Masaki Batoh, acupuncturist and Ghost frontman is taking his Brain Pulse Music project on tour around the US and Canada.

Batoh developed Brain Pulse Music in reaction to the Japan earthquake. The project began as an attempt to translate brainwaves into sound, but following the Japan earthquake, Batoh began to see more patients complaining of stress and anxiety at his acupuncture clinic, and the album morphed from a purely electronic work to one which became an attempt to reconcile spirit and body via rhythms, melodies, and instrumentation used in traditional religious practices and festivals.

Batoh developed a machine that sonified brain waves and made the user conscious of negative increases in brain activity.

Dates run across the US and Canada, from 26 April and 14 May. Full listings here. Watch a Brain Pulse Music instructional video below:

Two pieces of Richard Skelton news for fans of the wandering water poet. Prints and audio, plus Skelton's Limnology book will be displayed at the Paul Stolper gallery in London 29 April–1 May. Five new prints that use Limnology's glossary – which includes over 1000 water words – will also be shown. More details here.

On the horizon for next year, Skelton has also been commissioned by Forma to create works in the Lake District, which will then be made available through a smartphone app, meaning listeners can access compositions in specific locations via their GPS signal. More details on that project incoming here.

Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald have recorded an album together, which will be performed at Montreal's 2013 Mutek festival. The project, Borderland, will be released on 10 June via Tresor, on CD and as a triple 12".

Atkins has been working with von Oswald for a number of years, with the latter having engineered a number of Model 500 releases, and Atkins working with von Oswald and Fehlmann in 3MB. The duo play Mutek in Montreal on 2 June, on a bill with Juju & Jordash and Dictaphone. Full Mutek line up here.

Grime 2.0, the recent compilation put together by Wire contributor Joe Muggs, is being pressed to vinyl, following a successful run on crowdsourcing vinyl repress site Beat Delete. The site, run by Ninja Tune, lets you register your interest next to out of print albums or singles. Once 200 people put their name down, the record will be repressed.

Beat Delete was started by Martin Dobson at Ninja Tune, and so the service largely deals with their releases, but also incorporates sublabels and a handful of other imprints, including Leaf, Ghostly, Sunday Best, Accidental, Brainfeeder, Tru Thoughts, Bad Panda, Beggars, Domino, Werkdiscs. Dobson says they're looking to add more labels, and asks anyone interested to email info@beatdelete.com.

Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, is the associate artist for Spitalfields Festival in East London and will be hosting two events this June.

On 8 June, Scanner will be joined by The Haxan Cloak (aka Bobby Krlic), performing a new piece inspired by Elizabethan lute player John Dowland's composition Lachrimae. Scanner's work uses cello, guitar and treated percussion alongside visuals. More details on that show here.

The series moves around Spitalfields on 21 June for a series of installations and performances put together by Gazelle Twin's Elizabeth Walling, looking at Dowland's Flow My Tears. More details on that performance here.

The festival runs 7–22 June.

Next in Death Waltz's line of plush John Carpenter soundtracks is The Fog, which they're releasing on double vinyl in June. The artwork (which they're keeping under wraps for now) has been specially commissioned from Dinos Chapman.

The Fog will be released on one green and one clear vinyl, pressed in an edition of 1000. The double vinyl includes the original score to the 1984 film plus a record of movie cues. Death Waltz have been running a strong line in plush vinyl reissues of horror soundtracks in the last couple of years, with a clutch of Carpenter's soundtracks (including the Halloween series).

A 16mm full scope print of the film will also be screened in London on 7 June at The Nave in Islington, where Death Waltz will have copies of the record for sale. Full tracklisting and artwork specs, plus details of the London screening of the film, at this link.

German electronic music award Giga-Hertz has opened entries for the 2013 prize. There are eight prizes in the award, four for sound art and four for electronic or acousmatic music.

The prizes award €8,000 to each of the eight winners in the form of a grant to create a work, either at the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe or the SWR Experimental Studio in Freiburg. The grant covers living costs plus travel to and from the studios. Artists working at the SWR Experimental Studio are expected to spend two to four weeks in Freiburg, while those working at ZKM in Karlsruhe have at least two months to complete work. New works will be premiered at the following year's awards ceremony.

Giga-Hertz also awards one grand prize of €15,000, to an established composer with a large body of work. Winners of the grand prize have included Pauline Oliveros, Jonathan Harvey and Trevor Wishart, among others, and are selected by jury vote.

Submissions require a biography, photograph of the artist, description of the work, plus tech specs of the piece, plus a proposal for a new work. Work must not be more than five years old, or have won awards elsewhere. Full details of whether a work qualifies for inclusion here. Application deadline 31 May.

Quick heads up: Japanese artist and improvisor Akio Suzuki will be on tour around Europe this June and July, playing solo and in a duo with Aki Onda.

Suzuki plays two dates solo, on 9 June at Madrid festival La Casa Encendida, and 7 July at Festival Grand Écart, in Saint-Briac sur Mer. He also plays with David Maranha at Porto's Serralves Museum on 15 & 16 June. Duo performances with Aki Onda are as follows: London Cafe Oto (11 June), Basel LIste Art Fair (13 June), Tuned City in Brussels (27, 19 & 30 June). More on the Aki Onda dates here.

London residents take note: the Soul Jazz record shop, Sounds Of The Universe, will be celebrating Record Store Day this Saturday by rigging up an in-store soundsystem.

Berwick Street in Soho is being closed off for the annual record store day market 12–7pm, and Sister Ray up the street from Sounds Of The Universe will be hosting a series of acts on a temporary stage, including Wire. Full event listings for around the country are over at the Record Store Day website.

Chicago trumpet colossus Wadada Leo Smith has been named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for music, behind winner Caroline Shaw's for Partita for 8 Voices. Leo Smith is a finalist in the music section of the awards, for his 4CD Cuneiform release from last year, Ten Freedom Summers.

The music Pulitzer has been running since 1943, when the first recipient was classical composer William Schuman. It took until 1997 for a jazz record to receive the prize – Wynton Marsalis's Blood On The Fields. Leo Smith has been named as one of two finalists from 157 entries, alongside Aaron Jay Kernis.

Ten Freedom Summers is a 21 part work in three cycles, based on the American civil rights movement, focused around the ten years between the US Supreme Court's 1954 decision to end segregation in schools and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and inspired in part by August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of plays. It's released by Cuneiform (more details here).