Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz (as The Ecstatic Peace Library) have curated an exhibition of William Burroughs photographs and ephemera, largely taken from Village Voice photographer James Hamilton's images of the 1978 Nova Convention in New York. The Nova Convention, a three day celebration of readings, discussions, film screenings and performances on Burroughs's work, included contributions from Laurie Anderson, John Giorno, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Brion Gysin, Frank Zappa, John Cage, Timothy Leary and others.

An exhibition catalogue will also be published at the same time, you can read Moore's essay from it here. The exhibition runs until 13 July at Shoreditch Red Gallery. More details here.

4AD have launched a site for a collaboration between Stephen O'Malley's Sunn O))) and Scott Walker. A source from the label is quoted as saying that Sunn O))) and Walker are "working together, and there is a record coming later in the year".

No more details have been announced, although there is a microsite for the Walker & Sunn O))) project here.

[Hat tip: The Quietus]

Scottish composer James Dillon has been announced as HCMF composer in residence for 2014. Dillon is counted as a new complexity composer, with his music having a reputation as being difficult to play. He was one of the first winners of HCMF's Young Composer's Award in 1978.

New and existing works by Dillon will be performed throughout the festival, which this year takes place at various venues in Huddersfield from 21–30 November. More to be added to the programme in the coming months.

Following a successful crowdfunding campaign led by the We Are The Music Makers forum, a test pressing of Aphex Twin's Caustic Window has been released digitally with the original test pressing selling for $46,300 on eBay. The buyer was Markus Persson, creator of the game Minecraft, and half the final amount will go to charity as chosen by the forum (members can vote here).

Forum head and test pressing seller Joyrex said in a forum post: "He's a really cool guy, and didn't even consider the charity aspect when buying it (but was really happy to hear that half is going to charity) – he's been an Aphex fan since he was young. My daughter was blown away that the guy who made the game she endlessly plays bought a record off her dad for $46,000."

Swedish underground psychedelics documenter Patrick Lundborg has died age 47. Lundborg was best known as the author of Psychedelia and Acid Archives, and wrote many essays and liner notes relating to psychedelic music and culture, including a reference guide to the 13th Floor Elevators, regularly publishing on his Lysergia.com website until his death.

On 20 September Warp celebrate the label's 25th anniversary with a series of events in Krakow. Squarepusher performs with the Sinfonietta Cracovia, and the London Sinfonietta performs a series of orchestral versions of work by Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Steve Reich and more. Also performing at the 20 September event are Battles, Autechre, LFO, Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, Plaid, Darkstar, Patten and Bibio.

After announcing its next theme as Un Tune, CTM festival has opened a call for radio works to be performed at the 2015 festival. The call looks for proposals coupling radio with live performance or installation, specifically in relation to the 2015 theme. Two works will be chosen to be performed or installed at the festival in Berlin (23 January–1 February) and should result in 40–55 minute long radio versions. Deadline for submissions 31 August 2014. For more details on applying head here.

The ECAS (European Cities Of Advanced Sound) Network also has an open call for an artist film maker to produce a documentary following the ECAS Project from September 2014 until May 2015. More details on the proposal here. Deadline for applications 31 July 2014.

Jad Fair's Half Japanese are releasing their first new album in 13 years on 3 September. Overjoyed is released on Joyful Noise, with the current line up of Jad Fair, Mick Hobbs, Gilles Rieder, John Sluggett and Jason Willett with Deerhoof's John Dietrich on production.

While new material has been a long time coming, there's been a slew of releases and retrospective efforts in recent years. Along with Joyful Noise's 7" of tracks from the forthcoming album earlier this year, Fire records released a triple LP of Half Japanese albums from between 1981–85 for Record Store Day, which was the first in a series of four volumes, following up on a number of reissues in 2013.

Half Japanese also just joined Facebook.

Sub Pop has launched a digital subscription service for new releases. The service is powered by a service called Drip.fm where a label can charge a monthly fee for its fans to be sent music and other information. The platform began after requests by Ghostly International fans asking for a digital subscription service to follow the label. It's now also used by RVNG Intl, Smalltown Supersound, FatCat, Ninja Tune, Stones Throw and others. More at drip.fm/subpop

Wire are reissuing their 1981 live record, Document & Eyewitness, which includes two shows from 1979 and one infamous, poorly recorded 1980 London Electric Ballroom show, where the group performed a swathe of abrasive and cacophonous unreleased and under rehearsed material.

The record will be reissued on double CD and vinyl, and each show will be released digitally in its entirety on 18 August. More details incoming at Pink Flag.