FOAMS, HEAPS, SPONGES, CLOUDS AND VORTEXES | David Toop, John Butcher e Lucie Štěpánková
FOAMS, HEAPS, SPONGES, CLOUDS AND VORTEXES
Improvisation of materials, resonances, channels and contingencies
di David Toop, con John Butcher e Lucie Štěpánková
A cura di Pedro Rocha
David Toop (1949) ha sviluppato, a partire dal 1970, una sua personale pratica che spazia tra musica e ascolto, suono e materiali. La sua attività comprende l’improvvisazione musicale, la performance, la scrittura, le sonorità elettroniche, il field recording, la curatela di mostre, la creazione di installazioni di sound art e l’opera lirica. Toop è autore di sette libri che hanno ricevuto importanti riconoscimenti critici ed è professore di Audio Culture and Improvisation al London College of Communication. Negli ultimi anni ha collaborato con Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Tania Chen, John Butcher, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Alasdair Roberts, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto.
David Toop annovera tra i momenti più significativi della propria esistenza gli eventi del maggio 1968, quando partecipa all’occupazione dell’Hornsey College of Art: un’esperienza che ha avuto un’influenza sulla sua pratica sia per quanto riguarda la ricerca di un’essenziale semplicità sia per quanto concerne l’interazione tra ascolto e produzione di suoni che è alla base dell’improvvisazione. Nei suoi progetti più recenti Toop esplora le sonorità di una grande varietà di materiali, dai più semplici e quotidiani ai più sofisticati: una scelta che riflette il suo bisogno di mantenere una connessione con gli aspetti più effimeri della realtà. In questo percorso Toop trova illuminante il lavoro di Mario Merz e dell’Arte Povera. Come Toop stesso afferma, Merz “È stato uno di quei complessi e illuminanti artisti del ventesimo secolo che hanno sviluppato un nuovo linguaggio, nuovi strumenti, un nuovo modo di pensare che rivela gradualmente il suo potenziale nel comprendere la nostra difficile contemporaneità”.
In occasione di questo concerto all’interno della mostra “Igloos” di Mario Merz, David Toop invita a collaborare con lui Lucie Štěpánková, performer e compositrice di musica elettronica, nonchè sound artist, e il sassofonista John Butcher, probabilmente uno tra i più influenti musicisti nell’ambito più sperimentale dell’improvvisazione.
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FOAMS, HEAPS, SPONGES, CLOUDS AND VORTEXES
Improvisation of materials, resonances, channels and contingencies
by David Toop, with John Butcher and Lucie Štěpánková
Curated by Pedro Rocha
David Toop (born 1949) has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. He is the author of seven acclaimed books and Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication. In recent years his collaborations include Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Tania Chen, John Butcher, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Alasdair Roberts, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto, amongst others.
Toop signals as one of the most formative experiences in his life the events of May 1968 when he participated in the occupation of Hornsey College of Art. These seem to have been influential on his musical practice both in terms of his focus on simplicity as well as on the interplay between listening and sounding involved in improvisation. In Toop’s recent projects, we find him exploring the resonances of a range of materials that go from the mundane and simple to the more sophisticated, reflecting his need to stay connected to this world and its instabilities. On his path, he has found enlightenment on Mario Merz’s work and the Arte Povera movement. In Toop’s own words, Merz “was one of those inspirational, complex artists of the twentieth-century who devised a new language, a new toolkit, a new way of thinking that gradually reveals its potential over time as a mean for understanding our current predicament.”
For this concert happening inside Merz’s exhibition “Igloos” and grounded in improvisation, David Toop invites as collaborators electronic musician and sound artist Lucie Štěpánková and saxophonist John Butcher, probably one of the most influential musicians within the exploratory realms of improvisation.
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