Upcoming Events at Issue Project Room
Wed Sep 18, 8:00 PM - Wed Sep 18, 10:00 PM
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Community: Downtown Brooklyn
Description
Wednesday, September 18th, ISSUE is pleased to present a conversation and performance from renowned musician and author David Toop alongside free improviser and composer Tania Caroline Chen -- both artists’ debut appearance at ISSUE.
Event Details
One of the most significant figures in contemporary modern music thinking, writing and reportage, Toop has created a remarkably distinctive publishing history of intensified studies into World Music in relation to popular (as well as marginalized) contemporary trends. The evening celebrates the publication of Toop’s autobiography Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound by Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library.
Flutter Echo is an essay in sonic memory, the heart fluttering as time loops in long and short delays, the reverberation of sounds from moving sources ricocheting in the air between parallel surfaces, their transformation in enclosed acoustic space a metaphor of bodies and thought forms abraded and made barely recognizable by cycles of time and the circumstances of life. A memoir of a lifetime working within sound, listening, and music, David Toop’s Flutter Echo opens into new collaborative possibilities with Tania Caroline Chen.
Their duo experiments with the eerie, the violent, the turbulent, the soft, the uncomfortable, with hermetic dialogue, astro-electronics and scenes of mystery that unfold into perplexity and shadow. The performance comes in two stages, overlapping and complementary, one of them conventionally called a “conversation,” using voices; the other conventionally called a “musical performance,” using instruments. What does the juxtaposition of these two formats add to each of them? Do they disturb each other’s settled nature?
“A memoir is simply a vehicle to talk about the ideas I find important, the difficulties and inspirations of following a life dedicated to marginal music, the richness of collaborative work and the inseparability of life and art.”
—David Toop
David Toop has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes seven acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016), Flutter Echo, a memoir first published in Japan in 2017 (May 2019), and Inflamed Invisible: Writing On Art and Soun
Flutter Echo is an essay in sonic memory, the heart fluttering as time loops in long and short delays, the reverberation of sounds from moving sources ricocheting in the air between parallel surfaces, their transformation in enclosed acoustic space a metaphor of bodies and thought forms abraded and made barely recognizable by cycles of time and the circumstances of life. A memoir of a lifetime working within sound, listening, and music, David Toop’s Flutter Echo opens into new collaborative possibilities with Tania Caroline Chen.
Their duo experiments with the eerie, the violent, the turbulent, the soft, the uncomfortable, with hermetic dialogue, astro-electronics and scenes of mystery that unfold into perplexity and shadow. The performance comes in two stages, overlapping and complementary, one of them conventionally called a “conversation,” using voices; the other conventionally called a “musical performance,” using instruments. What does the juxtaposition of these two formats add to each of them? Do they disturb each other’s settled nature?
“A memoir is simply a vehicle to talk about the ideas I find important, the difficulties and inspirations of following a life dedicated to marginal music, the richness of collaborative work and the inseparability of life and art.”
—David Toop
David Toop has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes seven acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016), Flutter Echo, a memoir first published in Japan in 2017 (May 2019), and Inflamed Invisible: Writing On Art and Soun
