David Toop short biography Born near London in 1949, David Toop is a musician, composer, writer, musicologist and sound curator. He has published three books: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound, and Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000). His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released six solo albums - Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World, Museum of Fruit, Hot Pants Idol and 37th Floor At Sunset: Music For Mondophrenetic - and curated five acclaimed CD compilations for Virgin Records - Ocean of Sound, Crooning On Venus, Sugar & Poison, Booming On Pluto and Guitars On Mars.

In 1998 he composed the soundtrack for Acqua Matrix, the outdoor spectacular that closed every night of Lisbon Expo '98 from May until September. He has recorded shamanistic ceremonies in Amazonas, appeared on Top Of The Pops with the Flying Lizards, worked with musicians including Brian Eno, John Zorn, Prince Far I, Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Max Eastley, Scanner, Ivor Cutler, Haruomi Hosono and Bill Laswell, and collaborated with artists from many other disciplines, including theatre director/actor Steven Berkoff, Japanese Butoh dancer Mitsutaka Ishii, sound poet Bob Cobbing, visual artist John Latham, filmmaker Jae-eun Choi and writer Jeff Noon. As a critic he has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, Arena, Vogue, Spin, GQ, Bookforum, Pulse, Urb, Black Book, The New York Times and The Village Voice.

He has curated Sonic Boom, the UK's largest ever exhibition of sound art, displayed at the Hayward Gallery, London, from April to June, 2000. Other recent projects include the composition of a soundtrack for Mondophrenetic (CD released by Sub Rosa), a CD-ROM installation created in Belgium and exhibited in Brussels and Santiago de Compostela, and 'Needle In the Groove', a collaborative album with novelist Jeff Noon, released on Scanner's Sulphur label in May 2000. In January 2000 he exhibited the sound installation 'Dreaming of Inscription On Skin' with Max Eastley at ICC in Tokyo and in April 2001 he created sound collages for the Hayward Gallery's Brassai exhibition. Currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sound Department of the London Institute, he is writing a new book about human physicality and digital music.

Projects for 2001/2002: Curating 2 CD compilation album of English experimental, improvised and electronic music, 1962-1978, for Leonardo Music Journal. Curating sound for Radical Fashion, an exhibition of installations by fashion designers including Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Vivienne Westwood, Comme Des Garcons, etc., opening October 2001. Curating sound for Johan Grimonprez exhibition at Impakt Festival

COMPILATION ALBUMS OCEAN OF SOUND Virgin AMBT 10 (1996) "The album's range is phenomenal . . . The imaginative sequencing and skilful editing together of the tracks to produce a virtually seamless listening experience is impressive. As a vehicle for illustrating Toop's point - that there is a hidden world of music within the sounds that are occurring around us all the time, and that these sounds help to shape and determine our notions of what music actually is - Ocean of Sound functions magnificently. Both timely and scholarly, it is an album that could alter the way in which you perceive music itself." (The Times) "Ocean of Sound is one of those records that have something to teach even the most jaded music fan about how to listen to music. Only Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music . . . can truly compare to it." (Chicago Reader) ". . . gorgeously segued . . . designed as microcosms to dive into, not magic carpets to escape on, and gently or subtly or harshly or whimsically or just plain oddly they accommodate the disturbing and the chaotic." (Robert Christgau - Village Voice)

CROONING ON VENUS Virgin AMBT13 (1996) SUGAR & POISON: TRU-LIFE SOUL BALLADS FOR SENTIENTS, CYNICS, SEX MACHINES & SYBARITES Virgin AMBT 16 (1996) BOOMING ON PLUTO: ELECTRO FOR DROIDS Virgin AMBT20 (1997) GUITARS ON MARS Virgin AMBT 24 (1997) SOLO & COLLABORATIVE MUSIC DAVID TOOP/MAX EASTLEY NEW AND REDISCOVERED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Virgin Records CDOVD478 (CD issue 1997, originally issued as Obscure 4, 1975) David Toop's side features Paul Burwell, Hugh Davies, Brian Eno, Frank Perry, Phil Jones and Christina Munro DAVID TOOP AND MAX EASTLEY BURIED DREAMS Beyond Records RBADCD6 (1994) "A journey to the cutting edge of ambient . . . Paintakingly assembled (the sleeve design and packaging is a minor work of art in itself) over a period of three years from a vast array of natural and artificial sources, these impressionistic collages of sound stimulate the imagination while testing the very notion of what constitutes music." THE TIMES, 15.4.94 SCREEN CEREMONIES Wire Editions Wire 9001 (1995) "Toop creates a detailed cinerama of febrile atmospherics and malevolent intensity. At times inscrutable, at others scary as hell, but always oddly and darkly suggestive." (DJ magazine)

