Marcel Derek Ramsay’s documentary My Life Is A Gunshot explores the life and art of Joke Lanz. It reveals that Lanz was 13 when his father shot himself on the roof of their home: a trauma that would shape much of his life. The film explores this trauma, and delves into how Lanz has experienced becoming a father himself, unpacking the ways art can be a personal source of meditation.

As well as Lanz, the documentary features Shelley Hirsch, Christian Weber and other musicians in the artist's experimental and underground circles. Dates for its first screenings are: Zurich Kino Riff Raff (11 December), Bern Kino Rex (12), Winterthur Kino Cameo (13), Aarau Kino Freier Film (14), Berlin Kino Wolf (16 January), and Berlin Kino Brotfabrik (17). Screenings are also being organised for London and Vienna later next year.

Nature is the theme of the 12th edition of London Kings Place Unwrapped series, which will be exploring human interaction with nature and the sounds of the biosphere at more than 70 concerts through 2020. For the opening event on 10 January, artist-in-residence Chris Watson has created a collection of sound environments from the northern hemisphere. The following evening Nature Unwrapped's associate artist Paul Hillier and his ensemble Theatre Of Voices will be performing music by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arvo Pärt and Michael Gordon. The full year programme includes Riot Ensemble, Laurie Anderson, Mira Calix, Laura Cannell, and many more. Further details can be found on Kings Place's website.

Liam Barker’s 2015 Documentary film Voice Of The Eagle: The Enigma Of Robbie Basho will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 13 December. The film documents the guitarist’s short life through interviews with Pete Townshend, Country Joe McDonald and Basho’s contemporaries, religious associates and a few close friends.

During his research process director Barker unearthed a large selection of previously unheard tapes recorded circa 1965–85. He's compiled them into the five CD box set Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes, set for release on Tompkins Square. The set includes sleevenotes by Barker, Henry Kaiser, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones and Richard Osborn, as well as a selection of unseen photographs. The official release date has yet to be announced.

Voice Of The Eagle is available for pre-order now.

Afrodeutsche, Antoine Chessex, Astrid Gnosis, Andrea Belfi, Cera Khin, Lokier, Dan Deacon, DJ Firmeza, Jessica Ekomane, Nene H & Ensemble Basiani, Raja Kirik, Rizan Said, Sherelle, Squarepusher, Tomasa del Real, Valesuchi and Y-DRA are among the artists added to CTM 2020.

Already confirmed artists include Deathprod, Dis Fig, Giant Swan, Henry Wu, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kamaal Williams, Robert Henke and Zamilska, as well as the winners of CTM 2020 Radio Lab call, Dani Gal with Ghazi Barakat and NUM.

Running from 24 January–2 February, CTM 2020’s theme is ‘liminal’. Tickets are on sale now.

The next Counterflows will take place between 2–5 April at various spaces in Glasgow. Artists confirmed so far include MC Yallah & Debmaster, I-Jahbar & Bokeh Edwards, Sosena Gebre Eyesus, Gabber Modus Operandi, and Catherine Lamb & Johnny Chang. The festival has also announced Still House Plants as the featured act for 2020, with members Finlay Clark, David Kennedy and Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach performing new music and different sides of their work ahead of their forthcoming 12", to be released by Blank Forms (US) and Bison (UK).

“Over the last few editions we have grappled with the various ways of articulating what Counterflows is,” comment the festival organisers. “Moving beyond the dogmas and hierarchies of experimental music, as well as fighting the creeping isolationist agenda, we have sought to create a space of social cohesion in an increasingly discordant world.”

More festival announcements coming soon.

