The second installation of John Baldessari's Your Name In Lights – a giant illuminated sign displaying the names of people who apply to be included – will be on show in Holland this summer. Each name is illuminated in lights for 15 seconds on a 30m wide LED display, which transmits 24 hours per day, and will be streamed live online.

Baldessari says he's offering the opportunity for people to become "entry-level celebrities", and has said of the piece: "It's like Andy Warhol's 15 minutes… The amount of time people get to be a celebrity is less and less, and incidentally, the amount of time a museum visitor gives to a painting was – last I heard it was something like seven seconds, when before that it was longer. We all have attention deficit disorder I think."

Register online now to appear in the exhibition, which will be on display at Amsterdam's Museumplein from 1–26 June.

The first of Sound And Music's series of interviews by David Toop is now available to listen to online. The series is part of Toop's exploration and research for a book on improvised music. Toop says: "I’m fascinated by the emergence of improvisation in an individual’s development, hence my focus here on the earlier stages of playing.

"Many interviews attempt to condense a whole life into a short conversation but this was an opportunity to dwell on these formative experiments. Beginning with John Butcher seemed logical. I first heard him play many years ago with John Stevens; since then he has become an extraordinary innovator on his instrument, the saxophone, as well as being thoughtful, versatile and highly active on the international scene. This interview was recorded at my home on January 17th, 2011."

Listen to the six part interview below:
David Toop Interviews John Butcher by soundandmusic

The third release on Jon Brooks's Cafe Kaput imprint is Music For Dieter Rams, a nine track album made entirely from the alarm sound of the Braun AB-30 bedside clock designed by Rams. The album is an experiment to produce a record to reflect the ten point design ethos of the German industrial designer, which is centred around the principle "less, but better".

Brooks (aka The Advisory Circle) says: "I chose this clock for a couple of reasons; it was given to me when I was 15 as a birthday present, so it's been with me for some time. Also, since then, I've become a massive fan of the clock's designer, Dieter Rams. I looked at the clock and thought 'hmm… what can I get from this?' Just one of those 'what if' moments. So mirroring Dieter Rams's design ethos, I set about creating something."

Music For Dieter Rams is available from today. Listen to samples on Bandcamp. Listen to a short explanatory audio tour of the album's technical genesis below:

Jon Brooks - Music For Dieter Rams - An explanation of techniques. by cafekaput

Tri-Angle records have outed a teaser for their next release, T-A 07, which will be from Balam Acab. No more info, the video is just called "Wander". Watch it below:

As part of Copenhagen's Distortion Festival, Michael Mayer is performing a 'live mixtape'. In other words: an hour long mix curated by Mayer, performed live by artists, DJs and producers. Mayer will be pulling the strings behind a large mixing board, mixing one performance into the next in real time, with some performances featuring live vocals and percussion.

The line up includes Matias Aguayo, Justus Köhncke, Daniel Meteo, Pawels Club Choir and others. The one hour set is part of Hellø Bærlin, a 24 hour event which is itself under the umbrella of Copenhagen's Distortion Festival. Berlin Stattbad Wedding, 14 May, 8pm.

Lou Reed plays across the UK and Europe this summer, to coincide with the release of a live DVD of his 2009 appearance at Coachella. Kent Hop Farm Music Festival (2 July), London HMV Apollo (4), Paris Le Grand Rex (5), Milan Arena Civica (8), Lecce Italia Wave Love Festival (16), Carhaix Les Vieilles Charrues Festival (17), Taormina Greek Theatre (18), Gardone Riviera Nuovo Festival Del Vittoriale (22), Sogliano Al Rubicone Piazza Matteotti (23), Rome Luglio Suona Bene, Lyon Les Nuits de Fourviere Festival (26).

A special and extended edition of Adventures In Modern Music as the duo behind the film Tape Crackers rush the studio to bring us A Brief History Of Grime Tapes. Pirate radio tape collector Michael Finch and filmmaker Rollo Jackson will be taking us through a treasure trove of cassettes and MiniDiscs of London pirate stations from 1998–2004.

We'll be featuring some of the key moments of Garage and Grime with tapes from the glory days of Deja Vu, Rinse FM and other stations, with many of the biggest crews and mic clashes from radio sets and raves of the era. We'll be telling the story of MCs such as Wiley, Dizzee Rascal and Riko Dan through the radio sets that made them top names in London, analysing the dog eat dog logic of 'clashing' which Grime brought to the London scene, and uncovering the hidden wiring of underground music of the late 1990s and beyond.

The show runs 2 June from 8pm–10:30pm (note earlier start time), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com; check rollojackson.com for info on Tape Crackers.

Wolfgang Voigt's next project will be Kafkatrax: a trio of 12" releases with a July CD release on his Profan imprint. The project is based around a Kafka audiobook, with all sounds bar the the bassdrum sourced from the recording, with the result described by Kompakt as creating a "psychotic-paranoid, 'kafkaesque' atmosphere".

The Kafkatrax artwork is hand painted, and the centre labels include Voigt's face superimposed onto Kafka's head and body. Only 199 numbered copies of each of the three 12" releases will be available exclusively via Kompakt.

The Science Museum in London is recruiting electronic musicians to contribute to an upcoming exhibition on the history of electronic music, where the restored Oramics Machine will be on display. A series of workshops exploring the history of electronic music are planned, with participating artists getting the chance to go behind the scenes of the exhibition before it opens in autumn.

To apply, email publichistory@sciencemuseum.org.uk by 12pm on 30 May, explaining (in 300 words or less) why you love electronic music, what kind of music you make, how you share it with others, and how much you know about the history of electronic music. Participants need to be available to go to the Science Museum on Tuesdays in June or July. For more info click here.

The April edition of The Wire salon (The Sounds Of New Atlantis: Daphne Oram, Radiophonics And The Drawn Sound Technique) discussed the work and personal life of Daphne Oram. Listen to the recording of the salon here.

Wire contributor Russ Slater, (Global Ear, The Wire 327) has released a free compilation of new music from São Paulo in partnership with Brasil Music Exchange. The compilation, Nossa, Cara! New Sounds Of São Paulo is launched via Sounds And Colours, an online magazine for South American music and culture.

Slater – editor of Sounds And Colours – describes the compilation as "a labour of love highlighting what we think are some of the most exciting artists to be found anywhere in the world, never mind stacked up on top of each other in the same city". For more info head to Sounds And Colours.