Arts For Art presents Vision Festival 24 from 11–16 June at Roulette in Brooklyn. Running since 1996, the annual festival showcases free jazz, improvised music, dance, poetry and art. This year the opening night is devoted to Andrew Cyrille in celebration of his lifetime of achievement, and on 13 June the festival celebrates the work of sculptor Alain Kirili.

The line-up also includes Alto Gladness, Alvin Fielder Tribute Band, Darius Jones Quintet, Dianne McIntyre, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Jason Kao Hwang Human Rites Trio, Kidd Jordan, Lebroba Trio, Matthew Shipp & William Parker, Milford Graves, Patricia Nicholson, Val Jeanty & Cooper-Moore, Peter Brötzmann and others.

Meanwhile, on 9 June Vision Film will be screening Big Fire and Kinetic Colors by Stefan Roloff, and Milford Graves Full Mantis by Jake Meginsky and Neil Young.

More information and tickets can be found online.

London venue Kings Place has added NYX Electronic Drone Choir and a Beatrice Dillon DJ set to the programme of this year's Luminate contemporary music season. Luminate, so called, because it shines “light into the crucible of new music creation today”, assert the organisers.

Beginning in June and running until 29 November, the series has a special focus on women in music. Highlights include The Oram Awards night on 15 June. Set up in honour of Daphne Oram, the awards recognise “emerging female and non-binary artists in the fields of music, sound and related technologies”. The last two years’ winners, Klein and Loraine James, will perform at this year's ceremony, alongside a DJ set from Beatrice Dillon.

The rest of the season includes Galya Bisengalieva & Katherine Tinker performing works by Pauline Oliveros, Shiva Feshareki and Ipek Gorgun (22 June); NYX Electronic Drone Choir (7 July); Suzanne Ciani playing the Buchla 200e (26 October); and Lore Lixenberg presenting her new work Nancarrow Karaoke (25 November).

Full details can be found on the Luminate website. Listeners under 30 can buy tickets at a discounted rate.

Following on from her 2018 debut album Communion, the Korean multi-instrumentalist and composer Park Jiha returns with a new set on tak:til/ Glitterbeat.

Called Philos – plural for philo and translated in this instance as love or liking – the album’s an evocation of her “love for time, space and sound”, says Jiha.

“When I am working on music, I put a lot focus on what I am doing,” she continues. “I think in the end that is love. Philos is about the process of intense repetition. That is a very powerful love, especially on this album, where I worked on all the tracks by myself.”

On Philos Jiha plays the Korean piri, saenghwang and yanggeum. instruments. “When making Communion I focused on harmony with the different musicians,” explains Jiha. “But this time, I wanted to get back to putting the focus on what I do. I played all of the instruments myself. This way I could make the tracks more solid, and I could focus on one thing at a time.”

Philos is released on 14 June. Watch the video for “Arrival”.

Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia will be reissued for the first time by Sacred Bones on 21 June. Originally released in 1976, the record is an early example of music produced with the Moog synthesizer. Yet Garson made Plantasia with the sensitivities of house plants in mind, a project driven by his wife's keen interest in gardening. “My mom had a lot of plants,” says their daughter Day Darmet. “She didn’t believe in organised religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world.”

The album reflected Garson’s readings of the book The Secret Life Of Plants by occultist and former OSS agent Peter Tompkins and former CIA agent Christopher Bird, which claimed that plants were telepathic, able to predict natural disasters and receive signals from distant galaxies. Amid the farming advice given to its readers, the book also declared that plants liked music.

Garson started out as a session musician working with the likes of Doris Day and Glen Campbell. Among other things, he co-wrote the 1961 Cliff Richard single "Theme For A Dream". But after discovering the Moog synthesizer, Garson moved away from pop to make the wholly different kind of earth music of Plantasia. Some claim that a version of the album track “Concerto For Philodendron And Pothos” can be heard on the Nintendo game The Legend Of Zelda, though Garson was never credited for it.

You can hear the full album on YouTube and pre-order it via Bandcamp.

Carsten Nicolai's label Noton was resurrected in 2017 when the founders of the Raster-Noton imprint decided to part company. Launched in 1994 as noton.archiv für ton und nichtton, Noton have now embarked on a reissue and redesign phase, converting Nicolai’s early Noto and Alva Noto releases into digital format. Described as “sonic material, not musical”, many of these early works were originally included in art catalogues and often connected to Nicolai's installation work.

However, the Loop records won't be included in the digital archive as they were made specifically as lock groove vinyl, and the 1997 Noton collaboration between Nicolai and Mika Vainio Mikro Makro has been available in digital format for some time.

A full list can be found on the Noton website, and you can listen to a playlist of the 205 tracks on Spotify.