PINK NOIR Virgin AMBT18 (1996) Featuring Jon Hassell, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Paul Burwell, Kaffe Matthews, Amelia Cuni, Musa Kalamulah, Yumi Hara and others "Pink Noir is a multi-timbral, four-dimensional collage which binds meditative calm to restless invention without compromising either, and which unites East and West, tactile and ineffable, ancient and postmodern in a quixotic, intuitive, non-specifically evocative and frankly dizzying array of trompe-l'oreille textures." (The Wire) SPIRIT WORLD Virgin AMBT22 (1997) Featuring Toshinori Kondo, Max Eastley, Scanner, Robert Hampson, Pete Lockett, Michael Prime and Witchman ". . . the world can only be a better place for such imaginative foolhardiness . . . I can imagine Toop as a Dr. Benway figure, conducting secret musico-genetic experiments, cross-breeding amongst his many collaborators." (The Wire) MUSEUM OF FRUIT Caipirinha cai2022 (1998) "Fantastically weird . . . He fabricates a parallel sonic environment, disclosing an extraordinarily strange and beautiful garden of cyborg flora and fauna . . . music becomes a machinic organism secreting a crustacean shell of glass and steel." (ArtForum) HOT PANTS IDOL Barooni bar 020 (1999) Readings from Exotica, featuring music by Jon Hassell with Spirit World, Paul Schutze, Bill Laswell, Talvin Singh, Russell Mills/Undark, Scanner, Amelia Cuni/Werner Durand, Rhys Chatham, Witchman, Tom Recchion, Sarah Peebles, John Oswald, Daniel Pemberton, Slipper "Reminiscent of Beat-era dream diaries, it eschews the linearity of life on the road for a global melting pot of past and future fictions in which animal and machine, mythic and modern, enter into arcane correspondences, exotic snapshots for a pseudo-anthropologist of the future." (The Wire) 37TH FLOOR AT SUNSET: MUSIC FOR MONDOPHRENETIC Sub Rosa SR163 (2000) fw@subrosa.net "This is sound that only reveals its true power, its ability to unease listeners, in still, silent darkness when you pick up on every single twitch as if it were some sort of threat." (Grooves)

NEEDLE IN THE GROOVE David Toop/Jeff Noon Sulphur SULCD004 (2000) info@sulphur.demon.co.uk "This is genuinely trippy music - echoing that 'click!' moment when the mescaline comes on and music becomes a 4D molecular slur before your eyes (parts of Needle actually made me hallucinate: slip sideways into shimmer memories and hybrid futures)." (Ian Penman/The Wire) REVIEWS OCEAN OF SOUND: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds published Serpent's Tail, 1995 second edition, 2001 ISBN 1-85242-743-4 ". . . in my opinion it's the best music-related book of the 90s." (Chicago Reader) "Ocean of Sound is as alien as the 20th century, as utterly Now as the 21st. An essential mix." (The Wire) "It's packed with astonishing ideas that linger for days after . . . Ocean of Sound shatters consensual reality with a cumulative force that's both frightening and compelling. Buy it, read it and let it remix your head." (i-D) EXOTICA: fabricated soundscapes in a real world published Serpent's Tail, 1999 ISBN 1-85242-595-4 Selected as a winner of the American Book Award 2000 by the Before Columbus Foundation "Exotica is the most intriguing music book of the year - the result treads a curious, pleasurable path between Edward Said, J.G. Ballard and Iain Sinclair." (Financial Times) "It is a dizzying ride that some will find intoxicating and others simply toxic, but the prose is as sharp as cut crystal and Toop's almost mystical fervour is always engaging." (The Sunday Times) "A strange and oddly alluring book that flits between musicology, postcolonial theory and fictive memoirs . . . Toop's voyage through this largely untouched musical realm is gripping and aromatic." (The Guardian) ". . . a giant brain with a great sense of fun." (Time Out)

