Sonic curator David Toop: the sound of silent art

Published: June 21, 2010, 3:05 p.m.

David Toop is a composer of sound, writer about sound, curator of sound and research fellow at the London College of Communication. His works in text include Ocean of Sound, Exotica, Haunted Weather and the Rap Attack books. His latest is Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener, which explores the sound of silent art.

\nDavid Toop\u2019s \nweb site

\nDavid Toop\u2019s books, \nRap Attack, No. 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop, Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds, Exotica, Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.) and Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener

American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Oren Peli\u2019s film Paranormal \nActivity \n(2009)

Dutch painter Nicholaes Maes and his Eavesdropper paintings

Irish painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

English novelist Algernon \nBlackwood \n(1869-1951)

Scottish novelist John Buchan (1875-1940)

English writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Irish writer James Joyce and his novel Ulysses (1882-1941)

Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

German electronic band\n Kratfwerk