A project that aims to document information, recordings, images, and video of the Brazilian rabeca and Guarani rawé has launched at Rabeca.org. The project, by sound artist Ian Mott, plots content onto a map, and is available to view in Portuguese and English.

The rabeca and Guarani rawé are stringed instruments played by bow, which resemble a violin, although they can vary in size, shape, and number of strings. Mott is looking to expand the archive, and invites anyone with material they'd like including to contact him via the site here.

Sylvia Robinson, singer, songwriter, record producer and co-founder of Sugar Hill Records died aged 75 from congestive heart failure in New Jersey last week.

Robinson's early career was spent in the duo Mickey and Sylvia and their 1957 track "Love Is Strange" was featured in the film Dirty Dancing. After the duo disbanded, Robinson went solo and had the 1973 hit "Pillow Talk".

It was through work in production that she gained prominence, sampling Chic's "Good Times" for "Rapper's Delight", which helped push the sound she first heard at the Harlem World Club in Manhattan in 1979 into the mainstream. The idea came to her whilst watching DJ Lovebug Starski talking over the records to the audience. In 2005 she told Vanity Fair: "A spirit said to me, 'Put a concept like that on a record and it will be the biggest thing you ever had.'"

The Sugar Hill label she founded with her husband Joe Robinson in 1979 (which came out of the ashes of their first collection of disco labels All Platinum Records) was also responsible for signing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Robinson produced their track "The Message" which was the first hiphop track to be inducted into the US National Archives. The Sugar Hill Records label eventually folded in 1986 at a similar time to the breakdown of her marriage.

Hiphop author Dan Charnas extensively chronicles the role and influence Robinson had on contemporary hiphop culture in his book The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of HipHop. Robinson leaves behind three sons and ten grandchildren.

The University of East Anglia is putting together a new orchestra, the Duke Ellington Jazz Orchestra, which will focus on playing Duke Ellington work and building on Ellington's methods of collective improvisation. This will include performances of pieces for which no transcription exists, with initial plans to perform Black, Brown And Beige.

Dr Vic Hobson, from the University of East Anglia's school of music says: "We know from reports of people who sat in on rehearsals of the Ellington orchestra that the compositions and arrangements were arrived at collectively and much of the playing was improvised. Each member of the orchestra brought their own unique musical voice.

"Whilst playing note-for-note transcriptions is a good starting point, and quite a challenge in itself, I would like to see if we can use this orchestra as a way of exploring these compositional, arranging and improvisational processes."

Auditions start this week, with the first rehearsal on 4 October. The first concert is scheduled for 11 November at St Andrew's Hall, Norwich. Fore more information head here.

Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, is launching a zine this autumn titled Cool Drool. Cool Drool Volume 1: Our Drool & Why features written and visual contributions from Jon Rafman, Megazord, Cory Arcangel, Laurel Halo, Taylor Richardson, Dominic Fernow, Robert Beatty, and Pan's Bill Kouligas. The Wire's Derek Walmsley has also contributed a written piece on the early 90s Amiga demo scene, where coders hailing primarily from Northern Europe released AV material on floppy disc.

Cool Drool will be available via Lopatin's Software label later this year, where pre-orders are open for his latest Oneohtrix Point Never album Replica.

Get On Down, "A collective of music nerds, audiophiles, archivists, old hip hop heads, and creative types", have announced a series of hip hop jigsaws, featuring iconic album covers from the likes of Biz Markie and Just-Ice.

The full range includes Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions, Masta Ace Incorporated's Sittin On Chrome, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo's Live And Let Die, Just-Ice's Back To The Old School, and Biz Markie's The Biz Never Sleeps.

There's no info on release dates yet, but for more details head here.

Domino Records is launching a free iPhone app, using archived shows from the Domino radio station that ran from 6–12 June. The app collects a curated selection of Domino Radio shows (which changes from week to week), 200 tracks to stream from the Domino back catalogue, and access to all Domino music videos.

Domino Radio was a week long radio broadcast, with shows hosted by artists on the Domino roster and friends of the label, including Robert Wyatt, Animal Collective and Honest Jon's. In total the station played 168 hours of radio across 138 shows, 24 hours a day, which was broadcast in London at 87.7FM and online at DominoRad.io.

Domino is also running a competition to win a year's free Domino digital downloads, for anyone who downloads the app and signs up to the Domino mailing lists by 1 November. Listen to Robert Wyatt and Alfie's radio show below, broadcast on 11 June.

A documentary about Le Tigre/Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna, titled The Punk Singer, has launched a project on Kickstarter to get the film finished in the second crowdfunding appeal we've featured this week.

The documentary, directed by Sini Anderson, has completed filming with almost no funding, helped by of a raft of voluntary contributors and with any money going into equipment. The Kickstarter project aims to fund the editing process, working through interviews with Kim Gordon, Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Joan Jett, and more.

The team putting the film together have landed a 16 week time spot at post production studios, but cannot get into the studio without raising more money. The goal is to reach $44,000 in one month's time, with any extra money put into covering debts and colour correction. As usual with Kickstarter, there's a series of rewards based on how much you pledge. Stump up $10,000 and Kathleen Hanna will decorate a room in your house. At time of writing over $15,000 had been pledged.

Damon Krukowski, of Damon & Naomi, will be publishing his second book of prose poetry, which contains photography by Naomi Yang. The book, titled Afterimage, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in November. 16 copies of Afterimage come with a print of one of Yang's photos.

Afterimage is Krukowski's third book, following The Memory Theatre Burned and 5000 Musical Terms. Its focus is on the blurred line between the author's imagination and his father's history. Yang will be exhibiting her photography in November at Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain, Boston from 3–27 November. For more info on the exhibition head here.

Sudden Infant aka Joke Lanz is releasing a book co-edited with Lasse Marhaug titled Noise In My Head. The book documents photos of Lanz's work, including images from installations, performances and actions, plus artwork and poetry, flyers and posters for shows, and a visual discography.

Noise In My Head also includes a collection of essays by Drew Daniel, Leif Elggren, Daniel Menche and others, plus an interview with Joke Lanz by Chris Sienko. It is printed in an edition of 300, and is available from October. More information here.

Mike Cooper is attempting to track down saxophonist Malik Yaqub, and is asking anyone who knows his whereabouts to contact him. According to information sourced by Cooper, Yaqub was at one point considered one of the best saxophonists in the world, that at 19 he was chosen as the successor to Charlie Parker, and shared the stage with Bud Powell, Duke Jordan, Elmo Hope and Miles Davis.

Cooper says: "The album Malik Yaqub Yaqub Speaks Vol.1 was recorded in San Francisco and is great. I had never heard of him previous to this but was intrigued enough to investigate. I found several references to him including video of him in Spain and photos of him playing in the streets of Madrid outside FNAC. He was also in Egypt at some point and played with Salah Ragab and maybe Sun Ra. I recently found an album by Yaqub on a free download site with the following note attached. He might still be alive and maybe needs some assistance if he is.

"'…Malik Yaqub was last seen busking on the streets of Madrid playing his sax for spare change [though he reportedly got deported for vagrancy]…In the 70s he spent eight years in prison for drug smuggling and eventually cut a long player. Sometime subsequent he accepted an offer to creep to Spain and became a teacher, but unfortunately developed a degenerative disease that compromised the movement of his fingers. Malik apparently calls his playing style 'Beebop Clandestino'. Have you seen him?'"

Cooper invites anyone with information to contact him via email at cooparia[at]gmail.com.