The European festival network ECAS (European Cities Of Advanced Sound) is calling out for projects responding to the theme "Festival as Lab". They're looking for new, interdisciplinary work which treats the festival environment as a laboratory and experimental space. The commissioned project will be awarded a €10,000 grant and shown at various festivals in 2011, starting with Club Transmediale in Berlin, FutureEverything in Manchester and CYNETART in Dresden. The deadline for submissions is 24 October.

Guitarist Bert Jansch has cancelled all his forthcoming performance dates to undergo an operation to treat his lung cancer. The cancelled performances include all his supporting dates with Neil Young (who Jansch has been touring with for the past several months). According to Jansch his doctors have said that he should soon be well enough to resume touring.

Canadian art agency New Adventures In Sound Art (NAISA) is calling out for submissions of sound art for its 2011 programme. They're specifically looking for art on the theme "About Time". Work can take the form of radio art, electroacoustic music & sound art, Videomusic and installation art. The selected work will feature in NAISAs annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay festivals presented in Toronto, Canada throughout 2011. Deadline for submissions is 30 September 2010. Click here for more information and to submit work online.

A book on Echtzeitmusik (real time music) in Berlin is being planned for publication in 2011. Edited by Burkhard Beins, Christian Kesten, Gisela Nauck and Andrea Neumann, they're currently calling out for subscribers to help them publish the book. Echtzeitmusik: Selbstbestimmung Einer Szene/Self-defining A Scene (Berlin 1995 - 2010) will contain articles (in German and English) on the history of the scene along with individual perspectives and memories from the artists involved. Contributors include Rhodri Davies, Ignaz Schick, Lucio Capece, Axel Dörner, Ekkehard Ehlers, Sven-Åke Johansson, Margareth Kammerer and Annette Krebs amongst many others. Click here for more information and to subscribe.

SND's Mark Fell, along with interdisciplinary artist and designer Joe Gilmore have curated a podcast for Barcelona's MACBA. Titled Composing With Process: Perspectives On Generative And Systems Music, the first episode is called "Continue" and looks at the wide variety of ways music can be generated using "simple procedural systems, such as Mika Vainio's "Twin Bleebs" which features two repeating events going in and out of phase, to David Tudor's "Neural Synthesis No.9" – a more complex electronic system which explores indeterminacy through the emulation of neural activity." The programme also looks at music composed using formal geometric and mathematical rules. Click here to listen.

Sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has created a composition from recordings made during the 2010 Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Amongst other things, Kirkegaard has used his precision recording skills to capture the aural emissions of a wooden dance floor during a concert, the ironwork of a toilet, a beer tap and a coffee maker in the media camp space. Click here to listen.

Volatile Frequencies: Topologies of Authority, Technology and Production in Contemporary Middle Eastern Music Practices: call for papers and performances

NB: Due to request, the deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to 1 October 2010 and for full paper submissions to 1 November 2010

The Volatile Frequencies conference seeks to collate research that translates, mediates and frames practices specific to sonic disciplines (music, sound art, musicology) arising in relation to the Middle East and North Africa, and to critically connect with wider academic currents. It will emphasise current post-graduate research and scholarly approaches to new sonic practices, prioritising practice that favours experimental and exploratory approaches.

Volatile Frequencies will be in conjunction with the first edition of the MazaJ Festival of Experimental Middle Eastern Music and is co-produced by Zenith Foundation, Sound And Music, and The Wire to be held in London in November 2010.

Academics and artists are invited to submit proposals for the Volatile Frequencies post-graduate day, addressing the key themes outlined on the conference site.

Click here for further information.

Writer, comedian, producer and The Wire contributor Graham Duff's television comedy Ideal is set to broadcast its sixth series on BBC3. Ideal follows the exploits of a small time drug dealer, Moz (played by Johnny Vegas) and his circle of friends and professional acquaintances in Salford, UK. In the past, Ideal has featured music from Cyclobe, Nurse With Wound, Wire, Dome and The Fall amongst others. Duff wrote an Epiphany for The Wire June 2010 on Wire's 1979 album 154. The first episode of the new series broadcasts Tuesday, 17 August, 10:30pm on BBC3 digital channel (in the UK only). Check an online trailer here (again, UK only).

Organisers of a forthcoming exhibition, Sound Fields: Mapping Acoustic Territories are calling out for submissions of work. They're specifically looking for sound pieces that addresses sound in the city, different acoustic territories and their control. Exhibition takes place at Brooklyn New York Gowanus Hotel, 23–25 September. Deadline is 1 September, visit their website or email sound.culture@yahoo.com for more details.

The Polish new music festival along with the ((audience)) organisation is making a call out for 5.1 surround sound works for the 2011 New York City edition of Unsound. The selected work will be presented in a cinema, turning the theatre into a large listening space. All sound work submitted must relate to the festival theme "Horror, The Pleasure Of Fear And Unease", the organisers are calling out for international submissions but are specifically interested in work from Central and Eastern Europe. Deadline is 23 August, 2011. Click here for more information and to submit work.