Category Archives: movement and sound

Soundbody workshop

Posted on November 10, 2025 by davidtoop

“Rice paper possesses a materiality of emptiness and absence. Its surface does not shine, and it is as soft as silk. When folded, it hardly makes a noise, as if it were stillness itself, condensed in matt white.”Byung-Chul Han, Absence … Continue reading →

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Pump down the volume

Posted on January 29, 2025 by davidtoop

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 →

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An air current striking the edge of a vessel

Posted on May 12, 2024 by davidtoop

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 →

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moreskinsound: manifesto

Posted on November 6, 2023 by davidtoop

Improvisation: responsive, sensing, alert. Listening within the total body. Space has its own intention. Intimacy: mutuality with space, bodies, materials. Ecologies, resonances of inter-dependence. Stillness and silence, breath and the imperceptible threshold. Resonance, happening from a distance. Presence, bringing air … Continue reading →

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