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Ben Vida soundtracking Luke Fowler film, plus: watch an exclusive video

Watch an exclusive Ben Vida video made by Sara Magenheimer, for the track "Ssseeeeiiiiii" from his LP on Bill Kouligas's Pan label, Esstends-Esstends-Esstends below.

Esstends-Esstends-Esstends is also being used in the soundtrack to a new film by Turner prize nominee Luke Fowler. The film, titled The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper And The Deluded Followers Of Joanna Southcott, has been commissioned by the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery in West Yorkshire, and looks at the work of radical sociologists Edward Palmer-Thompson, Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart.

The film will be screened six times a day (except for Mondays) at The Hepworth Wakefield, 23 June–14 October. More details here, and watch the film below.

Peter Strickland releasing Bohman Brothers album, plus feature film on psychotic foley artist

Filmmaker Peter Strickland is releasing the next album by the Bohman Brothers, along with a short film on the duo and his next feature film, Berberian Sound Studio, which tells the story of a psychotic foley artist.

Berberian Sound Studio stars Toby Jones, and includes an appearance by Adam and Jonathan Bohman among others. It will be screened for the first time on 28 June at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. More details on the film at the Warp films site here.

Strickland is also releasing the next Bohman Brothers album Back On the Streets on CD via his Peripheral Conserve label. Strickland says: "As always, due to practicalities it's a very limited edition. I have no creative involvement – am very happy to let Adam and Jonathan do what they do."

Back On the Streets contains mostly spoken word pieces, is produced by Panos Ghikas from The Chap, and the artwork (pictured above) is by Milán Kovač. The introduction is written by Jozef Cseres (who plays one of the foley artists in Berberian). There's also a short film coming out on the Bohman Brothers which will be out around August. More details on Strickland's site here.

Bill Orcutt's final Harry Pussy LP reissued by Editions Mego

Editions Mego are reissuing Harry Pussy's final album Let's Build A Pussy. This legendarily hard to find album was originally released in 1998 following the break up of the group, and will now be reissued on double vinyl on 28 August with liner notes by Alan Licht.

The album consists of an hour long piece where Bill Orcutt time stretches one second of Harry Pussy drummer Adris Hoyos's voice, described in Alan Licht's liner notes as "Bill and Adris's mutual last gasp, a band death rattle."

The record will only be released on vinyl. More information incoming at Editions Mego.

Thurston Moore starts new group Chelsea Light Moving

Thurston Moore has started a new group with Samara Lubelski, Keith Wood, and John Moloney, called Chelsea Light Moving. The group will release their debut album on Matador later this year.

The press release, as penned by Thurston Moore (in the third person):

"“Burroughs” is the first track from a session recorded in the wilds of Western Massachusetts in the springtime of 2012. It was inspired by the last words of the gentleman who wrote the most significant experimental novels of the late 20th century (Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded etc.) – writer William S. Burroughs (“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”). After sitting in the Orgone box planted in Burroughs’ back yard of Lawrence, Kansas in the midpoint of the 1990s, Thurston Moore came to the realization that at some point he’d need to form a band that played Burroughs Rock. This is the sound of Wild Boys looking to jack hypos of core passion into their veins. Boy on boy. Girl on girl. Start there. It’s not even music – it’s an amphetamine sonnet for the on-the-loose lovers of the world. Chelsea Light Moving will play your town. Right now we’re playing Friday June 22 2012 at the Sled Island bizarro freak slam in Calgary, Alberta near where Neil Young used to skinny dip when he was a laser-brained teen. Then we play Missoula, hometown of zero pop hate puppy Steve Albini. Then we play Boulder and Denver Colorado before Thurston settles down for a week of teaching at the summer writing workshop at Naropa University. Also on the faculty are Amiri Baraka and Anne Waldman, which means: More tunes, more damage. Another song comes yr way in a week, even sicker."

Listen to a track at this link.

