This week Network Awesome presents a week of programmes on the history of electronic music. The schedule includes collections of videos of early tape splicers, Giorgio Moroder and Aphex Twin, footage of Jean-Jacques Perrey demoing new instruments on a 60s game show, a performance and interview with thereminist Clara Rockmore, a documentary on Robert Moog, screenings of Forbidden Planet, Vibrations and Decoder, and more. Guest curators include Mouse On Mars (today), plus Soul Clap and Kid606 later in the week.

The Network Awesome electronic music week runs from 26–30 March. For the full schedule head here. Watch Jean-Jacques Perrey on I've Got A Secret below.

My Bloody Valentine are set to rerelease their albums Isn’t Anything and Loveless, plus a collection of EPs, in remastered form. EPs 1988–1991 includes Feed Me With Your Kiss, You Made Me Realise, Glider and Tremolo, plus seven unreleased tracks.

Loveless was due for reissue in 2008, but was mysteriously delayed – that 2008 remaster along with yet another remastered version will now be bundled together on a two disc set. All will be released – so we're told – on 7 May.

German video art festival Videonale has an open call out for artists to submit single or multi-channel video work to be included in next year's festival. The subject of eligible works is not restricted, but the work must not date from before 1 January 2010.

Videonale 14 takes place at the Bonn Kunstmuseum, 15 February to 7 April 2013, and around 40–50 works will be exhibited. Closing date for submissions 6 July 2012. More info and an application form here.

Earlier this month German publishing house Surkhamp released an oral history of Berlin Techno by Felix Denk (editor of Zitty) and Sven von Thülen (DJ and editor of De:Bug). The Sound of Family: Berlin, Techno And The Reunification (original title Der Klang der Familie. Berlin, Techno Und Die Wende) covers the emergence of Techno and the club scene in Berlin after the wall came down. It includes transcripts of interviews with Juan Atkins, Mike Banks, Danielle De Piciotto, Alec Empire, Mark Ernestus, Thomas Fehlmann, Robert Hood, Jeff Mills, Ron Murphy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Van Dyke and others.

The catch is that the book doesn't currently have a UK or US publisher, meaning there's no English translation from the German original yet. German speakers can read an extract here.

Later this spring Three Rooms Press is publishing a collection of Minutemen bass player Mike Watt's diaries, photographs, and poetry, titled Mike Watt: On And Off Bass. The book contains extracts from from a decade of Watt's diaries, and images exhibited in 2010 at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica.

Two launch events take place for the book, and while there's no release date, it will be available at both May events. The west coast launch includes a performance by Mike Watt And The Missingmen, and on the east coast Watt, J Mascis, Murph Appomattox and others perform. New York Le Poisson Rouge (2 May), California Beyond Baroque (5).

Fonal records has set up a donations page on its site to fund vinyl production. Sami Sänpäkkilä says that his sales have been in decline since 2009 and now he needs to find alternative means in order to continue pressing vinyl.

"We've started our own site as we are not collecting pledges for a certain release, which is what Kickstarter or IndieGoGo are for" he says. "What we hope to achieve is a few random donations now and then to cover our losses that mainly stem from doing vinyl.

"The kind of elaborate packages we make with extra booklets, UV coatings, or special inserts, can cost anything from €2000–€3500. That doesn't include copyright costs, shipping or other extra costs. We do mainly a 500 print run, of which a certain amount we give to the artist, some we use for promo. We basically need to sell all of the run to make ends meet."

Sänpäkkilä asked fans if a donations page would work (he had reservations), but found the response overwhelmingly positive, so is now accepting donations of €1– €500. For more info, or to donate, head here

Sharon Gal is inviting women of any age and playing ability to join her for a large group acoustic guitar composition and performance in April. Participants do not need to be accomplished or competent players, but you will need your own guitar.

The workshop takes place across two days, where a group composition is developed. At the close of the two days, a live performance takes place in front of an audience.

To join in, email galswithguitars@gmail.com with information about yourself and why you want to participate. Gals With Guitars takes place 27 April (5–7:30pm) and 28 April (12–5pm) at Deptford Town Hall, and participants must be able to attend both days. Watch a video below of a Gals With Guitars performance using electric guitars from 2011.

Smalltown Supersound is releasing an album by Neneh Cherry and The Thing this summer. The group is calling the album The Cherry Thing, and includes covers of Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream", The Stooges's "Dirt", "Accordion" by MF Doom, plus tracks by ex-Tricky vocalist Martina Topley-Bird, Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman.

The trio of Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love will be touring with Cherry (daughter of Don Cherry, who was the root of The Thing's name), although no dates are confirmed as of yet. The Cherry Thing is released on 18 June.

A series of alternative audio tours titled Tate á Tate have been commissioned by activist organisations Platform, Art Not Oil and Liberate Tate, hijacking the Tate in protest at its involvement with BP.

Former Wire staffer and current contributor Phil England has produced a Tate Modern audio tour with Jim Welton titled Drilling The Dirt ('A Temporary Difficulty'), which references Sir Nicholas Serota's comments that: "We all recognise they have a difficulty at the moment but you don't abandon your friends because they have what we consider to be a temporary difficulty."

An audio tour for Tate Britain has been produced by Ansuman Biswas, titled The Panaudicon, which takes listeners to locations around the world where BP is drilling for oil. Isa Suarez, Mae Martin and Mark McGowan have created a soundtrack for the Tate Boat which travels between Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Titled This Is Not An Oil Tanker, it uses music to communicate the experiences of communities affected by the oil industry.

The Tate á Tate audio tours can be downloaded to smartphones, and a launch takes place at London's Calder Bookshop Theatre on 23 March at 6:30pm. Listen below.

Huddersfield Conptemporary Music Festival has announced Maja Ratkje as its composer in residence for the 2012 festival, which takes place 16–25 November. No more of the line up has been announced yet, but check for updates on the HCMF site.

Ratkje is currently on tour with Ikue Mori, playing four dates next week in the UK and Ireland (dates here). Listen to an improvisation by Ratjke below, or read more here.