Emanem records has released two archive works by Steve Lacy (who was also the first ever Wire cover star) titled The Sun, and Avignon And After – 1. The former features four sessions of anti-Vietnam War works by Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi, including a previously unreleased 1968 presentation of a Buckminster Fuller text intoned by Aebi, two trio sessions with Lacy, Aebi and Richard Teitelbaum, plus a four part anti-war suite The Woe. Avignon And After – 1 includes tracks recorded at Lacy's live shows in Avignon in 1972, along with rarities and a 1974 performance of his Clangs cycle.

For more details head here.

Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival (UK) and Coup de Vents (France) invite composers to write for the International Composer Pyramid Ensemble and win the opportunity to see their work performed both in England and France. The winning piece will also be offered publication. For more information, go here. Deadline is 30 March.

Dylan Carlson, lead singer of Earth, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his first major solo project outside of the group. The project is titled Coleman Grey Presents: Falling With A Thousand Stars And Other Wonders From The House of Albion, and will be produced in various formats, including a book with pop up illustrations (by Kiyo Lappalainen), plus DVD formats, book and CD bundles, and a limited LP, the latter in an edition of 150 with ex libris by Simon Fowler.

Coleman Grey Presents..." will use field recordings from megalithic sites and locations of fairy encounters in the UK, exploring folkloric magical practices. Field recordings will be layered with Carlson's take on traditional Scotch-English ballads from the 15th–18th centuries, and will include guest vocalists (with names to be announced), and all journeys taken as part of the project will be filmed by Clyde Petersen.

The field recording portion of the project is slated for completion around April–May this year, with the remaining recording and mastering taking place in summer and into autumn, ready for a May 2013 release. Carlson says that the campaign is not being put through a label due to the nature of the project, which is described as "a labor of love/obsession". Carlson is looking for $30,000 of funding by 12 February (at time of writing, almost $5000 had been pledged). Rewards for supporting the project run from a thanks on the website for a $10 donation, to three limited edition bundles, your name in the liner notes, two tickets to an Earth show, two tickets to a Dylan Carlson show and a personalised hoodie for a $1000 donation. Full details here.

Prix Ars Electronica has opened submissions for its 2012 awards. Prize money this year totals €117,500, awarded in seven different categories (full list and definitions here).

Winners last year included Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck, Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli, Oval (aka Markus Popp), and others.

To apply you must register online, but only enter one category. Each of the seven categories carries its own requirements. More info on submissions and requirements here. Deadline 2 March.

UPDATE: Deadline for submissions has been extended to 14 March.

On 12 February at midnight (PST) KZSU 90.1FM, Stanford University's radio station will broadcast 24 continuous hours of live experimental music. Artists involved will be performing on campus, including Bill Orcutt, Jessica Rylan, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, The Lickets, Megabats, Danny Paul Grody, Frank Rothkamm, Thomas Dimuzio, David Slusser, Speculator, White Pee, and others.

For a full line up and timings head here. California locals can listen live at 90.1FM, everyone else can stream online here.

A new annual journal of experimental music has launched, titled Tacet. The first issue is themed around the question: Who is John Cage? and includes contributions from Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Mattin, Toshiya Tsunoda, Matthieu Saladin, Seth Kim-Cohen and others, plus two works by Cage. The journal is in French and English and is headed up by Adrien Chiquet, Matthieu Saladin, and Xavier Hug.

Tacet has an open call for papers to be included in the next issue Experimentation In Question. To submit work, authors must email a proposal and abstract to the editorial board, and final essays should be sent by 15 April. Contact info and full details here. More info on the current issue here.

Submissions are open for the East End Film Festival. Fiction, documentary, music, animation and experimental short or feature length films are accepted, which were completed after January 2011, and have not been released in the UK on any format.

The film festival can screen 35mm, PAL Digibeta and Beta SP formats, although DVDs may be played in exceptional circumstances. Submissions are preferred via Withoutabox, or on DVD. The festival has introduced a fee for submissions this year, of between £10–£35 depending on the length of the film and early or late applications, and residents of Tower Hamlets qualify for free submissions. Closing date is 24 February (members of Withoutabox have an extra week to submit entires). Full details here.

ECAS (European Cities Of Advanced Sound), the network of European festivals, has opened a call for submissions. Two works will be selected to be realised, receiving a total of €10,000 each (€5000 for project realisation and €5000 artist fee). The theme for submissions is Networking Tomorrow's Art For An Unknown Future.

The work must relate to sound and music, and reach out to other disciplines. ECAS is interested in works that make connections between geographic points and artistic interest groups, science and technology, and communities or minority groups. The final works will be presented at one of the member festivals - Musikprotokoll in Graz, Skanu Mezs in Riga, and Unsound in Krakow.

Submissions must be new, unrealised works at time of submission. Deadline for applications is 31 March 2012. Two works will be selected by a jury appointed by the participating organisations. Winners will be announced in May 2012. More info and full submission guidelines here.

Wesleyan University press is publishing an oral history of Bernard Stollman's ESP-Disk label later this year. Always In Trouble: An Oral History Of ESP-Disk, The Most Outrageous Record Label In America includes interviews with Bernard Stollman, plus Amiri Baraka, Gato Barbieri, Milford Graves, Roswell Rudd, Sirone, Sonny Simmons, James Zitro, Tom Rapp, Sunny Murray, and others.

Stollman launched the label in New York in 1964, and released Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Giuseppi Logan, and others, going on to release William Burroughs and The Fugs. Always In Trouble: An Oral History Of ESP-Disk is due for release in May 2012. Full details, including chapter titles, here.

RVNG label's FRKWYS series has brought together Cameron Stallones aka Sun Araw, Pocahaunted cohort M Geddes Gengras and legendary dub reggae group The Congos to release album Icon Give Thank.

Gathering together in St Catherine, Jamaica, the musicians were filmed by Tony Lowe and Sam Fleischner as they recorded the album. Icon Give Thank will be released alongside the film, Icon Eye on April 10 as a CD/DVD, LP/DVF and as a digital bundle. Watch an exclusive excerpt from Icon Eye, here, and listen to a track from the collaboration below.

UPDATE (3 April): The release date for the record has been pushed back to 16 April.

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, & The Congos - Happy Song by RVNG Intl.