RAP ATTACK #3: African Rap To Global Hip-Hop First published in 1984 Second edition 1991 Expanded third edition published Serpent's Tail 2000 ISBN 1-85242-627-6 "Records the vertiginously metamorphic nature of Afro-American culture" (Greg Tate - Village Voice) "More than just a history lesson, Rap Attack captured a moment in time perfectly and there are many priceless passages . . . Rap Attack remains the definitive account of the early days of HipHop." (The Wire) DAVID TOOP - SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY: 1970-2001 SOLO ALBUMS "New & Rediscovered Musical Instruments", David Toop/Max Eastley (Obscure 4, 1975, reissued 1997) "Screen Ceremonies", David Toop (The Wire Editions 9001, 1995) "Pink Noir", David Toop (Virgin Records AMBT 18, 1996) "Spirit World", David Toop (Virgin Records AMBT 22, 1997) "Museum Of Fruit", David Toop (Caipirinha Music cai2022, 1999) "Hot Pants Idol", David Toop (Barooni bar 020, 1999) "37th Floor At Sunset", David Toop (Sub Rosa, August 2000) GROUP/COLLABORATION ALBUMS "Cholagogues", David Toop, Paul Burwell, Nestor Figueras (Bead 6, 1977) "Alterations", David Toop, Peter Cusack, Steve Beresford, Terry Day (Bead 9, 1978) "Wounds", David Toop, Paul Burwell (Quartz 003, 1979) "Up Your Sleeve", Alterations (Quartz 006, 1980) "The Flying Lizards", The Flying Lizards (Virgin, V2150, 1980) "Circadian Rhythm", Paul Lytton, David Toop, Max Eastley, Paul Burwell, Annabel Nicolson, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Paul Lovens (Incus 33, 1980) "Whirled Music", David Toop, Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell (Quartz 005, 1980) "The 49 Americans" (Choo Choo Train Records, Chug 1) "Imitation of Life", David Toop, Steve Beresford, Tristan Honsinger, Toshinori Kondo (Y Records, Y13, 1982) "We Know Nonsense", The 49 Americans (Choo Choo Train Records, Chug 4, 1982) "The Promenaders", The Promenaders (Y Records, Y31, 1982) "Danger In Paradise", General Strike (Touch cassettes TO2, 1984) "My Favourite Animals", Alterations (Nato 280, 1985, France) "Deadly Weapons", David Toop, John Zorn, Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall (Nato 950, 1986) "Buried Dreams", David Toop, Max Eastley (Beyond RBADCD 6, 1994) "Needle In the Groove", Jeff Noon/David Toop (Sulphur SULCD004, 2000) "The Dreams of Inscriptions On Various Surfaces", David Toop, Max Eastley (NTT Publishing, Intercommunication No. 33, 2000) "Alterations Live: Live Recordings 1980-83" (Intuitive Records IRCD 001, 2000) COMPILATIONS "Alaskan Windows Two", David Toop, Steve Beresford (on "Infecund Infection", Pinakotheka DS-0001, Japan) "Improvised Music & Sound Works", David Toop & Hugh Davies (Audio Arts cassette, Vol.4, no.2, 1980) "Reach For N", General Strike ("Myths 2" Sub Rosa SUB33002-3, 1985, Belgium) "Stranger On the Shore", The Promenaders ("Birth Of the Y", Y Records, Y331/3, 1982) "Shin Shin", David Toop, Kazuko Hohki ("Alternate Cake", Nato 824, France) "What's That", General Strike ("Bugs On the Wire", Foghorn 001, 1987) "Black Dahlia" ("The Freedom Principle", Polydor 837 925-1, 1989) "Fe-Tshun-Ti-Fe", Max Eastley/David Toop ("A Gnomean Haigonaimean", NOY 2) "Normal Entrance, Abnormal Exit", David Toop & Max Eastley ("At Close Quarters", These 7 CD, 1993) "Burial Rites", David Toop/Max Eastley ("Isolationism", Virgin AMBT 4) "Mud & Quartz" (Time em:t 3394, 1994) "Living Dust" ("Miscellaneous", Language Word D1, 1995) "Stones, Bones & Skin" ("Extreme Possibilities", Lo Recordings LCD 01, 1995) "Yanomami Shamans" ("Ancient Lights and the Blackcore", Sub Rosa SR78, 1995) "Bodies of Water", David Toop (Time em:t 5595, 1995) "Flashing Night Spirits" with Bedouin Ascent/"Unearthed" with Daniel Pemberton ("Collaborations", Lo Recordings LCD 02, 1995) "Iron Perm" ("Statics", CCI Recordings, CCD25002, 1995, Japan) "Chen Pe'i Pe'i" with John Zorn ("Ocean of Sound", Virgin, 1995) "Bodies of Water" ("em:t explorer", Instinct ex330.2, 1996, USA) "Reverse World" ("Eclectic Guitars", Unknown Public 06, 1996) "Boneless" ("The Unfinished", Sub Rosa sr103, 1996, Belgium) "Bodies of Water" ("Amberdelic Space", Dressed To Kill, DTK Box 55, 1996) "Mr. Lullaby Should Have Rocked You" ("Future: A Journey Through the Electronic Underground", Virgin VTDCD 118, 1997) "House of Traps" ("East-Westercism", Law & Auder LA-ANGE 2CD, 1997) "Oil Hell Murder" and "Holy Weapon" (as Iron Monkey on "Booming On Pluto", Virgin AMBT20, 1997) "Reverse World" ("Music From Nature", Terra Nova TN9701, 1997, USA) "I Hear Voices Too" (with Neill MacColl, "Guitars On Mars, Virgin AMBT 24) "City On Fire" ("Roma: a soundscape remix", Noteworks nw5101 2, 1998) "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" ("Hmm", Sprawl, 2000) "24.01.81a",, David Toop & John Zorn + tracks with Alterations and Paul Burwell ("LMC . . . the first 25 years", Resonance RES8.2CD, 2000) "Bass Instruction #4", David Toop & Jeff Noon ("Compound", Sulphur SULCD008, 2001) REISSUES "Danger In Paradise", General Strike (Piano 503, reissued 1996) "Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter III", Prince Far I "New & Rediscovered Musical Instruments" (Obscure/Virgin Records CDOVD478, reissued 1997) "Pass The Distance", Simon Finn (Mushroom MUSH SF, reissued 2001 as bootleg)

