needle in the groove CD

may 2000 brings the unique collaboration of jeff noon and david toop with the release of a CD from sulphur records/ the needle in the groove CD brings a series of recordings to explore the union of one artist with another . . . beginning with the word, the human voice, toop will be dissolving this tablet of vocal recognition within a lake of sound/ corroding and manipulating noon's texts, this record will unite these two key forces in contemporary experimental culture, moulding two worlds, each enclosed within the other

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david toop

David Toop is a musician, composer, writer and sound curator. He has published three books: Rap Attack (third edition - Rap Attack 3 published January 2000), Ocean of Sound , and Exotica (published 1999). He has also released five solo albums - Screen Ceremonies , Pink Noir ,Spirit World , Museum of Fruit (inspired by the Yamanashi Fruit Museum designed by architect Itsuko Hasegawa, released by Caipirinha, and HotPants Idol , a spoken word and music CD of extracts from Exotica, featuring specially recorded tracks by Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, John Oswald, Scanner, Talvin Singh, Paul Schtze and others, released by Barooni on May 20th, 1999. He has curated five CD compilations for Virgin Records - Ocean of Sound , Crooning On Venus , Sugar & Poison , Booming On Pluto and Guitars On Mars. In 1998 he composed the soundtrack for Acqua Matrix, the outdoor spectacular that closed every night of Lisbon Expo '98 from May until September. He has recorded shamanistic ceremonies in Amazonas, written interactive database material on shamanism and trance for The Shamen and worked with musicians including Brian Eno, John Zorn, Prince Far I, Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Max Eastley, Scanner, Ivor Cutler and Witchman. As a critic he has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, Arena, Vogue, Spin, GQ, Bookforum, Pulse and The Village Voice. He is currently curating Sonic Boom, an exhibition of sound art that will be shown at the Hayward Gallery, London, from April to June, 2000. Other projects currently in progress include the composition of a soundtrack for Mondophrenentic, a CD-ROM installation created in Belgium. In January 2000 he exhibited the sound installation 'Dreaming of Inscription On Skin' with Max Eastley at ICC in Tokyo.

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