Editions Mego is holding a one day event at Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion on 11 May, catchily titled 20130511. Label head Peter Rehberg is giving the event a catalogue number, eMego170 and will be releasing a CD compilation for ticket holders. The event includes performances across two rooms, with one room dedicated to live sets and the other to performances of material from the INA-GRM catalogue, which Editions Mego has been reissuing under its Recollection GRM sub label.

Performing live are Bruce Gilbert, Mark Van Hoen under his Locust moniker, Kevin Drumm, Fennesz, and new Mego signing Bill Roisz. SND's Mat Steel and Pan label head Bill Kouligas will also be playing DJ sets. The GRM room will host performances of work by Bernard Parmegiani and Luc Ferrari, a new work by Florian Hecker, plus sets from composers Robert Hampson (of Loop) and Kassel Jaeger. There will also be an installation by Mark Fell, titled Factoid#3.

Every ticket holder will receive a CD compilation, which will not be going on general release. The CD, eMego170, will include exclusive or unreleased tracks by all the artists involved, and Rehberg will be releasing a tracklisting next month. More details on tickets incoming at the De La Warr Pavilion.

The line up for the Mego one dayer 20130511 is as follows:

Live Room
14:00 Bill Roisz
15:00 Bruce Gilbert
16:00 Locust
17:00 Russell Haswell
18:00 Mark Fell
19:00 Kevin Drumm
20:00 Fennesz
GRM Room
15:30 Kassell Jaeger
16:30 Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum
17:30 Robert Hampson
19:30 Hecker
20:30 Luc Ferrari: Presque Rien

A slew of news from the Wolf Eyes camp: Firstly, Mike Connelly has "retired his slot" in the group. John Olson and Nate Young will be joined by Crazy Jim Baljo, who Young says "was the one who first coined the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly". Young also writes: "The new era of the Wolf sound is tight simplified steady slow burning electronics/guitar/tapes/reeds unheard before in the canon of the band."

The group also have a new album on the way, titled No Answer, which will be packaged as a series of four 7" singles, then compiled as a CD/vinyl release later in the year. No Answer will be released in the US on John Olson's American Tapes, with a label yet to be announced for the rest of the world.

Wolf Eyes will also be touring Europe in April (dates to be announced), where there'll also be sets by Stare Case, Nate Young's Regression project, John Olson's Henry & Hazel Slaughter, plus performances with Richard Pinhas.

Evol, aka Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, and Stephen Sharp, are starting a new digital release series from the Evol archive of pieces created in the last three years. The first release, Hyperobject-1 is an hour of archetypal Evol rave slime.

Each release is free, and comes with an A5 letterpress print on thick board (Hyperobject-1 pictured above), which is free (you just pay for postage). More details and downloads here.

The Stool Pigeon and Brad Rose's Foxy Digitalis are being put to bed. Both Rose's label Digitalis and the online Foxy Digitalis turn ten this year, and with a baby on the way and other time pressures Rose has made the decision to let Foxy Digitalis and its writers be absorbed into Decoder, in order to focus on the label.

Rose and Decoder's Dwight Pavlovic plan to redesign the Decoder site for a relaunch in March, and Foxy Digitalis will be mothballed and left online as an archive.

Free music newspaper The Stool Pigeon has also announced that the current print issue will be its last. Editor Phil Hebblethwaite writes: "I still love doing what we do, and perhaps what I’m trying to say is that running out 60,000 copies of a free newspaper six times a year and distributing them to 100 cities/towns across the UK has become untenable, and also increasingly less effective and exciting than publishing journalism online."

The Stool Pigeon has been running since 2005, Brad Rose's Foxy Digitalis since 2003. Both will be missed. More from Hebblethwaite on closing The Stool Pigeon here, and Brad Rose's departing statement here.

Gabriel Prokofiev's Nonclassical is holding a festival across 11 days in London, on the Pioneers Of Electronic Music.

