The Swedenborg Short Film Festival is open for submissions for its 2011 edition, scheduled for November. The festival showcases films of 30 minutes or less, and the call for submissions asks for responses to themes related to Emanuel Swedenborg's work, which the Swedenborg Society notes could include: "beauty, vision, truth, space, time, love, natural science, physics, metaphysics, wisdom, morality, immortality, belief, states of mind, heaven, hell and the places in between". Imagination is encouraged.

A shortlist of works will be screened in Swedenborg Hall. Potential applicants should contact nora[at]swedenborg.org.uk for more information on how to apply. Deadline for submissions 30 September.

A David Byrne documentary, filmed By David Hillman Curtis while Byrne was on The Songs Of David Byrne And Brian Eno tour in 2008–9, will be released on 31 May. Ride, Rise, Roar will be released on DVD and Blu-ray, and includes performances of 14 tracks from the breadth of Byrne and Eno's output together, plus behind the scenes rehearsal footage. Watch a clip featuring the track "I Feel My Stuff" below:

Brighton Soundwaves Festival has an open call for submissions. Tracks must be composed specifically to listen to in headphones, to be included in a listening event on 17 July. They must be no longer than five minutes, but can be coupled with a performance or silent film. Compositions chosen to be included in the exhibition will be announced on 1 July. Send submissions to info[at]soundwaves-festival.org.uk before 24 June.

Soundwaves is also looking for volunteers for front of house duties, plus stage and sound assistants. To take part contact Elizabeth at info[at]soundwaves-festival.org.uk before 17 June. The festival includes commissioned work from Mira Calix, a live performance by Scanner, Leafcutter John, David Thomas, and more. Brighton various venues, 14–17 July.

Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) will be exhibiting The Doors Of Perspection, a collection of digital collage works expanding panning camera film scenes far beyond the original screen ratio.

The Doors Of Perspection is curated by Iain Pate, and commissioned by Touch. A free preview on 28 July at Bermondsey Square Shortwave Cinema will show a collection of short films by Bennett, with an introduction from the artist at 7pm. Musical accompaniment will be provided by Irene Moon and Mainwaring & Jurgensen. London Vitrine Gallery, 29 July–4 September.

Carl Craig will be touring live as 69 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Planet-E imprint. Craig promises to play a set of classic 69 tracks, complete with masks and visuals. Dates are as follows: Detroit Movement Festival (28 May), London Field Day Festival (6 August), Frankfurt Merkwuerdiges Verhalten (13), Paris 106 (5 October), Amsterdam ADE (19), Gent I Love Techno (12).

Iranian musician Sohrab has released a record through Touch to raise funds for an appeal against a decision which denied him asylum in Germany. "Shouting At Dictators" is a one track, nine minute long download, mastered by BJ Nilsen.Here's what Touch have to say:

"As you may know, Sohrab managed to leave Iran late last year for Germany, where he appealed for political asylum having been interned in Brandenburg. This appeal has failed and he is trying to raise funds to appeal against this latest ruling.

"If he fails, it is probable that Sohrab will be flown back to Iran and arrested at Tehran Airport... Europe is reassessing its policy to 'immigrants' on a daily basis, partly because of the rise of the political right, but also because of the influx of refugees from the 'Arab Spring'. The vast majority are being unceremoniously shipped back to their point of origin...

"This release is a fund-raiser to help pay for a lawyer to help with his appeal against the ruling. 100% of Artist and Label money from this release will be donated directly to the appeal fund. You can donate more if you wish simply by purchasing multiple copies of this release. The protest was recorded in Tehran in the autumn of 2009."

At the end of January Danish four piece Efterklang and Vincent Moon released An Island, and invited people to host their own screenings of the documentary for five or more people. After over 1000 screenings, the band are releasing the film for download or as a deluxe package.

Choose your own price for the digital download, or pay £25 for a deluxe bundle, available in an edition of 5,000. The eco-bundle (it's made from vegetable inks and recycled paper) contains a new Efterklang EP, Live At Roskilde Festival 2010, a DVD of bonus material, photocards, and a booklet of sleevenotes, packaged in numbered, letterpress printed covers. Download and bundle available at anisland.cc. Watch the trailer below:

On the tenth anniversary of the death of Popol Vuh's founder Florian Fricke, SPV Records are releasing a double disc collection of Popol Vuh material. Popol Vuh: Revisted & Remixed (1970-1999) includes soundtracks composed for Werner Herzog's Nosferatu and Aguirre: Wrath Of God, Moog III tracks, and remixes from the likes of Mouse On Mars, Stereolab, Moritz Von Oswald, Thomas Fehlmann, Mika Vainio and others. The compilation will be released as a double CD at the end of June. More info here.

Test Dept founder Paul Jamrozy is performing C.3.3: Ballad Of Reading Gaol - The Cacofonietta. The project explores prison life, drawing from both Jamrozy's experience working in Reading prison with young offenders, and C.3.3, the pseudonym for The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde's poem about the execution of a fellow inmate, written while he was incarcerated for gross indecency. Performing alongside Jamrozy (who will be on laptop, launchpad, and percussion) are Roz Corrigan on keyboards and gramophone, Alistair Adams on pipes, and 'Grassy' Noel Macken reading the poem. London Horse Hospital, 4 June, 7:30pm, £7.50, and Leipzig Die Schaubühne Lindenfels, 12 June.

Mark Fell, (included in The Wire's Below The Radar Volume 6), has released a series of six mixtapes on his site. The mixes are the result of a request from an anthropologist at Oxford University for Fell to document his musical development, and as such includes tracks on the basis of when Fell discovered them, starting in 1981. The mixtapes are available to stream online.

Fell says: "I met [the anthropologist] Georgina through research I'm working on at the University of York, looking at non-academic computer musics. The idea of doing a personal musical journey like this appealed to me because the music I make refers very heavily to its history. The new double 12" I've just completed for Editions Mego shows the influence of many of the tracks included in the mixes - I'm getting more and more interested in the musical journeys people took through the 80s and 90s."