{"id":2594,"date":"2017-04-07T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ga-beta.geidai.ac.jp\/?p=2594\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T02:44:39","slug":"david-toop-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/2017\/04\/07\/david-toop-en\/","title":{"rendered":"David Toop Special Lecture “Boundaries of Practice Based On Listening”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special Lecture
\n<\/span>David Toop:<\/span>
\nBoundaries of Practice Based On Listening<\/span><\/h2>\n

Date: Friday, April 14, 2017
\nTime: Open 17:30, Start 18:00
\nVenue: Venue: Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
\nNo Reservation Required.
\nSeating Capacity: 100. Seats available on the first-come-first-served basis.
\nJapanese-English Translation Available.
\nAdmission Fee: Free<\/p>\n

David Toop: Boundaries of Practice Based On Listening<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a society organized round objective psychological measurement, the power to listen is a potentially iconoclastic one,\u201d writes William Davies in The Happiness Industry<\/em>. \u201cThere is something radical about privileging the sensory power of the ear in a political system designed around that of the eye.\u201d Listening to others, to the world, is a start but how to organise, be active, collaborate, from the point of listening? Is listening necessarily an act of hearing audio information or is it more productive to think of it as receptivity, attention, a channel through which to break down the rigid authoritarian formats through which events are structured?
\nSound is a strange and difficult medium. Is it a material or an event? How does it work within physical space? Does it even exist or is hearing all in the mind? Silence inflates to contain even the smallest gesture; the supposedly passive and fixed ear moves outward, a gathering in; the projectile of sound is reversed, becoming receptive. All of these reversals are exercises in how to move across boundaries of practice, how to collaborate, to improvise, to perform without performing, to listen as a ritual without sound.
\nDavid Toop will be thinking about strange questions related to sound and listening in his own practice as a musician, writer, curator and theorist: does sound sit on chairs? Do instruments have bodies? Can we hear without hearing?<\/p>\n

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David TOOP<\/strong>
\nDavid Toop is a composer\/musician, author and curator based in London, working in many fields of sound art and music since the late 1960s. 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\u2019s National Gallery, worked with artists ranging from John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Bob Cobbing and Ivor Cutler to Akio Suzuki, Simon Finn, Camille Norment and Max Eastley. He has published six books, translated into ten languages, including Rap Attack<\/em>, Ocean of Sound<\/em>, Haunted Weather<\/em>, Sinister Resonance<\/em> and, in 2016, Into the Maelstrom<\/em> (shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize). Since his first album, released on Brian Eno\u2019s Obscure label in 1975, he has released twelve solo albums, including Screen Ceremonies, Black Chamber, Sound Body and Entities Inertias Faint Beings,
\nand many collaborations with improvisers and artists including Alterations (Peter Cusack, Steve Beresford and Terry Day), Thurston Moore, Tania Chen and Ken Ikeda.
\nExhibitions he has curated include Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, Playing John Cage at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Blow Up at Flat-Time House.
\nHis opera \u2013 Star-shaped Biscuit \u2013 was performed as an Aldeburgh Faster Than Sound project in 2012 and his collaborative work – Who will go mad with me – was performed with Alasdair Roberts, Sylvia Hallett and Luke Fowler at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2013.
\nProfessor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication, he is also the co-creator of Sculpture events with artist Rie Nakajima. His next book, an autobiography entitled Flutter Echo, will be published in Japan in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Haruomi HOSONO<\/strong>
\nRenowned musician and singer Haruomi Hosono was born in Tokyo in 1947. Debuting as a member of Apryl Fool in 1969 he formed HAPPY END in 1970 and launched his solo career in 1973. In 1978 he joined Tin Pan Alley, forming that same year the hugely influential Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) with Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto. He has also worked as producer and director of his own record label. Since the breakup of YMO, he has explored world and ambient music and as a composer and has worked in a variety of fields including that of as a producer.
\nhttp:\/\/hosonoharuomi.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomotaro KANEKO<\/strong>
\nPart-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. His current research interests include sound technology, sound art, and aurality. He is one of the Japanese translators of\u00a0The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction<\/em>, by\u00a0Jonathan Sterne (Inscript, 2016).
\nhttp:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/tomotarokaneko\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Rahel KRAFT<\/strong>
\nRahel Kraft is an artist, working mainly with sound and performance, born and raised in Switzerland, near the lake of Constance. Her focus lies at the intersection of modern composition, improvisation, performance and installation, often including the site, listening practices and collective processes. She obtained her master\u2019s degree on Sound Arts at the University of the Arts London.<\/p>\n

Tomoko HOJO<\/strong>
\nTomoko Hojo works with sound art and experimental music. Her recent works are focused on personal memories evoked by specific places and the instability of those memories. Hojo is a director of \u201cEnsemble for Experimental Music and Theater\u201d which is a group featuring experimental music in post John Cage era. She completed her master\u2019s studies on Division of Musicology and Music Studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts and on Sound Arts at the University of the Arts London.<\/p>\n

Yoshitaka M\u014cRI<\/strong>
\nProfessor in Sociology and Cultural Studies. BA in Economics, Kyoto University, MA in Media and Communications and Ph.D. in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London. His research interests are postmodern culture, media, art, the city and transnationalism. His publications include: Street no Shiso (The Philosophy in the Streets) <\/em> NHK Publications, 2009 (available in Japanese and in Korean) and \u201cCulture=Politics: The Emergence of New Cultural Forms of Protest in the age of Freeter\u201d in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies<\/em> 6\/1, 2005; \u201cThe Pitfall Facing the Cool Japan Project: The Transnational Development of the Anime Industry Under the Condition of Post-Fordism\u201d in International Journal of Japanese Sociology<\/em>, The Japan Sociological Society, Wiley-Blackwel 2011, No 20; \u201cJ-Pop Goes the World: A New Global Fandom in the Age of Digital Media\u201d in Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music<\/em>, T. Mitsui (Ed), Routledge, 2014; \u201cNew Collectivism, Participation and Politics after the East Japan Great Earthquake\u201d, World Art<\/em>, Routledge\/Taylor & Francis, 5\/2, 2015 (all in English).<\/p>\n

Related Events:
\nExhibition Reborn Homes Though My Voice<\/em>
\nThe sound art exhibition by Tomoko Hojo [JP] and Rahel Kraft [CH] which focuses on home-sounds in one\u2019s memories.
\nDate: 1st – 22nd of April 2017 (excl. MON and TUE and only SAT 8th is open until 2pm)
\nVenue: Denchu Hirakushi House (2-20-3,Ueno-Sakuragi, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
\nOpen Hours: 11:00-18:00
\nPrice: 500 JPY
\nhttp:\/\/rebornsounds.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Supported by:
\nTokyo University of the Arts, Office for Diversity & Inclusion<\/p>\n

Inquiry:<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Faculty Room, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
\nOffice Hours (Ueno): 10:00-19:00 (Mon, Thu, Fri)
\nTel (Ueno): \uff0b81-(0)50-5525-2725
\nOffice Hours (Senju): 10:00\uff5e19:00 (Tue, Wed)
\nTel (Senju): \uff0b81-(0)50-5525-2732
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