David Toop - The Sound of the Interior

Influential designers from a variety of disciplines came together to share their thoughts in Ben Kelly’s 2015 symposium: Interior Design, Dead or Alive. This is David Toop’s recording. David Toop is an English musician, author, professor and Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was notably a member of the group The Flying Lizards. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, a British music magazine. Toop published his pioneering book on hip hop, Rap Attack, in 1984. Eleven years later, Ocean of Sound appeared, described as Toop’s “poetic survey of contemporary musical life from Debussy through Ambient, Techno, and drum ’n’ bass.“ Since the 1970s, Toop has also been a significant presence on the British experimental and improvised music scene, collaborating with Max Eastley, Brian Eno, Scanner, and others. In 2001, Toop curated the sound art exhibition Sonic Boom, and the fo