s on his own Intone label.

Kirk is planning to release a 3CD box set of live shows recorded off the desk in 1982 and 1985: two shows from 82 recorded at The Warehouse in Liverpool and Sheffield's Lyceum, and an 85 show recorded on the Toronto stop of the Cabs North American tour. Kirk says: "The 82 ones sound fantastic. It was in the transition period after Chris left, and before we signed with Virgin/Some Bizarre. It was quite influenced by Miles Davis – it's quite funky, and I was playing lots of sax. I know Miles played trumpet, but it was that same sort of feel – loose."

Mute's plans include a recently announced Stefan Betke (aka Pole) remastered vinyl reissue of 1981 album Red Mecca on 22 July; a box set collecting four remastered albums from 1983–85 (with extras and a DVD) in November, and in early 2014 a compilation of tracks titled #7885 (Electro Punk To Techno Pop 1978-1985). Kirk's set will slot into the schedule before the November box set (#8385 (Collected Works 1983-1985)) at the end of August/beginning of September.

Notable as a record pegged as the soundtrack to the 1981 riots, Red Mecca has been reissued before in 1990, and is the final album recorded with Chris Watson. "Everyone goes on about it being the soundtrack to the riots," says Kirk, "but I don't know if we were even that conscious of all that... I think it was a writer who said that, and it's become common currency, but it does resonate. I remember that time being tense, and there were a lot of amphetamines around."

The rest of Mute's reissues are the result of the rights reverting from Virgin/Some Bizarre after 28 years, and Kirk taking it all to Mute. "I'd been talking about moving it all to Mute since about 2007," he said. "And the rights finally came back in 2011. That's why this is happening, because this stuff hasn't been available on vinyl or CD for years. There's also quite a bit of unreleased material that's going to be included with the box sets, plus a couple of videos."

Despite the Virgin rights being tied up until recently, the Cabaret Voltaire back catalogue is far from neglected. Box sets and compilations were released by Virgin and Mute in the early 2000s, and Jonny Yesno was given a large scale Redux two years ago. "People on the Internet are totally cynical, saying I'm just doing it for the money or whatever," says Kirk. "But I'm doing it because I'm the only person that's left to do it... Chris left in 1981 and Mal [Stephen Mallinder] left in 1993, and I find myself the custodian, so to speak.

"I've concentrated quite a lot on reissues in the past ten years… and in that time I've just been releasing my own music via iTunes." Three albums were released digitally last year after plans for Die Stadt and Nextera to collaborate on CDs fell through following the death of Nextera label head Kristian Kotarac. "I feel a bit like people won't let me escape from the past," he laughs, "I'm proud of what I've done, and I'm still making music now, and people tend to overlook that."

P-funk architect George Clinton is publishing his autobiography in spring next year. The book is as yet without a title, and is being written with New Yorker staffer and novelist Ben Greenman, ghostwriter for Gene Simmons, Simon Cowell and Questlove, and author of funk-rock novel Please Step Back. Clinton is quoted in press comms as saying: "They can take what they can take, but they can't take my story. Cause, DAT'S da SHIT!"

More details incoming via Little, Brown imprint Sphere.

Oval has started a fan mailing list called Circle, plus a Bandcamp page where Japanese versions of six rare releases from the late 1990s and early 00s are available for free download. The six releases are: Szenario, Dok, Aero Deko, Ovalprocess, Ovalcommers and Pre/Commers. The latter three include the bonus tracks originally exclusive to the Japanese editions, and Popp is also selling his final few copies of the (almost) out of print titles.

Fans on the Circle mailing list will get an exclusive track once a month, and a collector's only album once a year, starting 24 June. More on Oval's Bandcamp here.