As previously reported, The Wire will be hosting a number of events at London’s Photographers’ Gallery this summer as part of the exhibition We Want More: Image-making & Music In The 21st Century. More details of some of those events have now been confirmed.

On 30 July, in one of the Photographers’ Gallery’s regular Socials, photographer Dan Wilton, whose self-published photobook-cum-zine STOB EHT is included in the exhibition, will be joining The Wire’s Art Director Ben Weaver to discuss the nuts and bolts of music photography and how to go about getting work published (6:30pm, free). More information can be found here.

Meanwhile, on 19 August, in an event co-programmed by The Wire, musician, software designer and instrument builder Leafcutter John will lead a special electronic music workshop investigating ways of transforming light into sound (6:30pm, £30/£25).

We Want More is at London’s Photographers’ Gallery between 17 July–20 September. Details of more events to come.

Seattle ensemble Master Musicians Of Bukkake will release Further West Quad Cult on 25 August via Important. The new recording has been specially designed for simultaneous four speaker playback with the group’s 2013 album Far West, or as a standalone experience.

Master Musicians Of Bukkake are led by musician, producer and sound engineer Randall Dunn, who’s known for his work with Sunn O))), Earth, Marissa Nadler, Wolves In The Throne Room and Midday Veil. More info and pre-orders incoming via Important. Watch a trailer for the record below.

The Soul Jazz label hosts a weekly film season over three Wednesdays in August. The label will be presenting a double bill of films about music at The Regent Street Cinema in London. First up is a bill of Brazilian bossa nova classic Black Orpheus and cult British reggae film Babylon (5 August). The following week twins a 1960s Motown-soundtracked civil rights film Nothing But A Man screens with Black Power documentary Black Power Mixtape (12). John Cassavettes’s first feature Shadows and Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy For The Devil (19) close the short run. Soul Jazz founder Stuart Baker will be introducing all three bills.

More details and ticket details here. Films start at 6:30pm and 8:30pm.

A kickstarter campaign has been started to fund the publication of a book of lyrics written by Ted Milton, the UK poet and founder of the post-punk group Blurt. Consisting of 120 pages of previously unpublished texts spanning 30 years, The Milton Text Book will be produced in an edition of 500, each individually risograph-printed, section-sewn and stitch-spined.

At the time of writing, the Kickstarter has three days left and has raised just over £2900. For more information, go here.

London's Barbican will host a three day celebration of Moog synthesizer inventor Dr Robert Moog. Called The Moog Concordance, it’s the first in a series of Summer events commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death, and it will feature performances of classic Moog based compositions, reworks of film soundtracks and newly commissioned pieces.

The series will kick off on 8 July with performances by The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble (which includes Portishead's Adrian Utley, composer Graham Fitkin and others) and composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine. Also on the programme are Alan Vega and Martin Rev of Suicide (9), a premiere of Charlemagne Palestine's INTERRVALLISSPHERE ii (12) and Eliza McCarthy performing new compositions by Mica Levi (18). More dates and information can be found here.

Dance music pioneer Charanjit Singh died at his home in Mumbai on 3 July. He was 74 years old. A key member of the Bollywood session musician elite, guitarist Singh was an enthusiastic early adopter of synthesizers and sequencers. As well as Roland’s legendary 808 and 303 drum machines, he also owned an Ondioline, a French electronic instrument invented in the 1940s; and he had also incorporated a Mattel Synsonics drum machine into his set-up, dubbed the "pew-pew machine" because of the sounds it produced.

Singh rose to prominence after "accidentally" making what's often referred to as the first acid house record: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat. Recorded in 1982, it pitted traditional ragas in triple speed against disco beats programmed into his 808 and 303. When the Dutch label Bombay Connection reissued it in 2010, it triggered a surge of interest in his music that allowed him to tour internationally. But illness forced him to cancel shows earlier this year.

