FLAT TIME/sounding

<p>Thursday 13 December 2012, 7pm</p> <p>A composition by David Toop based on John Latham’s idea of Flat Time, performed by John Butcher, Aleks Kolkowski, Elaine Mitchener and David Toop.</p> <p>First performed in 2010 at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of a commission to create the soundtrack for the online John Latham Archive, <em>FLAT TIME/sounding</em> is a score of texts and visual elements composed for improvising musicians. The score ­– which also functions as an opening, a catalyst, or the conditional framework for an event structural audio sculpture – draws on John Latham’s Time-Base Theory and Time-Base Rollers. It further draws on David Toop’s 1976 APG placement at the London Zoo, where he focussed on acoustic ecology – or bioacoustics – in human/animal communication.</p> <p>A score for improvisation, <em>FLAT TIME/sounding</em> marks the challenge of attempting to script the eventfulness that characterises animal ‘speech’ and time-based cosmology. In the context of the exhibition at Raven Row, it proposes new ways of interpreting the archival ‘scores’ generated by APG’s past and present.</p> <p>This event was part of the exhibition:<br /> <em>The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966-79</em><br /> 27 September to 16 December 2012</p>