Vicki Bennett's 744 hour, 31 day online radio broadcast Radio Boredcast is starting at noon (GMT) on 1 March, and runs until 31 March. The broadcast is part of AV Festival in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and will include contributions from over 100 participants, including Touch, Chris & Cosey, Daniel Menche, Chris Watson, Jem Finer, Ergo Phizmiz, Matmos, Nancy O Graham, Radio Web MACBA, Jez Riley French, David Toop, Dylan Nyoukis, Felix Kubin, Daniela Cascella, Gudrun Gut, Leif Elggren, Caroline Bergvall, Tapeworm, DJ/rupture, Kenneth Goldsmith and others.

The full schedule for the radio station is available here. The shows will also be available as podcasts. For more information and to tune in, head here.

Editions Mego have added a further sub label, Sensate Focus, to their roster. The first release from the label is mysteriously titled Sensate Focus 10, and although there's little in the way of solid information on who Sensate Focus is, Mego head Peter Rehberg says "maybe" it's Mark Fell.

Rehberg describes the label as being for "music that could be played in nightclubs containing nice keyboard sounds and slightly unusual beats", and that Mego "liked the keyboard sounds from early House music, but had got bored of the rhythms. We did not want to throw the baby away with the bathwater, so decided to keep some things. So we kept the water and threw the baby away."

A Sensate Focus pencil will be included with each release on the label. The first release, Sensate Focus 10, is on sale 17 April and can be preordered here.

The Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music And Dance is celebrating the centenary of Conlon Nancarrow’s birth, hosting the festival Impossible Brilliance: The Music of Conlon Nancarrow at London’s Southbank Centre.

The Conservatoire invites composers to write short pieces for the festival’s four categories: the Conloninpurple installation, 12 Speakers, 'Stings' for the London Sinfonietta and the electronic 'stings' that use samples of Nancarrow’s own player piano.

The proposed works must be submitted digitally by 2 April to s.gisby [at] trinitylaban.ac.uk. The organisers ask that email attachments are not bigger than 5MB. Every submission has to include the name of the piece, its duration, which category it is intended for, plus the composer’s name, address and a photo. For more info click here.

Looop, the mail order site specialising in independent Norwegian music, has closed. Looop ran mail order and distribution services for artists and labels including Jazkamer, Lasse Marhaug, Maja Ratkje, Supersilent and others (full list can be accessed via the Internet Archive here).

Looop says the cause for the close is the Norwegian postal service, which has increased prices and become more complex, meaning overseas shipping is now too expensive, and pre-calculating shipping costs is impossible. A statement on the Looop site reads: "The Norwegian postal service has increased the postage rates considerably yet again, making it too expensive for people outside Norway to order from us. They make up the majority of our customers… To our customers, artists, labels and friends: Thank you very much for your support! To the Norwegian postal service: FOAD."

The Sheffield based Another Timbre label is in the process of uploading samples of its entire catalogue to YouTube. The archive will include seven minute samples of all releases from the label, and will be complete by the end of March.

The purpose of the YouTube channel, as label owner Simon Reynell explains, is to create "a way in which curious people surfing can stumble across the particular kind of music that Another Timbre focuses on – repeated listens will hopefully engender a strong interest in some people in that no-man's land between contemporary improvisation and post-Cageian classical music which is the label's specialism".

Reynell also intends to offer a download service for the label in the future, offering digital versions of sold out discs, but says: "I'm still scratching my head as to how we can set up a structure whereby the musicians concerned get a little bit of money paid directly to them in these cases.

"So far the label has resisted offering downloads (except very brief MP3 tasters), but – for better or worse – the tide of change is irreversible, and I expect that within five years the label will be hosting far more online projects than CD releases… I think anyone who says that they know exactly where experimental music will be vis-a-vis recordings in five years' time would be lying. But if we don't get in there and start trying things out, we will be left behind."

Cafe Oto in London is starting its own record label, OtoRoku. The label will release recordings from live shows at the venue, starting with Peter Brötzmann's first trip to Cafe Oto performing with Steve Noble and John Edwards from January 2010.

The recording, titled …The Worse, The Better will be released on LP, with cover designed by Brötzmann, and a performance by the trio to mark the record's release. There's no official release date for the record or the launch performance, but it's expected around March.

Along with the label Cafe Oto will also be setting up an online shop, and records will be sold at the venue. (For those outside the UK, Honest Jon's are handling worldwide distribution). The label is part of Oto Projects, and any profits will be put back into funding shows at Oto. More details on other OtoRoku releases will be announced in the coming weeks.

John Richards is taking his Dirty Electronics instrument building workshop to Dartington for the duration of its summer school. The summer school runs for five weeks, and Richards has been commissioned to construct a piece that exists at Dartington for the duration, as well as hosting a week long Dirty Electronics workshop.

Richards hasn't finalised his plans yet, but says: "I want to work against the tranquil and picturesque setting of Dartington. At various points throughout the summer school a short, very loud noise or sound will interrupt the rural soundscape, as a kind of soundmark."

Instruments Richards plans to build in the week long workshop include Light And Feathers, an instrument built from ostrich feathers, motors and movers; Hug, a piece for coloured noise and portable amps worn by performers, and a kinetically powered handheld synth. No knowledge of electronics or previous experience at building musical devices is needed, and anyone attending gets to keep their instruments. More info here. Devon Dartington Hall, 28 July–4 August.

John Richards's Dirty Electronics Mute synth was featured in a Bite in The Wire 335.

London's SoundFjord gallery is organising a temporary record store called Sound//Space and wants to hear from independent labels who would like to set up shop to sell their releases. As well as a record store, the space will also host art and sound performances, plus workshops and lectures.

Sound//Space will be at the 50,000 sq ft exhibition halls at V22 in Bermondsey for the V22 Summer Club from 5 May–31 August. Those interested in taking part in the temporary record store, or who would like workshops, talks or performances to be included in the programme of events should contact helen [at] soundfjord [dot] org [dot] uk by 1 April. The call for artists can be found in full here.

John Foxx And The Maths are releasing a 16 track CD version of the album The Shape Of Things. The album includes a collaboration and sung verse with Matthew Dear on the track "Talk (Beneath Your Dreams)", which was sent to Dear with co-writing credits to manipulate.

Dear says his approach was moulded by having received the original piece of music. "I found it very much intact and complete," he says. "I approached it quickly and informally, allowing for a subconscious narrative to take control. John's lyrics called out to the shadows of someone's mind. I wanted my verse to be that mind's response."

The album will be released 19 March on Metamatic Records. John Foxx And The Maths are also performing at The Haunt in Brighton, on 24 February. More information here.

The artist and musicians collective Grrrnd Zero is calling for help to halt their eviction from studios in Lyon, France. The collective, which includes Zerojardins and Gaffer Records (who've released Weasel Walter and Talibam! among others), have resided in the building since 2005, and the space includes offices, rehearsal space, screen printing and photography studios, and is also a venue for live shows.

Gaffer Records label head Frank Garcia (aka Sheik Anorak) writes: "We are hoping the city council realises the need for such a place, dedicated to all who participate in the Grrrnd Zero project, all of whom are a huge part of the alternative/underground cultural life of our city."

Grrrnd Zero ask that anyone who wishes to offer support write a letter to relevant members of the council in Lyon. Full details on who to write to and how here (snail mail and email accepted).