Eight new commissions will be performed at this year's Tabernacle Folk Festival in West London. Two new works by accordionist Howard Skempton will be performed, for solo violin and ensemble by violinist Darragh Morgan, Steve Beresford and Skempton. Also commissioned by the festival are Shabaka Hutchings, Byron Wallen, Ramon Goose, Jason Yarde and Shanti Paul Jayasinha. Performers include Steve Beresford, trombonist Harry Brown, tuba player Theon Cross and drummer Seb Rochford, among others, including a group of young players.

Festival organiser Sheila Hill says: "I started the festival four years ago, as a reaction to the awfulness of much of the British trad scene: overcomfortable, predictable music, often very poorly played…"

BBC Radio 3 will also be broadcasting a 30 minute show on the festival this Friday between 5:30pm–6pm, which will include live performances from Jason Yarde, Sam Dubois playing new work by Yarde, and violinist Darragh Morgan previewing Howard Skempton's new solo work for violin.

The festival takes place at The Tabernacle in west London on 6 & 7 April. Full listings and ticket details here.

The latest release from Baron Mordant's Mordant Music is a run of 50 cassettes from Osmiroid, a duo Mordant says is comprised of "Commodore Meniscus & 'friend' – that's all I know". 49 are "mucus-tinged", and one is gold. The buyer of the gold cassette, the 22nd purchase, will also receive "a recently removed MMolar" and a bundle of Mordant Music vinyl.

Commodore Meniscus has released on Mordant Music before, having recorded a Travelogue for the label (MM039). Osmiroid is described by Baron as "a seeping mass of congealed brine working its way from cubicle to cubicle via Mancunia & Karlsbad". Listen to an extract below, and more details here.

Two Oval albums from the mid-90s are being reissued for Record Store Day 2013. Systemisch and 94diskont, both released on Mille Plateaux then Thrill Jockey, are being pressed to vinyl in editions of 1500.

Systemisch and 94diskont both feature the original Oval line up of Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz and Frank Metzger, before the latter two left in 1995. Systemisch is pressed as a double clear vinyl, and 94diskontis pressed to orange vinyl, and includes the album plus the original extra 12" of "Do While" remixes by Jim O'Rourke, Scanner, Mouse On Mars and Christian Vogel. Both also come with downloads.

Record Store Day 2013 takes place on 21 April. More details on Record Store Day releases here.

David Toop has donated his collection of interview tapes dating back to the early 80s to the British Library's Sound Archive. The collection of cassettes, Minidisk and digital recordings run to around 270 interviews, some over 90 minutes, with musicians, authors, publishers, comedians, film directors, soundtrack composers, and sportsmen.

Subjects run from David Lynch to Sun Ra, Kate Bush to Erik Sykes, John Zorn to Luther Vandross, and more, and there are multiple interviews with Janet Jackson, Kraftwerk and John Barry. The B's alone include boxer Nigel Benn, Bros and John Butcher.

Toop approached the British Library with the tapes, and says: "Through necessity I'm having to slim down my possessions and archive prior to a move… From my own perspective I just want to feel that they are safe and potentially useful. There's a danger that such collections turn into a burden and hence end up in a skip."

The interviews will now be processed and digitised by the British Library, and will eventually be available via the library's Sound Archive.

In the last few weeks, long running crate digging blog Mutant Sounds has died and been resurrected. After announcing that it would no longer be operating as a source for downloads and rips of obscure, out of print, and long forgotten records, it has resurrected itself in a somewhat more official model.

In a post on the site announcing that they would be shutting down the blog, Mutant Sounds's Eric Lumbleau says "the recent news that issues pertaining to copyright online are now being reinterpreted by the powers that be in alarming new ways, means that there's no point in pushing this boulder up a hill any longer. Mutant Sounds' original founder Jim is in full agreement with my sentiments and everything except for the texts has now been deleted."

Following laments from music fans at the blog's demise, the site's founders decided to find a way to keep Mutant Sounds in business, so to speak, and have effectively turned the blog into a net label. From now on, Mutant Sounds will be sharing rare, unreleased, and out of print music via a Mutant Sounds Dropbox account, with help from the Free Music Archive, but with the full consent of each artist.

The first filedrops have arrived this week, and include previously unreleased material from No-Neck Blues Band, Storm Bugs/Snatch Tapes's Philip Sanderson with Eric Lumbleau's Vas Deferens Organization, and Brad Laner. Lumbleau will also be starting a show on WFMU later this year.

