Marina Rosenfeld’s roygbiv&b has just been published by Run/Off Editions. Originally a performance piece, roygbiv&b was Rosenfeld's contribution to Instructions Lab, a 2011 exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. The book chronicles the performance with an essay by musicologist Benjamin Piekut, gatefold renderings of the score pages and various exhibition photos.

Describing Rosenfeld’s performance, Run/Off writes: “A punning translation on spectral composition, the performance roygbiv&b uses the figure of the rainbow to project sound vertically in an architecture; it requires a custom loudspeaker installation and group of live performers, which have included teenagers, amateur choirs, double basses and brass.”

Following its run at MoMA, roygbiv&b went to the South London Gallery in 2014, and a version called Rainbow Gathering was shown at Serralves Museum & Foundation in Porto, Portugal.

East London venue Cafe Oto has announced the line-up of Stereo Spasms, an eight day festival celebrating what would have been Luc Ferrari’s 90th birthday – he was born on 5 February 1929 and died on 22 August 2005. Featuring performances of Ferrari’s compositions, talks, films, readings, installations and exhibitions, Stereo Spasms is co-presented by his widow, the composer Brunhild Ferrari, Close-Up Cinema, Presque Rien, Maison Ona and Ecstatic Peace Library. The festival also coincides with Ecstatic Peace Library’s English language publication of Luc Ferrari: Complete Works.

The Stereo Spasms programme includes Tania Chen, David Toop, Jon Leidecker, Thurston Moore and others performing Madame De Shanghai (1996); Erikm & Scanner
 (Exploitation Des Concepts N°1, 2000); Erikm & Thurston Moore (Les Protorythmiques, 2004–05); Xenia Pestova (Collection De Petites Pièces); Apartment House (Didascalies, 2004, and Cellule 75, Force Du Rhythme Et Cadence Forcee,1975); Aine O’Dwyer & Graham Lambkin (Unheimlich Schön,1971); Ashley Paul Ensemble (Les Emois D’aphrodite, 1998); David Grubbs & Apartment House (Tautologos III, 1969, Chicago Version, 2001, Et Tournent Les Sons Dans La Garrigue, 1977); a Jim O’Rourke pre-record (Ephemere, 1974); and on 14 February Brunhild Ferrari will be in conversation with David Grubbs. Full listings can be found on the Cafe Oto website.

London Short Film Festival 2019 will take place between 11–20 January. Now in its 16th edition, the festival’s core theme this year is alternative 1980s culture, and it will feature a selection of UK and international short films on music, politics, culture, LGBTQ+ and BAME issues.

The programme includes a celebration of the 1980s agitprop Scratch Video movement; live music from Wrangler; a screening of John Lurie’s series Fishing With John; Natalie Sharp aka Lone Taxidermist curating a series of performances and films at the inflatable venue Air Draft; the music videos of Derek Jarman; a visual history of underground label Hyperdub with Cooly G; Club des Femmes revisiting Pratibha Parmar’s document of black, queer resistance A Place Of Rage; and New Queer Visions curating a series of LGBTQ+ films and documentaries.

Also showing: a Cosey Fanni Tutti retrospective; a selection of short films from the former German Democratic Republic commemorating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall; Now! That's What I Call 80s Short Film featuring works by directors Clio Barnard, Andrew Kötting and Sally Potter: and the Supakino: Turbans Through Time series’ history of the changing representation of Sikhs in film.

On the closing night LSFF will celebrate black women redefining Afrofuturism through electronic experimentation in No Woman Is An Island, featuring Shannen SP, Xana and Nkisi. The latter will also be performing an exclusive live premiere of her debut album 7 Directions ahead of its mid-January release.

The festival’s new programming partnerships include Africa Is A Country and London Migration Festival, who will focus on the self-authored black British presence on screen, and the Stuart Hall Foundation, who will present a screening and round table discussion about It (still) Ain’t Half Racist Mum!.