PRODUCTIONS "We Are Frank Chickens", Frank Chickens (prod. David Toop & Steve Beresford, Kaz Records KAZ LP 2, 1984) "Get Chickenised", Frank Chickens (prod. David Toop & Steve Beresford, Flying Records Stir 1, 1987) "Sleepwalking", Family Quest (prod. David Toop & Steve Beresford, Streetsounds 12" single) "Privilege", Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst (prod. David Toop & Steve Beresford, Rough Trade Rough 59, 1983) "Burn Baby Burn", The Otherside featuring Musa K (prod. David Toop, Jungle Rendez-Vous JRVCD101, 1995) SINGLES/EPs "My Body", General Strike (Canal 7" single, Canal 01, 1979) "TV", The Flying Lizards (Virgin Records 7" single, VS325, 1980) "We Are Ninja", Frank Chickens (Kaz 10) "Fujiyama Mama", Frank Chickens (Kaz 10) "Blue Canary", Frank Chickens (Kaz 20) The African Connexion, "Tell Mandela (Things Are Going To Change)", Tout Ensemble LUTE5 SESSIONS "Pass The Distance", Simon Finn (Mushroom Records, 100MR2, 1970, withdrawn) "Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter III", Prince Far I (Daddy Kool, DK LP15) "Dancing the Line", Steve Beresford/Anne Marie Beretta, Nato 565, 198? "Welcome", The African Connexion (MUSA LP 88, 1988) "Driftworks", Paul Schutze (Big Cat ABB1000CD, 1997) "Soylent Green", with Tin Pan & Haruomi Hosono ("Tin Pan", daisyworld RWCL 20009, 2000) Serpent's Tail URL http://www.serpentstail.com code/unfinished URL http://code-re.com/ Sulphur URL http://www.sulphurrecords.co.uk/releases/sulcd004.asp Caipirinha URL http://www.caipirinha.com/Music/2022.htm Needle In the Groove URL www.needleinthe groove.com The Wire URL www.thewire.co.uk ICC URL http://www.ntticc.or.jp/ Daisyworld URL http://www/daisyworld.co.jp Bjork URL http://www.bjork.com/selmasongs/toop.htm Motion URL http://motion.state51.co.uk Xebec URL http://www.sukothai.com/X6.toop.html

