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Born 5 May 1949 (age 75) ( 1949-05-05 ) Associated acts The Flying Lizards,Max EastleyBrian EnoScannerJeff Noon Movies I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Portrait of David Toop Through His Records Collection Music groups The Flying Lizards, Frank Chickens Books The rap attack, Haunted weather, Ocean of Sound: Aether Ta, Exotica, Sinister Resonance: The Medi Similar People Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall, Scanner, David Cunningham Profiles | ||
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David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, and professor and chair of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was a member of the Flying Lizards and a contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, a British music magazine.
Contents
- Flat time sounding an interview with david toop at the whitechapel gallery music live words
- David toop on making sound
- Early years
- Career
- Solo and collaborations
- Curated albums
- References
David toop on making sound
Early years
Soon after his birth, his parents moved to Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, where he grew up. He was educated at Broxbourne Grammar School, which he left in 1967 to study at Hornsey College of Art.
Career
Toop published his pioneering book on hip hop, Rap Attack, in 1984. Eleven years later, Ocean of Sound appeared, described as Toop's "poetic survey of contemporary musical life from Debussy through Ambient, Techno, and drum 'n' bass." Since the 1970s, Toop has also been a significant presence on the British experimental and improvised music scene, collaborating with Max Eastley, Brian Eno, Scanner, and others. He is a member of the improvising, genre-hopping quartet Alterations, active from 1977 to 1986 and reforming in 2015. In 2001, Toop curated the sound art exhibition Sonic Boom, and the following year, he curated a 2-CD collection entitled Not Necessarily Enough English Music: A Collection of Experimental Music from Great Britain, 1960–1977. More experimentally, Toop has also actively engaged with 'sounding objects' from a range of museums.
Solo and collaborations
Curated albums
