Lee Gamble is releasing a 12" and an album on Bill Kouligas's Pan label. The 12", titled "Deviations 1994–1996" is constructed entirely from Gamble's collection of Jungle cassette compilations, rhythms largely drawn out or absent entirely into 13- and 14-minute long analogue deviations. A month later Pan also release an album by Gamble titled Dutch Tvashar Plumes.

"Deviations 1994–1996" is due for release on vinyl and digital on 19 October, and, Dutch Tvashar Plumes follows on 16 November. Both come in Pan's signature plush PVC get up, pressed to 140g vinyl.

The British Forum for Ethnomusicology annual one day conference at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum has an open call out for papers under the title: "Making Sound Objects: Cultures of Hearing, Recording, Creating and Circulation".

The conference is guided by the following quote, given by the first Pitt Rivers curator Henry Balfour, to a group of anthropologists in 1929: "Any object whether natural or artificial, and however simple, which is employed for the purpose of producing sound (whether 'musical' in an aesthetic sense or not) should be included as a musical instrument."

The conference takes place on 24 November, at Pitt Rivers Museum, and Proposals are being taken for 20 minute papers, round table discussions, and hour and a half long sessions which feature three linked papers. To submit a paper, email noel.lobley[at]prm.ox.ac.uk, including a 200–250 word extract, plus any relevant audio files and images. Deadline is 19 October. More details here.

At the end of July, John Richards took his Dirty Electronics project to the Dartington Summer School in Devon. Attendees built and played what Richards calls a Faraday Dirty Kinetic Generator (as well as other instruments).

The Faraday Dirty Kinetic Generator charges a capacitor as the tube is shaken and sounds a note. Once each capacitor is fully charged, the players are given a cue to stop shaking, and a continuous tone will sound. The unified single pitch will gradually fragment into downward glissandi and an evolving cluster chord as the capacitors discharge. The instrument building workshop culminated in a performance, which took place 3 August in Dartington's Great Hall.

Andrew Hill filmed and edited a documentary on the summer school, watch it below.

Charge/Discharge (2012) by John Richards [Documentary & Performance] from Andrew Hill on Vimeo.

Christopher Kirkley is crowdfunding the vinyl release of a second volume of Music From Saharan Cellphones. As with the first volume, all the tracks were collected from the memory cards of mobile phones in and around the Sahara. Rewards run from a digital, cassette and SD card release, through to a cellphone from West Africa loaded with MP3s (for $100), or a DJ set by Kirkley (for upwards of $500).

Kirkley says: "It's similar in style to the first LP, lots of DIY home produced West African jams, autotuned Tuareg guitar and local Malian rap."

Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol.1 was released on a series of cassettes in 2010 (later released on vinyl), and this second volume is expected around November, if the funding target is met. At time of writing Kirkley had raised just over $2,500 of his target of $4,000, with 22 days on the clock. As per usual with Kickstarter, if he doesn't make his target he receives none of the pledged funding. Listen to Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar's "Anar" from the forthcoming compilation below.

Vladislav Delay and AGF have recorded a 55 minute mix of Nicki Minaj tracks under new production pseudonym, RyJ. The Pickle Juice mix removes all the choruses from Nicki Minaj tracks to leave just lyrics and rapping, which Greie describes as "mainstream-free".

Listen to the mix below, and follow RyJ on Twitter and Facebook.

Label head at Peacefrog records, Pete Hutchison, is starting a new label this November called The Electric Recording Company, for vinyl reissues of recordings from the EMI/Columbia back catalogue. The recordings date from between the 1950s to the mid-70s, and are mainly classical recordings that demand enormous sums at collectors auctions.

The first on the release schedule is a batch of three LPs by violinist Johanna Martzy, a Hungarian violinist who recorded as a soloist and spent some time with the New York Philharmonic. She died age 54 in 1979, having not recorded music for years, and her fame was largely posthumous, generated by the success of the solo Bach violin sonatas Hutchison is reissuing, which are scheduled to arrive in November.

Hutchison has licensed around 80 recordings from the EMI/Columbia catalogue, and is also planning to release recordings by violinists Leonid Kogan and Geoconda De Vito, pianists Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Thysses-Valentin and cellist Janos Starker. The vinyl has been re-cut from original reel-to-reel masters on restored 1950s lathe cutters, and artwork has been recreated using 1950s and 60s printing techniques. Sign up for more details here, and watch a short film on the label below.

The Electric Recording Company #1 from FourthFlightFilms on Vimeo.

Mutek Festival has opened submissions for work to be included in next year's festival. Artists applying must be Canadian, living in Canada or abroad. Mutek is looking for live acts, audiovisual performances and installations, but DJ mixes will not be considered.

Submissions should include live recordings of performances, and full contact details. The deadline for applications is 15 October. Send all relevant information through to submission@mutek.org (postal address here).

Two remembrance concerts for Lol Coxhill are being held in London in the coming months. The first takes place at Cecil Sharp House, with Eddie Prevost, John Edwards, Phil Minton, Trevor Watts, Tony Bevan, Pat Thomas, David Toop, Mark Sanders, Veryan Weston and many others. The second will be held at Cafe Oto on 31 October, and the preliminary line-up includes Steve Beresford, Veryan Weston and Dave Stephens, but will be expanded in the coming weeks.

The Cecil Sharp evening starts at 7pm on 19 September and runs till 11pm. Tickets on the door are £10. Full details of the Cafe Oto show will be added in the coming weeks. More details will be added here as we get them.

New Yorkers Zs are celebrating their ten year anniversary with a box set and a line-up change. The new line-up is a three piece, and includes founder member Sam Hillmer, plus guitarist Patrick Higgins and drummer Greg Fox. The trio are planning to release an album (titled Xe) and an EP (titled Grain) next year.

The Zs retrospective is a four disc set titled Score – The Complete Sextet Works From 2002–2007, which will arrive on 11 September. The set includes all of the group's out of print works from their first five years of life, plus a disc of previously unreleased material. Zs celebrate en masse with a release party on 29 August in Brooklyn, at 285 Kent Ave, with a raft of performances from current and former Zs members's groups and side projects. Playing on the night will be Hillmer's Diamond Terrifier, plus Hubble, Extra Life, Wet Ink Ensemble, and the Mick Barr & Marc Edwards Duo.

Listen to samples from Score below. Further reading: a 7,000 word history of Zs over at Northern Spy.

Jonny Trunk is releasing a 30 track compilation of selections from the Trunk Records catalogue, housed in a lookalike Sainsbury's Refined Lard cardboard sleeve and priced for the bargain hungry/recession pressed at a couple of quid. It includes tracks by Terry Thomas, Basil Kirchin, Bill Evans, plus advertising jingles, children's singing, film music, and a Cha Cha version of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" by Rolf Harris.

The cover design takes its cues from 1960s/70s Sainsbury's packaging, which Trunk recently documented in a coffee table book titled Own Label.

The Refined Lard compilation is due to arrive around the end of September. More details incoming on the Trunk site.