Unknown Devices in the Atrium, LCC

“LMC was one of the major forces in the development of improvised music and sonic arts. LMC history is particularly richly textured, not only because it contains important evidence (audible, visual and textual) of early improvised music and sonic arts activity in the UK, but also because it intersects with other initiatives of self-determination, collective politics and critical art practice in the 1970s, such as radical publishing, feminism, structural film, dance, performance art, and sonic ecology, along with organisations like Music for Socialism and the post-punk explosion of independent record companies and promoters.” – David Toop

Unknown Devices: the Laptop Orchestra with David Toop. 10 min film excerpt from 30 min performance at CRISAP, LCC London in May 2009. Performed for the opening of Sound Traces, an exhibition of the London Musicians’ Collective legacy. Filmed and edited by Mika Kioussis

Watch out for me punishing my guitar about halfway through the video!

I’m also briefly in this video..

David Toop – Making Sounds from Expression Design on Vimeo.

Live improvisation at Moving East CI jam

Having developed an interest in dance (contact improvisation and butoh), I was asked to play an improvised set at Moving East. Following the workshop there is a 4-hour period where dancers can explore themes from the workshop and their own ideas, often accompanied by live music.

I recorded the second of these live improvisations. I used an electric guitar with effects and loops, along with various homemade percussions, an SM57, and a metal salad bowl with contact microphone attached.

These are edited tracks from the session. Enjoy, and if you feel compelled to dance around your living room please feel free…..