ASHES OF THE DEAD Adapted from Ocean Of Sound for "Soylent Green", recorded by Tin Pan (Shigeru Suzuki, Haruomi Hosono, Tatsuo Hayashi), 2000. We travelled back through rain, fog, high winds and dense clouds of white winged flies, the wooden boat loaded with a consignment of bananas. As we reached the confluence of the Orinoco and Atabapo rivers, the waters flowed side by side without mixing, one river a buckled sheet of clear blue steel, the other a torpid green soup that seemed to have sucked out the essence of the forest. By the time we stopped at San Fernando de Atabapo, everybody was sleeping off too much rum and beer. The election had been won. We looked for something to buy in a shop well stocked with fluffy dogs, clockwork divers, plastic mermaids, plastic cowboy boots and other essentials, much of it veiled in spiders' webs. Coming through here on the way into the jungle we had seen soldiers water skiing on the river. Some days later we arrive back at our original starting point of Puerto Ayacucho, the gateway to Amazonas. On dry land, my perceptions seem distorted. Ducks at the side of the road look as tall as a ten year old child. After weeks of living close to giant spiders, flies the size of small birds, butterflies as big as handkerchiefs, any zoological aberration has become eminently feasible. In town, the fat man sits in a metal frame chair at the edge of the jungle, surrounded by his family. Three months earlier, there were no televisions in Puerto Ayacucho. Now he sits in this open-air shop, watching Rawhide, deciding whether he should be the first to buy the magic technology boiling with turbulent grey gun fight images of western lands. Sitting in a stupor, our senses addled by this sudden rush of frontier town life, we drink cold beer in the late afternoon, listen to salsa booming from the Cantina disco with its red lights so low. In the street, soldiers carrying automatic weapons arrest Indians, drunk of course, because they endure displaced lives in shacks papered with newsprint, sell bananas to survive, consort with unfamiliar, wicked spirits. That night, Soylent Green is showing at the cinema. Dogs sleep and snuffle in the cinema aisles between broken down seats draped with dreaming children. The film is subtitled in Spanish, though loudspeaker hum and the muffled salsa beats from next door smother the dialogue. The celluloid seems coated with fungus, little remaining other than the story, a story with a familiar ring for us. After the break down of society, people subsist on an edible substance called Soylent Green. As Charlton Heston discovers, this food is manufactured from recycled corpses. Our minds drift back to the jungle from where we had travelled, to one evening in a Yanomami village, a ghost-filled moment when we were allowed to merge quietly with the shadows to witness a ceremony of ancestral communion. Ebena, a hallucinogenic drug made from tree bark, was mixed with the ashes of the dead and eaten. We stood in awed silence at the edge of a shelter as the porridge of earthly remains and spirits were swallowed and so the spirits themselves were absorbed by the living. Inside, the light was too low to see anything other than silhouettes. A hushed sound of mass sobbing chilled our bones. David Toop July 2000

FULL BIOGRAPHY DAVID TOOP Born Enfield, UK, 1949. Studied fine art and graphic design at Hornsey College of Art and Watford College of Art and Design. Now living in London, England. earlier work 1964-68 - played guitar in R&B bands, projected light shows at rock gigs. 1967-70 - Studied fine art/graphic design (Hornsey/Watford). MUSIC 1970 - 1980: Became involved in improvised and experimental music. Played with percussionist Paul Burwell (founder of Bow Gamelan) from 1970-80, performing at John Stevens organised nights at Little Theatre Club, Eddie Prevost's Cock Tavern improv club, Henry Cow's Explorer Club, etc. Their duo also collaborated with sound poet Bob Cobbing, Japanese Butoh dance innovator Mitsutaka Ishii, conceptual/land artist Marie Yates, body artist Nestor Figueras, performance artists Carlyle Reedy and Stephen Cripps. Played in SME large ensembles and Birmingham/London performances of Eddie Prevost's Spirals . THEATRE In 1976, the Toop/Burwell duo performed live music for Steven Berkoff's Greenwich Theatre production of Agamemnon. Also performed live with Steve Beresford for Almeida production of Ariadne's Afternoon, directed by Pierre Audi. RADIO Compiled and broadcast three illustrated talks for BBC Radio Three between 1971-75 on music, language, environmental sound and magical meanings, using BBC sound archive material: Crossthreads , Language of the Sacred , The Breath of Magic . PUBLISHING 1972 - 1983: Published theoretical pamphlets and scores, including Decomposition As Music Process (1972), The Bi/s/onics Pieces (1973, also published by Gavin Bryars/Michael Nyman's Experimental Music Catalogue), New/Rediscovered Musical Instruments (1974). Co-founder of Musics magazine (1975-79); Co-editor and publisher of Collusion magazine (1981-83). RECORDING 1975 - 1985: Recorded three pieces released on Brian Eno's Obscure label as one side of New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments (David Toop/ Max Eastley, Obscure 4, EG Records, reissued 1997). Released improvisation albums on Bead, Incus, Quartz, Nato, Y, etc. TV MUSIC Jeremy Marre's Ourselves and Other Animals ; Dick Fontaine's Bombin' (US/UK grafitti documentary featuring Goldie, Brim, 3-D, etc.); C4/ACGB documentary on Max Eastley - Clocks of the Midnight Hours ; Japanese American Toy Theatre's Matt Blackfinger for C4; All the Fish In the Sea (wildlife doc) for Central Television.

