Two new tracks by PJ Harvey are to be included in the soundtrack for a film by critic Mark Cousins, called What Is This Film Called Love?. New tracks are titled "Horse", "Bobby Don't Steal", and it also includes "To Bring You My Love".

What Is This Film Called Love? is vaguely described as being about the nature of happiness, and footage was recorded in Mexico over three days. An unfinished version will be previewed at All Tomorrow's Parties in London on 27 May. More details on the film here, and read a bit more on PJ Harvey's Facebook page.

DJ /Rupture's Sufi Plug-ins have been released – a suite of seven free audio tools for Ableton. The suite includes four synthesizers programmed on North African and Arabic scales, a clapping drum machine, a drone machine, and a plug-in called Devotion, which lowers computer volume five times a day during the call to prayer.

Rupture told Peter Shapiro in The Wire 333: "There is a sense of humour in them… It sounds cheesy, but hopefully it will be inspiring to some people to think about the possibilities of music software. I also like this idea that its a drift away from something that I'm going to release. It's tools, not music you consume. If anything comes out of it, it's you using and interacting with it."

The interface for the plug-ins is written in Berber text (a typographic cross between Korean and Aramaic), and DJ /Rupture says he'll be taking requests for more plug-ins from those he's teaching in Cairo. Ableton Live users with Max For Live can download Sufi Plug-Ins here. Read Rupture's blog post on the plug-ins, and watch a video introducing Devotion below.

London festival Alpha-ville, which takes place 3–7 October 2012, has an open call for submissions. This year the theme is Unfinity, which describes opposing forces of political and economic collapse and the trajectory of technological advancements. Under this theme Alpha-ville is inviting artists, designers and thinkers to submit work to be included.

Candidates whose work is selected will be given a festival pass, and a daily allowance. international artists will have their travel and accommodation paid for. Work must have been created after January 2009, and only two works per person may be submitted. Closing date for submissions 22 June, with an extension to 15 July if you're submitting moving image. More info here.

Sound art organisation SoundFjord is starting a record label called Visible Near Midnight Recordings. The inaugural release is the first record by ADA (aperture.diameter.amplitude), titled Extended Transmissions, and is produced in a limited run of 25. It is recorded on location at the Isle Of Portland, Dorset, and in SoundFjord's Tottenham studio using telephone pick up coils, radios and microphones.

Extended Transmissions is released 5 May on CD-R with handmade packaging. Visible Near Midnight is intended as a sister to SoundFjord's temporary Sound//Space record store that's in situ at V22 in London for the summer – more info on the store here. Listen to a track by ADA (aperture.diameter.amplitude) below.

Scottish pianist and author Peter Urpeth is crowdfunding a biography of Evan Parker via publishing platform Unbound. The book, titled The Intensity Of Purpose, will have a foreword by longtime Evan Parker fan Stewart Lee, and Urpeth estimates it will take around a year and a half to complete once the target amount has been reached. Urpeth has been researching the biography since 2008, when he began an interview process with Parker.

Urpeth says: "I work on the natural basis that Evan’s music is both in the continuum of jazz, and has developed in a social and historical context…My aim is to provide a source work and an accessible point of entry to the music and its history; to explore the divergent strands of improvisation through the performers, their ideas and music, and to hopefully deepen the enjoyment of those coming to this music for the first time, wanting to know more.

Urpeth was the editor of the Stornoway Gazette and The Hebridean, and is a pianist who's played with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Phil Wachsmann and more. Read an excerpt of the biography here, and watch the campaign video here.

Jo Thomas has won a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica for her work the Crystal Sounds Of A Synchotron. Thomas won in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art, and will receive €10,000 for the piece, which injects electrons into a synchotron particle accelerator and records the arranged micro melodies in 5.1 surround sound.

Also awarded in the same category were Cheng Xu's Scape-Sequenser using sounds and images of daily life in Shanghai, and Anselm Venezian Nehls and Tarik Barri's #Tweetscapes, which converts German tweets into sound. Listen to an excerpt from Thomas's piece below.

Drummer Thomas Mera Gartz died suddenly last week. He was 67. Gartz was best known as the drummer in Swedish prog group Trӓd, Grӓs Och Stenar, and had played drums with Swedish psychedelic group Mecki Mark Men for several years beforehand.

Trӓd, Grӓs Och Stenar began as Pӓrson Sound, formed by Bo Anders Persson at the request of Terry Riley (who arrived in Stockholm and needed a local quintet to play In C). The group played between 1967–68 but never released a record, and went on to be called International Harvester (and briefly Harvester). They released two records in 1968-69 and supported The Doors at Stockholm Concert House.

In 1969 Trӓd, Grӓs Och Stenar formed, and in 1970 started Gӓrdesfesterna, the first big outdoor music festival in Sweden. Gartz released a solo album in 1976 titled Sånger. The group played a little in the 90s, and while other members of the group took up teaching and architecture jobs, Gartz persisted earning a living as a musician. In 2002 Trӓd Grӓs Och Stenar released an album of new material.

Reine Fiske from the group says: "Thomas's unique commitment to everything that surrounded him created a strong spiritual force, a vibe that very easily rubbed off on you and something that can be heard, read and seen in all of his work. Thomas was the motor for so many good things to happen. He made them possible. His way was always in the present. His past was his future – everything would dwell together."

Lawrence English has added a new cassette imprint to his Room40 family of labels, called A Guide To Saints. The label launched last week with the first batch of releases from Motion Sickness Of Time Travel (Rachel Evans of Hooker Vision), Heinz Riegler, and a submarine themed cassette by Tralala Blip.

English says that the next three releases are in the pipeline for around late July/August, and describes the label as being "about releasing music I feel passionate about that doesn't fit either the schedule or aesthetic of Room40 or Someone Good... I was a huge tape trader as a teenager, the very first release I ever made when I was 16 or 17 was a compilation tape, so I feel at least from a personal standpoint, I am reconnecting with some of the things that really made me love music in the first place."

Cassettes will be released in limited runs (usually of 100), and as MP3 or FLAC downloads. Listen to an edit of Side A from Motion Sickness Of Time Travel's Traces below.

Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey is releasing the audio from his 1999 video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. The record is the first release on Boomkat in house label The Death Of Rave, and the B side contains the audio from GreenScreenRefridgerator, which features a black talking Samsung fridge in front of green screen visuals.

The soundtrack from Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is lifted straight from the original work, disconnected from the video, and the GreenScreenRefridgerator audio has been edited for length. There's no information on what else the label will be releasing yet, but Boomkat say it will not be restricted to work by Leckey.

The record has been pressed in an edition of 500, cut at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering, and is due for release on 21 May. Watch Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, and part one of GreenScreenRefridgerator below. More information imminent at Boomkat.

Group collaborations have been fruitful for Oren Ambarchi of late. The Australian percussionist is now releasing an album with Keiji Haino (his second this year), and Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley. Haino is on guitar, vocals and synth, O'Malley plays bass, and Ambarchi is listed as being on battery.

The four track record (with characteristically Haino track names, including "Not A Joy To Come Closer But So-Called A Sacred Insanity Has Finally Appeared") is titled Nazoranai. It will be released via O'Malley's Mego sub label Ideologic Organ, on CD and double LP, and is due to arrive on 3 July. More details here.