Events include a Dirty Electronics workshop with John Richards, screenings of The Day The Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet, plus documentaries on Raymond Scott, FC Judd, and performances of work by Scott, Stockhausen, Varèse and members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, among others.

The festival takes place at various venues in London, including The Rio Cinema, Hackney picturehouse, XOYO and others, between 6–17 March. Full listings here.

DJ/ Rupture is releasing his first album under his own name. Jace Clayton's The Julius Eastman Memory Depot is based on the gay African American composer, pianist and dancer Julius Eastman, who died at the age of 49 in 1990.

The album focuses on two of Eastman's piano works, "Evil Nigger" and "Gay Guerilla" , recorded with David Friend and Emily Manzo, from loosely notated pieces, plus an original piece by Clayton which includes Sufi vocalist Arooj Aftab.

The Julius Eastman Memory Depot is released on New Amsterdam records on 26 March. More details incoming here.

Jacqueline Caux's Almost Nothing With Luc Ferrari has been published in English. It contains original interviews, and previously unpublished texts by Ferrari in which he reflects on his key compositions, as well as 14 short imaginary autobiographies, which he wrote between 1971 and 1997.

It was originally published in French, with this version translated by Jérôme Hansen and is published by Errant Bodies.

Dutch jazz percussionist and prankster Han Bennink is this year's recipient of the Jazzahead-Skoda-Award, which awards an outstanding personality of the international jazz scene with €15,000. Bennink will be presented with the award in Bremen on 25 April, where he will also perform with Simon Toldam and Joachim Badenhorst.

Previous winners include John McLaughlin, Norma Winstone, organiser of the Montreaux Jazz Festival Claude Nobs, and Siggi Loch.

More details (in German) here.

Vicki Bennett's first feature length The Zone, which involves a split screen edit of The Wizard Of Oz and Tarkovsky's Stalker, will not be screened again following a legal claim from Mosfilm (owners of Stalker). Distribution has now ceased on the film and it has been withdrawn from circulation.

The Zone had its debut screening at Bristol's Arnolfini in November (reviewed in The Wire 348), and was supposed to be screened last week at Berlin's Transmediale festival. Instead of the film, Transmediale screened a statement in protest at the film being removed from distribution. It read: "The installation of The Zone in this auditorium, a hall built in the 1950s at the Inner German border to represent the communication possible between worlds, would have created an imaginary museum. But unfortunately the legal department of one of the copyright holders, Mosfilm, insisted on stopping the distribution of the The Zone, which is why it has been withdrawn from circulation. Therefore we are not able to show the work right now. We can just invite you to imagine an imaginary film museum."

Bennett says: "This is the first legal claim made against my appropriation work in 22 years. I pay homage to content and my motivation is to make conceptual connections between context and content using folk art, and the majority of critics have found the result highly positive and often humorous in intention, as a result my work has been funded and supported by bodies such as the BBC, BFI and Arts Council England. I have received nothing but support, and heard nothing but outrage from those who have heard of this incident. The concept of this film remains strong, although it has transformed into something else rather quicker than I expected!"

Read Bennett's statement, plus a statement posted in the cinema at Transmediale last week, at peoplelikeus.org.

Following a major revamp of its website, Amoeba Music has begun offering digital downloads of its Vinyl Vaults section of rare and out of print records.

The collection includes 12"s, 45s, LPs and 78s: Louis Armstrong Okeh discs, Aldous Huxley spoken word records, Memphis Minnie, Rev JM Gates, Django Reinhardt, plus New Age and comedy sections. Amoeba add a handful of new digitisations per day, with the catalogue currently sitting at around 1,100 titles, and individual track downloads (of MP3s, WAVs or lossless M4As) run from 78¢ to $1.50. The project has taken six years and cost $11million.

As for rights, Amoeba is not chasing permissions. Sales from the records go into an escrow account. Marc Weinstein, Amoeba co-owner, is quoted as saying: "If [someone says], 'That's mine,' well, OK, we can either take it down or we'll sell it, and you've got this nice [digital] master. We'll sell it, we'll promote it; let's sign a contract."