Category Archives: silent sound

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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moreskinsound: manifesto

Posted on November 6, 2023 by davidtoop

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 →

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many private concerts

Posted on December 8, 2015 by davidtoop

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 →

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. . . the hair on the head to hear . . .

Posted on June 24, 2012 by davidtoop

“It was as though somewhere in the Sunday afternoon’s quiet and peace the screams of that child still existed, lingered, not as sound now, but as something for the skin to hear, the hair on the head to hear.” William … Continue reading →

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