The new BBC Radio 4 documentary Un-forgetting Julius Eastman will be broadcast on 6 November. The programme is presented by UK vocal and movement artist Elaine Mitchener, who describes Eastman as “a much-needed hero, and one whose work has been wrongly overlooked”. In the programme, Mitchener is joined by Apartment House cellist and leader Anton Lukoszevieze and pianist Rolf Hind, all of whom have performed the late composer’s works. Mary Jane Leach, Renee Levine Packer, Jace Clayton, George E Lewis and Jan Williams also make contributions.

Un-forgetting Julius Eastman is a Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4 produced by Zakia Sewell. It airs at 11.30am on 6 November, and it will be available to stream via BBC iPlayer in the following few months.

In association with the Serpentine Galleries, The Death Of Rave, Apartment House and Musarc, LCMF 2018 returns for its second run at Ambika P3 between 1–16 December. The theme for this year’s festival was inspired by philosopher Donna Haraway. Her “calls for a ‘thick present’ and 'multi-species muddles’ have encouraged us to think like a gardener, dedicated to creating a ‘hot compost’ of music, dance, film and art”, state LCMF organisers. The result, they say, is a “programme that is richer and more tentacular than ever before, where singing cyborg statues and go-go dancers will rub shoulders with professional mourners; where you can hear the music of volcanoes and the sound of great rivers and the destruction of Sodom”.

The line-up features new LCMF orchestral commissions from Elaine Mitchener and Neil Luck, Mark Leckey's Nobodaddy, commissioned for Glasgow International 2018, plus works commissioned from Klein and Mark Fell, and UK premieres from Annea Lockwood, including her Ambika P3 installations of A Sound Map Of The Hudson River and Gone. Other firsts include Sofia Jernberg’s presentation of Julius Eastman’s Prelude and Holy Presence Of Joan D’Arc for eight cellos; and US choreographer Yvonne Rainer will present We Shall Run. Also on the programme are Gerald Barry, Carlos Maria Romero & Steven Warwick, a London showcase from The Death Of Rave, and the second instalment of the Serpentine Galleries’ year-long ecological symposium, featuring Sophia Al-Maria, Sabine Hauert, Daisy Hildyard.

LCMF 2018 takes place at Ambika P3, with extra events happening at Second Home, Bloc and Walmer Yard. A full programme can be found on their website.

Australian experimental electronics label Altered States Tapes will mark its 100th release with a special compilation showcasing some of its core players. Called The Bottom Of The Earth To The Top Of The Wazir, the album is viewed as a cumulative statement by Altered States’ founder Cooper Bowman.

“The experience of running AST has been as much about techno/experimental cassettes as it has been supporting and being involved in a marginalised community across Australia,” he declares. “It’s made me re-evaluate my understanding of music and reinforced my initial impetus for wanting to be involved.
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The Bottom Of The Earth also includes one of Bowman’s own tracks, “Feudal Step”, which he describes as him “playing with sounds I’d associate with triphop (specifically Leslie Winer’s phenomenal Witch album) for the first, and probably last, time”.

Featuring Lucy Cliché on the compilation was a “no-brainer”, Bowman continues, declaring her to be “one of the most important live electronic artists in Australia”. You can listen to that track below. The album is released in vinyl and download formats on 8 November.

In other news the second edition of Obsidian, the joint Sydney and Melbourne festival which Bowman co-founded last year, opens in November. Starting in Melbourne on 9 November, and moving to Sydney on 16 November, the line-up features JG Biberkopf, Rings Around Saturn, WDK, Ying-Li Hooi, Makeda, Beau Wanzer, Nina Buchanan, Lucy Cliché, Debris, and more. Tickets are available from Resident Advisor.

Royal Trux have released their first new music since 2000's Pound For Pound. In 2015 Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty reunited as a duo for a series of shows and the live album Platinum Tips And Ice Cream (Domino/Drag City). These two new tracks, however, were recorded in Los Angeles in the summer of 2018.

“Nothing has changed within the Truxian universe we created for ourselves as teenagers,” declares Herrema, “because Trux is and will always be our way of life whether living it together or separate...This is no hobby rock kick. We are long game lifers with no fear, no regrets and plenty of gratitude for the way the universe has rewarded our singular dynamic.”

Earlier this year the pair signed to the Mississippi based Fat Possum imprint and are set to embark on a US tour in February and March 2019. Listen to the two new tracks below.

“Every Day Swan”

“Get Used To This”

Both tracks are available via iTunes and Google.

The new compilation Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History Of Library Music will be released by Anthology on 9 November. It’s a companion volume to the book of the same name by David Hollander, a producer and writer living in Texas, whose library music collection is cited as one of the best in the world. To mark its release, the label has shot a short documentary delving into the world of recorded library music.

“It was shot in Europe while interviewing library music composers and others for the book,” says Hollander, “several of which have tracks included on the accompanying compilation, which serves as the perfect jumping off point into this ocean of ordinary yet completely extraordinary music.”

