Tansy Davies and Nick Drake will premiere their brand new site specific opera this June at London's Printworks venue. Called Cave, the futuristic work tells the story of one man's battle to find his lost daughter amidst the devastation of climate change.

The piece was commissioned to Davies by London Sinfonietta as a finale to its 50th anniversary season, and has the composer reunite with Drake following the award winning 2016 operatic response to 9/11, Between Worlds. “We both want to try and achieve a better world, a balanced world where respect for nature is important” says Davies. “We both feel that there’s power there – not only dreams and visions but real wisdom that we can reclaim and respect... It’s an outer journey about the world and situation we’re in but it’s also an inner journey. It has to do with finding stillness within.”

Cave is performed by tenor Mark Padmore, mezzo-soprano Elaine Mitchener and the London Sinfonietta. It is directed by Lucy Bailey and conducted by Geoffrey Paterson, and will run 20-23 June. Tickets are available now.

The music to Sami Sänpäkkilä’s documentary on the Danish musician, artist and activist Goodiepal has been released. The near-feature length film The Goodiepal Equation was released at the end of 2017, and takes a closer look into the world of this eccentric performer (born Kristian Parl Bjørn Vester) who rides around on a self-built power generating bicycle, and whose art and activism has become increasingly radical.

“Goodiepal is by nature impenetrable, yet consistent,” says the film's director Sänpäkkilä, also head of the Finnish Fonal record label. “Goodiepal himself forms an essential part of his theories. Indeed, the Goodiepal Equation is as follows: ‘The further a message travels over space and time, the more value it adds to its content.’ One might think that this documentary has been made on the off-chance of Goodiepal later becoming an extremely famous artist and theorist. This, however, is a ready example of the paradox that is Goodiepal.”

Sänpäkkilä continues: “For all his overbearingness, he is not merely a master manipulator; his actions reveal true altruism and empathy. He pays for rooms for the needy to work and live in, he helps refugees and donates large sums of money to charity. The documentary portrays a man who is more than an artist or a theorist. It shows us someone who is battling – in his very personal way – his problems and illnesses.” Goodiepal lives with the inherited degenerative condition Huntington's disease.

Following a host of screening in the US and Europe last year, the soundtrack has now been released as four LPs – but with a catch. Goodiepal won't take money for the release, instead will only exchange them for more music. “I am old and I need new music,” he says. “Yes I need to listen to new music – so the copies that I have, I will only trade!” Full details and trade address can be found via the Facebook post.

Watch a trailer of the documentary below:

American rock duo Royal Trux – aka Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty – have signed to Mississippi label Fat Possum. The record label are set to digitally re-release the majority of the pair's back catalogue, from the 1988 self titled debut up until 2000's Pound For Pound. Notable exceptions are Sweet Sixteen and Thank You, both released via Virgin in the mid-1990s). After Pound For Pound was released Royal Trux took a 15 year hiatus as a duo, with their comeback release, Platinum Tips And Ice Cream, put out on Domino in June 2017.

Records reissued by Fat Possum are Royal Trux (1988), Hand of Glory (1989), Twin Infinitives (1990), Untitled (1992), Cats And Dogs (1993), Accelerator (1998), 3-Song EP (1998), Veterans Of Disorder (1999), Pound For Pound (2000), and Radio Video EP (2000)

Herrema and Hagerty have also announced plans to record a new album for Fat Possum (details yet to be confirmed), and they are also set to tour the US and Europe across this year and next.

The first set of reissues are to be expected in March 2018. Listen to “The Flag” from Cats And Dogs below. Royal Trux appeared on the cover of The Wire 399.

This May will see the publication of the definitive portrait of cherished experimental rock group Can. Titled All Gates Open: The Story Of Can, it's divided into two separate parts and features a host of previously unseen art and photos.

The first book has The Wire's Rob Young pen the full biography of the band, drawing on unique interviews with all its founding members and vocalists, as well as friends and acquaintances. Book two, titled Can Kiosk, has been assembled by founding member Irmin Schmidt and is touted as a collage, featuring an oral history collated by former Electronic Beats editor Max Dax, and Robert Defcon. It also includes a selection of interviews conducted by Schmidt with musicians and film makers including Bobby Gillespie, Geoff Barrow, Mark E Smith, Daniel Miller, Wim Wenders and John Malkovich, and extracts from Schmidt’s notebooks and diaries from 2013–14.

Published by Faber and Faber on 5 May, All Gates Open: The Story Of Can is available for pre-order as a hardback edition for £25. There is also a limited edition version available for pre-order from 5 April for a price of £250.

Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge have announced a full list of artists to appear in residence throughout 2018, and who will work across a range of practices including visual art, writing, choreography, dance, music and sound, with a focus this year on collaboration. Artists are set to work with Wysing across multiple visits to the complex, with many bringing existing networks of people with them, including children and relatives. The artists chosen make work that investigates family, disability, race and racism, gender, identity, sexuality, and more.

