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David Toop Dreams the Archive

Jennifer Lucy Allan and Professor David Toop hunt for dream music in the ethnographic section of the 大象传媒 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 大象传媒 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
A Reduced Listening Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

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Fri 18 Jun 2021 23:00
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Music Played

  • Grupi Lab

    Balluket e Ballit Moj

    • Live at TUSK 2019.
    • TUSK Festival.

  • Terry Riley

    Zuchinni

    • Autodreamographical Tales.
    • Tzadik.

  • Maarja Nuut

    kutse tantsule_a call to dance

    • hinged.

  • David Toop

    sea slug

    • Entities Inertias Faint Beings.
    • Room40.

  • David Toop

    Mabutawi-Teri - young men singing

    • Lost Shadows: In Defence Of The Soul (Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual).
    • Sub Rosa.

  • Zazou, Bikaye & CY1

    M'Pasi Ya M'Pamba

    • Noir Et Blanc.
    • Crammed Discs.

  • Ajiao

    Chopping Hand Ceremony 180123

    • Old Wine in Old Bottle.
    • Zoomin' Night.

  • Sons of Kemet

    Pick Up Your Burning Cross (feat. Angel Bat Dawid & Moor Mother)

    • Black To The Future.
    • Impulse!.

  • Siavash Amini

    Crocuta crocuta

    • A Trail of Laughters.
    • Room40.

  • Magdalena Takazauskien?

    I Dreamed a Strange Dream

    • Lithuanian Folk Songs in the United States.
    • Folkways Records.

  • Lyra Pramuk

    Deep Dream

    • Late Junction Dream Season Commission.

  • 川口雅巳

    Blindfold Blues

    • Self Portrait.
    • An'archives.

  • Dean Blunt

    WOOSAH

    • Black Metal 2.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Dale Cornish

    Brigitte Fontaine In Cuba

  • David Lynch

    Pinky's Dream

    • Crazy Clown Time.
    • [PIAS] America.

  • Angelo Badalamenti

    The Black Dog Runs At Night

    • Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Unknown

    Siku (Temiar Dream Song)

    • Music Of Southeast Asia.
    • Folkways Records.

  • Jon Hassell

    Malay

    • Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two).
    • Editions EG.

  • Mulumbug

    Borg Song

    • Songs From Arnhem Land.
    • Australian Institute Of Aboriginal Studies.

  • Annie Johnston, Mary Johnston & Alan Lomax

    Mimicry of Bird Calls

    • Nature Mimicry: Gulls.

  • I Jahbar

    Lyrical Arm

    • Lighter Thief EP.
    • Duppy Gun Productions.

  • Foodman

    Parking Area

    • Yasuragi Land.
    • Hyperdub.

  • Barbara Monk Feldman

    The Northern Shore (1997)

    Performer: Siwan Rhys. Performer: George Barton. Performer: Mira Benjamin.
    • 'Verses'.
    • Another Timbre.

  • YaYa Bones

    Digital witch breath ritual

    • Indigo Zoom : The Awakening.

  • Patty Waters

    Moon, Don't Come Up Tonight

    • Sings.
    • ESP Disk.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Jun 2021 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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