A community-run initiative set up in 2012 in order to fund a self-sustaining events and work space for London’s DIY music culture has found a venue in South East London.

At the time of writing, the DIY Space For London project has raised just under £20,000 through benefit gigs, events and community grants, enabling it to secure a five year lease on a multi-purpose warehouse space which will house events, rehearsals and meetings, as well as a members’ club bar.

DIY Space For London plans to open its doors this summer, and it’s currently looking for volunteers to help with everything from cleaning to sound proofing. More information can be found here.

Crossroads was made in 1976 by the underground US film maker and visual artist Bruce Conner. It consists of archive footage of the second of two bomb tests conducted in July 1946 by the US government at its nuclear test site on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. At the time, the tests, codenamed Operation Crossroads, were among the most photographed events in human history: for the second of the two tests, the US deployed more than 60 aircraft carrying more than 300 cameras to record the explosion and its aftermath. It is this footage, slowed down to hypnotic effect, that supplies the material for Conner’s 37 minute film.

From the 1950s onwards, Conner, a pioneer of found footage radical film making, was a key member of the San Francisco underground, collaborating with the Family Dog hippie collective on light shows at the Avalon Ballroom in the 1960s, and working as a photographer for the punk fanzine Search And Destroy in the 70s. For the soundtrack to Crossroads he commissioned two fellow members of the city’s counterculture. The sound of the bomb explosion was fabricated by Patrick Gleason, a former member of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi group, using a Moog synthesiser at his Different Fur Trading Company electronic music studio; the second part of the film features Terry Riley’s minimalist multi-tracked organ work.

Crossroads screens at London’s Thomas Dane Gallery until 18 July.

Laibach have confirmed that they will be playing two concerts in North Korea’s capital city Pyongyang, making them the first Western industrial rock group to play inside the communist-run Democratic People’s Republic.

Happening on 19–20 August, the concerts mark the 70th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to the Allies in August 1945, which also ended Japan’s 35 year occupation of the peninsula. Both performances will be filmed for a documentary to be released in 2016.

More info here.

London’s 14th East End Film Festival will include a screening of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s neo-giallo film The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears with a new score curated by Ben Power (Fuck Buttons/Blanck Mass). On its initial release the film had no original music, drawing instead on existing giallo soundtracks. Featuring contributions from Blanck Mass, Helm, Moon Gangs, Konx-Om-Pax, Roll The Dice and C Spencer Yeh (aka Burning Star Core), Power’s new score will be released by Death Waltz on 24 July.

The screening takes place on 10 July at 7:30pm and will be followed by a DJ set from Blanck Mass and more. Tickets can be booked via the festival website.

The Wire has been deeply saddened by the news of the death of Ornette Coleman in New York on 11 June aged 85.

The Wire was founded in 1982, and has gone through many changes in the subsequent three decades. But throughout that time Ornette and his music remained integral to the magazine, a cornerstone of our world. Ornette appeared on the cover of The Wire three times, most recently in 2009, and over the years the magazine published a further four extensive interviews with him, as well as numerous reviews and critical appraisals.

Over the coming days we will be putting a number of tributes to Ornette online, beginning with this personal appreciation by Brian Morton. Stream a YouTube playlist of Ornette-related tracks referenced in Brian's essay here.

Chicago percussionist Jerome Cooper died of cancer on 6 May. Cooper was known for his multidimensional drumming – a highly inventive self-devised approach in which each of the drumkit’s components were considered part of an orchestral whole – and was a member of the long-running Revolutionary Ensemble alongside bassist Sirone (who died in 2009) and violinist Leroy Jenkins (who died in 2005). Cooper also worked with Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Max Roach, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Lester Bowie and many more. He was aged 68.

Wire writer, jazz critic, improvisor and broadcaster Daniel Spicer is starting a new jazz festival. Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival takes place for the first time this year from 11–12 September in The Old Market, Hove, and according to Spicer is a reaction to so-called jazz festivals who “deliver watered down soul, pop-funk and R&B.”

The first edition of Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival includes performances by William Parker with Hamid Drake and John Dikeman, UK saxophonist Nat Birchall and Canadian drummer Franklin Kiermyer, the Sarah Gail Brand Sextet, percussion and bass-led quartet Woven Entity with Danish reed player and flautist Julie Kjaer, plus Mette Rasmussen, Rachel Musson, and Yana, a trio of vibraphone player Corey Mwamba, bassist Dave Kane and drummer Joshua Blackmore.

More acts will be announced in the coming months, and weekend tickets cost £30. Check the Facebook event and forthcoming website for more announcements.

Aum Fidelity have announced the release of a three CD box set of new and previously unissued material by composer-bassist William Parker. The set is comprised of four longform works – For Fannie Lou Hamer is a homage to the civil rights leader; Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks finds Parker joined by Cooper-Moore (piano), Hamid Drake (drums), Rob Brown (alto saxophone) and Klaas Hekman (bass saxophone) with Senegalese griot Mola Sylla and classically trained Indian singer Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay; Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still is Parker’s first work for symphony orchestra, commissioned by Poland’s National Forum of Music and performed by the NFM Symphony Orchestra along with Parker, Charles Gayle and Mike Reed. The box, illustrated by artist Douglas Arnold, will contain a 24 page booklet with notes by The Wire’s Philip Clark.

For Those Who Are, Still is set to be released on 21 August

Electronic music composer and synth builder Dr Peter Zinovieff is set to release the first complete retrospective of his early electronic music experiments.

Zinovieff worked with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as Unit Delta Plus, and founded the EMS studio and synthesizer company alongside Tristram Cary and David Cockerell, run out of a shed behind Zinovieff's house in Putney, London.

The Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes documents recordings of works made by Zinovieff between 1965–79 (when his studio dissolved and the EMS Synthesizer company went bankrupt). Released by Space Age Recordings on 22 June, The Electronic Calendar features extensive sleevenotes, photos and excerpts from Zinovieff's diary compiled by label founder Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom.

Kaffe Matthews’s Bicrophonic Research Institute, which makes sonic bikes for hire, has an open call for composers, sound artists and musicians to create sound works which will create a collective performance in and around London Fields on 5–6 August. Applications are open for any form of sound work and can be scored as one track, or multiple smaller tracks to be mapped together to result in a 15–30 minute cycle journey.

Submissions must be in the form of a 500 word proposal, biography and two examples of past work. Selected applications will receive an introduction to the sonic bikes at a weekend workshop with Kaffe Matthews on 15–16 August, with the works developed and completed between 16–31 August. Deadline for submissions is 1 July. A full document with guidelines on how to apply can be downloaded here.