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Category Archives: live sound
Pump down the volume
Thundercurrent: a loud, intrusive and continuous audio event whose effect reduces over time to a point of perceived inaudibility, an undercurrent, even though still physically present (© David Toop, 2025). We were thinking and talking about silence: inhibition, tension, magnification, … Continue reading
Posted in live sound, movement and sound, silent sound
Tagged Ania Psenitsnikova, Konsztrukting Soundz, Lev Dudas, moreskinsound, silence
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An air current striking the edge of a vessel
It’s not a thing for me to say I make flutes as part of my practice but make them I do, since c. 1971, in fact, when I began to search for new sounds, tunings, a reduction down to the … Continue reading
moreskinsound: manifesto
Movement is friction. A large dry leaf skitters along the pavement, sounding movement, high, scratch, stutter. An animal way to enter space, leaving behind nothing, space barely disturbed. The body is altered. This body is quiet, listening, sensing and responding … Continue reading
Spheric resonances / eggflutes
Last September, when social contact was still a desert landscape, Ecka Mordecai cycled to my home to present me with a gift of eggflutes. To describe them (only) as musical instruments would be to reduce them to a functionality that … Continue reading
Posted in instrumentality, live sound, Uncategorized, writing sound
Tagged Cafe Oto, David Toop, Ecka Mordecai, eggflutes, Lucie Stepankova, Peter Sloterdijk
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emanation, as if by a charm: Ami Yamasaki
Surprise is a dubious pleasure, cultivated in the search for musical forms that take the listener into realms of impossible/imaginary. Then suddenly, after decades of searching, the surprises diminish in quantity, often in quality, leaving an unavoidable sense of melancholy, … Continue reading
Posted in instrumentality, into the maelstrom, live sound
Tagged Ami Yamasaki, ASMR, Charlie Collins, vocal improvisation
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raw materials
The late-19th century spiritualist and campaigner Louisa Lowe was unjustly, if legally, incarcerated because her husband claimed she was mad. Giving evidence against her, the proprietor of Brislington asylum – Dr Charles Henry Fox – had this to say: “She … Continue reading
the sweat of toads
“I was in search of something – a small detail which I remembered with special intensity as part of my vision.” George Eliot: The Lifted Veil (1859) The man whispers in Spanish as he pisses, sniffs, sighs, washes his … Continue reading
Posted in instrumentality, live sound
Tagged C. G. Jung, Guy Brett, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Tania Chen, Victor Grippo
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many private concerts
I was obsessed with the slippery, unstable nature of the categories through which we learn to divide experience: time, the materiality of objects and the imperceptible slide into intangibility, what some called spirit though I would reject the word for … Continue reading
Posted in instrumentality, live sound, silent sound
Tagged David Toop, Eva Karczag, London Contemporary Music Festival, Miranda Tufnel
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