This year's Sacrum Profanum line-up includes Aaron Turner, Aidan Baker, Alvin Lucier, Apartment House, Arditti Quartet, Eliane Radigue, Jennifer Walshe, Lubomyr Melnyk, Oren Ambarchi, Raphael Roginski and more. The six day event also pays tribute to the works of Moondog and Julius Eastman through a series of special concerts scattered throughout the programme.

These include guitarist Roginski, Natalia Przybysz and Širom playing Moondog’s “Maybe”, “Paris” and “All Is Loneliness”, among other works; The SEM Ensemble conducted by Petr Kotik and Joseph Kubera on piano performing Eastman’s Macle, Joy Boy, Our Father and John Cage's Song Books I; Quiet Music Ensemble will be presenting Polish premieres of David Toop’s Night Leaves Breathing, Alvin Lucier’s Shadow Lines, Rishin Singh’s Zamówieniem, Jennifer Walshe’s Dordán and An Ghléacht, and Pauline Oliveros’s The Mystery Beyond Matter; and Africa Express will perform Terry Riley's In C.

“This year during Sacrum Profanum, everything is important: from its dense, internally linked, aesthetically diversified programme, through a multitude of venues scattered around Nowa Huta, Kazimierz, Podgórze and Ludwinów, up to its intensified formula,” says the festival’s curator Krzysztof Pietraszewski. “The festival is shorter – it lasts six days, but it offers twice as many concerts compared to the previous year. The opening day and the weekend days abound with four concerts each, and two concerts are planned for every other day. In total, the programme offers 20 concerts for all those who are in for intensity and the festival celebration. If you ever lost track reading a longer column or lost your temper in the third season of Twin Peaks, just take the challenge and go to a few hours-long meditational gig, listen to an hour-long minimalist composition. Test your perception! Do you prefer shorter forms? Do not miss the almost singing opening and a musical tribute to Moondog.”

Tickets cost 250zł. More information can be found at their website.

Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother and Rasheedah Phillips's interdisciplinary project Black Quantum Futurism Collective will take over Park Night at London Hyde Park’s The Serpentine on 18 August. Exploring the intersection of futurism, creative media, DIY aesthetics and activism in marginalised communities Ayewa and Phillips, of The AfroFuturist Affair and Metropolarity, will perform Project: Time Capsule, a reading and experimental electronics piece that combines “science fiction realities with African diasporic concepts of time and ritual, offering ways to escape oppressive constructs of linear time”.

“Beneath several housing projects and housing estates across America and Europe, several mysterious time capsules have been unearthed,” states The Serpentine gallery. “These time capsules appear to be quantum in nature, displaying the features of retrocausality and entanglement, opening up its contents to influences from both the future(s) and the past(s).”

“Our work,” explain the collective, “focuses on recovery, collection and preservation of communal memories, histories and stories. Through the work of BQF Collective and its collaborators, we are in the process of developing and enacting a new spatio-temporal consciousness.”

The event will take place at 8pm on 18 August. Tickets cost £5.

Cafe Oto is to host an experimental audio-visual broadcast around current themes of environmental damage. Bringing in a variety of sonic material, including field recordings, data sonification, songs, experimental music, short films and poetry, the evening will run in the style of a radio transmission. It will feature artists Leah Barclay, Robin Buckley, Kate Carr, Minerva Cuevas, Graciela Muñoz Farida, Anja Kanngieser & Polly Stanton, Andrea Polli, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Ziibiwan, with more to be confirmed.

“While 'nature' has been always been a theme and component of music and sound art, it seems that these fields are increasingly engaging with the current ecological crisis in more pointed ways,” explain the organisers behind the event, who are Anja Kanngieser, Paul Rekret and The Wire contributor Rory Gibb. “Given that this is the case, can ecological collapse be sonically represented, or it does it just become the fetishisation of mass extinction?” They ask. “Is there a meaningful place for music and sound in environmental advocacy? Can sound artists and musicians intervene in environmental crises that hit poor communities and communities of colour hardest? We're interested in pulling together work that responds to these questions implicitly or explicitly.”