The list of contributors includes: Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother, Leah Clements with Rebecca Bligh, Uma Breakdown, Elena Colman, Alice Hattrick and Lizzy Rose, Phoebe Collings James and Last Yearz Interesting Negro aka Jamila Johnson-Small, Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana aka N-Prolenta, Julia Crabtree and William Evans, Formerly Called, Ibrahim Cissé, Atum Farah, Cédric Fauq, Georgia Lucas-Going, Elijah Maja, Olu Ogunnaike, Cindy Sissokho, Kefiloe Siwisa, Dominique White, Anna McMahon, Salote Tawale, Joe Moran, Tessa Norton and family, Nastja Säde Rönkkö and family, Rachael Rosen and collaborators, Liv Wynter, also with collaborators, and more.

The event also features a Sonic Cyberfeminisms strand with Annie Goh, Marlo De Lara, Jane Frances Dunlop, Natalie Hyacinth, Miranda Iossifidis, The Wire's Frances Morgan, Shanti Suki Osman and Marie Thompson. More information can be found on Wysing's website.

A 12 CD box set covering more than 50 years of work by the musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry has been released on Decca. Titled Polyphonies, the works were selected and remastered by the composer himself before his death on 5 July 2017.

The release collects 29 compositions and includes nine previously unheard pieces, including Chronicles Terriennes (2016), Études Transcendantes Pour Un Piano Imaginaire (2015), Pleins Jeux (2008) and Kyldex (1973). The final disc is a selection of 2016 remixes (described also as remasters) that were completed before Henry lost his sight. Also included is a 112 page booklet made up mostly of the composer's notes. Polyphonies is out now.

Haley Fohr aka Circuit des Yeux has written a new soundtrack to the cult 1923 silent film Salomé. Based on the Oscar Wilde play of the same name, it retells the story of King Herod's lust for his stepdaughter and subsequent killing of John the Baptist, and was produced by Russian actor Alla Nazimova. Shot in black and white, it matched Aubrey Beardsley’s original illustrations in the printed edition of Wilde's play, and featured costume design by Natacha Rambova.

At the time Nazimova struggled to get the film released due to its controversial storyline and rumors of homosexuality on set. Kenneth Anger later stated that Nazimova had employed an entirely homosexual cast in homage to Wilde. In recent years it has been marked as one of the first art films made and was put to DVD in 2006.

Fohr's score was commissioned by Opera North Projects and will be performed by the musician and her band for the first time at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds on 12 May as part of Leeds International Festival 2018. Previous commissions by the Opera North soundtrack series have included G W Pabst's Pandora’s Box (starring Louise Brooks) by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Philip Jeck, and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, and a Gamelan soundtrack for Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures Of Prince Achmed. Tickets are £13 and available via the box office.

The international radio art festival Radio Revolten is to published a book on its October 2016 edition held in Halle (Saale), Germany. Hosted by the community radio station CORAX who transmitted over a dedicated city wide radio art frequency, the event gathered 100 contemporary radio artists and featured installations, live performances, conferences, workshops and public interventions.

Edited by Knut Aufermann, Helen Hahmann, Sarah Washington and Ralf Wendt, the book, much like the event itself, sets to “reclaim FM radio as an open access medium for cultural use”, covering some of the festival artworks and events, and featuring articles (written in English) by Anna Friz, Hartmut Geerken, Lucinda Guy, Martin Hartung, Lukas Holfeld, Udo Israel, Tina Klatte, Michael Nicolai, Gregory Whitehead, Florian Wüst, and Elisabeth Zimmermann. It also includes specially commissioned colour photographs.

Radio Revolten. 30 Days Of Radio Art has been finished, however pre-orders are necessary as €6,000 is still needed for printing to go ahead. More information can be found on via the Startnext campaign page. It will be released on Leipzig publishers Spector Books.

US minimalist Harold Budd will perform at London's Union Chapel this April, marking his first London date in 17 years. Budd, one of the first wave of ambient musicians who recorded for Brian Eno's Obscure label back in the 1970s, formed a close association with Robin Guthrie in the 80s, and many of his records in the last decade have been collaborations with the former Cocteau Twin. Following a health scare back in 2005, Budd announced his retirement and a farewell gig at Brighton Dome, which saw him play alongside Guthrie as well as John Foxx, Jah Wobble and Balanescu Quartet.

For this forthcoming performance Budd is said to be performing both old and new material, featuring his signature soft-pedal piano style as well as electronic pieces, and will be joined on stage by Ireland’s Vespertine Quintet. The night will feature support from Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner. “I hope to see some of my old friends again – whomever might drift by” says Budd.

The event will take place on 28 April at Union Chapel. Tickets are on sale for £25.

Over two decades Californian independent label Deathbomb Arc has released music by Clipping, Death Grips, JPEGMAFIA, Foot Village, Lana Del Rabies, Yellow Swans, Signor Benedick The Moor, Gang Wizard, True Neutral Crew, and more. The label kicks off its 20th anniversary this year with a compilation consisting of all new material.

Deathbomb Arc boss Brian Miller describes the download only compilation False Positive Crew: Deathbomb Arc 20 Year Anniversary as “a label posse comp over a year in the making, featuring unlikely collaborations between Deathbomb artists, new bands formed for the comp, and even a few solo tracks”. Contributors include Signor Benedick The Moor, Slowcoach, GRYPT, Scrolls, JPEGMAFIA, True Neutral, and SHADI, among others.

Miller hints that the anniversary will be marked in various other ways aside from the compilation. These will be announced when False Positive Crew is released via the label’s Bandcamp on 16 February. “There will be more anniversary celebrations over the course of 2018,” he says. “But this is round one.”