PRODUCTION/POP 1979 - 1989: Recorded with Flying Lizards. Performed "TV" on Top of the Pops (1980); Co-produced Frank Chickens first two albums; Released single, cassette album (Touch) and compilation tracks (SubRosa) as General Strike with Steve Beresford; Co-produced Ivor Cutler's Privilege. Recorded with Prince Far I on Adrian Sherwood produced Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter III ; Contributed "Black Dahlia" to The Freedom Principle: Acid Jazz and Other Illicit Grooves (Polydor, 1989), featuring soloists Orphy Robinson and Phillip Bent. EXHIBITIONS 1976 - 1978 worked as an artist within London Zoo under the auspices of John Latham/Barbara Steveni's Artist Placement Group. Resultant work exhibited in London (ICA and Whitechapel Gallery), Vienna Museum of Modern Art and UK travelling show. Planned and organised first UK International Festival of Environmental Music in 1978.

RECORD LABEL 1978 - Launched QUARTZ PUBLICATIONS record label. Released two albums of sacred flute music of Papua New Guinea, plus Yanomami shamanism, Toop/Burwell duo, Alterations quartet, Whirled Music, Frank Perry solo album. MUSIC 1975 . . . Played improvised music in various groupings including Alterations (DT/Peter Cusack/Steve Beresford/Terry Day), augmented by Fred Frith, Peter Brötzmann, John Oswald, Paul Rutherford, Misha Mengleberg, Lol Coxhill, etc. worked in duos with John Zorn, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Frank Perry, Jamie Muir, etc. Also performed with Derek Bailey's Company, Keith Tippett's Ovary Lodge and recorded with Evan Parker, Toshinori Kondo, Tristan Honsinger, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, John Zorn, Jon Hassell, Talvin Singh, Paul Schütze, Kaffe Matthews, Amelia Cuni, Kingsuk Biswas, Scanner, Witchman and others. 1994 - 2001 RECORDING 1994 - Buried Dreams , with Max Eastley, Beyond CD. 1995 - Screen Ceremonies , solo, Wire Editions CD. 1996 - Pink Noir , solo, Virgin CD. 1997 - Spirit World , Virgin solo CD. 1999 - Museum of Fruit, Caipirinha solo CD. 1999 - Hot Pants Idol, (Barooni, spoken word album of stories from Exotica, with music by Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Paul Schutze, Scanner, Witchman, John Oswald, etc.) 2000 - Needle In the Groove (with novelist Jeff Noon) 2000 - 37th Floor At Sunset: Music For Mondophrenentic, Sub Rosa CD Compilation tracks: recorded "Mud & Quartz" for Time label, "Living Dust" for Language label, "Stones Bones & Skin" for Lo Recordings, "Bodies of Water" for Time/em:t, "Iron Perm" for CCi/Japan, "Boneless" for SubRosa, "House of Traps" for Law & Auder. Collaborations with Bedouin Ascent, Twisted Science, Daniel Pemberton, Paul Schütze. Compilations for Virgin Records - Ocean of Sound , Crooning On Venus , Sugar and Poison , Booming On Pluto . Production:Burn Baby Burn by The Otherside featuring Musa K, released 1995.

