Off The Page Sound and Music and The Wire present the UK's only literary festival exploring music criticism and contemporary audio culture, taking place on the seaside town of Whitstable, 24 - 26 February 2012.

Minute of Listening Minute of Listening is a new schools-based initiative encouraging pupils and teachers to engage in 60 seconds of focused listening each day. From January to March 2012 over 20,000 children in 70 schools will explore a huge range of music and sound.

Summer School 2012 The Sound and Music Summer School is a life-changing opportunity for anyone aged 14-18 and into creating music. The deadline for the 2012 course is 29 March 2012 - apply now!

time being - Harold Budd/The Necks (double bill tour) A historic double-bill tour featuring two pioneers of improvisational music: Cult Australian trio The Necks. Harold Budd, joined by improvising musician/composer Werner Dafeldecker.

Nick Franglen: Hive Nick Franglen’s latest sound installation concentrates the entire radio broadcast output available in north Norfolk into a remote, WWII concrete gunnery dome. If you can't make the event, you can listen to or watch the live stream online.

Cut & Splice: Grúndelweiser If you missed the live festival last week at the ICA, you can still listen again to the second BBC Radio 3 broadcast until 19 November. Find out more...

Listen to This: Micromusic A concert featuring work by Phill Niblock, Yannis Kyriakides and Johannes Kreidler where music is sampled, transcribed, saturated, over-amplified and held under the microscope.

Vision Sound Music Vision Sound Music is the UK’s first event of its kind, a three day festival celebrating the unique relationship between audio and visual cultures.

Sound of Fear: The Musical Universe of Horror An epic two-part event featuring an international cast of artists, critics and composers brought together in a celebration of the music and sound design of the horror film.

Oramics iPhone App An iPhone app replicating the concepts and sounds of Daphne Oram's groundbreaking Oramics Machine

Listen & Talk Listen & Talk is like a book group for contemporary music. You do some advance listening and come along to discuss it over a drink. Our next event is on the Pixies, introduced by Jennifer Walshe.

Audio Explorers Audio Explorers is a sound art bursary scheme that invited primary schools in South Cumbria to explore the creative use of sound through pupil-led projects for Years 5 and 6.

SAM/EMS SAM is collaborating with the legendary EMS studios in Stockholm in the creation of two new works for cello and electronics.

The Dean Rodney Singers Sound and Music collaborates with Heart n Soul in a global participatory music project

Helena Gough + Lionel Marchetti & Jérôme Noetinger + hamaYôko + Adam Asnan Sound and Music and Entr’acte present a special concert to celebrate the launch of Helena Gough’s new CD release, created following a Sound and Music supported residency at EMS in Stockholm.