Sound and Music's artist development programme, Embedded, has opened applications for three forthcoming residencies. The three places are for the University Of Oxford's anthropology and archaeology centre The Pitt Rivers Museum (with Oxford Contemporary Music), the Forestry Commission England, and for a composer with chamber orchestra the Manchester Camerata.

The residencies, which start in May 2012, are aimed at artists at an early stage in their career, and are not open to those in full time education. Links to the individual calls can be found here. Deadline for submissions 2 April.

Adventures In Sound And Music this week has Heatsick in the mix. His collage of tracks, speech and sounds takes in disco, house, gay theory, Fluxus actions, and more, and intends to "capture the feeling of wandering around a gridded city, looking for diversion signs, feeding back on themselves, without a smartphone in sight. City construction of biography. Congested circulation."

Heatsick is Berlin based producer/performer Steven Warwick, who has released tracks on Pan, Not Not Fun, Karl Schmidt Verlag, etc. Plus the usual new music selections from way off the map. Presented by Derek Walmsley.

Archived shows can be found here. Tune in online 9–10:30pm at resonancefm.com, or 104.4FM for Londoners.

Acoustic drone dude Sean McCann has started his own record label, Recital, to release what he describes as "more focused, lasting music". Recital was launched in January, and the first three records are now available. McCann says he'll be mainly releasing CDs and LPs. There will be a digital store, although the details are not yet finalised.

Following an initial CD-R release (catalogue number 00), the first 'official' release from the label is McCann collaborating with Matthew Sullivan. Vanity Fair is their second release as a duo, the first on Sullivan's own label Ekhein. It will be released on vinyl, and limited copies will come with a CD-R. The two other initial releases on the label are Micromegas by Radiant Husk and Evening Song Awaken by Troy Schafer. Listen to a track by McCann and Sullivan below.

[Hat tip TMT]

The Wire and Orion Books are publishing a collection of essays on Scott Walker, edited by The Wire's Editor-at-Large Rob Young. No Regrets: Writings On Scott Walker features contributions from The Wire's Derek Walmsley and Biba Kopf, plus David Toop, Nina Power, Brian Morton, Damon Krukowski, Ian Penman, Anthony Reynolds, David Stubbs, an essay by the director of Scott Walker film 30th Century Man, Stephen Kijak, and others.

The book covers Walker's life and career from his releases with the Walker Brothers through to his solo albums. It includes a transcript from an interviews with Rob Young in 2006, and a feature on Walker from The Wire, originally published in 1995.

The book is released on 17 May in hardback and as an ebook, and will be stocked in The Wire's bookshop. More info here.

De Stijl records are digitally reissuing Poetry Out Loud, a series of ten LPs released by two couples between 1969 and 1977. Peter Harleman, Patricia Bebe McGarry, and Klyd and Linda Watkins released the records in editions of 1000 (bar the first which was printed in a run of 500), which were picked up again in recent years largely due to the interest of Christina Carter who reportedly found a copy of Number Four in 2000. Heather Leigh then invited Klyd Watkins to work with Charalambides.

The records were intended as magazines, in an attempt at what was described as "restoring the vitality of the human voice to contemporary poetry".

De Stijl state they have been working on the reissue for around a decade. The full set will be released as a ten volume digital download, and the label also has a small number of sealed original LPs available to buy. More info here, and here.

Nik Colk Void, of Factory Floor (and Carter Tutti Void) has released a 7" single with a sleeve that's a playable replica of the record. The "Gold E" sleeve is hand made by Void, cast in polyurethane plastic which will deteriorate over time.

"Polyurethane plastic starts life as a result of a chemical reaction of two liquids," says Colk, "so it will naturally start to decay. I'm talking years, but any slight change will make a huge difference to the width, depth of the grooves, and air pockets will increase in size, drastically changing the sound."

Colk is now collecting videos on her Facebook page of the record sleeve being played, which will be edited together and screened in London's Rough Trade East on 21 April. The single has been released in an edition of 300 on O Genesis records, and will not be reprinted, partly because polyurethane is "not nice to work with", according to Colk. "I thought of doing an alternative sleeve but it defeats the message," she says. Watch a video of the record sleeve being played below.

Wire contributor Keith Moliné is releasing a record described as a requiem for Leytonstone in London in the year of the Olympics. The record is a collaboration between Moliné and long time collaborator from The Pale Boys, Andy Diagram.

The release, titled Ley, uses outdoor recordings of trumpets in bowls of water and junk shop guitars. The pair state that they: "spent months, months searching for ways to feed the garden recording into software, treating the soundfile as if it were a punchcard on an old main-frame machine, hoping that technology would efface us, to reveal something elemental about the place itself, at the moment of creation."

Watch a video of an excerpt from "Magnus" from the Diagram & Moliné release on Entr'acte below, and read more here.

The winner of the Science Museum's Oramix competition to create original tracks from Daphne Oram archive samples is Chris Weeks. 156 tracks were entered into the competition, which asked entrants to create a soundtrack to the 1967 TV programme Our World.

The competition was judged by The Wire's publisher Tony Herrington, Brain Eno and DJ Spooky. Weeks's track "Telescopic Moon" won, with second place awarded to Atomic Shadow's "DO3" and third to Obe:lus's "Satellite Oramix". Listen to "Telescopic Moon" below.

Soul Jazz are launching a new sub label, Sounds Of The Universe, (the same name as their shop in London). The first release on the label is a Hieroglyphic Being split with Japanese graffiti artist 2Yang. One side of the record holds the Hieroglyphic Being track "Shikaakwa", and the reverse carries a graphic etching by 2Yang.

The record will be produced in an edition of 300, and is only available direct from Soul Jazz. Listen to the tracks and see the etching here, or watch a preview below.

As part of CocoRosie's residency at this year's Donaufestival, Bianca Casady and Australian film maker Emma Freeman have an open call out for short silent films to be screened at the festival. The theme is Harmless Monster, all and any styles will be considered, with the only conditions that the films must be without sound, and five minutes or under in length. Submissions must be made by sending a Mediafire link to harmlessmonster.donau@gmail.com.

Casady and Freeman will select the films to be screened, which will be soundtracked live by CocoRosie and guests (a temporary group they're calling the Harmless Monster Band). Deadline for submissions is 30 March. More info here.