The latest Limited Edition T-Shirt is now on sale in the Shop. It's a new piece of artwork from the Finnish sonic explorer (member of Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu, Avarus, etc), and is printed in pink and blue on a black shirt with The Wire url printed in blue on the right sleeve. It's a limited edition of 100 shirts, so grab yours before your size sells out! Buy it here.

An unusual call for submissions has been made by Ascoms, a music producer, who is producing his second show for Patrick 'Murmer' McGinley's regular Resonance FM show 'Framework' to be broadcast some time in the Spring.

His previous show for Framework, 'It's Great to Reverberate', was an hour long excursion into the sonic properties of refrigerators, featuring sound contributions from all over the globe.

This time the focus will be on central heating systems. Interested individuals should record five to ten minuets [sic] of their central heating system, for example radiators, boilers, electric fires etc and send to Ascoms via email. For more information, contact Ascoms directly: ascsoms@yahoo.co.uk.

On Saturday 9 February Roulette will host a Free Music FunHouse for all ages, featuring and "extraordinary extravaganza of wacky sounds, video clones, Frankenstein instruments, and guests galore". The event is put together by Shinkoyo Art Collective, record label, and performance space
(ParisLondonWestNile) founders Matt Mehlan and Doron Sadja who will also lead the group in a free multimedia improvisation, discuss why music is fun, free and easy, and teach all in attendance how to use everyday items to annoy your parents. New York Roulette, 9 February, 2-3pm, $5.

To herald the launch of the fifth edition of Venn (5-8 June, Bristol) the organisers are putting on a live debate. The informal event will feature a panel of music insiders who will listen to and discuss excerpts of previously unheard music demos before a live studio audience, throwing in DIY, professional and leftfield advice along the way. The panel represents a broad range of experience and includes journalists, A & R officers, promoters, label managers, agents and "gobby" music enthusiasts. Send a demo in advance or bring sound on the night. More info on their website here: www.vennfestival.com

Daniel Higgs, Tara Jane O’Neil and The Wire’s Savage Pencil are among the artists included in a new group exhibition at London’s 96 Gillespie gallery titled Mythical, Domestic, Working and Loved: Animals In Contemporary Art. The exhibition features works in which animals are used to illustrate spiritual, political or social aspects of human life and encompasses printmaking, photography, painting drawing & sculpture. Comic and mystical, figurative and occult: the styles represented are as diverse as our relationships with the creatures themselves. London 96 Gillespie, 25 January – 17 February. More info here

Expo, Sonic Arts Network's annual travelling festival of sonic art and experimental music, is looking for submissions of all kinds for their upcoming festival taking place in Brighton, 4-6 July 2008. The event will take place across a variety of public spaces and venues in the seaside town and on the airwaves with Expo partner Radio Reverb. The call for submissions and commissions proposals is open, and they are also offering a £4k commission for a UK based artist. Deadline for submissions is 14 March.
Visit www.sonicartsnetwork.org for more info

Learn music Gæoudjiparl style. After his recent appearance on the Danish television show den 11. time (the 11th hour) where he provided a suitably unhinged music lecture on computer music, bamboozling his audience with a number of his intricate creations and awing them with a barrage of interlinked theories, facts, stories and music knowledge, Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen has put together an enhanced version of the entire show with an additional specially created soundtrack. Go to VVM for the double file link & more info.

Field recordist Chris Watson has been commissioned to produce a sound installation for the AV Festival, to be held from 29 February–9 March in Newcastle, UK. Entitled Whispering In The Leaves, the installation will seek to recreate the sonic environment of the South American rainforest, using multiple surround sound speakers and recordings taken from Watson’s archive. The installation will be held at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

Freak folkies MV & EE have announced a UK tour for this month, with 13 dates planned across the country. Playing as MV & EE And The Golden Road, the tour starts in Cambridge on 4 February, and bassist/violinist Samara Lubelski will appear with the group on the first three dates. An album documenting a date on a previous European tour, Meet Snake Pass And Other Human Conditions, has just been released on the Singing Knives label, and is reviewed in this month's (#287) Soundcheck.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has announced a call for entries of music videos as part of its MuVi Award strand. The emphasis is on visual conceptions, stories and techniques, regardless of musical genre. The works should be produced after 1 January 2007, and the deadline for entries is 1 March 2008. More information can be found at www.kurzfilmtage.de