At the end of February Liz Harris (aka Grouper) takes up residency at Bristol's Cube Cinema, the second in their Playsthecube set of residencies.

Grouper is the second resident following this month's inaugural participants Luke Fowler and Richard Youngs. As part of her stay Harris will perform a set of Grouper tracks and will be painting a mural on the interior walls of the venue.

Grouper plays on 31 March at The Cube's Microplex. Following the show (which runs 8–10pm) she will play an afterparty with Hieroglyphic Being at a secret city centre venue. For more details on buying joint tickets for both shows check Qu Junktions.

American musician Butch Morris has died from cancer aged 65. Morris was best known for a method he developed (and trademarked) called Conduction: conducted improvisation, which he began implementing in the mid-1980s.

Morris was originally a cornetist who played with Frank Lowe and Don Moye among others in California before moving to New York, becoming involved in a number of improvising groups in the loft scene around the Knitting Factory and the Kitchen, before moving to Paris for a year.

Conduction involved a series of baton and hand gestures to direct ensembles, which included putting his finger to his forehead to indicate a phrase that should be remembered for later, or making a U shape with his hand to indicate a direction to repeat.

A memorial service for Morris will be held at New York Angel Orensanz Foundation on 7 February at 7pm. More details on the memorial here.

Improv sax master John Butcher will be playing with composer Jonathan Coleclough on 2 February – kicking off South Hill Park's series of "micro-concerts", Embedded, to be performed in front of a small audience and live streamed. The first concert features Butcher's controlled saxophone feedback with Coleclough's live electronic audio processing.

Max Eastley will be performing with Paul Whitty on 16 March, followed by a performance from the field recordist and sound artist Simon Whetham on 13 April.

Audience numbers for each of the events are limited to six people (seated on sofas in the space) and can be booked here. Live streaming for all three performances starts at around 10:15pm UK time, here.

The ever-active Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud is to be the subject of a 42 hour radio retrospective, organised by the US based radio arts collective free103point9. Scanner: A Retrospective In Seven Parts will cover the past two decades of sound artist's voluminous output, with each section themed after a field that he's worked in: Composition, Dance, Film, Installation, Live, Radio I and Radio II.

The programmes go out 3–9 February from midnight to 6am (EST), airing on WGXC 90.7 FM community radio station in Greene and Columbia counties, New York State, and online for those who don't live in the vicinity.

Read a full programme list here.

The Wire: Primer on Kosmische Music talk by David Keenan at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels on Saturday, 26 January has been cancelled due to unavoidable personal reasons. Apologies to everyone planning on attending. The rest of the day's events will go ahead as planned.

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O'Sullivan (of Æthenor, Grumbling Fur and Ulver, among others) is curating the sixth edition of Italian festival Transmissions.

The festival line up so far includes Charlemagne Palestine, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (aka Lichens), Daniel Higgs, Laurel Halo, Stian Westerhus and Sidsel Endresen, plus Pharaoh Overlord. O'Sullivan will be perfoming as Mothlite, and with his groups Æthenor (O'Sullivan with Stephen O'Malley, Kristoffer Rygg and Steve Noble) and Grumbling Fur (a duo with Alexander Tucker).

Phil Minton's feral choir will also be holding a workshop and artwork by Ian Johnstone, Mark Titchner, Raymond Salvatore Harmon, Simon Fowler, Cathy Ward, plus the musicians performing, and others to be announced. The Wire's deputy editor Frances Morgan will be hosting Q&As at the festival, with Charlemagne Palestine and another artist to be confirmed. More details to come.

Transmissions takes place 14–17 March in Ravenna, Italy.

Early recordings by Hüsker Dü are being released by Chicago based crate digging label Numero Group. The three session tracks were made in 1980, at Minneapolis's Blackberry Way Studio, pressed with a fourth track recorded live at Duffy's. This is an early heads up: Numero are releasing double 7" for Record Store day later this year (penned in for 20 April).

Three of the recordings ("Statues", "Writer's Cramp" and "Let's Go Die") were from the Blackberry Way sessions for Hüsker Dü's debut single on Twin/Tone, a deal which fell through. Grant Hart, Bob Mould and Greg Norton then decided to put out a 10" on their own, and recorded a live version of "Amusement" before finances meant that only two of the tracks made it out, on a 7" for Reflex Records in 1981.

Numero have remastered the Hüsker Dü recordings and are pressing up the 2x7" in a run of 4000, with a gatefold sleeve. More details here, and listen to "Statues" below.

Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) has remixed an entire album by Clinic. The Liverpool group's album Free Reign was released last year, and Lopatin has remixed the whole thing, track by track, into Free Reign II. He says his mixes are meant to have a "burnt, 60s/70s stereo dub feel".

The record is released by Domino on vinyl and digital on 4 March (5 March in the US). Watch a video for Lopatin's cut of "Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm (rpt)" below. More details here.

Following news of a Wire tome last week (by Wilson Neate, author of an instalment on Wire's Pink Flag in publisher Continuum's 33 1/3 series), the group announce a new album. Change Becomes Us is an album of tracks that were played live briefly in 1979–80 while the group was falling apart, but which never made it past fragments and blueprints to full studio recordings.

Colin Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey are joined by guitarist Matthew Simms for the record, who first began playing live with the group in around 2010.

Wire play London's Heaven on 24 March, with Change Becomes Us released the following day. That show forms part of a larger series taking place in March across various London venues, titled Wire: Drill. More details on that series as they're announced. Listen to "Doubles & Trebles" from the album below.

Berlin's CTM festival has announced the full details of its discussion programme. The Wire's Online Editor Jennifer Lucy Allan will be hosting talks with Heatsick, Matmos, and Holly Herndon.

Highlights include Q&As with Bill Kouligas, Atom^TM and Terre Thaemlitz, who discusses his 30 hour MP3 piece Soulnessless, plus a lecture and Q&A with Adam Harper. Two discussion panels take place on The Death Of Rave, with Mark Fisher, Lee Gamble and Alex Williams, moderated by Lisa Blanning, and screenings include curated collections of videos by Network Awesome, titled Too Much Of Everything and Music From Nothing, plus video works by Orphan Drift. Full discussion programme with all dates and times here.

Dates for The Wire's talks are as follows: Heatsick, 29 January, 3:30pm; Matmos 29 January, 5pm; Holly Herndon, 1 February; 2pm. Full listing for CTM festival here.