Otomo Yoshihide will perform a special solo guitar set at the Ueno Store House venue in Tokyo this month, using the late Japanese free jazz guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi’s old instrument. A new film by Tokyo director Makino Takashi, incorporating 8mm footage of Takayanagi live in Hokkaido in 1984, will also screen at the event. The 8mm footage was shot by jazz critic Teruto Soejima, who died in July 2014. Along with Japanese free jazz pioneers Takayanagi, Masahiko Togashi and Masahiko Satoh, Soejima had helped found Tokyo’s first dedicated free jazz venue, the New Jazz Hall. Soejima Night No 2 takes place on 7 July, more details here.

In other Otomo-related news: a new album, Otomo Yoshihide, Guitar Solo 2015: Left, has just been released by Doubtmusic. Recorded in January this year, it’s a six track collection of solo guitar pieces performed by Otomo on Takayanagi's Gibson ES 175 guitar. As he used to work for Takayanagi until the pair fell out during the latter’s 1984 tour of Hokkaido, the chance to play his ex-boss’s instrument was emotionally significant for Otomo. He was given the guitar after Soejima’s funeral. “During his life Soejima-san had always been concerned about my ungracious leave-taking from Takayanagi-san,” says Otomo in the album’s sleevenotes. He also remarks, “[Takayanagi’s] instrument was used in the creation of so many works that I love.” The record includes Otomo’s readings of Takayanagi’s free guitar interpretations of Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” and Charlie Haden’s “Song For Che”, among others.

New York underground musician and mutant disco punk Lizzy Mercier Descloux is set to get the full archival shakedown this year, with five reissues of her work planned by Light In The Attic this year.

First to be made available is her debut full length album, Press Color, originally released in 1979 on ZE Records and now pressed to blue vinyl with extra liner notes by Vivien Goldman. It will be released on 8 July on vinyl and CD.

The Parisian-born Mercier Descloux was a poet, painter, actor, and self-taught musician who became heavily inspired by African music. She was an involved figure in the late 1970s and 80s New York scene, and founded the magazine Rock News with her husband Michel Esteban.

More info and pre-orders here.

Tuvan throat singer, percussionist and shaman Gendos Chamzyryn died from a heart attack on 18 June, aged 49. He is best known to western audiences for his work in K-Space, a group he formed with the improvising musicians Ken Hyder and Tim Hodgkinson.

Chamzyryn came from the rural region of Shui, West Tuva. His work as a folk (and, latterly, experimental) musician was always entwined with his deep involvement in shamanic practices. When he moved to the Tuvan capital Kyzyl in the 1980s he encountered the local rock scene, joining and becoming a key member of the avant garde shamanic group Biosintes in 1990. As well as a singer, he was a multi-instrumentalist, folk musician and improvisor. Like Sainkho Namtchylak (with whom he has recorded), he developed a distinctive way of working across traditional and experimental genres. He met Hyder and Hodgkinson in 1992, and in 1996 the three of them formed K-Space, a remarkable shamanic improvising trio.

Chamzryn had a flourishing solo career, as well as playing with numerous ensembles, including rock group Gen-DOS, Darky Medvedev, Alexej Saaia (formerly of Yat-Kha) and Igor Karalaev, and UGAAN, a folk-electronic collaboration with Polish musician Darek Makaruk.

"Gendos was instantly a brother to Tim Hodgkinson and me when we began playing together in K-Space,” commented Hyder. “We learned from each other. We were not identical characters. What bound us together was the spiritual aspect of all we did.

"We built on that accumulated shamanic approach and understanding, reaching a point on our last album Black Sky [recorded live in Sicily] where we might play individually in different tempi, say, then come together in the pocket, before moving on to something else. It was all improvised and seamless."

By Will Montgomery

Comedian and free jazz fan Stewart Lee will be curating an All Tomorrow’s Parties weekend next year. But at the time of writing no acts have been announced for the festival, set to take place between 15–17 April, 2016.

The Lee-curated weekend will be the second time ATP take over Pontin’s holiday camp in Prestatyn, Wales during the next 12 months. Scheduled for this November is an ATP festival curated by Jake and Dinos Chapman featuring Holly Herndon, The Notwist, The Album Leaf and more.

The line-up for Stewart Lee's ATP is still incoming. Check online for more.