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Nocturne 59: Radio Frequencies

KHM
Performed by David Toop (electronics, flutes, strings, devices) and Elaine Mitchener (voice). Konzert auf Einladung des Klanglabors der KHM. Moderation: Anthony Moore.
04.12.14
21:00h
Aula, Filzengraben 2
It grows out of the poetic, ethereal and nostalgic mystery of radio, its profound interpenetration with  memory, the strange convention of disembodied voices in conversation and the  epiphanies that radio could create in the unprepared mind. (David Toop)

David Toop is a composer/musician, author and curator based in London. Since 1970 he has worked in many fields of sound art, listening practice and music, including improvisation, sound installations and video works, field recordings, pop music production, music for television, theatre and dance.
He has recorded Yanomami shamanism in Amazonas, appeared on Top of the Pops with the Flying Lizards, exhibited sound installations in Tokyo, Beijing and London’s National Gallery, and performed with artists ranging from John Zorn, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Bob Cobbing and Ivor Cutler to Akio Suzuki, Elaine Mitchener, Lore Lixenberg, Scanner and Max Eastley.
He has published five books, translated into 11 languages - Rap Attack, Ocean of Sound, Exotica, Haunted Weather, and Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener - released nine solo albums, including New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments (on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975), Screen Ceremonies, Black Chamber and Sound Body, and as a critic and theorist has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face, Leonardo Music Journal, Pitchfork and Bookforum.
Exhibitions he has curated include Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London, Playing John Cage at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Blow Up at Flat-Time House, London. He was also sound curator for Radical Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum and curatorial consultant for the currently touring Crafts Council exhibition Sound Matters. His opera – Star-shaped Biscuit – was performed as an Aldeburgh Faster Than Sound project in September 2012 and his collaborative work - Who will go mad with me - was developed and performed with Alasdair Roberts, Sylvia Hallett and Luke Fowler at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2013.
Currently writing Into the Maelstrom: Improvisation, Music and the Dream of Freedom, he is also the co-creator of Sculpture events with artist Rie Nakajima. He is Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at University of the Arts London.

Elaine Mitchener is a vocalist noted for her unique mixture of styles ranging from contemporary classical, gospel, jazz, free-improvisation and contemporary dance. Associated musicians include Irvine Arditti, Steve Beresford, Brodsky Quartet, John Butcher, Olly Coates, Attila Csihar, Dam van Huynh, Max Eastley, John Edwards, Luc Ex, Bobby Few, Luca Francesconi, Heiner Goebbels, Henry Grimes, Tony Hymas, Christian Marclay, Joanna McGregor, Phil Minton, David Moss, Lauren Newton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Alasdair Roberts, Mark Sanders, David Toop, Matthew Wright, and Jason Yarde. Elaine has worked with producers Sound UK, Third Ear, Muziektheater Transparant, festivals hcmf//, Meltdown (SBC), Spitalfields Music, Sounds New, La Dynamo, Ars Musica, Operadagen, and presented work at
Weseburg MOMA, Hepworth (Wakefield) and Tate Britain, Hayward And Raven Row (London) galleries.
Performed by David Toop (electronics, flutes, strings, devices) and Elaine Mitchener (voice).
Konzert auf Einladung des Klanglabors der KHM. Moderation: Anthony Moore.

Donnerstag, 4. Dezember, 20 Uhr
Aula, Filzengraben 2 http://davidtoopblog.com http://elainemitchener.wordpress.com


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