Oval (aka Markus Popp) will release his new album DNA in January, as a two disc package. The first disc contains 25 tracks rare Oval tracks and 12 previously unreleased tracks. The second is a bonus disc containing Oval's software, plus ten WAV tracks (three of them unreleased). The album also comes with a booklet containing an essay by Wire contributor David Toop.

The second disc is described as an open source manifesto. As well as software it contains something in the region of 2,000 Oval sounds as AIFF (intended for unrestricted usage), and a video of the filming of "Glass UFO". DNA by Oval is currently scheduled for release on 6 January, via Shitkatapult.

Einstürzende Neubauten, Wire and Caspar Brötzmann's Berlin Live show will be broadcast via German TV station ZDF Kulturkanal on 3 December at 9pm and will also be available to watch online. The show was filmed on 15 September at Trafo in Berlin, and includes interviews with each of the groups by German presenter Silke Super.

Details of the online broadcast of the show will be added to the Facebook events page in the coming weeks.

The Tapeworm cassette label has started a publishing house called The Bookworm. The first release from The Bookworm is The Art Of Worms which documents illustrations used on artwork for the first 25 Tapeworm releases. The illustrations are by artists such as Derek Jarman and Leif Elggren, and the cover illustration is by Wire contributor and cartoonist Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey. The book also includes an essay by Ken Hollings, titled "Parasitic Infestation", and is printed in an edition of 250.

The Tapeworm promises more releases on The Bookworm imprint, including works from writer Leslie Winer and graphic designer Chris Bigg. More info here.

The Science Museum has opened a competition to make a new track using machine samples from the Daphne Oram Archive, with the winner chosen by Brian Eno, DJ Spooky, and The Wire. The competition is focused on Oram's ambition to perform her music via satellite, and asks for entrants to imagine that the producer of Our World (the 1967 TV programme that first linked the world via satellites) had commissioned Daphne Oram to make its soundtrack.

The winner will receive a one year Soundcloud pro account, a Daphne Oram Boomkat boxset and £50 voucher, plus a profile of the winner on The Wire's website, and an interview and feature on the Science Museum's blog. Get the audio stems for the Oramics competition here. More details on submission here.

Closing date for the competition is 16 January 2012. The Oramics Machine is currently on display at The Science Museum until December 2012. Watch a clip of Aura Satz's film about Daphne Oram and Oramics below.

Mira Calix has been nominated for a 2011 British Composer Award as one of the composers of Fables - A Film Opera. The piece was originally commissioned by Streetwise Opera, and is a collection of four seven minute long operas. Calix composed the music for The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Emily Hall composed for The Nightingale And The Rose, Orlando Gough for Hey! Come On Out!, and Andy Mellon with Paul Sartin for The Hartlepool Monkey. The complete work is listed in the Outreach category.

Mira Calix won the 2009 Community or Educational Project Composer Award for her work My Secret Heart. The ceremony takes place on 30 November and will be announced on BBC Radio 3. Fables - A Film Opera is currently on tour. Watch the trailer below.

Jonny Trunk (of Trunk Records) has started a new label called OST, which he describes as a "sort of bastard son of Trunk". The first release from the OST label is Adrian Corker's original soundtrack for Tim Plester's documentary The Way Of The Morris, released on CD and digitally.

Trunk says: "Because I specialise in film music, there have been occasions when I have been offered contemporary film music to issue and not really been in a position to issue it on Trunk… So when Way Of The Morris came along, I thought it was a great little recording and the perfect time to start OST."

More info on the release at the OST blog here. Watch the trailer for Way Of The Morris below.

SoundFjord, Harry Towell (aka Spheruleus) and Bartosz Dziadosz (aka Pleq) have collaborated to release A Silent Swaying Breath: A Public Record. All profits from the release of the album will be donated to those in Tottenham (where the gallery is situated) who have been affected by the riots. Donations will go through three main charities: The Capital Community Foundation, Big Brother Big Sister and Catch 22.

A Silent Swaying Breath: A Public Record is is a selection of one minute long tracks including field recordings, samples and spoken word mixed by Towell and Dziadosz. The album features recordings from Critical Best, Jessica Rowland, Jez riley French, Riz Malsen, Steve Roden and Yukinori Kida. Stream a clip of "Sutures" below.

Percussionist Eddie Prévost is publishing a book of his personal philosophies of musical practice. The First Concert: An Adaptive Appraisal Of A Meta Music discusses his weekly London improvisors workshop within the context of adaptionism (which differentiates products of evolutionary adaptation and products of other processes) and takes in folk, jazz, improvisatory techniques, and Prévost's ideas about what he calls metamusical practices.

The First Concert: An Adaptive Appraisal Of A Meta Music is published by Matchless Recordings imprint Copula. More info here.

This special edition of Adventures In Modern Music presents rare and unheard ethnographic recordings from the collection of writer, musician and Wire contributor David Toop, from South East Asia and Africa to Hokkaido and the islands of the west coast of Scotland. We'll be exploring the work of field recordists such as John Levy and Jacques Brunet, who pioneered location recording from the 1950s onwards, travelling with Nagra tape decks the world over to capture healing music, death rituals, bear chants, animal dances, clapping songs, etc. Other selections will include rare excerpts from the Radio 3 sound archive, many of which were thought lost, wiped or forgotten since first broadcast in the 1970s, and the sounds of the Philips Unesco Collection, Ocora and Ethnic Folkways. David Toop will be joining Derek Walmsley in the studio to talk about these lost sounds and their place in the modern world.

Thursday 20 October, 8pm–10:30pm (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners. Streamed live at resonancefm.com

A book of Miles Davis album artwork by German painter Mati Klarwein is being published next month. Mati And The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955/2005 contains 52 record covers painted by Klarwein for Miles Davis releases, and comes packaged with a 2xLP recording of a previously unreleased Miles Davis concert from the Copenhagen show on the 1969 European tour of Bitches Brew. The show took place on 4 November and featured a line up of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette.

Mati And The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955/2005 is put together by Antoine de Beaupré, and is published in an edition of 500. The LP, which uses Klarwein's Zonked portrait of Betty Davis as the cover artwork, will only be sold with the book. More info here.