Next month AGF (aka Antye Greie-Ripatti) releases a new voice-based album on her regular collaborator Richard Chartier's Line label. The album consists of vocals without words, for the most part digitally processed (with one track entirely untreated). It's centred around AGF's immersion in Sami Yoik singing, and her work with Eliane Radigue.

The record, Source Voice, is released as an edition of 500 CDs, and digitally. The download comes with an extra 21 minute track by AGF and Chartier. Listen to samples at the Line site.

Ian Rawes's London Sound Survey project (featured in The Wire 341), which documents London in sound maps and field recordings, has begun a new project with the Museum Of London's Archaeology Department, aiming to document the Holocene epoch. The Holocene stretches from 11,500 years ago up to the present day and covers the time period in which humans developed agriculture and industrialisation.

Rawes says: "Of course, it is impossible to recreate fully how things must have sounded in, say, the Mesolithic era. I am not a disinterested party, being nuts about field recording, but I do not think there is any medium better than sound for encouraging people to make that imaginative leap."

Rawes has an open call out for sound recordists to become contributors to the project, and is looking for wildife and landscape recordings of three to 10 minutes from Europe or Scandinavia, which can be used as analogues for areas of London in the past.

Files will be used in a series of interactive online timelines, and those submitting files are welcome to also supply an image and bio.

The project is collecting recordings of the following environments: tundra, birch woodland, boreal and broadleaf forest, freshwater and brackish marshes, estuary mudflats, cold and temperate heathland. Files are requested as WAVs, with no sound that can be attributed to humans such as cars, voices or footsteps.

Files can be uploaded to the London Sound Survey dropbox, or message Rawes via the London Sound Survey website. More details here.

Writer, musician and blogger Matthew Ingram, aka Woebot, has published a collection of his writing as a 900-page ebook.

The Big Book Of Woe contains a selection of Ingram's writings from 2003–2010, including pieces from the now-defunct Woebot blog, articles from The Wire, Fact and Loops, posts from Ingram's Dissensus site where he says that for a while "to stoke the flames of debate, I essentially blogged into the forum", and pieces that were never published.

Articles have been edited, tidied up ("I have undertaken to tidy up most of the inaccuracies that were mistakes; that only leaves the inaccuracies that were deliberate," he says), and the ebook also has an intro written by Simon Reynolds.

The book is available here in the UK, ROW head here.

David Sylvian is re-releasing an expanded version of Amplified Gesture, a documentary on improvisation first released in 2009. The film, by Phil Hopkins, includes interviews with Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe who discuss the birth of the AMM ensmble. Also interviewed are John Butcher, John Tilbury, Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura and Sachiko M, plus instrumental outtakes from Manafon.

The expanded version includes an additional section which asks contributors about the political questions arising from their playing, plus interview outtakes and a short film by Sylvian titled A Man Of No Significance, on the Manafon recording sessions.

Amplified Gesture, produced by Sylvian, is re-released on 21 January. Watch a trailer below.

David Sylvian "Amplified Gesture" from Samadhisound on Vimeo.

A retrospective of Phill Niblock's work opens in Switzerland at the end of this month, at the Elysée Lausanne and the Circuit gallery. The latter includes re-edited and remastered versions of Niblock's 16mm film and video series The Movement Of People Working (1973–1991) originally recorded to take the place of dancers at Niblock's performances. The films (which amount to over 25 hours of footage) will be accompanied by Niblock's minimalist drone pieces, and include footage shot in Peru, Hong Kong, South Africa, Lesotho, Portugal, Brazil, Hungary, China, Japan, Sumatra and Romania. The Elysée Lausanne hosts the main body of the exhibition, which includes Niblock's photographs, films, installations and recorded music.

Niblock, best known for his minimalist drone compositions, began his career as a photographer, shooting jazz musicians including Ellington, Mingus and Max Roach. In the 60s he moved on to work in experimental film, shooting for choreographers and working with Sun Ra, before starting to compose his own acoustic drone music, which has since been released by Touch and on XI, the label for his own organisation Experimental Intermedia, which he started in the 70s.

Nothin' But Working: Phill Niblock, A Retrospective, takes place at Elysée Lausanne 30 January–12 May. More details here.

Stephen O'Malley and Mego label head Peter Rehberg are performing a live soundtrack to FW Murnau's film Sunrise as KTL in Leeds on 1 March. The live soundtrack was first performed as a commission from the Louvre in 2010, under O'Malley and Rehberg's KTL moniker, a project that has been going since 2006.

This screening, at Leeds Howard Assembly Rooms, will be the first UK performance of the live soundtrack. Sunrise was made in 1927 by FW Murnau (best known for the 1922 version of Nosferatu), who was invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given complete freedom to make a film.

More details and tickets here.

The deadline for submitting applications for the PIARS (Premio Internazionale Arti Sonore) is the end of January. Winners in four categories (sound art, experimental music, acousmatics and soundscapes) receive €500, and one artist from the shortlist will be released by FRATT09 records.

Read about the conditions and definitions of each category here. Winners will be notified in May. PIARS is open to artists over 18, and multiple entries are accepted, although there is a registration fee of €25 (for the first piece of work, then €15 each).

The juries for each of the four categories are as follows: Sound art: Max Eastey, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) and Taylor Deupree; Experimental music: David Toop, Gunter Muller, Rhodri Davies; Acousmatics: Lionel Marchetti, Christian Calon and Elio Martusciello; Soundscapes: Peter Cusack, Justin Bennett and Olivia Block.

More details here.

New Zealand based Flying Nun records has struck a deal with label Captured Tracks to reissue releases from the Flying Nun back catalogue.

In 2006 Flying Nun was sold in its entirety as part of Warner Music Group's buy-out of Festival Mushroom Records, but the label's founder Roger Shepherd bought back the rights in 2009. Flying Nun released records by The Chills, The Bats and The Clean, among others. The slew of reissues will include EPs, 7"s, 12"s and box sets, and starts with a double vinyl release collecting the work of the short lived New Zealand group Toy Love, which collects the group's demos, singles, a live recordings and a radio jingle.

Last year saw the release of a compilation of Flying Nun releases titled Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment 1981–86, which was put together by The Dead C's Bruce Russell, and hit 29 in our 2012 end of year archive chart (The Wire 347).

As well as reissues, Flying Nun and Captured Tracks are also planning on reproducing t-shirts and posters from the archives. More details at Flying Nun and Captured Tracks. Listen to a Toy Love track below.

Ben Watson's Derek Bailey biography is being reprinted. The new edition of Derek Bailey And The Story Of Free Improvisation will be updated to include a discography and a new introduction, and is out in July via Verso books.

Alongside being a former Wire contributor, Watson is also a writer of fiction writer, poet and theorist, including Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, among other books. His Derek Bailey biography was first printed in 2004, and includes the complete transcript from Watson's Invisible Jukebox with Bailey from The Wire 178.

More at Verso. Original listing for the 2004 edition here.

Grouper (aka Liz Harris) is releasing an album of previously unreleased tracks via Kranky next month, as part of their 20th anniversary release schedule. The album, titled The Man Who Died In His Boat, contains tracks recorded at the same time as the Grouper record Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill. It's due out on 4 February.

Harris has also recently released two records by Roy Montgomery on her Yellowelectric label, one solo, one by Dadamah, a four piece consisting of Montgomery, Kim Pieters, Janine Stagg and Peter Stapleton. More on Grouper and those releases at Kranky and Yellowelectric.