PUNKT SEMINAR
Punkt Seminar is curated and hosted by David Toop, and promises to foster an engaging discourse on the intersections of music, technology, and art. The Seminar is a part of Punkt’s collaboration with CreaTeME, the University of Agder’s Centre for Excellence in Creative Use of Technologies in Music Education.
THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
Aladdin Rød
11:00 Tomoko Hojo
12:00 Soheil Shayesteh
13:00 Rie Nakajima
FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
Aladdin Rød
11:00 Gailė Griciūtė
12:00 Carsten Nicolai
13:00 Svetlana Maraš
SEMINARS
David Toop - Seminar Host and Curator
David Toop has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes eight acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016), Flutter Echo (2019) and Inflamed Invisible: Writing On Art and Sound 1976-2018 (2019). Briefly a member of David Cunningham’s pop project The Flying Lizards in 1979, he has released fourteen solo albums, from New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments on Brian Eno’s Obscure label (1975) and Sound Body on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label (2006) to Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016) and Apparition Paintings (2021). His 1978 Amazonas recordings of Yanomami shamanism and ritual were released on Sub Rosa as Lost Shadows (2016). In recent years his collaborations include Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Tania Caroline Chen, John Butcher, Ken Ikeda, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Sharon Gal, Camille Norment, Sidsel Endresen, Alasdair Roberts, Lucie Stepankova, Fred Frith, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Curator of sound art exhibitions including Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery (2000), his opera – Star-shaped Biscuit – was performed in 2012.