The 20 tracks included on Unusual Sounds have been chosen to encapsulate this niche subculture, the musical scope of which reaches far and wide, and features compositions by Brainticket founder Joel Vandroogenbroeck, KPM Allstars’ John Cameron and Keith Mansfield, Janko Nilović, Stefano Torossi, and many others. You can preorder Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History Of Library Music via Mexican Summer, and watch the documentary below.

Ambika P3 will host a free exhibition between 25 October and 23 November. Called Bass Culture 70/50, the exhibition will explore the evolution of UK music during the 70 years since the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush, and 50 years since the advent of British reggae, with the likes of Trojan Records.

On display will be unseen artwork, films, reggae label pop-up showcases and live performances. There will also be over 70 hours of individual testimonies about the experiences of black British musicians, industry practitioners and academics. Contributions will come from Benjamin Zephaniah, Steel Pulse, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sir Lloyd Coxsone, Don Letts, Blacker Dread, Carroll Thompson and Janet Kay.

The exhibition is in partnership with the AHRC, Black Cultural Archives, the British Library, SOAS, Goldsmiths University, Urbanimage, Camera Press and Fully Focused. Bass Culture Research is a AHRC-funded exploration into the impact of Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on British culture.

More information, and links to reserve tickets, can be found on Eventbrite.

Bristol's artist-led community and arts venue The Brunswick Club will close its present doors this coming January. The collective took up home in a working men’s club in the St Pauls area in 2017, but have since lost an ongoing battle with developers. They’re now actively seeking a new longterm home for the city’s underground music and arts scene.

A special fundraising event will take place on 10 November. Called I Will Survive, it includes discussions, workshops, films and performances, plus music by Jay Glass Dubs, Harrga, John Bence and Annabel Fraser. More acts are yet to be announced.

“I Will Survive will be a landmark event for The Brunswick Club,” declare the collective. “We’ll be debating and discussing the impact of development on the cultural life of Bristol as well as celebrating the amazing artists, musicians, film makers and supporters behind The Brunswick Club. I Will Survive is also a statement of intent. Moving on from the building is not the end of The Brunswick Club, just the end of an era – we will find a longterm home for underground culture here in Bristol.”

Regardless, its autumn programme will go ahead with a range of workshops planned including Podcasting For Young Adults and 16mm Animation, and music from Maria Chavez, Hen Ogledd and AJA. Tickets are available from Headfirst Bristol.

London-based duo Raime aka Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews have released their second offering of 2018 and with it comes the launch of their new label RR. The three-track EP follows on from Am I Using Content Or Is Content Using Me?, released on Mumdance's Different Circles label in the summer, and comes as a 12" available in standard and clear vinyl.

We Can’t Be That Far From The Beginning is out now via Bandcamp. Listen to the ghostly number “In Medias Res” below, featuring dialogue taken from various YouTube clips. .

Following its premiere at the Tasmanian festival Dark Mofo in 2017, Siren Song – now titled Clarion Call – is coming to the UK. Conceived by Melbourne artist Byron Scullin with Thomas Supple and Hannah Fox aka Supple Fox, the outdoor soundscape uses 400 speakers installed on top of a building and in a helicopter to project voices of multiple singers. Other artists involved in the project are Elizabeth Fraser, Beth Gibbons, Shirley Collins, Elaine Mitchener, Cherise Phillips and Melanie Pappenheim, plus Military Wives Choir and Roma Choir.

Clarion Call will happen twice daily, at 11am and dusk, at the Ipswich waterfront as part of Spill Festival of Performance from 25 October to 4 November.

As composer-in-residence at the 41st edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival – or hcmf// for short – Christian Marclay will premiere a new piece for 20 pianos titled Investigations. HIs residency is highlighted by an exhibition of graphic scores, plus performances of his existing scores by past collaborators including Thurston Moore, Shelley Hirsch and John Butcher.

Other premieres include The Arditti Quartet performing James Dillon’s ninth string quartet and a new work for piano by Christopher Fox. The programme also features new versions of classic works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Julius Eastman; Jennifer Walshe’s A History of the Voice – Self Care II; Marco Blaauw’s The Monochrome Project; Anthony Braxton, Enno Poppe, Bozzini Quartet performing Eliane Radigue’s Occam Delta XV; three recent pieces by Rebecca Saunders, including the entirety of her 75 minute work Yes, performed by Ensemble Musikfabrik and soprano Juliet Fraser; and the UK premiere of Hilda Paredes’s chamber opera Harriet. Produced by Belgium’s Musiektheater Transparant in association with The Hermes Ensemble, Harriet is about the African-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman’s struggles against slavery.

Finally, the festival’s twin themes of space and spirituality will connect works by Stockhausen, Terry Riley and Supriya Nagarajan.

For a full overview of events, visit hcmf//’s website.