PERFORMANCES/LECTURES Curator of Sonic Boom, the largest ever UK exhibition of sound art, shown at the Hayward Gallery, London, April 27th to June 18th, 2000. Selected recent performances and readings (1993 - 2000): Sonar Festival, Barcelona; Sensation at Berlin Museum für Gegenwart; Beursschouwburg, Brussels (with Balinese gamelan ensemble); Impakt Festival, Utrecht; Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; LMC New Aura Series 2, London; Hypersymposium, London; Millenium West Lounges, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Object vs. Pixels, Amsterdam; Rhythm Sticks Festival, London; ISEA, Liverpool; Sonic Acts, Amsterdam; Terra Nova Festival; The Kitchen, New York City; The Houseware Experience, Lisbon; Festival de Musica Visual, Lanzarote; Temporal Dissonance (with Samuel Delaney, DJ Spooky, Beth Coleman), New York City; The Listening Room, Cologne; Hub, London; Balleteatro, Porto; ST-Spot, Yokohama; Xebec Hall, Kobe; Itoki New Office Life Stage, Hiroshima; Art Vivant, Tokyo; ICC, Tokyo; Inkonst, Malmo; Tunnel, Milan; Link Club, Bologna; Teatro Juvarra; Turin; Lieu Unique, Nantes; Drift Festival, Glasgow; Spiral Gallery, Tokyo; School of Sound, London and Glasgow. Toured in Japan, lecturing and performing with sound sculptor Max Eastley in 1993. Concerts with Max Eastley in Austria, Switzerland, Purcell Room, London, ICC Tokyo. DJ sets/lecture presentations with Scanner in Germany, Belgium, Holland. Water Maps quartet with Paul Schütze, Max Eastley and Robert Hampson debuted at Purcell Room, October 1995. Neo-Noir quartet with Amelia Cuni, Paul SchÜtze and Toshinori Kondo debuted at Impakt Festival, Utrecht, May 10th, 1997. Spirit World trio with Max Eastley and Peter Lockett debuted at Lanzarote Musica Visual Festival, October 6th, 1998. Composed soundtrack for Acqua Matrix outdoor spectacular, performed every night at Lisbon Expo, May - September '98. Installation, performance and lecture at ICC, Tokyo, with Max Eastley in January 2000. BOOKS 1984 - The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop (published Pluto Press) 1989 - Into the Hot: Exotica & World Music Fusions (collected essays pub.Rhythms of the World , BBC Books) 1991 - Rap Attack 2: African Rap to Global Hip Hop (published Serpent's Tail) 1992 - artist's monograph - Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor (Acme) 1995 - essay - Rock Musicians and Film Soundtracks (published in Celluloid Jukebox , BFI). 1995 - Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound & Imaginary Worlds - published by Serpent's Tail with accompanying compilation album released on Virgin. Published USA 1996, Germany 1997, Greece 1998, Italy, 1999, France 2000. 1997 - essay - John Barry (published in Easy! The Lexicon of Lounge , ed. Dylan Jones, Pavilion) 1997 - essay - Goldie & Electro (published in Night Fever: Club Writing In the Face) 1998 - short story - Acid Burns (published in Intoxication, Serpent's Tail) 1999 - Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes In a Real World (Serpent's Tail, May 20th 1999) 2000 - Rap Attack 3 (Serpent's Tail) SOUND RECORDING/RESEARCH 1978 - Travelled to Amazonas rainforest, southern Venezuela, for three months to record shamanistic ceremonies and music of the Yanomami people. Recordings released on Quartz, Touch, SubRosa. 1994 - wrote database material on shamanism, trance and associated subjects for The Shamen's

CD-i/CD-ROM. WRITING Writer/researcher on Jeremy Marre/C4 7-part music series - Chasing Rainbows. Monthly music columnist for The Face from 1984-89. Pop music critic for the Sunday Times Newspaper from 1986-88. Feature writer and columnist for The Times from 1988-1996. Also contributed to Arena, Spin, Interview, GQ, Mojo, Billboard, Elle, Tatler, The Independent, The Observer Magazine, Newsday, US Vogue, Details, Tempo, Experimental Musical Instruments, Village Voice, Pulse, etc. Recent contributor to The Wire, Urb, The Guardian, Bookforum, Pop, Black Book, Studio Voice, New York Times. SLEEVENOTES: Brian Eno box 'Instrumentals' box set; Tommy Boy Records 'Greatest Beats' box set; Sugarhill Records box set; Fela Anikulapo Kuti 'King of Afrobeat' box set; John Barry EMI Years, vols 1 to 3, "Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis", YMO: 'Slipping Into Madness Is Good For the Sake of Comparison', Gavin Bryars: 'The Sinking Of The Titanic', etc.