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Richard Skelton’s Landings Expanded, Installed At Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College hosts Richard Skelton’s Landings project, with headphone listening spots for the Type records released album, plus five new text works that Skelton says “explore the linguistic and toponymic heritage of the Lancashire landscape”.

Skelton has also expanded the print edition of Landings for its third edition, adding new and unpublished work from 2009–2011. The new version of the book will be installed in the gallery. To read Bond, an excerpt from the Landings book, head to Skelton’s blog. Dublin Douglas Hyde Gallery, 22 July–29 August.

The Women Of Punk: A Week Of Curated Clips And Shows

Online TV platform Network Awesome is curating five days of TV this week, using over 400 video clips and 30 shows focusing on the role of women in punk music.

Still to come are shows on Gudrun Gut and Vivienne Westwood, A Brief History Of Peaches, the film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains starring Diane Lane, plus a documentary on the murder of Mia Zapata, vocalist in Seattle punk band The Gits. 18–22 July, click here to tune in online.

Issue Project Room Announces 2012 Artists In Residence

Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room has announced its artists in residence for 2012. Developing three events using a $3,000 stipend over the next twelve months are Hunter Hunt Hendrix (songwriter, vocalist and guitarist in Liturgy), composer and electronic musician Aki Onda, artist Sergei Tcherepnin, and chamber quartet Yarn/Wire. The four residents will be mentored by Issue Project Room curators Lawrence Kumpf and Zach Layton. For more info head here.

King's Place Announces 2011 Out Hear Programme

Kings Place has announced its programme for the 2011 edition of Out Hear, a series of modern composition and experimental performances. Included this year are works by Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, and George Enescu, plus performances and events by Entr'acte's Luke Styles, Cryptic Nights, Richard Lannoy's Nonclassical, and more. Also included in the programme is a Warp records showcase, although there's no word on who will be included on the line up.

The series runs Monday evenings from September to December, and tickets are priced between £9.50–£12.50. For more info head here.

Jozef Van Wissem Collaborates With Jim Jarmusch, Contributes To The Sims, Curates Events Series

Lutenist Jozef Van Wissem has got a lot on his plate: collaborations, curation and computer games. Following releases with Smegma and United Bible Studies, his latest solo album The Joy That Never Ends is released on Important, and features input from film maker Jim Jarmusch ahead of a full length release by the duo scheduled for later this year.

Jarmusch contributes electric guitar for the track "Concerning The Beautiful Human Form After Death" on The Joy That Never Ends, (released on CD/LP, with the first 100 LPs shipping on white vinyl), and the full length collaboration with Jarmusch will be called Apokatastasis.

On a different note, Van Wissem has also contributed compositions to the latest installment of The Sims. "I was asked to come up with 12 lute (and some voice) pieces for The Sims Medieval," he says. "They flew me over to San Francisco to record there after they heard the lute compositions… I had a lot of freedom, they didn't ask me to change anything really."

On top of these collaborations, Van Wissem is also curating and playing at a series of events in Europe and the US entitled New Music For Early Instruments. Paris Batofar, 8 September (with Keiji Haino). New York Issue Project Room, 13–14 October (with Loren Connors, Gregg Kowalsky, Richard Bishop and Susan Alcorn). Aalst Network, 18 November (with Gregg Kowalsky, Stephan Mathieu, and Keenan Lawler). For more info head here.

John Cale Signs To Domino Imprint, New EP Arriving September

John Cale has signed to Domino records imprint Double Six, and will be releasing an EP on the label later in the year entitled Extra Playful. The five track EP will be released on 12" and as a digital download on 19 September, and a full length album of new material from Cale is promised for 2012, also on Double Six.

The small roster of artists on the imprint currently includes Spiritualized, Jon Hopkins, Steve Mason and Bill Ryder-Jones. For more info head here, and listen to a sample from Cale's EP here.

Open Call For Sound Works: McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival 2011

The McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival 2011 has an open call for sound works. Proposals are welcomed from artists under the theme 'architectural exploration in sound', for pieces which look specifically at relationships between sound and space.

The pumping station is located in Shreveport, on the banks of the Cross Bayou in Louisiana, and the festival takes place on 14 October this year. Deadline for submissions 1 August. More info and application details here.

Thurston Moore Releases Video For Circulation

Thurston Moore has outed a new video for the track "Circulation" from his album Demolished Thoughts. The video is reportedly inspired by "the free-spirit poet/artist girls of Northampton, Massachusetts", and is the creation of film maker Rose Mackey and producer Andrew Kesin. Watch it below:

MF Doom And Ghostface Killah Cassette Collaboration

As part of MF Doom's nailed shut "mystery" crate collaboration with clothing brand Akomplice (which was supplied with its own crowbar), Doom and Ghostface Killah have released a red cassette remix single under the name Doom/Starks. The track, "Victory Laps", is remixed by Madvillian, with an original version and instrumentals scheduled for release on 26 July.

A full length collaboration between Doom and Ghostface has been reported as being in the works for a long time, but Nature Sounds's Devin Horwitz told XXL earlier this week that the pair have "regrouped this year, and [have] really started fine tuning... trying to hone it in, to make this thing a reality". Horwitz also said that the album is almost complete, with the majority of the direction coming from Doom.

The Doom/Starks cassette is available via Nature Sounds. More info here.

Volcano The Bear's Nick Mott Releases 7

Volcano The Bear member Nick Mott is releasing a 7" single bundled with a numbered and signed art print, titled Whose Body The Night (above). The single was originally due for release in 2007, but complications meant that it was shelved, and the catalogue number at the Lumberton Trading Company label reserved. The 7" is available a limited run of 100, and contains one track: "Almost Entirely Of Nerves And Blood". More info here.