Precinct books are publishing a new translation of Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni's Sketch Of A New Aesthetic Of Music. The essay, written in 1907, looks to the future of music as one where it was freed from the conventions of the time. As well as a composer and concert pianist, Busoni was also tutor to a number of notable students: Edgard Varèse, Kurt Weill, Stefan Wolpe and Arnold Schoenberg, among others.

This new translation (by Pamela Johnston) includes an introduction to the book by Wire contributor and writer Adam Harper, and the poetic epilogue (titled "The Realm Of Music") Busoni wrote to his wife.

Harper talks on the book at a launch in Bethnal Green, East London. More details here. London X Marks The Bökship, 21 September, 6:30pm.

Chicago's Creative Audio Archive is crowdfunding a project to preserve 15 years worth of recordings of live music in the city, made by Malachi Ritscher between 1981 and 2006 and covering shows by Peter Brötzmann, Tortoise, Michael Zerang, Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee, Kevin Drumm, Xiu Xiu and others. Ritscher recorded around five concerts a week until his death by self-immolation in 2006, in protest at the Iraq war.

The project aims to raise $5,000 to make digital copies of the recordings, in an effort to preserve and protect those that are currently most at risk from decay and degradation. CAA then has plans to take the recordings on tour around the city in the form of temporary listening stations, plus a showcase where those who have donated will have the opportunity to listen to the recordings. Watch the campaign video below, and pledge here.

Dutch group The Ex are celebrating their 33.3rd birthday with a three night series at Cafe Oto at the end of November. Stewart Lee and Steve Beresford will be hosting the festival, which will include sets from regular collaborators Brass Unbound (Ken Vandermark, Roy Paci and Wolter Wierbos, minus Mats Gustafsson), plus as yet unconfirmed Ethiopian musicians. Also joining in the birthday party will be Anne James Chaton, John Butcher, Ab Baars, Christine Abdelnour, Tony Buck, Xavier Charles and Jackdaw With Crowbar.

London Cafe Oto, 29 November–1 December, 8pm, £14/£12 per night. More of the line up to be announced here.

Terrie Hessels and Andie Moore also play with Paal Nilssen Love and Ken Vandermark as Lean Left at Cafe Oto on 19 September.

Sami Sänpäkkilä's Fonal label, home to Islaja, Kemialliset Ystävät, Paavoharju and others, is releasing an album by a seven year old boy. Eeliks:En (aka Eelis Mikael Salminem) started recording the album on his dad's iPhone, singing in a mixture of gibberish and English. He will not be playing live he says, because "I don't want to be Robin".

Suutre Teiter is released on 29 October. Listen to samples here, or below.

Hydra Head records, which has released records by Merzbow, Prurient, Isis and others, is folding. Hydra Head founder Aaron Turner put its closure down to "years of imbalance between creative ideals and financial realities, personal problems amongst the label operators, an unwillingness to compromise our aesthetic standards, a tendency towards releasing challenging (ie unmarketable) artists, and the steady decline of the music industry in general, are amongst the chief reasons for our inability to continue".

The label will be closing in December, but will maintain its back catalogue in an effort to repay debts to artists and manufacturers. Hydra Head says it wants to continue with all planned releases, and as such is starting a sell-off off all stock, with discounted CDs, LPs and merchandise, including test pressings. More details here.

A full line-up has been announced for the tenth edition of The Wire and the Empty Bottle's Adventures In Modern Music festival in Chicago, 3–7 October.

Wednesday 3 October hosts Nguzunguzu, R Stevie Moore, São Paulo Underground and Christina Vantzou. Thursday features Demdike Stare, Vattnet Viskar, Andy Stott and Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, followed on the Friday by Supreme Cuts, Shit & Shine, Duane Pitre and Tatsuya Nakatani & Vanessa Skantze. Saturday hosts Traxman, Sylvain Chauveau, Biosphere and Hallock Hill, and Sunday plays out with Micachu & The Shapes, Holy Other, Lee Noble and Jozef Van Wissem.

Also planned (and to be confirmed) are a number of satellite events, with a Beat Swap Meet Chicago record swap taking place during the day on 7 October. More details to be announced. Festival passes are not on offer this year – tickets are being sold for individual days($15-$10). More details and tickets here.

Later this month Joseph Stannard's Outer Church clubnight in Brighton hosts Sone Institute, Time Attendant and Tidal. To go along with the show, the three artists have collaborated on a track, which is free to download here. On the night, Roman Bezdyk (Sone Institute), Paul Snowdon (Time Attendant) and Jimmy Billingham (Tidal) will play solo sets.

The Outer Church takes place at Brighton's The Green Door Store, 26 September, 7:30pm, £5. More details here.

A film on Vic Godard's British punk group Subway Sect is screening at Raindance Film Festival on 4 October. Titled Derailed Sense, the film is directed by Graham Bendel, who also directed Billy Childish Is Dead.

Derailed Sense was also scheduled to be screened at London's Barbican early next year, but a dispute between Godard and Bendel means that currently it's unlikely any future screenings will go ahead, and so Raindance may be your only chance to see the film. It includes archive footage from the late 70s and early 90s, and documents Subway Sect's influences and their dealings with the notorious Bernie Rhodes.

Derailed Sense shows on 4 October, 8pm, more details here.

UPDATE: Due to the ongoing dispute between Godard and Bendel, the Subway Sect documentary will no longer be screened at Raindance, and has been pulled from the festival's schedule.

Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley's Vampire Blues label is releasing a live recording of the group, made in 1985 at Smart Bar in Chicago. At the time Sonic Youth were touring their album Bad Moon Rising, and playing tracks from Evol.

The tape, originally recorded on a four track, has been mixed and mastered and will be released on double LP (with digital download coupon), plus CD and digital. Liner notes are written by Gerard Cosloy and Sonic Youth engineer Aaron Mullan. More details incoming here.

Portugal's Semibreve festival has announced the details of its workshop programme, which will take place 2–3 October, before the main festival performances.

AntiVJ's Joanie Lemercier will be hosting a workshop titled Mapping Light In Space, dealing with artistic, technical aspects of working with projected light, and build a projection mapping project from scratch.

An introduction to Max/MSP introduction is scheduled, which will also include a look at the Jitter library, plus a workshop titled Sound Synthesis As A Tool For Composing, covering the basic principles of sound synthesis using oscillators, LFOs and filters.

The workshops take place in Guimarães across two days, for five hours per day, and are free. To take part, submit your name and a brief CV, and note which workshop you'd like to attend, to tiago@festivalsemibreve.com. Semibreve festival takes place in Braga, 4–6 October. More details here.