Amplification / Annihilation will take place on 20 August at 7.30pm. Entry is free. Listen to political geographer and sound artist Anja Kanngieser and composer and sound artist Daniel Jenatsch discuss climate, capitalism and crisis on Paul Rekret's Beholder Halfway show on Resonance FM.

Thirty Three Thirty Three will host the premiere performance from Clandestine Quartet on 15 September. The newly formed group includes Alan and Sir Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls – who disbanded in 2007 following the death of drummer Charles Gocher and who now perform as Alvarius B and Rangda respectively – with Chris Corsano and Vibracathedral Orchestra's Mick Flower.

“Together, they’re hiding away for a week in a studio to write a completely new set of material. And what will it sound like? Who knows,” say the promoters. “Perhaps the Bishops have found kindred spirits in the form of Flower-Corsano. Or perhaps they’ve just found two new figures to spar with.”

The evening will also have a performance from Jogjakarta duo Senyawa (Rully Shabara & Wukir Suryadi).

The event will take place at St John at Hackney church on 15 September, 8pm. It will be streamed by Boiler Room. Tickets are available now.

A new sound installation by Richard Skelton called Eilean Fuinn will open next month at Scorrybreac Boathouse, Portree, on the Isle of Skye. Commissioned by ATLAS Arts, a contemporary arts production and commissioning body based on the Inner Hebrides island, his piece is part of the year-long project A Work for the North Atlantic exploring singing and the sea. So far the project has included Bethan Huws’s film Singing For The Sea (1993) and school workshops run in collaboration with Aldeburgh Music.

A work of long-duration repetition comprised of four audio channels, Skelton’s Eilean Fuinn was inspired by Huws's work. His installation incorporates four musicians performing traditional songs related to the sea. These are “Cumha Na Cloinne” (“Lament For The Children”) played by Decker Forrest on Highland bagpipes; “Oran Manitoba” by Hector MacInnes on accordion; “Em Tog Orm Mo Phìob” (“Bring Me My Pipes”) and “Am Iomramh Eadar Il’ A’s Uist” (“Rowing From Islay To Uist”) by Ronan Martin on fiddle; and “Braes Of Lochiel” by Frances Wilkins on concertina.

The project, says Skelton, gave him “the rare opportunity to immerse myself in the island culture of Skye, to experience something of its spectacular geography, its natural history, and its musical tradition”. He adds that “working with local musicians, and with the landscape itself, has been a memorable experience”.

The title Eilean Fuinn was inspired by the word fonn, which has multiple meanings including ‘land, earth, plain’ and ‘air, tune, music’.

Eilean Fuinn will be on display from 10am–5pm, Wednesday to Sunday, between 7–23 September 2017. Entry is free.

Oakland, California label Ratskin Records have released a 12 hour benefit compilation designed as a “direct response to the rapidly worsening, violent, political and philosophical conditions in our current state”. Released earlier this month, Rogue Pulse/Gravity Collapse, is available in digital and physical formats, and all proceeds will be split between Black Lives Matter national chapter bail fund and St James Infirmary in San Francisco.

In its physical format, Rogue Pulse/Gravity Collapse is a ten CD box set accompanied by a 16-page booklet of sleevenotes and writings, photograph and full colour limited edition print, plus download code. The digital version will include scans of all the media.

Taking part are an international selection of producers, sound artists and bands spanning the fields of noise, electro, trap, electronics, industrial, metal, musique concrete, field recordings and more. Further, the vast majority of tracks were produced specially for the release. On the set’s Bandcamp page, Ratskin Records declare: “This document serves both as a vast (yet obviously incomplete) document of contemporary and modern artists pushing the limits of esoteric, political, radical and lucid strategies of sound, space and resistance, as well as strives to create a dialogue around creating an alternative nexus of artist and musician solidarity through models bridging the gap between artistic documents and radical modes of resistance, fundraising, networking and solidarity.”

Among the artists making up its 184 track listing are Wolf Eyes, Negativland, Moor Mother, Black Spirituals, Clipping, Dj Spooky, Daniel Menche, Sun Araw Trio, Jim Haynes, Headboggle, Gerritt Wittmer, Kid606, Xiu Xiu, Drew Mcdowall, and many more.