Klub katarakt was conceived in 1992 by a group of composition students from Hamburg Music Academy who wanted to perform their work in spaces not usually frequented by classical music. In 2005 klub kataract expanded into a festival, and 2020's edition will include the audiovisual installation Passage, featuring musicians Lisa Lammel, Jonathan Shapiro, André Wittmann, Fiona McKenzie, Daria Iossifova, John Hughes, ensemble Nelly Boyd and the Harvestehuder Kammerchor under the direction of Edzard Burchards; a lecture and solo performances from Ellen Arkbro; Splitter Orchester & The Pitch performing Frozen Orchestra; Morton Feldman's Piano And String Quartet for Kronos Quartet and pianist Aki Takahashi (1985) performed by Lammel, Desheng Chen, Lucas Schwengebecher, Michael Heupel and Jan Feddersen; and a selection of new compositions and experimental films from the katarakt network.

Klub katarakt runs from 15–18 January.

Glasgow’s Glad Cafe is selling a series of limited edition artist prints as part of its bid to keep it independent. Based in the city's Southside, the arts and music venue was founded by the Smillie family in 2012 following a visit to East London's Cafe Oto. "Three years ago my sister Sarah was staying in Dalston and took my mother to Cafe Oto,” said venue manager Joe Smillie back in 2012. “On arriving back in Glasgow [Smillie's mother] decided that this was something the Southside was missing. She wouldn't stop talking about it and eventually roped my wife Karina and myself in."

Ten sets of Glad Editions will go public on 29 November at a Glad Cafe party featuring DJ sets from Duncan Marquiss of The Phantom Band and artist Tommy Grace of Django Django. Each print will run to an edition of 30 and they will be available to buy individually or in a whole set. Online sales start on 30 November and artworks will be exhibited at the venue throughout December.

Participating artists are Laura Aldridge, Monster Chetwynd, Rabiya Choudhry, Ruth Ewan, Norman Gilbert, Tommy Grace & Kate Owens, Kathryn Joseph & Rhian Nicholas, Lorna Macintryre, Kimberley O’Neill and Cathy Wilkes.

This month Edinburgh’s Leith Theatre is home to the first amphitheatre made entirely out of upcycled pianos. The Pianodrome was conceived by S!nk ensemble's Tim Vincent-Smith and Matt Wright, who worked with hundreds of volunteers, performers and donors to build this interactive sculpture. It was first unveiled at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh in August 2018 before moving to Pitt Street Market. The residency – or as they put it, Resonancy – has now moved to Leith.

The space is open from 1-5pm every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with a daily performance at 4pm. Entry is free except for ticketed events LeithLate and Oi Musica! on 16 and 17 November respectively. The residency will culminate with RESONATOR, a fundraiser festival running between 4–8 December.

“The Pianodrome is not just a venue – it's an interactive sculpture for creative community,” says Wright. “If it is well-used and well-loved it will flourish. During the Resonancy we hope to raise the £5000 we need to cover the year round costs of keeping this project alive.”

Next year Beatrice Dillon will release her debut album Workaround on Pan. Recorded between studios in London, Berlin and New York, all tracks are 150bpm and include edited samples from guest artists Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Laurel Halo, Batu, Kadialy Kouyaté, Untold and Lucy Railton.

Workaround is released on 7 February 2020. Stream “Workaround Two” featuring Laurel Halo, Bhamra, Lam, Susman and Untold.

A new book devoted entirely to the writings of artist Tony Conrad has been published. Edited by Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, this is the first publication of its kind and spans the period 1961–2012. It features fifty-seven works including essays for small press, exhibition catalogues, anthologies, album liner notes and previously unpublished texts.

Writing on his own art covers The Flicker, Loose Connection, Four Violins, Articulation Of Boolean Algebra For Film Opticals, Early Minimalism, Yellow Movies, Slapping Pythagoras and Music And The Mind Of The World. It also includes thoughts on his peers Tony Oursler, Jack Smith, Rhys Chatham and Henry Flynt. As for essay subjects, they cover topics from horology, neurolinguistics and the historical development of Western music to media activism, network communications, censorship and global media.

Tony Conrad Writings is available for $24 and comes in edition of 2000.