Cafe Oto is opening a new project space across the road from its existing venue on Ashwin Street in Dalston, East London. The space will host workshops, talks, film screenings and installations, and is being built by Assemble (who constructed Folly For A Flyover and The Cineroleum – temporary cinemas in Hackney Wick and Clerkenwell).

As part of the building process, three workshops on sustainability will be held this weekend. Assemble will host a sustainable building workshop, and Julies Bicycle will host two workshops on sustainability in music and performance.

Sustainable Building Worskhop, 22 September, 2pm–4pm, free. The Green Musician, 23 September, 1pm–3pm, free. The Green Event, 23 September, 3:30pm–5:30pm, free. More details here.

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As part of The Dark Outside and Wigtown Book Festival sound artist Stuart McLean (aka Frenchbloke) with Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges will be broadcasting in Scotland's Galloway Forest. McLean will be given an FM transmitter, and will broadcast on an FM signal from 12 noon on 6 October.

Tweets sent to @frenchbloke will be converted into Morse code for broadcast (watch a video of that happening here), and McLean also has a call out for audio to play on the station. He says: “I'm asking people nicely if they have any unheard or unreleased music that they would like broadcast to a forest where possibly nobody will hear it… anything at all, regardless of length will be broadcast to a radius of 10–15 miles in the Galloway Forest. There will be no archiving or streaming and not a hope of it turning up online (unless some madman brings a radio tape recorder to a forest). Any length from five seconds to half an hour will be gratefully received, transmitted and deleted.”

Those who want to listen in can park near the Murray Monument (map above) and tune in to 87.7FM. To contribute audio, contact Stuart LcLean via frenchbloke[at]gmail.com. More details here.

William Burroughs's The Final Academy is being resurrected at a night at London's Horse Hospital this October. The original event was organised by David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P Orridge, and took place in October 1982, with Burroughs in attendance, plus Brion Gysin, 23 Skidoo and Psychic TV.

The Horse Hospital night will include a screening of the Burroughs film Words Of Advice: William S Burroughs On The Road, Raymond Salvatore Harmon's multi channel video installation Language Virus with sound by Philippe Petit, photography by Gerard Malanga, plus spoken word pieces by Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) and others.

An anthology will also be published to mark the event, which includes interviews with Burroughs and Terry Wilson, Coil's Jhonn Balance, 23 Skidoo's Fritz Catlin, former Psychic TV associate Bee and others. More details here. London Horse Hospital, 27 October.

Composer Joe Morris has published a book on free music, which focuses on four key methodologies: Unit Structures, Harmolodics, Tri-Axium Theory and European free improvisation. The book, titled Perpetual Frontier: The Properties Of Free Music also includes Q&A's with Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Matthew Shipp, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, William Parker, Mary Halvorson, Nicole Mitchell, Katt Hernandez, and others.

Read an essay written by Morris on the book here, ordering details are here.

The Kronos Quartet has opened calls for its fifth mentoring and commissioning scheme for composers under the age of 30. The successful composer will receive a $5,000 commission for a new work, travel and accommodation for a residency and rehearsals of the piece, plus a recording of the commission.

Any composers who are under 30 by the deadline of 16 November are eligible. More details, plus application forms, here. The successful composer will be announced on the Kronos Quartet site on or before 31 March 2013.

Icelandic composers Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson have composed a new score for Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 silent film Pandora's Box. Guðnadóttir and Jóhannsson will perform the score live with Philip Jeck and clarinettist Dov Goldberg at four cities across the UK.

The film, which traces the rise and fall of a prostitute named Lulu, will be screened with the new score in London, Manchester, Leeds and Warwick. Dates are as follows: London Islington Assembly Hall (31 October), Leeds Howard Assembly Room (1 November), Manchester Royal Norther College of Music (2 November), Coventry Warwick Arts Centre (3 November). More details here.

Pedal steel player and vocalist Heather Leigh is playing a series of dates in New Zealand. As part of the tour Leigh will be playing two shows with the Dead C's Robbie Yeats. In Auckland Leigh plays solo on a bill with Rosy Parlane, plus Greg Malcolm and Chris O'Connor, followed by a solo date on 13 October with support from Omit. On 18 and 19 October Leigh plays in a duo with Yeats in Dunedin and Christchurch, the former with Antony Milton & Eye, the latter with Roy Montgomery and John Maillard.

Dates are as follows: Auckland Audio Foundation (10 October), Wellington Medusa (13), Dunedin Chicks Hotel (18), Christchurch Physics Room (19). More details here.

The stream of deluxe rap reissues continues with The Wu-Tang's Raekwon. Get On Down are re-releasing Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, but bafflingly, only as a limited edition purple cassette version. 1,000 copies of the purple tape box set are being released, housed in a lacquered black box with gold plaque, and containing hard back liner notes, a poster and sticker. More specs at Get On Down.

A new documentary on John Fahey will be screened for the first time at Raindance film festival later this year. In Search Of Blind Joe Death – The Saga Of John Fahey is directed by James Cullingham, who first met Fahey when making a radio documentary about the guitarist.

Cullingham's film uses archival footage and audio recordings of Fahey, interviews with his former wife Melody Fahey, Dean Blackwood (who runs the recently revived Revenant records), Pete Townshend, Calexico's Joey Burns, musicologist Rob Bowman and others, to cover Fahey's background in Washington DC and his travels around the Mississippi Delta, plus his forays into running independent record labels.

In Search Of Blind Joe Death – The Saga Of John Fahey will be screened at London's Raindance Film festival on 29 September. The film will also be screened at Leeds International Festival, Vancouver International Film festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and on BBC Four in early 2013. More details here.

Californian sound artist Z'EV has four days left to reach his target of $5,000 to develop a refined version of his Cine-cussion project, which is based on experiments with visible sound waves and vibration patterns (Cymatics).

Z'EV started work on Cine-cussion in 2009, and developed a four inch speaker, with a thin plastic membrane covered in water. The Kickstarter funding will pay for further development of the hardware so that it's practically possible to take it on tour, plus the money to buy a five pad trigger to MIDI set, and to pay for the writing of an audio sampling program, a laptop and projector.

Rewards run from one-off recordings of Cine-cussion, to a bundle which includes a first edition of Z'EV's Rhythmajik (a book on the rhythmic and magical uses of sound). Watch a Cine-cussion video below. More details here.