People Like Us's Radio Boredcast archived by WFMU



All 744 hours of Vicki Bennett's Radio Boredcast have been archived online to listen again on WFMU. Bennett broadcast 24 hours a day for the whole of March on basic.fm, and the programme for the month included contributions from David Toop, Daniela Cascella, Touch music, Chris & Cosey, Daniel Menche, Chris Watson, Jem Finer and Longplayer, Ergo Phizmiz, Matmos, Radio Web MACBA, Mark Gergis and Porest, Jez Riley French, Dylan Nyoukis, Felix Kubin, Gudrun Gut, Leif Elggren, Ken Freedman, BJNilsen, Caroline Bergvall, Tapeworm, Sharon Gal, DJ/rupture, Kenneth Goldsmith and others.

Radio Boredcast was a temporary radio project for the 12th edition of Newcastle's AV festival. Listen again on WFMU, complete with playlists.

Cafe Oto and Norway's Ny Musikk curate events series

Oto Projects and the Norwegian contemporary music organisation Ny Musikk (new home to The Wire's recently departed, but still contributing Anne Hilde Neset) are starting a series of events at Cafe Oto to bring Norwegian acts to play and collaborate in London.

The series so far includes the first UK performance collaboration between Supersilent founder Helge Sten and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones in their guise as Minibus Pimps, plus Steve Noble and Sebastian Lexer (13 July). Also lined up to play in the series are Stian Westerhus (14 October), Jazkamer collaborating with Greg Pope (8 November), Jenny Hval & Håvard Volden's project Nude On Sand (date tba), with more to be announced in the coming months.

Volcanic Tongue Tom Carter appeal

Tom Carter has been admitted to intensive care in Berlin, suffering from complications arising from pneumonia. Carter was hospitalised whilst on a European tour with Charalambides, and has been in intensive care for two weeks. He will be kept in Berlin while he recovers, and to help cover medical bills, travel and accommodation expenses a fund is being established to take donations from those who want to offer support.

In the interim Volcanic Tongue will be donating all proceeds from sales of Tom Carter, Christina Carter and Charalambides releases to Carter and his family, and Blackest Rainbow records have donated their stock to Volcanic Tongue. More details here, and information on the fund when we have it.

University of East Anglia hosting Harry Smith conference

University of East Anglia is hosting a conference on Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music on the 60th anniversary of its release. The conference, titled America Changed Through Music: Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Music At 60, takes place at UEA's London Middlesex Street campus on 15 September.

The keynote will be delivered by Professor Geoff Ward, and there will be performances by folk artists Rapunzel & Sedayne and Ewan D Rodgers, plus screenings of short films by artists including Drew Christie. More details and booking information here.

Anticon founder Sole releases iPhone app

Anticon co-founder Sole (aka Tim Holland) has released an iPhone app, containing audio, video, tour details, a forum, shop, discography and photos.

The app's audio player pulls tracks from Sole's Soundcloud, and plays tracks in the background in the same way the iPhone's inbuilt music app does. Holland says he can add and remove tracks at any time. Currently Hello Cruel World is available to stream in full, along with other tracks (about three hours of music in total). The app is free, and there are plans to make it available on different operating systems in the coming weeks. More details here.

Alva Noto and Byetone collaborate as Diamond Version

Raster Noton co-founders Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and Byetone (Olaf Bender) have started a new collaborative project called Diamond Version, and will be releasing an EP on Mute. The two track EP, titled Technology At The Speed Of Life/Empowering Change will be released on 23 July on 12" and digitally. There are plans for a series of five 12" EPs, and an album next year. The pair will also be touring an audio visual show – Diamond Version TV – with the project, starting at this weekend's Sónar festival in Barcelona.

Nicolai says: "We both are obsessed with company logos. We collected these slogans and started reading them, without knowing the companies. In this amount and concentration they become absurd."

Diamond Version TV will be performing on 16 June at Sónar Barcelona. Watch the 'mission statement' and listen to a track below or at the Diamond Version site here.