Last year, Lumbleau wrote a Collateral Damage article on challenging established historical narratives by unearthing forgotten releases. Read it here.

David Tudor's output from 1963 through to 1992 has been collected and is being released as a seven disc set on New World records. The box set covers Tudor's transition from pianist to composer, and further into his electronic compositions before his death in 1996.

New World's Paul Tai says: "What prompted us to consider this was the tremendous reception his pieces got when Music For Merce was released a couple of years ago. Six of those works were issued in excerpted from so we decided to issue them in complete form and build the set around them. It’s really the first comprehensive overview of his work as an electronic music composer."

The liner notes include a sizeable essay by artist and composer Matt Rogalsky, and also an essay by Gordon Mumma. Rogalsky writes: "Tudor’s identity morphed seamlessly from interpreter of mainly acoustic music to composer-performer of predominately electronic music over a period of about ten years, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. This set of seven CDs goes beyond any previous attempt to document that process of transformation."

The seven CD set, titled The Art Of David Tudor, covers most of Tudor's creative life, from the period 1963 to 1992, and includes performances of his own pieces, including Bandoneon!, Weatherings, Phonemes, Virtual Focus, Webwork, two versions of Rainforest IV recorded in 1980 and 1990, plus audio recorded from his installation in the Pepsi Pavilion from Expo 70 in Osaka, Neural Network Plus with Takehisa Kosugi, plus performances with John Cage, and pieces by Cage and Christian Wolff. New World releases The Art Of David Tudor in May in the US, and June in the UK. More details incoming here. More on David Tudor here.

In 1941 Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood actress and a talented mathematician, invented and patented the process of 'frequency hopping' with composer George Antheil. This Thursday a film and sound installation based on Lamarr's invention by Aura Satz opens at the London Hayward Gallery project space, titled Impulsive Synchronisation.

Frequency hopping is a system of synchronising frequency changes in transmitters and receivers, meaning that torpedoes could avoid enemy detection in the second world war. Now, the same principles are used in wireless and wi-fi connections and communications.

Impulsive Synchronisation, which looks at the notating and visualisation of the technologies plus its encryption and deciphering, runs until 26 May. On 24 March at 3:30pm Aura Satz is in conversation with Hayward Gallery chief curator Stephanie Rosenthal. More details here.

French music awards Qwartz will be presented on 4 April. Among the nominations across a number of categories are Andrew Pekler's Sentimental Favourites, alva noto's Univrs, Oval, and Ursula Bogner, and Derrick May is the recipient of this year's Qwartz of Honour.

This year is the ninth edition of the awards. Previous winners include John Heckle, Andy Moor and Anne-James Chaton and Francisco Lopez, among others.

More details on all the nominees, plus the Paris performance on the night of the awards, here.

Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto "The Art Of Noise" called for a "break at all cost from this restrictive circle of pure sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds". On Sunday 24 March, The Istituto Svizzero in Rome hosts a series of performances to mark the 100th anniversary of the pamphlet's publication.

The event, titled Tam Tuumb! and curated by Valerio Mattioli with Francesco de Figueiredo, includes performances by Aaron Dilloway, Andy Guhl, Antoine Chessex, Cut Hands, Dave Phillips, Skullflower, Teho Teardo, and the Die Schachtel label and publishing house.

Russolo identified a spectrum of noises, which he grouped together into families. The event takes each of these families of noises, and attaches artists to each one. Aaron Dilloway takes whistles, snores and snorts; Skullflower and William Bennett's Cut Hands take roars, claps, falling water, driving noises, bellows; Teho Teardo and Andy Guhl run with shrill sounds, cracks, buzzings, jingles, shuffles; Schimpfluch member Dave Phillips takes animal and human voices; Antoine Chessex takes whispers, mutterings, rustlings, grumbles, grunts and gurgles, and Die Milan based label Die Schachtel perform soundscapes.

Tam Tuumb! runs from 4:30pm, and is free. It's part of a bigger five part series of events titled Syncope, which run until June. More details here.

Wire contributor Phil England's Climate Radio is starting up again. The show will be broadcast monthly on Resonance FM and is also available online.

The first two shows are titled "An Arctic Wake Up Call", and "Protecting The Arctic". Guests on the first are professors Tim Lenton and Peter Wadhams, discussing the current rate of change in the Arctic's natural systems. Protecting The Arctic looks at Shell's Arctic drilling plans, with guests Joan Walley MP, Charlie Kronick from Greenpaeace, Louise Rouse from Fair Pensions, and James Marriott from Platform.

More details here.