Judge Ben Goldberg's priorities as you will: the Brooklyn based Ba Da Bing records label head used his recent honeymoon in New Zealand as an opportunity to start a sub-label, Even More Important.

"I realised it was the perfect opportunity to get some lathe cuts made and avoid the shipping costs to the US, because Peter King over there is world king of lathes," he says. "So, as a way to make my own marriage gift, and to ruin every holiday I ever have by making it at least into a partial business trip, I asked friends whose music I love to make some songs and got them over to Peter for cutting."

The label released a series of 11 lathes in editions of 20–30 (which sold out in around 24 hours) by Six Organs Of Admittance's Ben Chasny, Richard Youngs, A Hawk And A Hacksaw's Heather Trost, plus each member of The Dead C recording solo, among others. Most are sketches, from trickling water and growling metal in the Bruce Russell track "Icestorm", to Michael Morley's drawn out half-riffs, and Ben Chasny's "Wedding Song", a gentle guitar and chorus loop.

Peter King, the lathe cutter in question, lives in a rural area outside of Christchurch, and works out of a trailer in his driveway.

Most of the records sold out in under 24 hours, but are still available to listen to on Bandcamp. The digital download is priced at $1,000, as a workaround for not selling downloads, but still making the tracks available to stream.

The project is self contained, and probably won't be expanded, largely because Goldberg doesn't have any plans to return to New Zealand any time soon – the limited quantities were decided by how many he could fit in his luggage. Asked if there's any link between the artists, Goldberg responds: "The link is that I've been involved professionally with all the artists," he says, "and they are some of my favorite people to work with. I didn't want to deal with any divas or drama with this, only friends who would be into the idea. Then again, telling someone you are doing a 20 edition of a pressing and asking them to take part, that requires someone to be low drama."

More details on Even More Important here, and listen to Michael Morley's contribution below.

Gonzo Records is releasing a recording of Beefheart live at Harpo's in Detroit, a show from 11 December 1980. The bootleg captures a particularly hot period for the Captain, on one leg of the Doc At The Radar Station tour. The CD, from the same label that released The Lost Broadcasts DVD, contains 17 tracks and include renditions of "Safe As Milk", "Abba Zabba", "Bat Chain Puller" and others.

More details on the release, which is out now, here.

Find out the sounds your brain likes best at a series of workshops for 18–25 year olds held by scientists from The University Of Bristol at the Arnolfini. The workshops will be running on four dates, where participants will take part in EEG scanning. The data will then be used by artist Emma Smith to develop a new language that makes us feel connected.

11 & 12 June (2–5pm). RSVP to ellie.jeffs@arnolfini.org.uk. More details here.

An ensemble of musicians led by Talvin Singh will be performing live scores for two iconic Indian films: Raja Harishchandra from 1913, which was India's first full length feature film, and Satyajit Ray's 1960 film Devi.

Following a performance at Brighton Dome tonight (7 May), the five-piece group will perform at Bristol Colston Hall (14 June) and Nottingham Lakeside (16 June).

More details and tickets here.

Robin Fox's newest laser show has been added to July's Barbican event, headlined by Robert Henke. Henke will be performing Lumiere, a project where he "teaches lasers to dance" – three powerful white lasers which draw rapid succession of shapes, the data used to draw the shapes converted into audio on the spot. Fox will be performing with smoke and strobes and three laser projectors: red, green and blue, where the electrical signal is converted simultaneously into light and sound.

The audio visual performances take place at London Barbican on 19 July. Watch a video of Fox's RGB show below.

Hip hop producer DJ EZ Rock has died aged 46 from diabetes related complications. EZ Rock (Rodney "Skip" Bryce) was best known for the James Brown-sampling track "It Takes Two" which he made with MC Rob Base. Bryce retired from music after the pair's final album, Break Of Dawn, released in 1994, after being diagnosed with diabetes.

Long time collaborator and friend Rob Base writes on EZ Rock here.

Zeena Parkins and Roscoe Mitchell have been awarded one of this year's Doris Duke Performing Arts Awards, with Matana Roberts granted a Doris Duke Impact Award. Parkins and Mitchell will receive $275,000 each, and Roberts will receive $80,000.

The award has been running since 2011, funding those working in jazz, theatre and dance, spreading the grant across a period of one to three years. Matana Roberts was also recently awarded a Herb Alpert award in the arts.

Test Centre's Will Shutes will be selling a rare 1969 film featuring Syd Barrett at the ICA's Room&Book Fair next month. Psychedelia is a 22 minute, two-screen silent film directed by Kevin Whitney, which formed part of his degree show in 1970 and was mostly recorded at 31 Old Church Street, London SW3, in a house owned by Antonia Chetwynd.

Following the 1970 showing Psychedelia was not screened again until 2007, at the Portobello Film Festival 2nd London Film Makers Convention.

The ICA's Room&Book Fair takes place 6–8 June.

Former Pulp guitarist turned film maker Mark Webber has edited the collected writings of Greek-American experimental filmmaker Gregory J Markopoulos, who was making films at the same time as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol.

Film As Film: The Collected Writings Of Gregory J Markopoulos contains out of print and previously unpublished articles, plus essays and programme notes, which show Markopoulos gradually moving towards his Temenos project, an archive and screening space, which he envisaged in the Peleponnese, where his final work could be viewed in harmony with the Greek landscape.

The book is the first from Webber's new imprint The Visible Press. More details here.

Brighton promoters Spirit Of Gravity have launched a netlabel via Bandcamp. The first release on the label is titled Sitar For Concrete Dawns by Chris Cook, aka Same Actor. The monthly event series has been running since 2001, and has hosted a long list of fringe electronica and experimental music acts.

The label's first release is out now as a pay what you like download. Listen below, and more details on Spirit Of Gravity here.

Sitar For Concrete Dawns by Same Actor