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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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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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Skin and Bone Listening

Posted on December 15, 2014 by davidtoop

How to be, where to be, in a space, with sound, with other bodies? For me, in relation to what performance is becoming, this has been the biggest question of the past year. What does it mean to hear? What … Continue reading →

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end of play, for Lol Coxhill

Posted on July 10, 2012 by davidtoop

Late one night in March of this year I was sitting in an eerie hotel within Tokyo’s Haneda airport being interrogated for a Japanese magazine (see http://onbanjidai.blogspot.co.uk/). The subject of the interview was music and comedy and despite my fear … Continue reading →

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mouth of shadows

Posted on July 4, 2012 by davidtoop

Andre Masson: Automatic Drawing (1920s) “she speaks to me a language so soft that at first I do not understand . . .” (Aimé Césaire, Son of Thunder, 1948) “I have always wondered why automatic writing has not been invoked … Continue reading →

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