David Toop

David Toop

• Immersion in relation to sound.
• Making the intangible tangible.
• Cassettes: Borrowed sounds from 10' discs, from BBC etc.
• Ocean of sound 1985: No splitting of genres.
• Where art happens includes how art happens - Don't talk much about how art happens.
• Didn't see the point of releasing an album in the 21st century.
• Drawing became important again, marks made, loves drawing materials.
• Drawing: urge to throw away - mark is permanent sound is fleeting (if you don't like it, it is already gone).
• Created "action drawings", more interesting to him.
• Representation of listening in still media.
• Talked about: Gabon -Voice of Ya Mwei 1968: masked voice, is his brew used to make guttural noises a musical instrument?
• Most of his work is self created sounds and editing them digitally.
• Used vibration noises on carbon paper to make drawings.
• Moved on to tissue paper.
• Many private concerts: Tissue paper, marks as a language.