This text is an interview between Adam Parkinson and David Toop recorded in 2015 at the London Metropolitan University.
“What I’m trying out at this stage of my life life is new formats, or new settings maybe’ or formats and settings that have been tried before but then been forgotten or pushed aside because established formats have such a powerful hold on our thinking’ I’m frustrated by [” ‘]all the familiar routines that frame practice and discourse [“‘] what I want to do is modest, small scale, quiet, and uncertain – just a slight shift of conditions [“‘] a big thing but small, a conversation that can be quiet but loud’.”
“But sound art to me is problematic for a number of reasons. One, because it is so closely associated with a particular world and a particular economy – the art world – and there are all sorts of reasons why that’s difficult.”
Toop finds the term “sound art” problematic as he finds it too closely related to the art world and how it revolves around money. I find this
“They are more concerned with the unfinished or in-between, that which is difficult to articulate or impossible to exhibit; each one will involve offerings of different kinds, opportunities to listen, to watch, to speak, to be silent.”
Glossary–
Aesthetics – a persons idea on what is beautiful