FatCat has dusted off its Split Series and is restarting with a release from Ekoplekz side project Ensemble Skalectrik and Düsseldorff based trio The Durian Brothers.

This Ekoplekz side project, Ensemble Skalectrik, is the place for Nick Edwards's rawer, improvised output using turntables and pedals, under which moniker he's released an album via Editions Mego. The Durian Brothers have self released three EPs on their own Diskant label. The link is the turntables, with The Durian Brothers using a pair of prepared turntables, abused with objects and elastic bands (but not records) filtered through a sequencer and other effects generators.

The Split series has been on hiatus, with the last instalment in 2011. Since its inception in 1998 with V/Vm and Third Eye Foundation it's included releases from Konono #1 with The Dead C, James Plotkin with Pole, Alog and Astral Social Club, David Grubbs and Avey Tare, among others. Full list of Split Series releases here.

Split Series #22 is out on vinyl and as a download at the beginning of July. The 12" will be pressed in an edition of 700, and like the rest of the series, have hand drilled artwork.

The Minneapolis based De Stijl label has uploaded the entirety of the No-Neck Blues Band's discography to iTunes, from their first full length in 1994, through 8" lathe cuts, cassettes, CD-Rs, their soundtrack for the film At 6am We Become The Police, among other releases. In total, the digital filedrop comes to over 40 releases.

Full blurbs and monologues from Byron Coley, Chris Corsano, Michael Chapman, and Thurston Moore, among others, are online here, along with links to videos and live performances, plus links to buy physical copies where they are still available.

Brief news bite: Lucy, label head at Stroboscopic Artefacts, has opened a synth shop in Berlin along with two friends, selling vintage and rare analog synthesizers.

The shop, PhilSynth, currently has a stock of around 25 synths, and they also do services and will rent out their stock of Rolands, Korgs and other synths. More details on the shop here. It's located at Manitiusstrasse 2.

David Rothenberg, author of Bug Music (interviewed on this site last week), is crowdfunding a project with filmmaker Richard Knox Robinson to complete a documentary which brings together two narratives: the story of Tim Blunk, imprisoned for 17 years for the Resistance Conspiracy case, and the emergence of millions of cicadas on the East Coast of the States, following 17 years underground.

The funding Rothenberg and Robinson are asking for will cover the costs of using archival footage from the FBI's press conference which announced Tim Blunk and Susan Rosenberg's arrest. More details on the film, plus a trailer, here.

The 18th edition of New York jazz fest Vision will be dedicated to drummer Milford Graves and Pacific Coast Beat artist Robert Janz, and will take place 12 June–16 June at Roulette in Brooklyn.

Vision is the oldest continually running jazz festival in New York, and last year's festival was an anniversary edition for the Aum Fidelity label. This year, playing in various line ups and groups are Joe McPhee, Charles Gayle, William Parker, Amiri Baraka Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Marshall Allen, Kidd Jordan, among others, with Graves playing in a number of line ups throughout the week.

More details on line ups and performances here.

An abridged version of Los Angeles Free Music Society's 1970s magazine Light Bulb is being published by LA based organisation East Of Borneo.

LAFMS, which includes Joseph Hammer, Smegma, Tom Recchion, Joe and Rick Potts, published the magazine occasionally between 1977–81. This version collects 62 looseleaf pages from the likes of Chip Chapman, Susan Farthing Chapman, Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Juan Gomez, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Potts, Tom Recchion, among others. More details here.

The ECAS network (which links European art and sound festivals and organisations), has an open call out for works.

ECAS is looking for one piece of work on the theme "Ubiquitous Art And Sound" (more details on the theme here). The selected artist will receive a €5,000 fee plus a €5,000 budget for production of the work, and applications must include the artist's CV, a project description and completed submission form.

The Wire's Nathan Budzinski will be on the judging panel for the prize, along with representatives from FutureEverything, TodaysArt and Insomnia, who will convene at the NextSound festival in Kiev.

The work chosen will be shown at TodaysArt in The Hague, Insomnia in Tromsø and FutureEverything in Manchester. Applications are open until 13 May. More details at ecasnetwork.org.

A quick missive from the Mordant Music label: The Baron and Zeke Clough have penned a 24 page, A5 comic titled Hard Shoulder, printed in an edition of 200 copies.

The intro reads: "Preston via Warrior Square… the inky, stinky ley line… Talbot' timing liked a clocked and gummed Atari 1040ST… Quink before you think… aspects of obtuse eras dissected by Zeke's quill prism... daft arms and metabolic mates' rates… a trundling Baron shits other people's pants… I don't know how you got here exactly, but now that you have pleas eread ohm…"

More here.

Philosophy and art magazine Shoppinghour and performing arts organisation Human Fiction Tartini have an open call out for sound samples. They're looking for sound recordings or interpretations of humming (melodic or not), the sound of an imaginary organ, or a response to the following riddle

Random, shifting, but recognisable.
What constitutes it is invisible to our eyes.
Intangible, incomplete yet indiscriminately casts a shadow.
Guaranteed to witness all and be witnessed by all.
It is applicable yet unknowable.
A common mismeasure.
What is it?

The sounds will then be passed to a number of artists and composers to be used as primary sources. The results will be released by Shoppinghour Magazine and there'll be a listening session too (note, there is no payment offered). Deadline for submissions is 1 June, and maximum length is 16 minutes, sent to evanescent.continents@gmail.com. Please include your full name and details of what the recording is/where it was made with submissions.

Ten artists will be selected will work in urban spaces, based around the theme of dancing partners, taking place in Lisbon and Marseille for this year's Sound Development City. In 2013 Lisbon hosts the architecture triennial, and Marseille is the European Capital of Culture.

The summer expedition takes place in September this year, and Sound Development City say they are looking for projects that will "make the world clang". Deadline for applications 3 May. For more details on applying head here.