Radio Futura, which will be broadcasting live throughout the 2009 edition of the FuturePlaces international digital media festival in Porto, Portugal is asking for submissions of work to use during its special one week festival broadcast. FuturePlaces focuses on digital media's effect upon local cultures and societies through a series of concerts, exhibitions, workshops, parties and film screenings amongst other events. Radio Futura will be presenting a programme of both live and studio recorded material addressing all aspects of radio, digital culture and/or local cultures and are seeking proposals for those programs. Submit proposals to: radiofutura2009@gmail.com by 15 August 2009 in the form of a short statement of the idea to be developed in the radio program, or an audio file of a draft program (MP3 or OGG format only). Click here for more information.

Warp records are celebrating their 20th anniversary by releasing a deluxe boxset collection of music and art from their back catalogue. Included are two CDs of Warp tracks, the first voted for by fans, the second as chosen by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett. Along with the tunes will be a booklet containing the cover art from every Warp release, a double CD album of remixes by past and present Warp artists, three 10" vinyls cut with unreleased rarities, two 10" vinyls cut with a selection of lock groove loops for your mixing pleasure and another CD of an hour long remix by Osymyso. Warp20 can be pre-ordered on Bleep.com until this Sunday 5 July. Click here for more details and full track listing.

The Avant: 10 Days of the Progressive Arts, a series of music, art, poetry and other events taking place throughout the city of Cork, Ireland. Featured artists include Mairead Byrne, Tom Fitzgerald, Alex Conway an evening of music curated by the German label Gruenrekorder, screenings of Spanish avant-garde film and more. Cork various venues, Ireland, 3 - 12 July, click here for full information.

The legendary saxophonist and de facto leader of The Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall Allen plays a one-off UK show at London’s Café Oto on 6 July. Allen, who is touring Europe with the Arkestra during July, will be joined by the Arkestra’s piano player Farid Barron as well as some of London’s leading free music players for this exclusive and extremely rare event. Tickets cost £16 in advance, £18 on the door.

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To buy discounted tickets, click on either of the links below (NB Discounted tickets are limited and available on a first come first served basis): We Got Tickets or SU Tickets For more information on the event click here

Here at The Wire HQ we've decided to put together some bundle offers of 4 back issues at a special discounted price of £15 (usually £20) for our readers, and an even further discounted price of £12 exclusive to our valued subscribers. Along with containing enough reading material to last through your holidays, each of the mags come with their original Tapper series CD, The Wire's ongoing exploration and collection of new and experimental music.

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An open invitation to sound makers and performers to participate in a collective action/performance: "In a newly renovated, empty flat, in the residential neighbourhood of Wandsworth Common, we [will] be blowing balloons and trying to fill one of the rooms." Participants may take part for any duration or part of the performance. Your kind of thing? email dhappening@gmail.com for full details. 4 July 2-7PM

Dublin's contemporary music ensemble Dublin Sound Lab, who specialise in electroacoustic music and computer-mediated performance are putting out a call for works in any combination of harpsichord, computer, and fixed media. Works submitted may be of any duration and there are no restrictions as to age or nationality of the composer. The selected pieces will be performed later this year in Dublin Sound Lab’s annual festival. Submissions are to be posted to: Dublin Sound Lab 'Call for Works', 47 Ferguson Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland by 1 September 2009 (postmarked). Click here for more information.

1 July is the deadline to submit work to be included in the annual Long Beach, California, USA SoundWalk event organised by the local artists collective FLOOD. SoundWalk 2009 will host a range of work integrating visual, performative and aural elements; sculptures, environments, performances and installations will be located indoors and outdoors throughout downtown Long Beach on 3 October. Click upon here for full information.

A limited edition box set featuring exclusive music and art commemorating the 20th anniversary of Warp is now on pre-sale at Warp's online store Bleep.com. The comprehensive package features new songs, covers and re-edits, older previously unreleased material from Warp artists, tracks selected as some of his personal favourites by co-founder Steve Beckett and the top ten pieces voted for by Warp fans (twenty thousand personal stories and messages about Warp songs were left by the public, the best of which will appear in the artwork). It will also include a book showcasing the label’s design history, along with an exclusive hour-long mix and a locked-groove vinyl set. More info on the box set and how to obtain it here

Adventures In Modern Music, 11 June with Rob Young: Comus are one of the great forgotten English progressive folk groups. Their 1971 album First Utterance was a blast of savage pagan energy directed against hippy complacency. Amazingly, the group have reformed and will play First Utterance in full at this week's Equinox Festival. Rob will be joined by the group's main singer and songwriter, Roger Wootton, to discuss Comus's history and influences, and play a selection of music by Comus and their contemporaries. Resonance 104.4 FM or online, 11 June, 9PM BST

On Saturday Anne Hilde Neset will be hosting a special extra edition of AIMM where she'll be joined by the international art/music collective Ultra-red members Dont Rhine and Robert Sember to discuss their various projects. Resonance 104.4 FM or online, 13 June, 3:30PM BST