Rogue Pulse/Gravity Collapse is limited to an edition of 300 signed and numbered physical copies. A set of preorder copies were also signed and numbered, and included extra content such as a ‘self defense weapon’, a pin set and five additional prints. The cover art is designed by Los Angeles based artist Lexx Valdez.

Note: this article was edited 14 August 2017. It originally stated that part of the money raised from the compilation would go towards the relief fund for victims of the Ghost Ship arts space fire. However they are no longer accepting donations. Details of a replacement charity are yet to be confirmed

Hyperlocal's 2017 edition will be split between Dalston in London’s East End and
San Telmo in Buenos Aires. It kicks off with performances on 16 September at Cafe Oto and its project space, and the evening will end with an afterparty at a venue yet to be confirmed. The event will then transfer across the Atlantic on 25 November to three venues in Buenos Aires: Xirgu Espacio Untref, Atom Sound Art Space and Cuarto Apostol.

“One headspace for +12 hours conducted in two cities. It is a lasting connection of
opposite hemispheres from local Argentine and South American landcapes
to the UK/EU and beyond, fighting against the impracticality of distance and resources to expose, extend and share,” states the festival.

Artists lined up for London include online performances from Albobabez and Yearning Kru, and live ones from The Bomber Jackers, DJ Save The NHS, Farai, Lolina and others. The Buenos Aires bill includes more online performances from Albobabez and Yearning Kru, plus Aylu, DJ Bli Bli, Ines Navarro, Nicolas Freeman, DJ Bruta, Vluba, Yoto, with more tbc.

On 7 August Adult Swim received a folder from DOOM. Called The Missing Notebook Rhymes, it contains 15 tracks, each of them “considered a ‘notebook’ from a series consisting of music from his own upcoming albums as well as singles he is featured on”. One artist collaboration that is named is Jay Electronica, while another, the first track from an already released collection, is called "Negus", and it’s from the late Sean Price's then-forthcoming album Imperius Rex, released last week two years after the New York rapper’s death by Duck Down Records.

The track releases will continue over the next 14 weeks. You can hear them via Adult Swim.

The Ballad Of Shirley Collins started life as a Kickstarter campaign by Burning Bridges & Fifth Column Films back in 2011. It tells the story of the English folk custodian who in the 1980s had to put her career on hold due to the development of a vocal chord disorder called dysphonia. It also looks at Collins's return to recording three decades later, marked by the release of her comeback album Lodestar in 2016. Directed by Rob Curry and Tim Plester (who released the feature-length documentary about Morris dancing called Way Of The Morris back in 2011), the film features archival footage from Collins's 1959 road trip around America's Deep South alongside her then-lover Alan Lomax, and it includes contributions from Stewart Lee, David Tibet, American folk artist Sam Amidon, the UK based Elle Osborn and Collins herself.

The Ballad Of Shirley Collins will premiere at London's Soho Curzon on 16 October. It will be followed by a post-film Q&A hosted by Stewart Lee, who wrote the sleevenotes for Lodestar.

Shirley Collins was the cover star of The Wire 393. Subscribers can read the article online via Exact Editions. You can also listen to a selection of ‘songs from the soil that speak direct to the heart’ selected by Collins for a Wire portal earlier this year.

This autumn Japanese quartet Saicobab will release their debut album. Formed in 2001 by OOIOO's YoshimiO and sitar player Yoshida Daikiti, the group now features bassist Akita Goldman and Motoyuki “Hama” Hamamoto on percussion and gamelan. Saicobab describe themselves as “spiraling grind core raga music”, taking influence from traditional Indian and Japanese musics, spirituality and ancient numerology, with the majority of recordings on the release recorded live and then manipulated during the editing process.

Sab Se Purani Bab will be released on CD and as a deluxe vinyl edition with 2 x LP in a gatefold jacket and metallic foiling, a free download card and a remix of “AWAWAW” by Cevdet Erek. First pre-orders can also get a limited colour vinyl edition. It will be released on Thrill Jockey 20 October. Pre order via Thrill Jockey's website.

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