Cafe Oto is starting a grant scheme for promoters and artists, and has an open call out for submissions. Four proposals will each receive £1500 to put on their event or series of events, plus free use of Cafe Oto for up to four evenings, and support with promotion and organisation. The promoter will also receive 100% of the ticket sales.

Proposals should include a one page outline explaining the event, plus links to the artists you plan to invite and a budget taking into account the £1500 grant and projected ticket sales.

Oto wants to hear from people with no previous experience booking shows, and events of any description are welcome, although all artists involved in proposed events must be based in the UK. Send submissions and questions to promotersandartistsfund@otoprojects.org. Deadline for submissions 1 May.

Holland's Incubate festival has announced the first batch of acts for its 2013 edition. They're dusting off acts including 808 State and Front 242, plus A Guy Called Gerald. Also on a club tip are Beneath, Hieroglyphic Being, Levon Vincent, Kowton and Pete Swanson. Lowering the BPM are Tim Hecker, Vessel, Alexander Tucker's Grumbling Fur. Dominic Fernow is lined up to play as Prurient and Vatican Shadow.

Incubate takes place across various venues in Tilburg, from 16–22 September, there's more acts on the bill in the works, which we'll update you about when we hear more.

This July, New York arts organisation EMPAC is hosting a conference on Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening method. Oliveros developed Deep Listening in the early 90s, as a sonic meditation which involves focusing on the detailed sounds of your surrounding environment, and listening with an open mind.

Papers are welcomed on any areas relating to deep listening, from teaching and workshops to meditation, performance and music technology. A list of suggestions (and how to submit proposals) is here.

A workshop takes place 7–11 July, and is followed by the two day conference in Troy, New York. Deadline for submissions is 15 April.

Portland, Oregon based crate diggers Mississippi Records are going on a summer tour around Europe, showcasing their own archives and screening films from the Alan Lomax archive (the Association for Cultural Equity).

The tour is headed up by Mississippi label head Eric Isaacson, who'll be showing select footage filmed on Lomax's travels around North America between 1978–1985, among other videos. Isaacson will be playing music too, culled from Mississippi's library of folk, blues, spirituals and roots music, from 1890 to the present day. Footage includes RL Burnside, Jack Owens, the 1982 Holly Springs Sacred Harp Convention, a funeral parade, one string guitar playing and more. (All the Lomax videos are available online via ACE here.)

Tour dates are as follows: Geneva Cinema Spoutnik & L'Ecurie (13 & 14 June), Berlin NK Project (15 &16 June), Brussels Galeries Cinema (17 June), Paris Montreuil (19 June), Deerhunter ATP Camber Sands (21–23 June), Bristol Cube Cinema (24 June), Cheltenham TBC (25 June), Birmingham Vivid Projects (26 June), Glasgow The Glad Cafe (27 June), Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre (30 June), London Cafe Oto (1 July), Bradford 1in12 Club (2 July). More info here.

In other news, Mississippi also recently started a subscription series (and got themselves a website). More on those developments here, and watch a video previewing the tour below.

Mississippi Records Tour Preview Film from plastic shaman on Vimeo.

A documentary on Father Yod's Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family will be screening from May. Premiered earlier this year, The Source Family is directed by Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos. Wille edited the 2007 book The Source Family: Father Yod and His Magical, Mystical Rock and Roll Commune, written by Source members Isis and Electricity Aquarian.

Yod was the head of an extended family on the West Coast. As well as starting a polygamous community, Father Yod also set up a healthy eating restaurant. Watch a trailer for the film below, and there's a list of US screenings here.

The Source Family (Trailer) from Eternal Now on Vimeo.

At the beginning of next month The Wire will be hosting a pair of discussion panels at Spain's two day LEV festival, in Gijon on the North Coast.

Two panels moderated by The Wire's Jeniffer Lucy Allan will take place, one on AV performance and another on post-Industrial Techno and Ambient strains of club music. The first panel, titled Enhanced Performances: Dance Music, Audio-visual Art And VJ Culture, will include MFO, Joanie Lemercier and Vincent Oliver (who's put together Clark's AV show for the festival) discussing the development of performance and narrative for live electronic music.

The second panel, It's Getting Dark In Here: Dissonance And Dystopia On The Dancefloor, will include Raime, Emptyset and Roly Porter, talking about current strains of Industrial and noise musics infiltrating club music.

LEV festival takes place 3–4 May in Gijon, Spain. Also on the line up are Pole, Kid606, Tim Hecker, Oneohtrix Point Never, Andy Stott, Jon Hopkins, Evian Christ, Santiago Latorre and others. Full line up and festival details here.

Jennifer Walshe's Milker Corporation has started a text score service, Thmotes, via photo messaging application Snapchat. Every day or two you'll get delivered a message containing an image and text, for you to do with what you will.

Once opened the messages are accessible for a few seconds before disappearing into the ether. To join in, download Snapchat, add Milker Corporation (search for milker_corp) to your contact list and you'll receive text scores a few times a week.

Simon Reynolds's history of rave, Energy Flash has been updated and is being published by Faber in June this year.

This 2013 edition of the book covers developments in the last five years, bumping up the page count to 560 pages. The expanded sections bring the the book up to the present day, covering dubstep's rise and current strands of dance music in America.

More at Reynolds's site and Faber.

Doom duo Om, are releasing two dubplates of tracks from album Advaitic Songs.

Sleep bassist and one half of Om, Al Cisneros, has reportedly been buying up dub recently (according to Aquarius records), and towards the end of last year released two 7" dub singles on his own Sinai label.

These two 12" dubplates are being released by Drag City, and have been worked on by UK Roots duo Alpha & Omega, who've reworked "Addis" and "Gethsemane". The former is out now, the latter on 20 May.

For Record Store Day 2013 deluxe hiphop reissue label Get On Down are releasing a double flexi-disc dedicated to the TR-909, with a 20 page booklet by Get On Down co-founder Joe Mansfield. The two-flexi discs include sounds taken from the TR-909, plus explanations read by rapper Schoolly-D, plus instrumental remakes of two of his drum tracks.

The Record Store Day release is a precursor of a larger book on the drum machine by Joe Mansfield, which will be out later this summer. Titled Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession, the book will include an introduction by Wire contributor and author of How To Wreck A Nice Beach, Dave Tompkins, and includes details of 75 drum machines taken from Mansfield's personal collection.

Get On Down are also pushing out a vinyl edition of their chess box version of GZA's Liquid Swords for Record Store Day. More details incoming here.