For full listings you can visit the LSFF website.

The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art has announced its list of participants for 2019. The initiative sets to support, promote, and exchange innovative new musicians and artists with an interest in sound. It is now in its fifth year and projected to run until 2021, as a union of sixteen European festivals. These are Biennale Némo / ARCADI in Paris, CTM Festival / DISK e.V. in Berlin, Cynetart Festival / TMA Hellerau e.V. in Dresden, Festival Maintenant / Association Electroni[K] in Rennes, Insomnia Festival / Association in Tromso, Les siestes électroniques / Association Rotation in Toulouse, MeetFactory in Prague, MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art in Ljubljana, musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst / ORF in Graz, RIAM Festival / Technè in Marseilles, Rokolectiv Festival / Association in Bucharest, Schiev Festival in Brussels, Skaņu Mežs Festival / Association in Riga, TodaysArt Festival / The Generator Foundation in The Hague, UH Fest / Ultrasound Foundation in Budapest, and Unsound Festival / Fundacja Tone in Krakow.

This year on the roster are: Arash Azadi, Astrid Sonne, Avsluta, AZF, Balázs Pándi, Bamao Yende, Bear Bones Lay Low, Betty, Chaines, Clara!, Committee, Crystallmess, Erwan Keravec, Hatis Noit, JESSE, Jessica Ekomane, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Katharina Ernst, Kikimore, Lucy Railton, Lutto Lento, Lyra Pramuk, Maria w Horn, Marta SmiLga, Myako, Michela Pelusio, Nina Garcia/Mariachi, Obsequies, Oceanic, Od Bongo, patten, Peach, Perrine en Morceaux, Plug, Resina, rkss, Robert Curgenven, SAD, Sally Golding, Schanell, Schtum, Sentimental Rave, Soho Rezanejad, Tim Shaw, Violet, Volition Immanent/ Parrish Smith, For You Katrina and WIDT & Christoph De Babalon as Teyas.

A new film I Snuck Off The Slave Ship by Lonnie Holley will premiere as an Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival next year. It was created with Cyrus Moussavi, Brittany Nugent and Matt Arnett, and features cameo appearances by gospel singer and pianist Theotis Taylor and the Edeliegba Senior Dance Ensemble.

The film accompaniment of Holley's song of the same name from the 2018 album MITH, it was shot around his hometown in Atlanta, GA, and will mark the first time the artist has directed a film. In it, “temporal talismans” guide Holley through the Black American experience. “But his freedom quest always seems to get trapped in the same point of discontinuum: the 4th of July, birthdate of the self-replicating slave ship, ‘America’,” explains the synopsis.

“Built from the scraps of his life and hard sci-fi alterna-realities, the short film is an assemblage of Holley’s encounters with the slave ship ‘America’ and a testament to imagination as resistance.”

Holley will also tour MITH throughout the end of this year and into 2019. His exhibition “Somewhere In A Dream I Got Lost” opens at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art on 13 December. “Thumbs Up For The Mothership” is exhibited at Mass MoCA until mid-2019.

French festival Sons d'hiver has announced its programme for the 2019 edition. Heroes Are Gang Leaders open the event on 1 February, making their first time appearance in France with their tribute to the late writer Amiri Baraka. Led by Thomas Sayers Ellis, the group include James Brandon Lewis, Heru Shabaka-Ra, Devin Brahja Waldman, Brandon Moses, Luke Stewart, Jenna Camille, Warren Trae Crudup, Nettie Chickering, Melanie Dyer and Randall Horton. Thomas Sayer Ellis and James Brandon Lewis will also deliver give a pre-show lecture about Baraka's legacy.

