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Late Junction: David Toop Dreams the Archive

David Toop Dreams the Archive

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Jennifer Lucy Allan and David Toop hunt for dream music in the BBC’s ethnographic archive.

Jennifer Lucy Allan and Professor David Toop hunt for dream music in the ethnographic section of the BBC archives. Plus a unique commission by future-folk vocalist Lyra Pramuk.

Jennifer Lucy Allan is joined by composer, musician and author David Toop. A fixture in experimental and improvisational music scenes since 1970, his expansive research embraces sound art, field recordings, and the art of listening itself. Communal dreaming and field recording has always interested him, both as a subject of research and as a key element of his practice. His own recordings have documented shamanism from southern Venezuela and his cassette collection has earned him a reputation as a master archivist. We invited him to dip into the ethnographic collection of the BBC archive to pull out a selection of records around the theme of dreams, from the Temiar dream music from Malaysia to the Aboriginal dream songs of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Throughout June, Late Junction is traversing the world of dreams in collaboration with the artist Sam Potter and his A.I. dream machine. Having been fed the dreams of Late Junction listeners, the machine has created new communal dreams to be turned into music by specially commissioned composers. This week we share the third and final one of these, from future-folk vocalist Lyra Pramuk. Lyra uses her voice as her primary instrument, manipulating it with electronics to explore post-human and non-binary perspectives. 

Plus sounds from a broken saxophone played by Chinese artist Ajiao, new piano works from Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman, and live recordings of Albanian polyphonic group Grupi Lab from 2019. 
 
Produced by Katie Callin
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