A major retrospective of early Zoviet France recordings has been produced by Germany’s Vinyl On Demand operation and is now available for pre-order via Sound Ohm. Called Châsse’ Recordings 1982–87, it compiles 15 LPs of music made between 1982–87. Limited to 400 copies, once it has sold out a repress of a set this big is "unlikely”.

Formed in 1980, the Newcastle upon Tyne collective, then consisting of Ben Ponton, Peter Jensen and Robin Storey, released their debut LP Garista in 1982. Other albums included in the box set are Untitled/Norsch (1982/83), Monomishe (1983), Eostre (1984), an unreleased extended version of Gris (1985), Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music (1985), Misfits, Loony Tunes And Squalid Criminals (1986), Gesture Signal Threat (1986), Loh Land (1987), Assault And Mirage (1987) and A Flock of Rotations (1987).

They’ve all been remastered by Sam Grant and pressed to 180 gram vinyl. The wooden box containing them also includes two 7" singles and a T-shirt, and it’ll set you back €249.90.

CRXSSINGS is a new project from Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek and Gabriel Saloman of Yellow Swans. The record features 17 artist duos remixing each other’s work, a concept that came out of an exchange of remixes between Zuydervelt and Saloman. CRXSSINGS sets to raise funds and awareness in support of struggling migrants and refugees in Europe.

The 34 track compilation features remix works undertaken by Shelly Knotts & Jan St Werner, Ipek Gorgun & Mira Calix, Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt, Laura Luna Castillo & Leyland Kirby, France Jobin & Anne Guthrie, Mads Emil Nielsen & Jan Jelinek, Alessandro Bosetti & Yannis Kyriakides, Seth Graham & Yves De Mey, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Le Révélateur, Mark Fell & Jim O'Rourke, Christina Vantzou & Jasmine Guffond, Kreng & Celer, Bjarni Gunnarsson & BJ Nilsen, Jerusalem In My Heart & Black To Comm, Klara Lewis & Lawrence English, Gabriel Saloman & Machinefabriek, BEAST & Chuck Johnson, and Chuck Johnson & Koen Holtkamp.

The album is released via Bandcamp with a suggested donation of €10. Proceeds will go directly to City Plaza Hotel, a refuge located in the heart of Athens organised for and by migrants from Africa and Asia.

“This compilation in no way claims to represent the voices of refugees and migrants, nor does it represent the scores of incredible musicians from the Middle East, North Africa or Central America whose communities are being disrupted by mass migration,” states the album notes on its Bandcamp page. “Rather, the artists
participating in this compilation recognise that their lives and art have benefitted from the relative ease with which they are able to move across borders.” All of the artists involved “share a belief in a basic freedom of movement and stand in solidarity with those migrants and refugees who are struggling”.

Listen to the release below. Mastered by Andrew Weathers with artwork by Daniel Castrejon.

OUT.FEST has revealed the first wave of artists taking part in its 16th edition. Names so far confirmed include James Ferraro, Nadah El Shazly, Yeah You, Dälek, Raw Forest, Ilpo Väisänen, Peter Evans, Candura, Luar Domatrix, Kali Malone and Brynje. The festival runs between 3–5 October throughout the city of Barreiro on the South Bank of the River Tagus, just 20 minutes outside of Lisbon

Tickets are now available for €25.

The Austrian saxophonist Fritz Novotny died on 7 May aged 78. Novotny was a founding member of The Reform Art Unit. Formed in Vienna in 1965 by Novotny, his wife and vocalist Kristin, trumpeter Sepp Mitterbauer and drummer Muhammad Malli, The Reform Art Unit was Austria’s leading avant grade music ensemble for more than four decades, working with many leading US and European composers and improvisors including Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Sunny Murray, Evan Parker, Linda Sharrock and Anthony Braxton. The group combined free jazz with improvised music and contemporary composition, and also performed as The Reform Art Orchestra and The Reform Art Quartet.

Blast First Petite have published a book and CD package in memory of the late Mika Vainio. Produced in a limited edition of 1000, the 260 page MTV 15.05.63–12.04.2017 isn’t so much a biography or monograph as a “psychopomp” for Mika Tapio Vainio, declares the label – psychopomp meaning “a guide of souls”.

The book contains a collection of photographs from the Vainio family archive, texts, photographs and other visual remembrances from his friends and collaborators, an updated discography and a selection of Pansonic ephemera from the Blast First archive. It also includes the full transcript of Jennifer Lucy Allan's Invisible Jukebox interview that appeared in The Wire 350, plus a previously unreleased CD of excerpts from Pansonic live performances on Rapa Nui.

MTV 15.05.63–12.04.2017 is out now

A new exhibition of Akio Suzuki has opened in Askeby on the Danish island of Møn. Called Rolling Stone, it presents a collection of Suzuki’s sound sculptures as well as a video documentary demonstrating how they generate sound.

