East London's internet radio station NTS has set up a base in Los Angeles, where it will share a space with Warp Records US and Mount Analog record shop. Crowning NTS’s fifth anniversary year, its new US West Coast broadcasting outlet will stream via its nts.live.2 channel. “NTS now has permanent studios in London, Manchester and Los Angeles. We also run regular live broadcasts from Shanghai, New York, Berlin, Glasgow, and over 20 other cities worldwide,” says Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, one of the station's senior staffers and host of its popular TTB show. “The LA studio has been a work in progress for about 12 months. Loads of incredible artists from the US have reached out to us over the last five years wanting to do shows on NTS. Rather than waiting for them to come to London, we decided to pack some sunscreen and go to them. We're very excited about all of the shows, and all the events we're planning stateside...”

NTS’s Los Angeles hosts include Alessandro Cortini, Ashtrejinkins, Astral Plane, Dina J, Peaking Lights, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Negativland, Silent Servant, Henry Rollins, Harriet Brown, Imran Ahmed, P Morris and many more. London will continue to broadcast 24/7 on nts.live, with the LA branch going out live every Thursday and Friday on nts.live.2. The rest of the week nts.live.2 will continuue broadcasting from other cities around the world, as well as running a selection of curated repeats.

Brighton vintage electronic music specialist label Public Information returns after a two year break with a long awaited collection of works by Malcolm Pointon. Called Electromuse, it was compiled by writer, researcher and Wire contributor Ian Helliwell from master tapes of Pointon’s home-recorded electronic material, previously unreleased, with the blessing of Pointon's widow Barbara.

The composer, circuit wizard and Practical Electronics contributor, who died in 2007, produced music programmes for the BBC’s Third Programme from the mid-1960s onwards. He was also the founder of an electronic studio at Homerton College in Cambridge. But at the age of 51 Pointon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and became unable to work there.

Public Information will be donating all profits from the record to The Alzheimer’s Society, which supports people with dementia and their carers. In addition, the label has planned a series of fundraising events for the charity – the next being the Memory Dance on 23 November at London Rough Trade.

Ian Helliwell's essay on early DIY synthesists including Pointon was published in The Wire 362. Subscribers can read the article via Exact Editions.

London’s Jazz Cafe has announced a new live series called Milestones starting in January 2017. 12 albums will be performed (that's one each week) by a group of contemporary players drawn from a rotating line-up including Ashley Henry (of Ashley Henry Trio), Nubya Garcia (of Theon Cross Trio) and Nick Walters (of Ruby Rushton and Riot Jazz), plus special guests TBC. Albums scheduled to be performed include Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie’s Bird And Diz, Sonny Rollins's Saxophone Colossus, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come, Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue and Madlib’s Shades Of Blue.

The series will kick off with an Ahmad Jamal special on 9 January.

Veteran Polish engineer and composer Eugeniusz Rudnik died on 24 October. He was 83 years old. Rudnik was closely affiliated to the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) in Warsaw. He became one of the first Polish musicians to experiment with electronics, producing scores of pieces in studios across Europe. His PRES work has been the subject of extensive rediscovery in recent years through compilations on Poland’s Bôłt Records, and albums such as last year's Homo Ludens with Krzysztof Penderecki and 2014's Maja SK Ratkje In Dialogue With Eugeniusz Rudnik. That year also saw the release of 15 Corners Of The World, Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s docu-film about the composer.

Mark Fell has put together a major new event to be held in a former power station in Moscow. Geometry Of Now is a site-specific intervention running from 20–27 February with a line-up including Ryoko Akama, Oren Ambarchi, RP Boo, Inga Copeland, Thomas Brinkmann, Equiknoxx, Errorsmith, Luke Fowler, Russell Haswell, Jlin, Okkyung Lee, Stephen O’Malley, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Dmitry Mazurov, Stephen O’Malley, DJ Sprinkles, Laurie Spiegel, and more.

Taking place inside GES-2, a former power station that used to supply electricity to Moscow, the event will include a series of site-specific installations, a lecture and workshop programme, and more. Information can be found on their website.

A series of sound and music events have been lined up for Hull 2017: UK City Of Culture. They include Peter Cusack's Favourite Sounds Of Hull online archive; a major retrospective of Hull born composer Basil Kirchin (17–19 February); an exhibition of material from COUM Transmissions’ archive (3 February–27 March); and David Bowie’s former band The Spiders From Mars will be returning home with a line-up of Woody Woodmansey, Tony Visconti and Glenn Gregory to perform the first live rendition of Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars in its entirety (25–26 March). More information can be found on the Hull City Of Culture website.

