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Editions Of You: Call for musicians

Oxford Contemporary Music and the O3 Gallery are calling for independent musicians and music zine publishers who make and release their own work to take part in an exhibition celebrating DIY music making and homemade special editions and packaging. As well as the exhibition, a homemade independent music and zine fair will also be held on 9 April. Oxford O3 Gallery, 26 March–24 April. For information about participating email Lisa at lbusby@brookes.ac.uk.

Transfer Series

Transfer/Departures 1, the first release of the Transfer 7” series by Andy Moor & Anne-James Chaton, is out on Unsounds. Based on the themes of transition and transportation, side A "Derniere Minute" is composed from factual information gathered from the French Foreign Office website showing the level of safety and political climate for every country, for any individual traveling there. Side B "D'ouest En Est", is composed using the chosen route of Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days. The next three editions will be released over 2011 and will feature work made with a series guest musicians.

SND/BLIR 12

SND's Mat Steel has discovered some early SND/BLIR 12" stock which had been hidden in the depths of his attic. The new copies of the original pressing are in perfect condition and will be sold at their original price of £6 (plus P&P) from their website.

Backdoor Broadcasting Company

Backdoor Broadcasting Company, a mobile audio web casting service run by René Wolf, has added some new additions to its Sound Experiment series. Usually broadcasting academic talks and lectures, the Sound Experiment series has been created to pursue the encouragement of new and experimental music, sound art and sonic events by making them more accessible to a wider audience for free on their site.

Check out some recent recordings, including Greg Haines's Piano Improvisations, Alexander Thomas's Theremin, Martin Hackett/David Stent/Phillipp Wachsmann at the Oxford Improvisers club night, Eugene Chadbourne, Roger Turner and Colo at Oxford Improvisers and Colo's Salad Days.

Adventures In Modern Music 17 February

Adventures In Modern Music tonight cracks open the archives of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw. Chris Bohn will spin selections from PRES Revisited, a new series of releases on Bôłt Records culled from the archives of the studio, including Bohdan Mazurek's archive release Sentinel Hypothesis, In Memoriam Józef Patkowski, where a disc of archival recordings is answered by interpretations from UK improvisors and Zeitkratzer Plays PRES, where Reinhold Friedl's rogue New Music ensemble transcribe sonic material from PRES and reanimate it.

Every Thursday 21:00–22:30 (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com for the rest of the world.

AIMM 10 February: FMP special

Adventures In Modern Music this week brings you four decades of free jazz history from the FMP label, on the occasion of their final ever release, the career-spanning 12 CD box set Im Rückblick – In Retrospect. The Free Music Production label rose out of the rubble of Berlin in the late 1960s, and played a key role in pushing the envelope of European free jazz over the following decades. It brought new players together, organised concerts and workshops, forged new relationships with the audience, made connections with free jazz in the States, and forensically documented all these varied zones of activity. Peter Brötzmann, Alexander Schlippenbach, Fred Van Hove, Radu Malfatti and Peter Kowald are just a few of the hundreds of players who have participated in FMP's projects over the years. Derek Walmsley will be playing selections from In Retrospect, including both classic FMP sides and previously unreleased material, and talking to Peter Brötzmann on the phone from Wuppertal, Germany about his close involvement with FMP and its co-ordinator Jost Gebers since the late 1960s.

Adventures In Modern Music airs every Thursday 21:00–22:30 (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com for the rest of the world.

Dj Kool Herc

Bronx hip hop originator, Dj Kool Herc has fallen victim the pains of privatised healthcare in the US. Suffering from kidney stones that have caused serious internal bleeding, his lack of health care insurance (like many other musicians in the US) have thrown him into financial crisis. His family have set up the DJ Kool Herc Fund for his necessary operations and as as larger goal of pioneering long term health care solutions.

Sole's "White Rage"

Sole's (aka ex Anticon man Tim Holland) first self-produced video release "White Rage" is a political rap anthem in response to the Tea Party and race baiting in post Obama USA. This is the third track off Sole's forthcoming mix tape, Nuclear Winter. It's co-written by Pedestrian (aka Evangelist J.B. Best). The second half of the video is a sermon by Pedestrian in response to the shootings that took place in Arizona last month, killing six people and seriously wounding US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Animal Collective curate ATP festival

Animal collective are to curate this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties. So far the line-up includes themselves, Outkast’s Big Boi, Terry Riley, Gang Gang Dance, Zomby, and more. Minehead Butlins, 13–15 May, £170/£180 weekend pass.