The Austrian based international Prix Ars Electronica is calling out for submissions of interdisciplinary, computer based works to take part in its 2010 competition. The prize has seven components: Computer Animation/Film/VFX, 
Interactive Art, 
Digital Musics & Sound Art, 
Hybrid Art
Digital Communities
, u19 – freestyle computing, 
[the next idea] voestalpine and finally an Art and Technology Grant
. The competition closes 17 March with winners announced in April and their work presented during the Ars Electronica Festival in September 2010. Click here for more details.

Directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell spent several years in Norway filming some of the main characters from the indigenous black metal scene to produce a new feature length documentary Until the Light Takes Us. The film tries to untangle the various motivations behind what the directors call the "part modern art movement, part terrorist movement, part rock scene" of black metal and includes interviews with Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes, Jan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg and more. Click here for more information on film screenings in North America and Europe.

Shizuka Miura, vocalist and guitarist with the Tokyo psychedelic group Shizuka, committed suicide in late January. Though producing only four albums over the eighteen years of their existence, the combination of Shizuka's tremulous vocals and the surging, mercury rush of her partner Maki Miura's guitar made them one of the most distinctive groups on the Tokyo psychedelic scene. As well as her musical activities, Shizuka was well known in Japan as an accomplished maker of haunted, ethereal-looking dolls.

The Wire's Deputy Editor Anne Hilde Neset and Editor-At-Large Rob Young have contributed their "ten records we bought only for their cover" in a current exhibition, Face B, at Paris's La Maison Rouge art space. The show collects together personal selections from the record collections of a wide variety of artists, writers, musicians, music labels and filmmakers guided by specific instruction from the curator, Daniela Franco. Check the web version here. Paris La Maison Rouge, 19 February – 16 May.

Autechre will broadcast a 12-hour radio show tomorrow (Tuesday 2 March) from 6pm til 6am (GMT) according to their website autechre.ws. They require you to sign up to the Autechre mailing list to get your link to the show but the blurb also states "you can remove your address at any time via a link on every email"

Joanna Newsom visits London's Royal Festival Hall for two shows on 11–12 May performing songs from her new album Have One On Me out 1 March on Drag City (and reviewed in the March #313 issue of The Wire). She'll be joined by folk singer and guitarist, Roy Harper as supporting act on both nights. Ring the Southbank Centre ticket office: 0844 847 9910 or click here to buy tickets.

Japanese jazz/noise guitar pioneer Masayuki Takayanagi will be the subject of a special feature on BBC Radio 3's Jazz On 3. Presented by UK guitarist John Russell, the item will include a contribution from The Wire's Alan Cummings. BBC Radio 3, 22 February, 11:15pm (BST).

The Netaudio festival (an offline festival for online music) are calling out for participants in a short survey about the effect of the internet on how people make and listen to music. It should take about 10-15 minutes of your time and has some prizes up for grabs to those who complete it, including a copy of our very own The Wire Primers, a Last FM membership subscription, a copy of Nicolas Collins's Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware hacking and a copy of Steve Goodman's (aka Kode9) Sonic Warfare: Sound, effect and the ecology of fear amongst other goodies.

Click here to go to the survey

As a gift to all the readers of The Wire, London's Cafe Oto is offering up a special ticket price for their forthcoming two day residency with Otomo Yoshihide and friends, 4 - 5 February.

FEN, or Far East Network, is a collaboration between Otomo Yoshihide, Yan Jun, Yuen Chee Wai and Ryu Hankil; well known figures in the experimental music scenes of their respective home cities Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore and Seoul. This will be their first UK performance together.

Regularly, tickets are £10 in advance and £12 on the door with a £18 two day pass also available. Readers of The Wire get a special price of £8 per night.

To buy tickets click on the below links:

Day one, 4 February, 8pm

Day two, 5 February, 8pm

Check out Cafe Oto's website for more information on FEN and the artists.

Issue #10 of Thurston Moore's celebrated Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journals is published and presented at New York's White Columns gallery as an expanded event/exhibition including performances by the likes of Chris Corsano, Bill Nace and Moore himself .

Moore began editing and producing Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal in 2001 as a forum to publish poetry by individuals who intersected the worlds of poetry, music and art. A dynamic range of writings, with various pages of visual work by Gerard Malanga, Richard Meltzer, Chan Marshall, Dennis Cooper, Kathleen Hanna, John Sinclair, Richard Hell, Jutta Koether, Gus van Sant, Rick Moody, Kim Gordon, Anne Waldman, Bill Berkson, Anselm Berrigan, Gary Panter followed.

A stapled issue will be created during the show. Pages from each of the ten journals will be exhibited as enlarged wall pieces, including the hitherto unpublished issue #9. Additionally, the main gallery space will feature a selection of historical poetry publications from the last fifty years culled from Moore's own library, including original editions of Amphora, Change, Coldspring Journal, Copkiller, Fervent Valley, Free Poems Amongst Friends, Gaslight Poetry Review, Kauri, Klactovedesteen, LA-BAS, Outburst, Stance, Sum, The Willie, Trobar, Yowl and more.

Working as co-editor is writer Byron Coley, formidable musicologist, essayist, poet and producer of music and literary arcana, ephemera and beyond. Select pieces from Moore and Coley's catalogue will be reprinted in limited states for this exhibition.

Reading and performance schedule:

Friday January 15th:
6-8pm. Opening performance: Northampton Wools (Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace)
Saturday January 23rd
7-9pm. Reading: John Giorno, Byron Coley. Performance: Thurston Moore
Friday February 5th
7-9pm. Reading: Edmund Berrigan, Anselm Berrigan. Performance: Thurston Moore
Friday February 19th
7-9pm. Reading: Richard Hell. Performance: Thurston Moore
Thursday February 25th
7-9pm. Reading: Thurston Moore and Anne Waldman accompanied by musicians Ambrose Bye and Devin Waldman

All performances and readings are free, admission on a first-come basis.

Until 27 February 2010. Free entry. New York White Columns, whitecolumns.org