TOOP DAVID

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Μια αντιπροσωπευτική «ιστορία» της μουσικής του 20ού αιώνα, από τον Erik Satie και τον Miles Davis ως τον James Brown και τους Beach Boys, από τον Ennio Morricone και τον Philip Glass ως τον Jimi Hendrix και τον Aphex Twin. Μέσα από συνεντεύξεις μουσικών που άσκησαν καθοριστική επίδραση όπως ο Brian Eno, ο Lee Perry και ο Sun Ra, ο Bill Laswell, ο Ryuichi Sakamoto και οι Kraftwerk (καλλιτεχνών διαφορετικών τόσο μεταξύ τους όσο και από το «κυρίαρχο» ρεύμα) ο μουσικός και δημοσιογράφος David Toop εξυφαίνει ένα μαγευτικό ιστό αφηγήσεων γύρω α...
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(P/B) FLUTTER ECHO
Employing intensified studies into World Music in relation to popular (as well as marginalized) contemporary trends, David Toop has created one of the most distinctive histories of modern music thinking for our times. Flutter Echo is his memoir of a life enchanted with all aspects of music both composed and abstract. In fascinating detail, Toop explores his personal growth as a practicing musician, visual artist, and witness to some of the most significant events in modern music history. From recording for Brian Eno's Obscure Records impri...
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(H/B) INFLAMED INVISIBLE
A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors, singing sculptures, weather, meditations, vibration and the interior resonance of objects, in...
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(H/B) SINISTER RESONANCE
Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there. The history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, silent arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature. In...
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(P/B) HAUNTED WEATHER - MUSIC SILENCE AND MEMORY