Portishead member Adrian Utley has been commissioned to compose a "Sonic Journey" by SoundUK and The National Trust. Previous Sonic Journeys have been recorded by Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold, Micachu and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp.

In it, Utley journeys around The National Trust’s Croft Castle in Herefordshire, taking a route through the grounds to the sites of some of its ancient trees. The piece will come with a route map for listeners to retrace Utleys steps, and a video has been shot by John Minton.

From 29 June to 31 October all Sonic Journeys (audio and videos) will be available to download, and Utley's Sonic Journey #4 will be available to download onto a smartphone for 12 months from 15 October. Sonic Journeys is being absorbed into The Space for this next release, and will be available there. More details on Sonic Journeys here.

Semi-anonymous four piece production unit Old Apparatus have started a record label called Sullen Tone. The first release on the label will be an EP titled Derren, out on 16 July on vinyl and digital.

Dan (no last name given) from Old Apparatus says: "We started the label in order to build upon the dystopian landscapes that were touched upon with our previous releases and further expand the range of sounds that we have been transmitting. Old Apparatus is a collective of three producers and one artist and we all run the label together, from conception to release. Everything is done by us."

Plans for forthcoming releases are so far restricted to Old Apparatus material, and the focus is on vinyl releases. More details here.

Brief Nordic missive: Norwegian Noise musician Lasse Marhaug is publishing the second issue of his fanzine Personal Best, on his Marhaug Forlag imprint. Personal Best #2 will be published in August, and includes interviews with Incapacitants, Atilla Csihar, Phil Blankenship, Don Dietrich (of Borbetomagus), and Maja Ratkje (who is also HCMF's composer in residence for 2012).

More details here.

In 1972 Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band stopped off at the Beat Club studios in Bremen, Germany and recorded a session for TV, which is now being released on DVD. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: The Lost Broadcasts will be out later this month, and contains nine tracks (with multiple takes of "I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby" and "Click Clack") recorded for the session, including "Mascara Snake", "Golden Birdies", and "Steal Softly Thru The Snow".

The line up for the session consisted of Don Van Vliet, Mark Boston (Rockette Morton), Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo), Roy Estrada (Orejon), Art Tripp (Ed Marimba) and Elliot Ingber (Winged Eel Finger).

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: The Lost Broadcasts is out on 18 June, more info and pre-orders here.

Unsound festival in Krakow has announced the first details of its programme for 2012. The theme for the 2012 festival (also its tenth anniversary) is The End. Performances this year come from Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) with Tim Hecker, playing their free jazz and electronics collaboration live for the first time. Also on the bill are Leyland Kirby's V/Vm, Telecine, and Julia Holter with the Sinfoniette Cracovia, plus more from Lustmord and Biosphere's collaboration. More acts and commissions will be announced in the coming weeks.

Unsound takes place 14–21 October across venues in Krakow. More details here.

London’s Goldsmiths is hosting a series of evening performances investigating analogue electronic sound. The launch event is part of the PureGold festival, the annual celebration of music created by the college’s students and featuring solo sets by John Chantler (whose album Luminous Ground was included In The Wire’s 2011 Rewind chart), Phil Julian (aka Cheapmachines) and Jonathan McHugh.

The performances will be archived and available online. More information on Analogue Evenings here. London Goldsmiths College, 7:30pm, free.

Em records is releasing a series of live concerts performed by John Cage and David Tudor in Japan in October 1962. None of the recordings, made at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo and at Mido-Kaikan in Osaka, have ever been previously released.

The duo played seven concerts in 1962, accompanied by Yoko Ono and Japanese musicians including Yuji Takahashi, Kenji Kobayashi and Toshi Ichiyanagi. Pieces performed include Cage's Variations II, 26'55.988" For 2 Pianists & A String Player, 0'00", plus work by Christian Wolff, Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu and others.

John Cage Shock will be released as three CDs (volumes one two and three) and as a double vinyl. All are being released in Japan on 25 August. More details here.

Film maker Tim Smith has started a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund a documentary on US freeform radio station WFMU. As with all Kickstarter campaigns pledges of cash will be rewarded. As well as the usual stickers, DVDs, T shirts and other WFMU ephemera, Smith is offering anyone who donates over $100 the chance to insert a subliminal message into the film in the form of one frame.

The film focuses on the station's manager Ken Freedman (who once raised cash for WFMU by attempting to take flight via a number of weather balloons attached to a chair) and includes performances by Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Joanna Newsom and others. Smith is aiming to raise $50,000 by 11 July, and at time of writing had just passed the $10,000 mark. Watch a trailer below. More details here.

This summer V22 in Bermondsey will be home to a temporary radio station, and has an open call out for submissions for broadcast. V22 Summer Club Radio is run by NTS founder Clair Urbahn and sound artist and NTS Engineer James Dunn, and will be broadcasting live Thursdays and Fridays from 5pm–10pm and weekends from 12–10pm between 7 June and 2 August, repeating shows at all other times.

There are two strands to the call for submissions: the first asks for ready made audio pieces to be programmed into the schedule, the second for live radio shows. Anything from performances and talks to spoken word and sound art will be considered, from five minutes to 24 hours in length. There's no budget on offer, just air time.

For more info email radeq@hotmail.co.uk, or head here. V22 Summer Club takes place at the V22 workshop (F block), at The Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey. More details on the summer club here.

A trailer for the Keiji Haino documentary we mentioned earlier in May has been released. (Small caveat: it's in Japanese.)

The film, Document: Keiji Haino, will be screened from 7 July at Theatre N in Shibuya, Tokyo. Watch it below. More details here, and here.