Record label Dischord are launching The Fugazi Live Series on 1 December, a site archiving Fugazi's live shows, plus flyers, photos and other ephemera. The archive will be behind a paywall, at either $5 a pop, or through an 'all access' fee.

In total the band played around 1000 shows in all fifty states in the US, and Europe, Japan, South America and Australia, around 800 of which were recorded by sound engineers. When the site launches there will be 130 shows available to download, with more to be added in the coming months. More info here. [Hat tip: Pitchfork]

Lasse Marhaug has started a fanzine titled Personal Best. The zine includes interviews with Bruce Russell, C Spencer Yeh, Daniel Menche, Sissy Spacek, Oren Ambarchi, Arcn Templ and others, and is born of Marhaug's fatigue with interesting material being increasingly published online instead of in print.

Marhaug is aiming to publish two issues per year of the fanzine, which looks and feels more like a magazine, produced in A4 with a full colour cover. He says "I call it a fanzine because I don't consider myself a journalist. The interviews are all with people I know and like, presented in raw form. So it might look like a magazine, but the mentality is that of a fanzine. Perhaps you could call it a friend-zine."

Personal Best is the second publication from Marhaug Forlag (the first was a book on Sudden Infant). A launch party for Personal Best #1 will take place at Oslo Torpedo bookshop on 8 December. More info, and samples of the Personal Best #1 here.

Practical Electronica, Ian Helliwell's new documentary focuses on the work of British electronic music pioneer Fred Judd. The film charts Judd's development of electronic instruments and musique concrete in the 1950s and 60s and is being screened in its entirety at the Barbican Centre London, 25 November, 5.30pm (buy tickets here).

The release of the documentary also coincides with Helliwell's exhibition Practical Electronica at the Phoenix Gallery in Brighton. The show celebrates Judd's work by collecting together memorabilia and artefacts, including tape loops, collages, magazines and tone generators. A special event in conjunction with Active Crossover (26 November, 7:30pm), sees Helliwell presenting a selection of short films, including the first screening of footage of Judd's audio-visual device Chromosonics, and his work with super 8's and modified televisions. Brighton Phoenix Gallery, 19 November–18 December. More information on the exhibition and the event here.

The documentary was made in collaboration with independent label Public Information (featured in The Wire 334), who are releasing a 35 track compilation of Judd's work, Electronics Without Tears, in early 2012.

Watch an excerpt of the documentary below:

AGF (aka Antye Greie) has started a new choir, the Hailuoto Sound Choir on the island of Hailuoto, Finland. The choir is part of the Hai Art project, and meets once a week to practice pieces composed by Antye Greie in collaboration with Iiris Poukkanen, which involve humming and buzzing, clicking, clucking, and spoken word.

Greie says: "Hai Art is a new long term project that will integrate contemporary arts into every aspect of the Hailuoto island life… Hai Art carries out activities on the entire island, operates in existing unused sites, community buildings, farmer's land, forest, beaches, the ferry and elsewhere. The specific intention is to implement artistic expression… into all aspects of life."

Greie has also created visuals for Vladislav Delay's live set, used on their Japan tour this autumn. "I made that video in Jitter with a small video loop I shot," says Greie. "It is not a 'directed' music video, but more a visual interpretation of the music."

Listen to sound samples of the choir's rehearsals here, and read more about the project here. Watch the Vladislav Delay video below.

The first in a series of Daphne Oram archive releases will be arriving later this year, titled The Oram Tapes Vol.1. The 46-track release is on Modern Love imprint Young Americans and includes sound effects and atmosphere pieces for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jack Clayton's The Innocents, plus voice and sound experiments, location recordings made in Africa, and Oram's radio and commercial work.

The two and a half hours of audio have been sourced from the 400-plus tapes held at Goldsmith's University in the Daphne Oram archive, which have been restored and mastered at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. The Oram Tapes Vol.1 will be released as a 4xLP gatefold vinyl (in December this year), and as a 2xCD set (in February 2012). Stay tuned for more info here.

Boy Better Know have moved into telecommunications, launching a mobile network and SIM card. The network, Boy Better Know Mobile, has a dedicated call centre and Twitter customer service, complete with Boy Better Know hold music, and voiceovers recorded by JME.

It's a standard pay as you go SIM or microSIM, and appears to be piggybacking off Three's network given the T&Cs (making Boy Better Know an MVNO), although Three's spokespeople weren't aware of it at time of writing. So… Wiley has gone from being in the Pay As U Go Cartel to being involved with an actual pay as you go network. Watch the promo video, with a full explanation from JME, below.

GZA will be giving a lecture at Harvard in December, on the Wu Tang Clan, music production and his approach to creativity, followed by a Q&A. The lecture will be open to the public.

GZA will also be releasing a new album in 2012, and has resigned to Babygrande Records for the release. On the trip to Harvard he is also reported to be visiting the Broad Institute and the MIT Media Lab to "meet with some of the greatest thinkers in their fields to get inspiration for his forthcoming album".

The lecture is hosted by the Black Men's Forum, a student organisation centred around providing space for African American men at Harvard. Cambridge Harvard Science Center D, 1 December, 5pm.

Performance artist Franko B has announced a new touring piece, titled Because Of Love, which will be touring next year, and for which he is attempting to crowdfund. The piece is loosely autobiographical, based on the romanticism of memory and the experience of remembering. The piece involves live music, projected video, and a life sized mechanical polar bear which Franko will dance with.

Because Of Love will involve collaborations with Steve Wald, Othon Mataragas, Walter van Beirendonck, Kamal Ackarie, and Thomas Qualmann. Franko has raised around half the total amount for the tour, but needs another £25,000 to complete the work, and is asking for donations via an IndieGoGo crowdfunding appeal.

Franko aims to tour the piece from Spring 2012, with the first performance confirmed at the Glasgow CCA for the New Moves International Festival. Watch the fundraising video below.

Cosey Complex, a book discussing ideas from last year's ICA one day event of the same name, will be published next year. The book is edited and introduced by the event co-organiser Maria Fusco, and looks at the concept of Cosey as "methodology in and of itself", with the intention of turning Cosey from a noun into a verb. The concept for the event and book began as a conversation between Fusco and Cosey, which led to Fusco publishing an interview with Cosey in her journal The Happy Hypocrite in 2008.

Cosey Complex includes contributions from Cosey Fanni Tutti and Maria Fusco, plus writer and paediatrician Martin Bax, Artists Space curator Richard Birkett, artist Gerard Byrne, writer and curator Daniela Cascella, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, TV writer and producer Graham Duff, Chris Kraus, Clunie Reid, and others, many of whom also participated in the original March 2010 event.

Cosey Complex is currently slated for publication around February next year, and Fusco says she intends to hold a launch event around the same time, although there are no solid plans announced yet. More info (including a reader) here.

Ghostly International have launched their free app for the iPhone and iPad outside the US. The app uses the mood of the listener to control the playlist, and has access to the complete Ghostly and Spectral Sound catalogues (which includes Hieroglyphic Being, HTRK, Loscil and Matthew Dear).

In the words of Ghostly, it's a "mood-based music discovery tool". By using the multi-coloured spectrum circle around the Ghostly logo, you scroll until you match the colour to your mood. Two sliders control pace and atmosphere ('digital' or 'organic'). Tracks are available to buy, and playlists can be shared. Watch the demo below.

Ghostly Discovery from Ghostly International on Vimeo.