[microsound] David Toop lecture / live event (Windsor.Canada)

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  A N N O U N C E M E N T :

DAVID TOOP (UK) will be in the Windsor/Detroit area next week with 
two interesting events (he will be in Canada inclusively from Nov 
11-22, 2002 with other dates in Toronto & Montreal, see below for 
some info on that also)...

(Event #1)
Thurs NOV 14, 2002 @ 7:30pm @ The Art Gallery of Windsor (401 
Riverside Dr. W): free lecture, open to the public... Toop will be 
discussing curatorial and gallery-oriented projects he has undertaken 
in recent years

(Event #2)
Fri NOV 15, 2002 @ 8:00pm @ Arcite Inc (109 University Ave. W): live 
performance event! One of only 3 Canadian live appearances! Special 
guest Bill Van Loo ( Thinkbox  / Detroit ) will be opening. $5 at the 
door, licensed bar, limited capacity of 75 guests

ABOUT THE ARTIST: A multi-media artist, independent curator, and 
writer based in London, England, who has worked extensively in 
performance, installation, and audio art. Recent activities include 
curating "Sonic Boom", an exhibition of audio art in London, and 
"Dreaming of Inscription on Skin", a sound Installation, performance, 
and lecture in Japan.

"Although British writer and composer David Toop's recorded output 
has included everything from experimental rock and jazz to musique 
concrete, the bulk of his solo and recent collaborative works have 
been in the vein of experimental ambient. Better known perhaps as a 
journalist and music historiographer, Toop is the author of a pair of 
widely hailed books -- Rap Attack and Ocean of Sound (both Serpents 
Tail) -- as well as a contributing editor and columnist for U.K. 
experimental music magazine The Wire. Recording since the early '70s, 
Toop's list of musical collaborators include everyone from Derek 
Bailey and John Zorn to Brian Eno and Prince Far I. However, it's his 
work as a solo composer and in combination with multi-instrumentalist 
Max Eastley, that have earned him highest marks. Toop and Eastley's 
1994 collaboration, Buried Dreams, is a widely-hailed document of 
experimental environmental composition. A dizzying blend of found 
sounds, field recordings, electro-acoustics, and digital 
manipulation, its success (and critical popularity) also helped set 
the tone for Toop's subsequent solo work, Screen Ceremonies, released 
in 1996 on the Wire Editions label, as well as one-off tracks 
included on compilations released through Sound Effects and Time 
Recordings." -- Sean Cooper, All-Music Guide

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Visit:

DAVID TOOP	http://www.davidtoop.com
ARTCITE INC	http://www.artcite.ca
V.I.T.A. 	http://www.artcite.ca/vita.html
BILL VAN LOO	http://www.chromedecay.org
THINKBOX	http://www.thinkbox.ca
INTERACCESS	http://www.interaccess.org
S.A.T.		http://www.sat.qc.ca

Reviews of the 'SONIC BOOM' Exhibition:
http://motion.state51.co.uk/features/toop/
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2000/may00/SonicBoom.htm

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DAVID TOOP's Canadian visit has been organized by Artcite Inc and has 
been sponsored by The VITA Project (located in Windsor, ON). VITA is 
a lecture/performance series focused on exploring contemporary art 
issues & is generously supported by its participating institutions 
and by The Canada Council. The Canadian tour is a collaboration 
between VITA (Windsor),  INTERACCESS (Toronto), and SOCIETY FOR ARTS 
AND TECHNOLOGY (Montreal).

* WHAT IS V.I.T.A. ?
Visitors in the Arts (V.I.T.A.) is a co-operative project of the Art 
Gallery of Windsor, the University of Windsor's School of Visual 
Arts, Artcite Inc (Windsor's Artist Run Centre for the Contemporary 
Arts), House of Toast Film & Video Collective, Common Ground, Windsor 
Feminist Theatre, and Windsor Printmaker's Forum. The VITA project 
brings practicing artist and curators into our community for the 
purpose of lectures, studio visits and critical discussions. V.I.T.A. 
is generously supported by The Canada Council Visual Arts Programme: 
Project Assistance to Visual Arts, Craft and Architecture 
Organizations.

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....OTHER DATES ON DAVID TOOP's CANADIAN SCHEDULE:
Nov.13 > InterAccess, Toronto > lecture by David Toop & Sarah Peebles
Nov.16 > The Annex Theatre, Toronto > performance with Sarah Peebles
Nov.19-20 > S.A.T., Montreal > 'micro-residency'
Nov.21 > S.A.T., Montreal > performance with Sarah Peebles

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