One work, titled The Place Of Translation, is dedicated to the memory of the late Danish composer and Fluxus member Henning Christiansen (1932–2008), who moved to Askeby with his wife, the feminist artist and film maker Ursula Reuter Christiansen, in 1969. “When I met Ursula Reuter Christiansen for the first time in 20 years,” remarks Suzuki in his notes about the work, “she said to me, ‘Henning is surely drinking in heaven now.’ The inspiration for this piece came from her words.”

Suzuki constructed the piece from the island’s distinctive white chalk-flecked rocks “and made them stand in for the Pole Star and the Big Dipper (Ursa Major). I arranged them on a north-south axis in the gallery and buried three of them outside in the grass. The North Star was used as a guide by people all over the world, including those seafolk, the Vikings. In Japan the legend has been handed down that the form of the noh stage, which is constructed as a space to welcome ghosts and spirits, was inspired by the shape of the Big Dipper.

“The spirits enter along the line of the three stones I placed outside, which represent the handle of the Big Dipper,” continues Suzuki in his notes. “They are then guided to the four stones inside the gallery, which represent the four pillars of the stage proper. The stone that represents the shite (the main actor who plays the role of the spirit in a noh play) pillar has been replaced by a flowerpot that I painted green in memory of Henning’s trademark colour. The pot contains a branch of pussy willow with a plastic shide (the paper streamer used in Shinto rituals) hanging from its tip. The shide rustles with the air currents in the gallery: a translation of the origin of the repetitive melodies that are played on the noh flute during a noh play.”

Rolling Stone runs until 8 September at Kunsthal 44Moen in Askeby. Read a recently published interview in which Tomoko Sauvage speaks to Suzuki about o to da te, space and magic stones.

Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void aka Carter Tutti Void have announced the release of their third and final studio album. They first worked together as Carter Tutti Void at Short Circuit Festival back in 2011, releasing their debut album Transverse the following year via Mute. The trio went on to release f(x) on Industrial Records in 2015 and performed a series of live shows, the last of which took place at the COUM Transmissions retrospective at Hull City of Culture 2017.

The album, called Triumvirate, was recorded at Carter and Tutti’s Studio47 in Norfolk. It’ll be released by Conspiracy International on 30 August.

Preorder now or listen to lead track “t3.5” here.

What happens when you join a nightingale in song, asks philosopher and musician David Rothenberg in Nightingales In Berlin: Searching For The Perfect Sound. Published a year after a documentary of the same name about Rothenberg’s quest to improvise with the species, the book charts his progress through dialogue, travel records, sonograms and tours of Berlin’s city parks. It also discusses the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination.

You can watch a trailer of last year’s documentary below. The book Nightingales In Berlin: Searching For The Perfect Sound is published by University of Chicago Press.

In September 2017 Clive Bell delved into the musical partnership found in birdsong contests across the globe. You can read his article (and other essays from Wire writers), in our In Writing section.

The PRS Foundation and the Steve Reid Foundation have announced the next deadline for the Steve Reid Innovation Award: 8 August 2019. Open to any unsigned artists in the UK who write and perform their own music, the initiative provides emerging artists with a grant of up to £1500 plus mentoring from an active artist.

The Steve Reid Foundation was set up by Gilles Peterson, Brownswood Records and a collective of Trustees who worked with the jazz drummer. It’s run in partnership with the PRS Foundation.

Previously successful applicants have included Lady Vendredi, Moses Boyd, Hector Plimmer, Sarathy Korwar, Nubya Garcia, Femi Koleoso, Ola Szmidt, The Little Unsaid and Wu-Lu.

Details on how to apply can be found on the PRS website.

CTM has announced its call for works to be considered for 2020's Radio Lab commission. Since 2014 the Berlin based festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Klangkunst in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio and the The Wire have been commissioning new works that explore the intersection of radio with live performance or installation. This year the festival theme that should be explored by the new work is Liminal.

The winning artists will have their piece premiered at CTM 2020 and broadcast in Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Klangkunst programme in in the form of a 40–55 minute radio show. The Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Service) will also present the works via one or more of its platforms: the Ö1 Zeit-Ton or Ö1 Radiokunst – Kunstradio radio shows, and/or the ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival in Graz (autumn 2020).

“Projects must clearly explore the potentials of combining radio and live performance / installation; proposals that simply mention the creation of a radio version following a live showing will not be given priority. Projects must equally respond to CTM 2020’s theme of Liminal in order to be eligible.”

The winners will receive €5000. Technical/staging costs for CTM and possible ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst festival performances will also be considered for additional funds alongside travel expenses and accommodations during the festival.

The deadline for submissions is 28 August 2019. This year CTM takes place between 24 January and 2 February.