Pierre Schaeffer's In Search Of A Concrete Music (À La Recherche D'Une Musique Concrète) has been translated to English and will be published in November 2012 by the University of California Press.

Translator and Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University John Dack (who worked with retired Middlesex University French lecturer Christine North) began making translations for his own personal reference, after finding that other translated Schaeffer texts had the wrong language register, meaning Schaeffer often sounded pompous and sometimes muddled.

Dack says: "I realised that if most Anglophone students and scholars read this passage they would probably dismiss Schaeffer and examine his works no further… Christine, like me, has enormous respect for Schaeffer and his intellectual achievements, and these are not recognised widely in the English-speaking world due to the absence of good translations."

More details here.

A compilation of music from The Wire's contributing editor Rob Young's Electric Eden book is being released on 13 August. Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music is a two disc compilation (an "Acoustic Eden" and "Electric Eden"), which features folk music from Archie Fisher, Meic Stevens, Bill Fay, Comus, and Mick Softley, plus David Bowie, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, John Martyn, The Incredible String Band, Nick Drake and others.

Rob Young says: "I've tried to include a mixture of rarities, unheard versions, familiar names and unjustly neglected heroes and heroines. I'm particularly proud of including a rare original version of "A Sailor's Life" by Fairport Convention, literally the first time a rock drum kit was ever used on a traditional folk song."

Leafcutter John is asking for contributions to a morse code chorus he is creating for BBC Radio 3 show The Verb, for broadcast on 24 October.

John's asking for a recording of you speaking the letter 'Q', followed by the words dot, dash, dit, dah, then a word of your choice that begins with the letter Q. Email all contributions to morsecodechorus[at]gmail.com, and remember to include details of how you'd like to be credited. You can also share the file via Soundcloud here. Full details here.

Charles Mingus's Jazz Workshop Concerts are being released by Mosaic Records on a 6CD set. The concerts, from 1964–5 feature Eric Dolphy, Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond, Johnny Coles and Clifford Jordan, from New York, Amsterdam, Minneapolis and Monterey.

The Jazz Workshop was Mingus's ensemble of a rotating set of players, where pieces were developed through repeated rehearsals of a set of core tunes. Performances involved on the spot improvisation with Mingus often shouting instructions, stopping play to correct mistakes, and tell off inattentive audiences.

The booklet for Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964–65 contains photos, liner notes by Mingus biographer Brian Priestley, plus an essay by Sue Mingus. The set is printed in an edition of 7,500, and is due for release on 18 September. More details here.

Tri Angle is one of the hardest labels to pin down in contemporary music. Even before its first proper release it was issuing enigmatic manifestos and mixtapes online, and since then it has brought together lone laptoppers from the Middle East to the Mid West, flitting between bedroom/basement lo-fi and the honed sonic techniques of the R&B production line. Even the label itself moves back and forth between London and New York every half year. Label boss Robin Carolan is in the studio this week to talk through the roots of this most rootless label, from the cyborg Auto-Tune of Britney Spears's lost years through the sonic fictions of Ghost Box and the glossy exoticism of hiphop producer Bangladesh. Resonance FM, Thursday 26 July, 21:00-22:30.

MoMA PS1’s educational program Summer School has an open call for art, poetry, film, writing, music and drama students to apply to participate in the annual series of workshops, lectures and discussions.

This year, master classes will be taught by the pioneer of performance art Marina Abramović, choreographer Steve Paxton, and Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

The deadline for applications is 20 July. For more info here.

A brief missive from the Opalio brothers today, as Roberto and Maurizio (aka My Cat Is An Alien) announce that they have abandoned their signature guitars and 'space toys', and swapped them for a new set of home made string instruments and reassembled electronic devices.

Roberto says: "Me and my brother decided to create a new beginning in sound: I started working with a totally new set of modified, de-constructed, electronic devices, while my brother self made a peculiar double-bodied string instrument."

A double LP using the new instruments will be released on Discrepant records in September, titled Art Is A Tear Of Noise And Infinite Silence.

British saxophonist Lol Coxhill died in London on 10 July aged 79. He had been seriously ill for around the last six months.

