Artefacts from 1960s multimedia magazine Aspen will go on display at London's Whitechapel Gallery this month. The magazine, founded by former Women's Wear Daily and Advertising Age editor Phyllis Johnson, was issued in a box, with each issue on a certain theme. They included records, paintings, flip books, collages, extracts from papers on LSD, sewing patterns, colouring books and more, and contributors included JG Ballard, Morton Feldman, the Bill Evans Trio, William Burroughs, John Cage, John Cale, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, David Hockney, John Lennon, Angus MacLise, Marshall McLuhan, Yoko Ono, The Velvet Underground, Marcel Duchamp, Marian Zazeela and La Monte Young and others (full list here).

Whitechapel Gallery will be showing the Pop Art issue created by Andy Warhol and David Dalton, which includes a detergent box cover, plus the British issue with an Ossie Clark sewing pattern for a pair of knickers, souvenirs found by Peter Blake, John Lennon's future diary and more. Further details here, and detailed documentation and digitisation of Aspen's contents here. London Whitechapel Gallery, 11 September 2012–3 March 2013.

Krakow's Unsound festival has added its final round of line up announcements for the 2012 festival, themed The End. Added to the programme are Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg's KTL performing a live soundtrack to FW Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise, plus Raime, The Haxan Cloak, Juju & Jordash, Beautiful Swimmers and Maxmillion Dunbar.

Polish artists added include Jacek Sienkiewicz performing an experimental set trying to capture all previous editions of Unsound in a 20 minute set, SZA/ZA with Hubert Zemmler performing a live score to works by 1930s Polish film makers Stefan and Franciszka Thermerson, improvising group Innercity Ensemble, and more. Full line up of all announced artists here.

Still to be added is the programme of talks, which includes a series hosted by The Wire, to be announced next week.

Evol, aka Roc Jiménez de Cisneros's next release on his own Alku label is a purple vinyl containing 20 locked grooves by Russell Haswell, plus two new Evol tracks described as "blasting impossible rave music". It is titled Right Nightmare, and is being released at the same time as a collaborative project between Mark Fell and Sheffield University nanoscientist Jonathan Howse. The piece, commissioned by the University of Sheffield and titled Scale Structure Synthesis, uses a high power optical microscope to track the movement of nanoparticles, which is then translated into sound. It's pressed to blue vinyl with an essay by Howse and will also be installed as part of Sheffield's Festival Of The Mind, which runs 20–30 September. Both records ship on 9 September.

Alku is also releasing its first book, by possibly the only man to declare war on Århus University and modern computer music, Faroe Islands composer Goodiepal. The 192 page El Camino Del Hardcore contains the eccentric performer/composer/trans-global cyclist's graphic notation, illustration, theory and scores, plus a conversation with Evol founder Roc Jiménez de Cisneros.

More details on the Alku new releases here.

Sunn O))) have pulled out of an Antipodean tour this October, due to a disagreement with the Australian promoter. A statement from Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson reads: "The Australian promoter Robert Macmanus/Heathen Skulls has shown complete inconsideration towards the basic requirements of our agreement together; in regards to pre-production, planning and structure of business at a professionally unreliable level. Sunn O))) and our agent have done all we can to make this agreement work, including giving three extensions on the proposed deadlines over the last four months. We arrive at the point of a third (final) missed deadline where the choice becomes related to dignity and self respect toward ourselves as artists."

A statement from Macmanus blamed high costs and lower than expected ticket sales for the cancellation, and reads: "Heathen Skulls tried everything with its power to save the tour, but in the end, financially it wasn’t going to work, and cancelling the whole tour was the only logical solution. Hopefully Sunn O))) can reschedule their Australian tour with a promoter that’s best suited to their needs."

Sunn O))) emphasised that they had no problems with the New Zealand promoter, and Japanese dates will go ahead as planned. Any tickets sold will be refunded, and the group will attempt to reschedule dates. More details on the Ideologic Organ site, and on the Heathen Skulls Facebook page.

Another new album by Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha is on the way for 18 September, via Heartfast records. The album is titled Mabushii Itazura Na Inori, and is the second this year, following Hikari To Nazukeyo (Let's Name It Light) earlier this year (also on Heartfast), which featured a trio of Haino with early Fushitsusha drummer Ikuro Takahashi and Altered States bass player Mitsuru Nasuno.

Haino essentially mothballed Fushitsusha over ten years ago, but has resurrected the project recently, and has played a number of shows, including the Freedommune festival in Japan, which was streamed live online. Fushitsusha are also playing a date in London, Krakow's Unsound festival, and Tusk in Newcastle.

[Hat tip Poison Pie]

Brief news bite: Tony Bevan has released a free download on his own Foghorn Records label of his solo bass saxophone improvisations. The recording is solely of improvisations by Bevan, and is titled Luggage, recorded at The Luggage Store in San Francisco on 27 April 2000.

Download and info here.

The Association for Cultural Equity and Alan Lomax archive has released Ballads, Blues And Bluegrass, a half hour film which documents an impromptu song swap between Lomax and the Friends Of Old Time Music collective at his flat in Greenwich Village in the early 60s.

The Friends Of Old Time Music (Ralph Rinzler, Izzy Young, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie and John Cohenwere) were a group which was dedicated to introducing urban audiences in New York to pre-war American music, bringing folk and blues performers to the city to perform in the early to mid-1960s, including Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson. More details here.

North Carolina based Brit, Dan Melchior, is set to release an album dedicated to his wife, Letha Rodman Melchior who is currently battling with cancer. The album, due out 11 September on the Northern Spy label, is titled The Backward Path.

The album features collaborations with C Spencer Yeh, Circuit Des Yeax’s Haley L Fohr, Un Das Menace’s Anthony Allman, Ela Orleans and Zs’s Sam Hillmer. Northern Spy is planning to donate all the profits from the sale of the first pressing of the album to Letha’s increasing health care costs.

You can buy The Backward Path here. To send donations directly to Letha click here or for tax-deductible donations by credit card you can use the Jump Arts site here. To check the first single from the album, "Night Comes In", click here.

This month Resonance FM is broadcasting a series of lectures recorded at the Supersonix conference between 20–23 June. Broadcasts take place noon till 6pm, between Monday and Friday until the end of the month. The lectures and discussions will be archived and made available as podcasts in the coming months.

Today Resonance is broadcasting a debate about sound arts practice versus sound art research, with Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle, John Wynne, Thomas Gardner, Holly Ingleton and Aura Satz, followed by a discussion on the history of sonification. Next week the schedule includes discussions featuring Mira Calix, Chris Corsano, Ron Geesin, Matthew Herbert, Chris Cutler, Jennifer Walshe and others. Full details on today's schedule here. The final edition of the Free University Of The Airwaves will be broadcast on 31 August.

From 3 September to 9 December a temporary radio station, Mobile Radio BSP, will be broadcasting from the São Paulo Biennial. The station runs 24 hours a day, and will be playing archival Adventures In Sound And Music shows, plus every edition of Touch Radio, 60 hours of Conrad Schnitzler recordings, broadcasts curated by labels including Gruenrekorder, plus Jem Finer's Longplayer, a thousand year long musical composition which began broadcasting on 31 December 1999.

While there's a schedule online, it's intended as a guide, as the organisers say they want to allow for spontaneous events to disrupt the planned programme. More details and a full schedule here, and follow Mobile Radio BSP on Twitter for last minute schedule interruptions.