Sonic curator David Toop: the sound of silent art

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.

David Toop’s web site

David Toop’s books, Rap 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’s film Paranormal Activity (2009)

Dutch painter Nicholaes Maes and his Eavesdropper paintings

Irish painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

English novelist Algernon Blackwood (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 Kratfwerk