Coxhill originally trained as a bookbinder, and only left factory work in the mid 1960s. His first break came with his TV appearance with Tony Knight's Chessmen, backing rock 'n' roll instigator Rufus Thomas doing "Walking The Dog" on Ready Steady Go.

In the 50s Coxhill was a member of Denzil Bailey's Afro Cubists, the Graham Fleming Combo (which toured US air bases in England), and Sonny G and the G Men, and also spent time "temporarily inconvenienced" by National Service in the Royal Air Force. He toured with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Mose Allison and Martha & The Vandellas, as well as Jimi Hendrix. He kept himself out of the growing drug culture of the time, preferring to play sober ("unless I was completely ‘straight’ my ideas would be channelled into narrow specific areas," he said in The Bald Soprano, "…not necessarily a bad thing, but not what I want for myself.") However, he recalls in the same book, "one event which I remember involved Jimi Hendrix. The band met in a pub near the Cromwellian in South Kensington prior to the gig, and I excused myself to get some cold sore cure for my lip. On my return to the pub I was asked why I wanted it. I explained that it was very good mixed with beer and poured most of it into my pint, then drank it, expecting nothing.

"By the time I got on stage, with Hendrix in tow, the drink had taken its effect and I performed the gig on a stage which had grown from one to ten feet high. The audience was dancing in a pool of bloos and Hendrix had changed into a life-size cut out of himself. I was pretty ill for two days…"

Into the 70s Coxhill formed the group Delivery with Steve Miller, Jack Monck, Pip Pyle and Phil Miller, and toured with Chamption Jack Dupree, Alexis Korner and others. In the late 80s he began playing with The Damned, and in that decade also worked with Balanescu String Quartet, Moire Music, AMM and more.

In recent years Coxhill had been a regular at the monthly Boat-Ting Improv and poetry night in London, where he played in a duo with Alex Ward, and in a trio with John Edwards and Steve Noble.

Coxhill was noted as a versatile player, and a highly accomplished improvisor with a sense of humour. A retrospective of Coxhill's output was released by Martin Davidson's Emanem label. It tracks Coxhill's career from 1954–1999, beginning with a recording of Coxhill playing tenor sax in a London jazz club, and moving through R&B, free Improv, jazz and vocal pieces.

Steve Beresford says of Coxhill: "He was recognisable by a single note, and that was his intention. He sounded like Lol when he played with The Damned and he sounded like Lol when he played with Evan Parker."

Coxhill is survived by his wife, two daughters, a son and three grandchildren.

David Toop has written a tribute to Coxhill on his blog here, and Helen Petts has compiled a YouTube playlist of Coxhill performing below.

Thanks to Steve Beresford and Helen Petts.

Birmingham's Supersonic festival has added Kevin Martin's The Bug, plus a trio of Finns from Fonal: Islaja and Lau Nau, plus Jan Anderzen's Tomutonttu. Martin will be playing with legendary Ragamuffin rapper Daddy Freddy, plus Flow Dan. Also added to the line up is Napalm Death founder Nic Bullen.

Supersonic takes place in Birmingham 19–20 October. The line up so far includes Kim Gordon's Body/Head, Dylan Carlson, Mick Flower & Chris Corsano, Goat, Hype Williams, Jarboe, JK Flesh, Kevin Drumm, Lichens, Merzbow, Rangda, Sir Richard Bishop, Six Organs Of Admittance, Stian Westerhus, Thomas Ankersmit, Tim Hecker, Ufomammut and others. Full line up here.

William S Burroughs recordings made with Brion Gysin (credited with the invention of the cut up technique) have been released by the British Library. The 23 audio recordings are largely previously unreleased, sourced from the library's audio archive. The release centres around a 42 minute recording of Burroughs in Liverpool from 1982, where he reads excerpts of The Place Of Dead Roads, Nova Express and the story Twilight's Last Gleamings.

The CD also includes 1960s recordings of Gysin performing his permutated poems, plus home recordings made in Paris by Burroughs and Gysin in 1970. More details here, and download extracts here and here.