Other confirmed artists include Ambrose Akinmusire with Kool AD, Sam Harris, Justin Brown & Mivos Quartet, Shabazz Palaces, Dälek, Evan Parker & Tyshawn Sorey duo, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman play John Zorn, Irreversible Entanglements with Camae Ayawe, Aquiles Navarro, Keir Neuringer, Luke Stewart & Tcheser Holmes, Marc Ribot, The Ex, Das Kapital, Julien Desprez & Rob Mazurek, Anthony Braxton Zim Music, Maâlem Mokhtar Gania with Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph & Jamie Saft, Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Steve Coleman, and many others.

More information can be found on the festival's website.

A mediafire link of free DJ Tools remixes has been made available. The project is an offshoot of rkss aka Robin Buckley's DJ Tools release on UIQ earlier this year. The artist explains: “Over the last year, as I’ve been performing DJ Tools, I started using these different remixes and edits of familiar dance tracks together with my own original music. For various reasons these remixes aren’t ones I could effectively sample for the original release on UIQ or distribute on platforms like SoundCloud or Spotify or whatever, so someone has leaked them on this nifty website as a free mixtape.”

Buckley continues: “For use with DJ Tools on UIQ or simply enjoyed on their own.”

Tracks remixed are Vengaboys “Up & Down”, The Ones “Flawless (Phunk Investigation Vocal Mix)”, Stardust “Music Sounds Better With You (12" Club Mix)”, Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell “One (Your Name) (Vocal Mix)”, Fedde Le Grand “Put Your Hands Up For Detroit”, Alice Deejay “Better Off Alone”, DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do “Heaven”, Daft Punk “One More Time”, and Underworld “Born Slippy (Nuxx)”. You can find the tracks via illegalmaterial.co.nf.

Listen back to The Wire's Rewired show on NTS radio featuring rkss as guest.

Artist, writer, musician and amateur magician Edwin Pouncey aka Savage Pencil will publish The Savage Pencil Scratchbook next year. The book gathers drawings, personal photographs, documents and ephemera from the SavX archives, as well as newer material, and an interview with Pouncey by esoteric bibliographer Timothy D'Arch Smith. It's an “access-all-areas trawl” through the life and work of the artist, says MIT.

Of course, Wire readers will know Pouncey as the artist behind The Wire cartoon strip Trip Or Squeek (which ran up till 2017) as well as sketching artwork for The Wire’s regular Primer articles, artwork, and contributing regularly as one of our writers. Since the mid-1970, he's also designed album covers, T-shirts, posters, skateboards and more for bands including Sonic Youth, Big Black, The Fall, Sunn O))), Coil and Earth.

Rated SavX: The Savage Pencil Scratchbook is published by MIT Press and Strange Attractor, and will be on the shelves from May 2019. You can listen to a recent radio show he co-hosted with Stephen O'Malley on NTS, featuring two hours of death and black metal.

Eastern and Central Europe specialist Easterndaze commences its Berlin edition today, which aims to foster collaborations between Berlin collectives and those elsewhere across the region. Events are taking place at venues across the city, with individual collectives programming the line-up in each location.

The line-up includes DJ OCCULT, Gigsta, Oil Thief, Ciarra Black, Adam Asnan, ST/NE, and many more. Labels and collectives represented at the event include Berlin’s Care Of Editions and Total Black, EXILES from Budapest, and Muscut out of Ukraine. The festival also includes a collaboration between Polish audiovisual duo WIDT and German former Digital Hardcore star Christoph de Babalon.

Easterndaze (not to be confused with the Belgium concert run by Kraak) kicks off tonight at Panke with free entry. Read more about the festival.

In what has become a seasonal tradition, a countdown of The Wire’s Top 50 releases of the year will be broadcast over the Christmas and New Year period during three editions of the Borderline: Musik Für Grenzgänger show on Germany’s Freies Radio Kassel. The shows will be broadcast at 7pm local time on 14, 21 and 28 December, with each show repeated at 11am the following day. If you live in the Northesse region of Germany you can tune in on DAB radio or 105.8FM. For everyone else, the shows are streamed live at borderline-extra.de.