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FLAT TIME/sounding Interview at the Whitechapel Gallery - Music & Live Words

Saturday 4th September, 2010

A composition and performance by composer/author David Toop based on John Latham's ideas of Flat Time.

Includes an interview with the David Toop and the performers.

Performers:

David Toop: laptops, flutes, strings, amplified processes, omnipresent score.

John Butcher: saxophones, etc...

Phil Durrant: Maschine, etc...

Aleks Kolkowski: gramophones, Stroh violin, etc...

+Roger Turner: percussive markers

John Latham's 'Flat Time Hypothesis of 2000' elaborates on various forms of art, sound and those immaterial and mysteriously insubstantial events that exist as anomalies within our predominately space-based, object-based materialistic epistemology.

David Toop Highlights Flat Time's affinity to the conceptual framework of an improvising musician, innately understanding and responding to the world in terms of events.

Footage edited by Grant Armour.