In this episode you’ll learn
• Why David Toop rejects traditional genre boundaries
• How ambient, improvisation, and field recording intersect
• The importance of listening as a cultural practice
• How Ocean of Sound reshaped ideas about ambient music
Alterations Live by Alterations, released on Intuitive Records in 2000.
Review by François Couture
During their decade of activity, the free improv group Alterations released only three LPs, with mixed results. The quartet (Steve Beresford, piano; Peter Cusack, guitar; Terry Day, percussion; and David Toop, flutes) used to perform extended improvisations drawing on every possible genre, with each musician intentionally trying to destroy what the others were constructing -- "irreverent musical collisions" in which "nothing was held sacred," to quote Day's liner notes. The result is a roller coaster of musical ideas, clashes, stumbles, and moments of genuine beauty cut short by illuminated stupidity; the approach and result recall some of Eugene Chadbourne's projects...
https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-mw0001207989
#Alterations #DavidToop #TerryDay #PeterCusak #SteveBeresford #FreeImprovisation #Music
Latin-esque is a studio album from the Mexican bandleader, pianist, and composer Juan García Esquivel and his orchestra. The album, released in 1962 on the RCA Victor label..
In his book Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World, David Toop wrote: "Unlike most recordings, there is no attempt to cement the right and left loudspeaker channels into a cohesive (if virtual) whole; for Esquivel, the space between loudspeakers was an empty vessel through which normally immovable instruments roamed, sometimes hovering in the air or darting back and forth like hummingbirds. Crude as the sound magic is, the illusionism has parallels both with the Kinetic painting and sculpture of Bridget Riley and Pol Bury or with the surreal imagistic dislocations of Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte." - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZLgZr-9lo&list=PLdJMb0jVSvc82smFLOioKlE5qzp_OawPZ&index=1
#Esquivel #SpaceAgePop #Exotica #DavidToop #LatinMusic #Music
「音楽はジャンルに閉じ込められるべきではない。耳をひらけば、すべてが音楽になる。」
― David Toop
Mohawk is the second album by the New York Art Quartet. It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on July 16, 1965, and was released later that year by Fontana Records. It features John Tchicai on alto saxophone, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Reggie Workman on bass, and Milford Graves on percussion.
In the album liner notes, Tchicai wrote: "The important thing about our music is that it must be heard and listened to without preconceived ideas as to how jazz should sound – listen to it as MUSIC and let that be the only label!"
David Toop described the group's sound on the album as "deliberately ragged, bleary themes tumbling out in spasms, notes tailing away as if lost to daydream, the music so open that total collapse seems perpetually imminent... quite unlike the music of their peers." - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCwiKzsDwZ0&list=RDlCwiKzsDwZ0&start_radio=1
#NewYorkArtQuartet #JohnTchicai #RoswellRudd #ReggieWorkman #MilfordGraves #freejazz #DavidToop
Omg, thank you to whoever here that recommended David Toop's "Ocean of Sound" (subtitle: "Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication") to me. Just started, and it's exactly what I want to read!
Apparently 3 companion compilation CDs were also put out to listen along, they look great, might need to find copies...
https://www.discogs.com/release/322126-Various-Ocean-Of-Sound
https://www.discogs.com/release/325973-Various-Crooning-On-Venus-Ocean-Of-Sound-2
https://www.discogs.com/release/221944-Various-Ocean-Of-Sound-Volume-3-Booming-On-Pluto-Electro-For-Droids
In May 2021 I posted Perfumes on Youtube. Heavily inspired by the book Ocean of Sound (David Toop) I recorded a suite of 6 modular ambient tracks inspired in gamelan music from Java & Bali.
In my head this was like releasing an ep.
I loved the sentence: "Music being able to adjust to several levels of auditive attention, being ignored and interesting at the same time"
Play!!
https://youtu.be/hjUt5v4Df3o?si=X5XUgJ5kP1n1WHFd
#modularsynth #eurorack #generative #ambient #brianeno #neroli #gamelan #davidtoop #oceanofsound
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