Decolonise Fest will take place over two days in June. Happening in South London, the DIY punk festival is collectively organised by and for people of colour and features art shows, craft workshops, panel discussions, vegan food and music.

“We want to celebrate the diaspora punx that are creating right now,” say the organisers, “acknowledge our elders and the doors they opened for us, and make room for more DIY diaspora punx to take centre stage and make noise.”

The line-up so far includes Best Praxis, Th’Sheridans, Electric Fire, Handle, Screaming Toenail, Whitelands, Anatomy, Cecilia, Power Balance and Big Joanie.

In addition, a JustGiving page has been set up to raise money for fees and travel costs to ensure two more bands are able to perform at the festival: US band Weedrat from Albuquerque, and Kenya’s Crystal Axis from Nairobi.

They're also calling out for more punks of colour who want to get involved in the event. Email for more information: info@decolonise.org.uk

Decolonise Fest runs from 29–30 June at DIY Space For London. Early bird tickets are on sale now. In the meantime you can check out Crystal Axis's track “Leopold”.

Update 6 June 219: Due to funding issues Crystal Axis will no longer be performing at the event. The crowdfunding campaign to help pay for Weedrat's travel expenses continues.

Heart Of Noise 2019 runs from 7–9 June at various venues in Innsbruck, Austria. Following on from last year’s theme of Decocooning Society, this year’s festival declares: “Don't stop the dance.” The opening night features a Para Noise Garden constructed by columbosnext and ./studio3 according to the motto “Disco Volante/a con-fused space”.

This year's line-up includes Aja, Andrea Belfi, Ben Vince, Christoph de Babalon, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Dj Raph, Hiedelem featuring Attila Csihar & Balasz Pandi, Philip Jeck, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Lucy Railton, Maja Osojnik, a two-part Nyege Nyege Tapes Showcase featuring Jay Mitta, Bamba Pana & Makaveli, Phill Niblock, Thomas Ankersmit and more. Participating venues are Eagle's Rooftop and House Of Music. In addition Vo Ezn and zanshin will perform on one of the city's trams.

Tickets are on sale now.

Following on from its four track compilation The Director's Cut Chapter 1, Jeff Mills’s Axis label releases Chapter 2 on 19 April. This second edition anthologises five more archive tracks: “As Soon As” (from 2008's Time Mechanic 02 Eternity), “G-Star” (from Alpha Centauri), “If (we)” (from 1999's If/Tango), a Jeff Mills commentary on “If (we)”, and “Cycle 30 – Loop 4” (from 1994’s Cycle 30).

“Looking back in hindsight to the activity and accomplishments of Axis is with much pride – to witness the relationship between the music and listener evolving to this point,” says Mills. “The Director’s Cut reissue project is about manicuring detail. It’s about a rare opportunity to enhance what we’ve done so that the relationship strengthens for the long term.”

The Director's Cut Chapter 2 is released on 19 April.

Serious have announced a new experimental music series at London’s south of the river venue, Corsica Studios. Called Between The Lines, it will be launched over two nights in May, with regular dates and, possibly, a festival to follow.

Between The Lines’ opening night features Sarathy Korwar with Danalogue, Fehdah and Pouya Ehsaei with trumpet player Yelfris Valdes (16 May); the launch continues with Davy Kehoe, Maria Somerville and folk string duo Fran & Flora (17 May).

“The reason we’re doing it in Corsica Studios,” says Robert Farhat of Serious, “is that I like to subvert expectations of what kind of music is assumed to work in a certain kind of venue. Corsica is known for its progressive dance/electronic music, but there’s no reason why other kinds of music won’t suit it too and I’m a vehement non-believer in boxing off specific genres into corresponding venues.”

Tickets to both shows will set you back £25.

Smalltown Supersound has launched a new vinyl focussed free jazz subsidiary label. Called Actions For Free Jazz, it plans to build on the heritage of Supersound subsidiary Smalltown Superjazzz, which ran between 2005–12. The latter was finally put to bed because founder Joakim Haugland “didn’t feel the label any longer”.

The new imprint cites BYG Actuel, Incus, Freedom and ESP-Disk’ labels as inspirations, even as it takes its name from Don Cherry & Krystzof Penderecki’s The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra track “Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra” on Actions (1971)/ Actions For Free Jazz, or AFJ-Series for short, will press all its releases in limited vinyl editions of 500 copies, with sleeve art designed by Kim Hiorthøy, and Haugland and Lasse Marhaug acting as producers.

Its first releases include Christian Marclay & Mats Gustafsson’s Link, Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love’s Lift Every Voice And Sing, EYE & Mats Gustafsson’s And Now… and the compilation Actions For Free Jazz.