The Wire’s literary festival Off The Page will happen Bergen next year. Taking place over two days, this latest edition will feature Wire Contributing Editor Rob Young on sleeve art; Maia Urstad giving a performance lecture titled Elegy To FM; a screening of Tyler Hubby’s docu-film Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present; a conversation between film producer Paul Williams and Peter Meanwell; and a Thora Dolven Balke performance lecture on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with other talks and screenings still TBC. It takes place between 27–28 January 2017 with more information coming soon via Ny Musikk's website.

Fabric Records and its artist led Houndstooth label are about to release an 111 track #savefabric compilation, raising the volume of protests in the lead-up to the appeal against against the club’s recent closure by local authorities. The shutdown caused an outcry across the electronic music scene, with 150,000 supporters signing a petition campaigning for its reopening. Meanwhile £300,000 has been raised in donations to help with legal fees in the battle to get the venue up and running again.

“Fabric Records and our artist led label Houndstooth decided a release that embodies this spirit would be a further powerful way to demonstrate the collective power of our community,” declares the club. “We asked artists associated with both labels to donate a track to the cause. Needing to act fast we gave a deadline of just three weeks in total, from inception to final master. The brief was simple, we asked for a previously unreleased track, either brand new or an alternative version of an old classic.”

The mammoth compilation includes tracks by μ-Ziq, Abul Mogard, Appleblim, Broken English Club, Clams Casino, Clark, Dusk & Blackdown, Ikonika, Kangding Ray, Kuedo, Machinedrum, Om Unit, Pinch, Planetary Assault Systems, Radioactive Man, Shackleton, Skream, and many more.

“Due to touring and time constraints many more artists could and would have liked to have been involved, and we can’t give enough thanks to all the labels that have generously allowed their artists to contribute. Ahead of the court date which will determine the longterm future of fabric nightclub we’d like to present this compilation as a document of this moment in time but also as the perfect embodiment of everything fabric is and stands for.”

Houndstooth has compiled an exclusive playlist for The Wire. It features Untold, Fis, Abul Mogard, Akkord and Vatican Shadow & Telefon Tel Avivv

Fabric closed on 7 September after the London Borough of Islington Council revoked its licence following its suspension at the beginning of August due to two drug-related deaths at the venue. However The independent reported that council documents revealed the closure was actually part of its wider longterm plan. An appeal against the council’s decision will take place at Highbury Magistrates Court on 28 November. #savefabric will be released on 4 November.

Julien’s auction house is set to sell property from the Estate of Frank and Gail Zappa as part of its Icons & Idols: Rock ’N’ Roll sale in November. The auction opens just over a year after Gail Zappa's death on 7 October 2015.

In 1967, Frank and Gail purchased a home in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, California, which later housed Zappa’s Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studio. Photos of the property reveal it to be a densely filled trinket paradise containing those items now set to be auctioned. They include various white and blue bedroom furnishings, a large colour photograph depicting Larry Flynt as a beggar and signed in black ink "To Frank, can’t help on the project, spent all my money on the sex tapes, Larry", a sheet of Fortaz medication stationery signed in pencil, "To Diva, you give me a rise in my Levy's [sic]! Love, Ron Jeremy”, a scagliola coffee table, water colour paintings, a pair of Southeast Asian tiger masks, items of clothing including a vest that Zappa wore on stage and on the back cover of his 1972 album Waka Jawaka, the ukulele featured on the Thing-Fish album cover, various awards, and much more.

You can check everything in the lot over at Julien's. The auction starts on 4 November, 2016.

Algoraves - the combination of "algorithms" and "raves" - are electronic dance parties where the music and visuals are created by live coders, in realtime. On 18 November in Sheffield, an international group of algorave producers will join forces with musicians such as Graham Dunning and Ardisson for AlgoMech (the Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement) for a night of robotics and mechanical techno. Also on the bill will be artists from UIQ, PC Music, Computer Club, Rephlex and NTS radio.

Sheffield is a centre of the algorave scene, and home to Alex McLean, algorave producer and developer of the live coding language Tidal Cycles. Subscribers can read an interview with him about the movement in The Wire 385.

The Sheffield date will form part of a four-day tour with dates in London, Manchester and Karlsruhe. All feature Renick Bell from Tokyo (UIQ / Halcyon Veil) and Kindohm from Minnesota (Conditional). On 17th November in London, they’ll be joining other leading algorave artists from the UK along with generatively-minded friends for a night at the Amersham Arms, New Cross. This showcase, promoted by Conditional, will feature live coding, modular synths, algorithmic DJ sets, and sets from Renick Bell, Kindohm, Joanne and en creux.